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Filter by:A prospective, multi-centre, objective performance criteria clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of FemFlow Drug-Eluting Peripheral Balloon Catheter manufactured by Lifetech Scientific (Shenzhen) Co., LTD. for lesions with femoropopliteal artery stenosis or occlusion.
Title: Efficacy and safety of rivaroxiban compare with vitamin K antagonist warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation and mitral stenosis among Pakistani population.
The study was designed as a prospective cohort study. The effects of hot and cold ischemic times during live donor liver transplantation on postoperative 1-3 and 6 month follow up biliary complications will be investigated.
According to current European Recommendations on valvular heart disease (VHD), "classical" severe aortic stenosis (AS) is defined by an aortic valve area (AVA) ≤1 cm2 and indexed AVA ≤0.6 cm2/m2, a mean aortic pressure gradient (MAG) >40 mmHg, and a maximal aortic velocity >4 m/sec. Aortic valve replacement (AVR) is recommended (class I indication) in patients with "classical" severe AS who have any symptoms related to aortic valve disease. In 2007, Hachicha et al. described a particular pattern of severe AS, characterized by an AVA ≤0.6 cm2/m2, low mean pressure aortic gradient (MAG <40 mmHg), despite the presence of a preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF ≥50%). This pattern of AS is encountered in nearly 15-25 % of patients who have severe AS. Typically, these patients are elderly subjects, with several comorbidities, a small left ventricular (LV) cavity with pronounced LV concentric remodeling and a restrictive physiology, leading to a decrease in LV stroke volume despite a preserved LVEF. The diagnosis and management of patients with low gradient severe AS and preserved LVEF are often challenging because: 1. the presence of a "true" severe aortic stenosis should be carefully confirmed by a multi-modality imaging approach; 2. the best therapeutic management (AVR versus conservative strategy) of symptomatic patients with low gradient severe AS and preserved LVEF is not clearly established. In very recently updated European guidelines on the management of VHD, symptomatic patients with low gradient and low flow severe AS and preserved LVEF have only a class IIa-level C indication for AVR. No specific indications are given for the management of symptomatic patients with low gradient and normal flow severe AS. This lack of indications is clearly attributed to a gap in knowledge which requires further investigations to be filled up.
A novel stent, called Universal Partially Covered Removable Self-expanding Stent and Anchoring System for the Treatment of Refractory Benign Esophageal Strictures (UAS-RBS) was designed to improve the treatment of benign esophageal refractory strictures with a novel stent. This study aims at evaluating the safety of this new device.
This is a phase 1 study, designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the WRAPSODY Stent Graft for the treatment of venous outflow circuit obstructions in the veins of the arm or thoracic central veins of subjects who receive chronic dialysis treatment for end stage renal disease.
Patient outcomes and satisfaction are an ever-increasing priority in surgical specialties. Cryotherapy has been utilized following spine surgery as an adjunct therapy to reduce postoperative inflammation and improve patient outcomes. However, limited studies have investigated the effect of cryotherapy on postoperative pain and narcotics use. Fountas et al. performed a randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of postoperative cryotherapy following single-level lumbar microdiscectomy. The authors reported patients receiving cryotherapy required significantly less pain medication (0.058 mg/kg/hr versus 0.067 mg/kg/hr, p<0.001) and had shorter hospital stays (1.71 days versus 2.65 days, p<0.001) as compared to the control group. In another randomized trial of single-level lumbar discectomy patients, Murata et al. demonstrated cryotherapy to have no significant effect on VAS inpatient pain scores or postoperative blood loss.
In ERCP guidewires are used for the insertion of endoprostheses and the cannulation of stenosis. This leads to two essential requirements for the wire systems: The use of a (highly) flexible, hydrophilic wire to achieve successful and rapid passage of the narrow passage; for additional intervention, modern wires are equipped with a stable shaft with which e.g. bougies, dilatation catheters, or stents can be introduced. Guidewires are available with angled or straight tips whose use differ regionally. Guidewires with angled tips are used predominantly in Japan, whereas in the Western world incl. Germany straight wires are commonly used. In a recently published study examining the intubation of the native papilla, successful intubation of the papilla was faster with guidewires with angled tips than with guidewires with straight tips. However, this did not result in an effect upon the time-independent rate of the successful papilla intubation. The investigators test the hypothesis that 1) a higher success rate of the ERCP can be achieved with the use of an angled guidewire than with a straight guidewire and 2) a higher success rate of the ERCP can be achieved with the use of a type 1 guidewire than with a type 2 guidewire
TAVI is still a relatively new technique that is emerging with advance in the percutaneous and implantable valve technology. Despite its safe use in inoperable and high risk patients with severe symptomatic aortic valve stenosis, minimizing complications, predictors of outcomes and approach preference is still an area of study. Here we decided to study the outcomes of patients undergoing TAVI, different approaches used and their subsequent results and complications.
Aortic stenosis is the most common valvulopathy in Western countries. Cardiac EchoDoppler is the reference method for assessment of aortic stenosis and provides prognostic elements. However, it is imperfect with many inconsistencies between measures. On the other hand, the prognosis of patients with low flow and low gradient aortic retraction is discussed. The main objective of this work is to study the prognosis of asymptomatic and symptomatic aortic retraction.