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Two Case Reports of Percutaneous Intravascular Lithotripsy for the Treatment of Severe Coronary Artery Calcification. [PDF]
Clin Case RepABSTRACT Severe coronary calcification is a common challenge in percutaneous coronary intervention, often resulting in suboptimal stent expansion. Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) employs acoustic pressure waves to fracture calcified plaques and increase procedural success.
Guo LC, Hou CJ, Zeng YJ, Li W.
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Challenges and management of laparoscopic treatment of pyonephrosis caused by calculi
BMC Surgery, 2020 Background Calculous pyonephrosis is a disease characterized by infectious hydronephrosis associated with pyogenic destruction of the renal parenchyma, with complete or almost complete loss of renal function.
Jun Liu +7 more
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A Comparative Study Between Pneumatic and Laser Lithotripsy for Ureteroscopic Extraction of Upper Ureteric Calculus: A Prospective Study [PDF]
International Journal of Medical Arts, 2022 Background: The daily practice of urology includes managing patients with urolithiasis, and there are various methods for managing ureteral calculi. There are many techniques for fragmenting stones. The holmium: yttrium-aluminum-garnet [Ho: YAG] laser is
Mohammed Ahmed +3 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionThe risk of kidney stones in metabolically healthy obesity (MHO) individuals is largely unexplored. This study using percent body fat (%BF) to categorize obesity, to investigate the association between MHO as well as other metabolic syndrome ...
Weinan Chen +18 more
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Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 2009 Shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) is the process of fragmentation of renal or ureteric stones by the use of repetitive shock waves generated outside the body and focused onto the stone. Following its introduction in 1980, SWL revolutionized the treatment of kidney stones by offering patients a non-invasive procedure.
Leighton, T.G., Cleveland, R.O.
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ERCP combined with SpyGlass DS direct visualization electrohydraulic lithotripsy in treatment of difficult bile duct stones [PDF]
Waike lilun yu shijian, 2022 Objective To investigate the efficacy and safety of endosocopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) combined with SpyGlass DS direct visualization electrohydraulic lithotripsy in the treatment of difficult bile duct stones.
SHI Jiali, CHENG Sile, JIN Hangbin, ZHANG Xiaofeng
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Ожирение и метаболизм, 2019 In the review article the authors discuss unsolved issues regarding vitamin and mineral support of patients undergoing bariatric/metabolic operations. Many patients refer for the surgery already having deficiencies of macro- and micronutrients and need ...
Aleksandra I. Malykhina +2 more
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Efficiency Biliopancreatic bypass surgery in bulimia nervosa
Ожирение и метаболизм, 2008 A clinical significance in the treatment of bulimia nervosa patients with morbid obesity had already been raised [10, 13], but we did not find publications on the effectiveness of bariatric surgery in these cases.
Yu I Yashkov +2 more
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INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE COLON. CURRENT STATE OF THE PROBLEM
Медицинский совет, 2013 The etiology of ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) is unknown, and their pathogenesis is being studied. The process, treatment methods and outcomes of the diseases are very similar, while their morphological differences are mainly ...
V. L. Rivkin, L. L. Kapuller
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