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Patent Foramen Ovale—A Not So Innocuous Septal Atrial Defect in Adults
Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a common congenital atrial septal defect with an incidence of 15–35% in the adult population. The development of the interatrial septum is a process that begins in the fourth gestational week and is completed only after ...
Veronica Romano +7 more
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Deadly diving? Physiological and behavioural management of decompression stress in diving mammals [PDF]
© The Author(s), 2011. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 279 (2012): 1041-1050, doi:10.1098/rspb.2011 ...
Weathersby, P. K. +121 more
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S2k guideline for diving accidents
For the purposes of this guideline, a diving accident is defined as an event that is either potentially life-threatening or hazardous to health as a result of a reduction in ambient pressure while diving or in other hyperbaric atmospheres with and ...
Jüttner, Björn +15 more
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Gas embolism is a potentially fatal occurrence in which bubbles are introduced into the arterial/venous circulation. A multifocal ischemia could be the life-threatening scenario of that and occurring after diving-related activities, or pulmonary ...
Vincenzo Zanon +3 more
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Dysbarism: An Overview of an Unusual Medical Emergency
Dysbarism is a general term which includes the signs and symptoms that can manifest when the body is subject to an increase or a decrease in the atmospheric pressure which occurs either at a rate or duration exceeding the capacity of the body to adapt ...
Gabriele Savioli +7 more
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A second analysis of patients with decompression illness transported via physician-staffed emergency helicopters [PDF]
Youichi Yanagawa +3 more
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Decompression illness (DCI) occurs following a reduction in ambient pressure. Decompression bubbles can expand and develop only from pre-existing gas micronuclei.
Ran Arieli, Ran Arieli
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BackgroundAnterior cervical decompression and fusion can effectively treat cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM). Accurately classifying patients with CSM who have undergone anterior cervical decompression and fusion is the premise of precision medicine.
Chenxing Zhou +14 more
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Skin Lesions in Swine with Decompression Sickness: Clinical Appearance and Pathogenesis
Skin lesions are visual clinical manifestations of decompression sickness (DCS). Comprehensive knowledge of skin lesions would give simple but strong clinical evidence to help diagnose DCS.
Long Qing +6 more
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Introduction: The popularity of SCUBA diving is steadily increasing together with the number of dives and correlated diseases per year. The rules that govern correct decompression procedures are considered well known even if the majority of Decompression
Danilo Cialoni +4 more
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