Factors influencing transfusion-associated HLA sensitization in patients bridged to heart transplantation using ventricular assist device. [PDF]
, 2020 BackgroundBridging heart failure patients with mechanical ventricular assist devices (VAD) enables access to transplantation. However, VAD is associated with increased risk for anti-HLA antibodies associated with rejection of subsequent allografts ...
Adler, Eric +5 more
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Robust Speech Detection for Noisy Environments [PDF]
, 2011 This paper presents a robust voice activity detector (VAD) based on hidden Markov models (HMM) to improve speech recognition systems in stationary and non-stationary noise environments: inside motor vehicles (like cars or planes) or inside buildings ...
Hernández, Luis A. +2 more
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An evaluation of the prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hospital food [PDF]
, 2017 Los artículos que componen este libro ilustran desde múltiples puntos de vista el concepto de patrimonio biocultural. El contenido de la publicación se estructura en tres espacios sintetizados en las problemáticas asociadas al patrimonio biológico y ...
Bommarito, Kerry M +7 more
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Occupational Therapy’s Role with Ventricular Assist Devices and the Promotion of Travel Protocols [PDF]
, 2020 An option for individuals diagnosed with end-stage heart failure is to receive a ventricular assist device (VAD). In 2006, Shepherd and Wilding produced an article regarding occupational therapy’s role during the VAD process as they anticipated a growing
Chandra, Natasha, Suplicki, Linda
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Cutting the Cord: A Case of Late Presenting Driveline Infection [PDF]
, 2020 Ventricular assist device (VAD) related infection, specifically driveline infection, is a common complication after VAD implantation. A 45-year old patient with a delayed skin infection at the site of the original driveline nearly one year after VAD ...
Eyadiel, Lauren +2 more
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Heart Rate Variability: A possible machine learning biomarker for mechanical circulatory device complications and heart recovery [PDF]
, 2020 Cardiovascular disease continues to be the number one cause of death in the United States, with heart failure patients expected to increase to \u3e8 million by 2030.
Aras, Shravan +2 more
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Predicting Bleeding and Thrombosis Complications in Patients with Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy has been proven to relieve heart failure symptoms and improve survival, but is not devoid of bleeding and/or thrombotic complications.
Cook, Aaron +6 more
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A Note on QED with Magnetic Field and Chemical Potentia
, 1994 Using a generalized proper-time method, we obtain expressions for the fermion density and the QED effective Lagrangian for an external magnetic field at finite chemical potential.
Persson, D., Zeitlin, Vad.
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Enumeration in Alzheimer's disease and other late life psychiatric syndromes [PDF]
, 2007 Previous studies suggest that visual enumeration is spared in normal aging but impaired in abnormal aging (late stage Alzheimer's disease, AD), raising the task's potential as a marker of dementia.
Henderson, Emma L. +3 more
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Parametric Wind Velocity Vector Estimation Method for Single Doppler LIDAR Model [PDF]
, 2017 Doppler lidar (LIght Detection And Ranging) can provide accurate wind velocity vector estimates by processing the time delay and Doppler spectrum of received signals.
Fang SHANG +5 more
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