Hearing-impaired children in the United Kingdom, III: cochlear implantation and the economic costs incurred by families [PDF]
Objectives: This article addresses two questions. First, are there differences in the economic costs incurred by families of hearing-impaired children depending on whether or not children have cochlear implants?
Barton, Garry R. +7 more
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Cochlear implants are the first example of a neural prosthesis that can substitute a sensory organ: they bypass the malfunctioning auditory periphery of profoundly-deaf people to electrically stimulate their auditory nerve. The history of cochlear implants dates back to 1957, when Djourno and Eyriès managed, for the first time, to elicit sound ...
Macherey, Olivier, Carlyon, Robert
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Local versus general anesthesia for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVR)- systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
The hypothesis of this study was that local anesthesia with monitored anesthesia care (MAC) is not harmful in comparison to general anesthesia (GA) for patients undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR).TAVR is a rapidly spreading ...
Webb, J +21 more
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Purpose To clarify the efficacy of the OPtimization of Thyroid function, Thrombophilia, IMmunity and Uterine Milieu (OPTIMUM) treatment strategy on pregnancy outcomes after euploid blastocyst transfer in advanced age women with recurrent implantation ...
Keiji Kuroda +9 more
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The Incidence and Clinical Relevance of Graft Hypertrophy After Matrix-Based Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation [PDF]
Background: Graft hypertrophy is the most common complication of periosteal autologous chondrocyte implantation (p-ACI). Purpose: The aim of this prospective study was to analyze the development, the incidence rate, and the persistence of graft ...
Matthias F. Pietschmann +13 more
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Study on animal model of early osteogenesis on the surface of titanium implant
Objective To study the animal model suitable for the observation of early osteogenesis on the surface of titanium implant. Methods Modify implants mode which the outer thread of the implant next to the osteotomy bone wall while the inter thread keep a ...
LAI Chun-hua +6 more
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Clinical strategies for ART treatment of infertile women with advanced maternal age
Background An ever‐increasing number of women in our country with advanced maternal age are choosing to achieve pregnancy. This means effective strategies are needed for infertile patients.
Koji Nakagawa +2 more
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Implantation of the Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator [PDF]
Background— Alternative techniques to the traditional 3-incision subcutaneous implantation of the subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator may offer procedural and cosmetic advantages. We evaluate 4 different implant techniques of the subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.
Brouwer, Tom F. +8 more
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Immunological aspects of implantation and implantation failure [PDF]
The human endometrium contains a significant proportion of leukocytes (8-35% of all cells), the absolute numbers and proportions varying during both the menstrual cycle and early in pregnancy. T cells, macrophages and a population of phenotypically unusual large granular lymphocytes (LGL) are commonly present, although B cells are absent.
P M, Johnson, S E, Christmas, G S, Vince
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Modellierung der Amorphisierung von Silicium durch die Implantation von As, Ge und Si
S.251-254New experiments have been performed to measure the two-dimensional amorphous/crystalline (a/c)-interface after implantation of arsenic, germanium, and silicon atoms.
Pichler, P. +5 more
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