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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

Lymphangiography to treat postoperative lymphatic leakage: a technical review. [PDF]

, 2014
In addition to imaging the lymphatics and detecting various types of lymphatic leakage, lymphangiography is a therapeutic option for patients with chylothorax, chylous ascites, and lymphatic fistula.
Kim, Soo Hwan, Ko, Heung Kyu, Lee, Edward Wolfgang, Park, Jihong, Shin, Ji Hoon, Sung, Kyu-Bo   +5 more
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Nanogel Integrated Zwitterionic Injectable Hydrogel with Sequential Drug‐Releasing Capability for the Programmable Repair of Spinal Cord Injury

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A novel drug‐loaded D/P‐g‐PSB nanogel‐incorporated hydrogel by the electrostatic attraction‐driven self‐assembling process. Sequential drug releasing property (melatonin is released first by physical diffusion, and then ibuprofen is released as the charge shielding effect and hydrogel degradation). This ion‐sensitive hydrogel platform with sequentially
Zhijian Wei, Susu Huang, Wencan Zhang, Jiayao Wen, Xiaolong Zhou, Wei He, Xiaoye Yang, Haifeng Wang, Guangxi Zhai, Bin Shi, Lin Jin, Dachuan Wang, Shiqing Feng, Lei Ye   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections due to Asymptomatic Colonic Diverticulitis

Case Reports in Medicine, 2012
Colovesical fistula is a common complication of diverticulitis. Pneumaturia, fecaluria, urinary tract infections, abdominal pain, and dysuria are commonly reported.
Evangelos Falidas, Georgios Anyfantakis, Stavros Boutzouvis, Michail Kyriakopoulos, Stavros Mathioulakis, Konstantinos Vlachos, Constantinos Villias   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Atypical presentation of vesicouterine fistula (Youssef’s syndrome) post-caesarean gossypiboma: a case report

Urogynaecologia International Journal, 2023
Vesicouterine fistula as described by Youssef manifests with amenorrhea, and cyclic haematuria (menouria) without urinary incontinence commonly following caesarean section. Other aetiologies have been reported for this disease.
Abdullahi Khalid, Abdullahi Alhassan, James Oche Ejembi, Abdullahi Abdulwahab-Ahmed   +3 more
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Fistulas secondary to gynecological and obstetrical operations [PDF]

, 2003
The authors present urogenital and rectogenital fistulas treated at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Novi Sad in the period from 1976 to 1999.
Drača Petar D., Drača Tatjana P., Jakovljević Branislava N.   +2 more
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Risk Factors for Anastomotic Stricture and Obstructive Symptoms Following Double‐Flap Technique Reconstruction After Proximal Gastrectomy

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This retrospective study investigated risk factors for anastomotic stricture and obstructive symptoms following double‐flap technique (DFT) reconstruction after proximal gastrectomy. Mucosal detachment, potentially caused by thermal damage, was identified as a significant risk factor for anastomotic stricture, while continuous suturing at the esophago ...
Shinji Kuroda, Yoshihiko Kakiuchi, Satoru Kikuchi, Hajime Kashima, Nobuhiko Kanaya, Shunya Hanzawa, Kenjiro Kumano, Masahiko Nishizaki, Shunsuke Kagawa, Toshiyoshi Fujiwara   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Colovesicular Fistula [PDF]

, 2012
A fistula is an atypical connection between two epithelial surfaces, in the case of an enterovesical fistula between the urinary and gastrointestinal systems. These may be the result of a number of causes including: 1.
Attard, Caroline, Lauretta Agius, Daniele   +1 more
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How to deal with an open abdomen? [PDF]

, 2015
Appropriate open abdomen treatment is one of the key elements in the management of patients who require decompressive laparotomy or in whom the abdomen is left open prophylactically.
Bjorck, Martin, De Waele, Jan, Kaplan, Mark, Sibaja, Pablo, Sugrue, Michael   +4 more
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Brugada Syndrome: New Implications for Heterozygous Carriers of the Pathogenic SCN5A c.689T>C(p.Ile230Thr) Variant

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pathogenic variants in the SCN5A gene and its subunits have been identified in individuals with Brugada Syndrome. One such SCN5A variant, c.689T>C(p.Ile230Thr), was previously reported as disease‐causing only in homozygous individuals, with heterozygous carriers being unaffected.
Shayla Shojaat, Benjamin Hale, Taylor Warner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source