Rapidly In Situ Forming Platelet-Rich Plasma Gel Enhances Angiogenic Responses and Augments Early Wound Healing after Open Abdomen by Bo Zhou, Jianan Ren, Chao Ding, Yin Wu, Dong Hu, Guosheng Gu, Jieshou Li

“…Twenty-four rats underwent colon ascendens stent peritonitis surgery to induce sepsis, followed by intraperitoneal injection of nitrogen to create intra-abdominal hypertension. …”
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Treatment Options for Nosocomial Ventriculitis/Meningitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Marios Karvouniaris, Zoi Aidoni, Eleni Gkeka, Stella Niki Primikyri, Konstantinos Pagioulas, Elena Argiriadou

“…Her course was complicated with left middle cerebral artery pseudoaneurysm and hemispheric hemorrhage, and an arterial stent and external ventricular drainage catheter were placed. …”
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Application of three-dimensional printing in the planning and execution of aortic aneurysm repair by Harshank Patel, Paul Choi, Jennifer C. Ku, Rosemary Vergara, Rafael Malgor, Dhiren Patel, Yong Li

“…IntroductionThe accuracy of fenestrations in stent grafts for complex aortic aneurysms and dissections can be significantly improved using three-dimensional (3D)-printed phantoms. …”
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Combined Use of Excimer Laser and High-Speed Rotational Atherectomy to Overcome a Severely Calcified Lesion in Endovascular Therapy by Keisuke Nakabayashi, Shinya Hata, Nobuhito Kaneko, Akihiro Matsui, Kazuhiko Tanaka, Hiroshi Ando, Minoru Shimizu

“…Subsequently, we could dilate the CTO lesion with a conventional balloon followed by bare metal stent deployment. The right ankle-brachial index of the patient improved from being unmeasurable to 0.79, and the intermittent claudication disappeared. …”
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The Impact of Smoking on Clinical Outcomes after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Women Compared to Men by Seyyed Saeed Mohammadi, Mohammad Javad Zibaeenezhad, Mehrab Sayadi, Soorena Khorshidi, Ehsan Hadiyan, Iman Razeghian-Jahromi

“…Smoking makes women more prone to MACE in comparison to men among patients with stable CAD after PCI with drug-eluting stent.…”
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Radical Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Benign Disease by D. O. Kavanagh, C. O'Riain, P. F. Ridgway, P. Neary, T. C. Crotty, J. G. Geoghegan, O. Traynor

“…Investigations included ultrasound (eight), computerised tomography (eight), endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (seven; of these, four patients had a stent inserted and three patients had sampling for cytology), and endoscopic ultrasound (two). …”
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Navigating the Risk Landscape in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients Postpercutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Narrative Review by Utkarsh Gaur, Charuta Gadkari, Aditya Pundkar

“…Other notable risks post-PCI include repeated myocardial infarction, arrhythmias, and in-stent thrombosis, each of which further complicates clinical management. …”
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Toll-Like Receptor 9 Promotes Cardiac Inflammation and Heart Failure during Polymicrobial Sepsis by Ralph Lohner, Markus Schwederski, Carolin Narath, Johanna Klein, Georg D. Duerr, Alexandra Torno, Pascal Knuefermann, Andreas Hoeft, Georg Baumgarten, Rainer Meyer, Olaf Boehm

“…Sepsis was induced via colon ascendens stent peritonitis (CASP) in C57BL/6 wild-type (WT) and TLR9-deficient (TLR9-D) mice. …”
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Clinical and Technical Characteristics of Coronary Angiography and Percutaneous Coronary Interventions Performed before and after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement with a Ball... by Alfredo Nunes Ferreira-Neto, Rishi Puri, Lluis Asmarats, Victoria Vilalta, Leonardo Guimaraes, Robert Delarochellière, Jean-Michel Paradis, Siamak Mohammadi, Eric Dumont, Josep Rodés-Cabau

“…Lesion location and classification, as well as the preference of using a drug-eluting stent, remained unchanged. During post-TAVR CA, the amount of contrast delivered and the radiation dose area product were significantly lower compared with pre-TAVR CA values. …”
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Significant Calcification of an Entire Aortic Tree with Renal Artery Subocclusion: Acute Kidney Injury, Ischemic Kidney Disease, and the Tissue Viability Question—A Case Report by Marko Baralić, Selena Gajić, Aleksandra Kezić, Ana Bontić, Jelena Pavlović, Voin Brković, Vidna Karadžić Ristanović, Danka Bjelić, Maja Životić, Sanja Radojević-Škodrić, Želimir Antonić, Nenad Ilijevski, Milan Radović

“…The patient’s renal function recovered completely following percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) with stent implantation in the right renal artery at the site of subocclusion. …”
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Endoscopic Submucosal Single- or Multi-tunnel Dissection for Near-Circumferential and Circumferential Superficial Esophageal Neoplastic Lesions by Lin-Lin Zhu, Jun-Chao Wu, Yi-Ping Wang, Du He, Wen-Yan Zhang, Tao Gan, Jin-Lin Yang

“…Esophageal stricture was observed in 54 patients and was relieved by placement of a retrievable metal stent or by endoscopic water balloon dilation. No recurrence was noted after 19.1±12.4 months of follow-up. …”
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A national study of choanal atresia in tertiary care centers in Canada – part II: clinical management by Josee Paradis, Agnieszka Dzioba, Hamdy El-Hakim, Paul Hong, Frederick K. Kozak, Lily H. P. Nguyen, Demitri Perera, Evan Jon Propst, Jennifer M. Siu, Monika Wojtera, Murad Husein, National Choanal Atresia Study Working Group

“…Approaches of surgical repair consisted of endoscopic transnasal (31.7%), non-endoscopic transnasal (42.6%), and transpalatal (25.2%). Stents were used on 70.7% of patients. Forty-nine percent of patients were brought back to the OR for a planned second look; stent removal being the most common reason (86.4%). …”
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Acoustic Transmitted Decellularized Fish Bladder for Tympanic Membrane Regeneration by Hong Chen, Hui Zhang, Guangjie Zhu, Long Cao, Chenjie Yu, Maoli Duan, Xiaoyun Qian, Xia Gao, Yuanjin Zhao

“…These features indicate that our proposed DFB@MSCs stent is a prospective tool for the clinical repair of TM.…”
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Investigation of the Feasibility and Safety of a Highly Intensive Penetration Technique for Recanalization in Severe Calcified Femoropopliteal Occlusive Lesions: A Retrospective Ob... by Shinsuke Mori, Keisuke Hirano, Yusuke Setonaga, Toshihiko Kishida, Tomoya Fukagawa, Kohei Yamaguchi, Masafumi Mizusawa, Masakazu Tsutsumi, Norihiro Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Ito

“…The target lesions were predominantly located in the superficial femoral artery (76%). In‐stent occlusion was treated in 14% of patients. The HIP technique was successfully performed in 79% of patients, and the complication rate of vascular perforation was 7%. …”
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Histologic and Endoscopic Similarity between Nodular Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia and Gastric Hyperplastic Polyps Potentially Causing Treatment Delays by Pujitha Kudaravalli, Sheikh A. Saleem, Rachana Mandru, Sekou Rawlins

“…A 70-year-old male with a past medical history significant for coronary artery disease s/p drug-eluting stent placement on Plavix, coronary artery bypass grafting, mechanical aortic valve replacement on warfarin, and iron deficiency anemia on replacement was admitted for the evaluation of fatigue and melena for a month. …”
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Outcomes and safety of mechanical thrombectomy, alteplase, and conventional medical care in the treatment of acute M2 segment middle cerebral artery occlusion: a comparative study by Eman M. Khedr, Ahmed Elbassiouny, Mahmoud Nageeb, Ahmed Aly, Khalid O. Mohamed, Nourelhoda A. Haridy

“…Successful recanalization occurred in 73.9% of the MT group. 69% of the MT group required stent retrieval plus aspiration thrombectomy, and 60.9% required ≥ 3 trials, but outcomes did not differ by technique or number of trials. …”
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Immediate results of the еndovascular aneurysm repair in abdominal aortic aneurysm patients with an unfavorable proximal neck by S.M. Furkalo, V.A. Kondratyuk, O.A. Vlasenko, I.V. Khasyanova, A.V. Khohlov, P.A. Gindich, I.A. Mazanovich, O.O. Pustyntsev

“…Anatomical features that are difficult or unacceptable for stent-graft placement include short or no proximal neck, angular, tapered neck, and vessel diameter that exceeds the existing capabilities of endoprostheses. …”
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Solid Right Ventricular Compression by Intraventricular Septum-Hematoma Induced after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Ibrahim El-Battrawy, Ibrahim Akin, Benedikt Münz, David Manuel Leistner, Michael Behnes, Thomas Henzler, Holger Haubenreisser, Theano Papavassiliu, Martin Borggrefe, Ralf Lehmann

“…Despite successful PCI with drug eluting stent implantation into the right coronary artery (RCA) the patient complained about recurrent angina pectoris according to Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) class IV. …”
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Urinary Tract Infections in the First 6 Months after Renal Transplantation by Ziad Arabi, Khalefa Al Thiab, Abdulrahman Altheaby, Ghaleb Aboalsamh, Samy Kashkoush, Mohamad Almarastani, Mohammed F. Shaheen, Abdulrahman Altamimi, Wael O’hali, Khalid Bin Saad, Lina Alnajjar, Rawan Alhussein, Raghad Almuhiteb, Bashayr Alqahtani, Rayana Alotaibi, Marah Alqahtani, Mohammed Tawhari

“…Mean age was 43.4 ± 16.0 years, and114 (40.9%) were women. Urinary stents were inserted routinely during transplantation and were removed 35.3 ± 28 days postoperatively. …”
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Indications for Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Pancreatic Drainage: For Benign or Malignant Cases? by Daisuke Uchida, Hironari Kato, Yosuke Saragai, Saimon Takada, Sho Mizukawa, Shinichiro Muro, Yutaka Akimoto, Takeshi Tomoda, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Shigeru Horiguchi, Hiroyuki Okada

“…The adverse event (AE) rate was 26.7% (4/15) and included cases of peritonitis, bleeding, and stent migration. Reinterventions were performed in three patients with benign strictures and two with malignant strictures. …”
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