Safety and Effectiveness of Bone Marrow Cell Concentrate in the Treatment of Chronic Critical Limb Ischemia Utilizing a Rapid Point-of-Care System by Venkatesh Ponemone, Saniya Gupta, Dalip Sethi, Manish Suthar, Monika Sharma, Richard J. Powell, Kenneth Lee Harris, Nungshi Jungla, Priyadarshini Arambam, Upendra Kaul, Ashok Seth, Suhail Bukhari

“…Critical limb ischemia (CLI) is the end stage of lower extremity peripheral vascular disease (PVD) in which severe obstruction of blood flow results in ischemic rest pain, ulcers and/or gangrene, and a significant risk of limb loss. …”
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AI Machine Learning–Based Diabetes Prediction in Older Adults in South Korea: Cross-Sectional Analysis by Hocheol Lee, Myung-Bae Park, Young-Joo Won

“…Health coordinators recorded data on diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, percent body fat, and percent muscle. …”
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Self‐Learning e‐Skin Respirometer for Pulmonary Disease Detection by Anand Babu, Getnet Kassahun, Isabelle Dufour, Dipankar Mandal, Damien Thuau

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Comparing the Push–Pull Technique to Pressure Bag for Administration of Blood Products: A Prospective Nonblinded Observation Simulation-based Study (CoPP toP Study) by Aaron Jacob Grossberg, Daniel A. Fowl, Brian T. Merritt, George M. Nackley, Jude A. Polit-Moran, Chelsea L. Savona, Sagar C. Galwankar

“…There are four main types of shock: cardiogenic, obstructive, distributive, and hypovolemic. Hypovolemic shock causes include hemorrhage, dehydration, and burns. …”
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CHMMConvScaleNet: a hybrid convolutional neural network and continuous hidden Markov model with multi-scale features for sleep posture detection by Dikun Hu, Weidong Gao, Kai Keng Ang, Mengjiao Hu, Rong Huang, Gang Chuai, Xiaoyan Li

“…Studies show that supine posture can lead to a higher occurrence of obstructive sleep apnea, while lateral posture might reduce it. …”
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Predominant Pathogens in Sternal Wound Infections Following Cardiac Surgery: A Systematic Review by Netty Suharty, Muhammad Riendra, Aulia Rahman, Heka Widya Putri, Ardiansyah Ardiansyah

“…Additional risk factors that contribute to the formation of these infections include obesity, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and the long-term use of ventilation devices, poor nutrition, diabetes mellitus, re-exploration of bleeding event, age, duration of the surgery, duration of hospital stay, type of surgery, and postoperative blood transfusion. …”
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Advances in Transcatheter Electrosurgery for Treating Valvular Heart Disease by Jaffar M Khan, Toby Rogers, Adam B Greenbaum, Vasilis C Babaliaros, John C Lisko, Dursun Korel Yildirim, Christopher G Bruce, Daniel A Herzka, Kanishka Ratnayaka, Robert J Lederman

“…Delivery of electrosurgery energy through catheters and guidewires enables interventionists to ‘cut’ through obstructive intravascular lesions or across cardiac chambers. …”
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Endoscopic Dilation for Fibrostenotic Complications in Eosinophilic Esophagitis—A Narrative Review by Marco Michelon, Edoardo Vincenzo Savarino, Michele Montori, Maria Eva Argenziano, Pieter Jan Poortmans, Pierfrancesco Visaggi, Roberto Penagini, David J. Tate, Marina Coletta, Andrea Sorge

“…Combined with medical therapy and/or elimination diets, endoscopic dilation remains the cornerstone treatment for esophageal strictures and rings, offering a safe and effective option for managing obstructive symptoms. Different modalities are available for esophageal endoscopic dilation of EoE, including mechanical and balloon dilators. …”
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Characterizing Heart Failure Across the Spectrum of the Preserved Ejection Fraction: Does Heart Failure With Supranormal Ejection Fraction Exist? Data From the Swedish Heart Failur... by Laura Landucci, Ulrika Ljung Faxén, Lina Benson, Giuseppe M. C. Rosano, Ulf Dahlström, Lars H. Lund, Gianluigi Savarese

“…Patient characteristics independently associated with EF ≥60% were assessed by multivariable logistic regression and were identified as being a diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, worse New York Heart Association class, hypertension, and valvular disease, whereas use of medications and devices also recommended for HF with reduced EF, male sex, history of ischemic heart disease, peripheral artery disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were associated with an EF of 50% to 59%. …”
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Evaluation of asthma control after reinforcement of proper inhaler techniques in a tertiary care center in northern India by Manav Raj Singh Gill, Sparsh Gupta, Amit Sharma, Pranav Ish, Deepak Pandey

“… Asthma is an obstructive lung disease with high prevalence. Symptom control in asthma remains poor despite significant advancements in treatment guidelines and inhalational devices. …”
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Mixed Reality Ultrasound-Guided Mini-ECIRS with Apple Vision Pro™ - First Case Report by Roberto Montoro Neto, Fabio C. Vicentini, Ricardo T.S. Ugino, Alexandre Danilovic, Giovanni S. Marchini, Fabio C.M. Torricelli, Carlos A. Batagello, Anderson B. Pellanda, Alexandre Silva, William C. Nahas, Eduardo Mazzucchi

“…During this procedure, the multitude of equipment in the operating room often obstructs the view of the physical monitors, including ultrasound. …”
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Update on minimally invasive surgery and benign prostatic hyperplasia by Amanda S.J. Chung, Henry H. Woo

“…Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) became the gold standard surgical treatment for benign prostatic obstruction without undergoing randomized controlled trials against the predecessor standard in open suprapubic prostatectomy. …”
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Complete percutaneous repair of Tetralogy of Fallot in adult: a case report by Asit Das, Gaurav Lakhani, Debdatta Kar, Lopamudra Mishra, Nur Nabab Mollah, Shubham Tewary

“…The first stage involved addressing the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) obstruction with balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty (BPV) and occluding the conal artery using absolute alcohol and a coil. …”
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Wireless Sensor Network Modeling and Deployment Challenges in Oil and Gas Refinery Plants by Stefano Savazzi, Sergio Guardiano, Umberto Spagnolini

“…The propagation model is based on the diffraction theory, and it makes use of the 3D model of the plant to classify the links based on the number and density of the obstructions surrounding each individual radio device. …”
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Sacral Neuromodulation Treatment for Non-neurogenic Urological Disorders: Experience of a Single Center in Turkey by Adem Emrah Coğuplugil, Sercan Yılmaz, Bahadır Topuz, Murat Zor, Engin Kaya, Mesut Gürdal

“…Objective:We evaluated the success rate and complications of sacral neuromodulation (SNM) in patients with non-neurogenic urological disorders.Materials and Methods:We retrospectively evaluated patients with an overactive bladder (OAB), bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis (BPS/IC), and idiopathic non-obstructive urinary retention (IUR), who underwent SNM between 2015 and 2020. …”
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The Effect of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on The Expression of Genes Involved in the Production of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Biofilm Isolated from Cystic Fibrosis Patients by Mona Konkuri, Yousef Erfani, Sharmin Kharrazi, Setareh Haghighat

“…Background and Aim: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen that is often found in patients with cystic fibrosis, burn wounds, immunodeficiency, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder. In addition, P. aeruginosa is also considered one of the most important pathogens causing hospital infections, widely found in medical devices (ventilation), because they tend to grow on moist surfaces. …”
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Cross-Modal Interaction Between Perception and Vision of Grasping a Slanted Handrail to Reproduce the Sensation of Walking on a Slope in Virtual Reality by Yuto Ohashi, Monica Perusquía-Hernández, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Nobuchika Sakata

“…To achieve this, we developed a walker-type handrail device capable of tilting across a wide range of angles. …”
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Blood Clot Simulation Model by Using the Bond-Graph Technique by Gregorio Romero, M. Luisa Martinez, Joaquin Maroto, Jesus Felez

“…Most strokes are caused by a blood clot that occludes an artery in the cerebral circulation and the process concerning the removal of this obstruction involves catheterisation. The fundamental object of the presented study consists in determining and optimizing the necessary simulation model corresponding with the blood clot zone to be implemented jointly with other Mechanical Thrombectomy Device simulation models, which have become more widely used during the last decade. …”
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Cyanosis after surgical closure of atrial septal defect by Viviana Arreo del Val, Enrique Balbacid Domingo, Ángela Uceda Galiano

“…Subsequently, a transesophageal echocardiogram and cardiac catheterization (figure 1, arrows) with cavogram revealed the severe obstruction of the IVC drainage into the RA through a 6 mm orifice, with a 12 mm IVC diameter, and a residual 5 mm ASD, leading to a right-to-left shunt (videos 1-3 of the supplementary data). …”
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Implementation of Indoor 4G Signal Interference Detection using USRP B210 and RTL-SDR by Ciksadan Ciksadan, Feri Thabroni, Suroso Suroso

“…This study aims to develop a 4G signal interference detection system based on Software Defined Radio (SDR), utilizing a USRP B210 device as the transmitter and two RTL-SDR units as receivers. …”
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