Physician Experience in Technical Success of Achieving NPVR ≥ 80% of High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Ablation for Uterine Fibroids: A Multicenter Study [PDF]
ObjectiveTo evaluate the experience of the physician of the technical success in high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation of uterine fibroids with a nonperfused volume ratio (NPVR) of at least 80%.MethodsPatients from a 20-center prospective ...
Xue Gong +7 more
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Technical success and associated economic implications of conventional re-entry devices in subintimal recanalization of femoro-popliteal chronic total occlusions [PDF]
PURPOSERe-entry devices contribute to the high success rate of subintimal recanalization of chronic total occlusions (CTO). However, to date, there are no studies comparing the available conventional re-entry devices concerning the impact of their ...
Katharina Rippel +4 more
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Moving scope technique improves technical success rate of device insertion during EUS-guided hepaticogastrostomy (with video) [PDF]
Background: Technical tips for device insertion during endoscopic ultrasound-guided hepaticogastrostomy (EUS-HGS) have not been reported. To improve the technical success rate of device insertion without unnecessary tract dilation, the pushing force ...
Kimi Bessho +11 more
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Ultrasound-guided transient elastography and two-dimensional shear wave elastography for assessment of liver fibrosis: emphasis on technical success and reliable measurements [PDF]
Purpose This study investigated whether the use of ultrasound (US) guidance in transient elastography (TE) improved the technical success and reliability of liver stiffness (LS) measurements and whether 2-dimensional (2D) shear wave elastography (SWE ...
Jihyuk Lee +3 more
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Introduction A retrospective study was undertaken to determine a potential relationship, based on the time delay, between a positive lower gastrointestinal bleed demonstrated on computed tomography (CT) and a positive digital subtraction angiographic ...
Gillian Bruce, Brendan Erskine
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Technical Success after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for Bicuspid versus Tricuspid Aortic Stenosis [PDF]
Hanyi Dai, Jiaqi Fan, Yuxin He
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Background: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is an almost totally cine-fluoroscopic guided procedure. The amount of radiation used during the procedure is strictly related to the fluoroscopy time (FT), that has already been demonstrated to ...
Alessandro Cafaro +15 more
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Evaluating Probabilities of Technical And Commercial Success And Using Them In Screening New Product Ideas [PDF]
The screening of new product ideas is perhaps the most critical activity in innovation process and development of new products, the process is associated with uncertainty and complexity.Probabilities of technical & commercial success which represents ...
Abdulamir Bektash Wali
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Outcomes of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography in patients with situs inversus viscerum [PDF]
Background/Aims Situs inversus viscerum (SIV) is a congenital condition defined by left-to-right transposition of all visceral organs. This anatomical variant has caused technical challenges in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).
Long Le +4 more
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This paper uses recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) combined with entropy measures and organization indices to characterize arrhythmic patterns and dynamics in computer simulations of cardiac tissue.
Radek Halfar +3 more
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