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Interventional Therapy in Refractory Hypertension: An Update
Hypertension represents a major public health issue, affecting about 26% of the world's population. It is the most common cardiovascular risk factor worldwide, with a prevalence that continues to grow.
Clement Alexandra+4 more
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Complete Surgical Excision Is Necessary following Vacuum-Assisted Biopsy for Breast Cancer
Vacuum-assisted breast biopsy (VABB) has been replacing excisional biopsy in the treatment of benign breast lesions. Complete surgical excision is still needed for the lesions occasionally diagnosed with breast cancer after VABB. We aimed to characterize
Jung Ho Park+5 more
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Gesture-controlled image system positioning for minimally invasive interventions
This work examines how a touchless interaction concept contributes to an efficient, direct, and sterile interaction workflow during CT-guided interventions. Two hand gesture sets were designed specifically under consideration of the clinical workflow and
Fritsch Benjamin+3 more
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Dynamic Interventions for Networked Contagions [PDF]
We study the problem of designing dynamic intervention policies for minimizing networked defaults in financial networks. Formally, we consider a dynamic version of the celebrated Eisenberg-Noe model of financial network liabilities and use this to study the design of external intervention policies.
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Interventions for vaginismus [PDF]
Vaginismus is involuntary vaginal muscle contraction which makes sexual intercourse difficult or impossible. It is one of the more common female psychosexual problems. Various therapeutic strategies for vaginismus, such as sex therapy and desensitization, have been considered in uncontrolled studies.The aim of this review is to determine the clinical ...
Melnik, T, Hawton, K, McGuire, H
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Conservative versus interventional treatment for spontaneous pneumothorax
For a primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) (in a person with no underlying lung disease) with a visible rim of >2 cm between the lung margin and the chest wall (at the level of the hilum) on a chest radiograph, current guidelines recommend aspiration ...
Samantha L. Ennis, C. Dobler
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Analyzing Semantic Faithfulness of Language Models via Input Intervention on Question Answering [PDF]
Transformer-based language models have been shown to be highly effective for several NLP tasks. In this paper, we consider three transformer models, BERT, RoBERTa, and XLNet, in both small and large versions, and investigate how faithful their representations are with respect to the semantic content of texts.
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Interventional radiology and COVID-19: evidence-based measures to limit transmission.
As we face an explosion of COVID-19 cases and deal with an unprecedented set of circumstances all over the world, healthcare personnel are at the forefront, dealing with this emerging scenario. Certain subspecialties like interventional radiology entails
Poornima Elizabeth Chandy+5 more
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Nerve Stimulator versus Ultrasound-Guided Femoral Nerve Block; a Randomized Clinical Trial
Introduction:Â Pain control is the most important issue in emergency department management of patients with femoral bone fractures. The present study aimed to compare the procedural features of ultrasonography and nerve stimulator guided femoral nerve ...
Arash Forouzan+4 more
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A tool that analyzes the genome of parasites found in the blood of malaria patients can help inform policy decisions on how best to tackle the rise in drug-resistant infections.
Didier Menard+2 more
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