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Smart Catheters for Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Therapy

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a comprehensive review of smart catheters, an emerging class of medical devices that integrate embedded sensors, robotics, and communication systems, offering increased functionality and complexity to enable real‐time health monitoring, diagnostics, and treatment. Abstract This review explores smart catheters as an emerging class of
Azra Yaprak Tarman, Samiha Ahmed, Majed Othman Althumayri, Megan Guy, Darlenne Chavez Lugo, Frances S. Ligler, George T. Ligler, Rahmi Oklu, Hiroshi Kawahira, Michael J. McShane, Jun Kameoka, Jonathan Bova, Hatice Ceylan Koydemir   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perforation of the Sigmoid Portion in an Adult Patient With Dengue Fever: A Rare Case

Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases
Dengue fever can cause gastrointestinal complications, such as intestinal perforation. Pathogenesis is related to mucosal damage leading to ischemia. Diagnosis is through imaging that detects signs of perforation.
Margaret Karem Quintero Irreño, Jose Luis Rozo Saavedra, Andrea del Pilar Rodriguez Murcia, Juan Paulo Ospina Diaz, Romulo Salazar   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Endometriosis: A Rare Cause of Large Bowel Obstruction. [PDF]

, 2018
Large bowel obstruction can result in significant morbidity and mortality, especially in cases of acute complete obstruction. There are many possible causes, the most common in adults being colorectal cancer.
Alexandrino, G, Carvalho, R, Horta, D, Lourenço, L, Reis, J, Sobrinho, C   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Microneedle Technology in Psoriasis Management: Mechanistic Insights, Technological Innovation, Clinical Progress, and Challenges

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores the evolving role of microneedle systems in psoriasis management, highlighting their potential for enhanced drug delivery, diagnosis, and disease monitoring. It also discusses unmet clinical needs for psoriasis management and technical challenges, while outlining strategic directions to advance microneedle integration into routine ...
Fatma Moawad, Yasmine Ruel, Roxane Pouliot, Davide Brambilla   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Malignant atrophic papulosis with motor aphasia and intestinal perforation: A case report and review of published works

Journal of dermatology (Print), 2018
Malignant atrophic papulosis (MAP) is a rare type of obliterating vasculopathy that can present as pure cutaneous lesions or a systemic entity affecting multiple organs.
P. Hu, Zhi Mao, Chao Liu, Xin Hu, Hongjun Kang, Feihu Zhou   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

3D‐Printed Gastrointestinal Stents: In Vivo Evaluation in a Swine Small Bowel Perforation Model

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Gastrointestinal fistulae and perforations can lead to severe complications including sepsis and patient death. In this work, the efficacy of 3D‐printed gastrointestinal stents composed of poly‐lactic‐acid (PLA) was evaluated in an in vivo swine model.
Gweniviere Capron, Parinaz Fathi, Tor Wolf Jensen, Derek J. Milner, André J. van der Vlies, Regan L. Moody, Elizabeth A. Bangert, Blair Rowitz, Dipanjan Pan, Matthew B. Wheeler   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dry Gangrene in Children with Typhoid Intestinal Perforation: A Report of Two Cases

Case Reports in Surgery, 2018
Intestinal perforation is a life-threatening complication of typhoid fever commonly seen in developing countries, but extraintestinal complications are infrequently reported.
Lofty-John C. Anyanwu, Aminu M. Mohammad, Lawal B. Abdullahi, Mustapha U. Ibrahim, Aliyu U. Farinyaro, Mohammed S. Aliyu, Stephen K. Obaro   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Duodenal Perforation Secondary to Migrated Biliary Stent: A Rare and Serious Complication of Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography

Journal of Digestive Endoscopy, 2018
Although migration of biliary stents is not uncommon, stent‑induced perforation of the intestinal wall is a rare and serious complication. We report a case of duodenal perforation secondary to migrated biliary stent kept for obstructive jaundice for ...
Vipul D. Yagnik, Vismit P. Joshipura
doaj   +1 more source

Gastric perforation and pancreatitis manifesting after an inadvertent nissen fundoplication in a patient with superior mesenteric artery syndrome. [PDF]

, 2009
Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome is an uncommon but well-recognized clinical entity. It can lead to proximal small bowel obstruction and severe morbidity and mortality in lieu of late diagnosis and concomitant existing comorbidities. We report a
Estrada, JJ, Giuliani, S, Mason, RJ, Petrosyan, M, Rosen, H, Williams, M   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen, Boris Rivkin, David Castellanos‐Robles, Ivan Soldatov, Lukas Beyer, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source