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Filter by:With the emergence of advanced technology to date in the artificial intelligence (AI), computer aided diagnosis has gradually gained its popularity in the field of healthcare. Particularly, in the clinical practice of coronary artery disease diagnosis, the application of AI could be of great implication in alleviating the shortage of medical sources. To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of the AI-based coronary CT angiographic analysis software (RuiXin-CoronaryAI) for diagnosis of coronary artery stenosis, a retrospective, multi-center, cross-over designed, blinded, sensitivity superiority and specificity non-inferiority clinical trial will be conducted.
The aim of the study is to assess the benefit of wearing a lumbar orthosis after surgery for spinal stenosis. It will be evaluated if a post-surgery immobilization for 6 weeks with a lumbar orthosis reduces early recurrence, increases walking distance, decreases significantly faster pain and pain medication after surgery
The aim of the present study is to investigate safety and efficacy of early versus deferred aortic valve replacement in patients with moderate aortic stenosis combined with moderate mitral regurgitation.
Patients undergoing buccal urethroplasty will often have significant post-operative oral pain from the graft site. Various graft harvest techniques and methods for post-harvest hemostasis including graft site closure have been explored. Despite the frequency of this clinical scenario there is no established best practice for peri-operative pain management in this patient population. In addition to traditional post operative pain control, groups have sought various peri-operative anesthetic regimens to improve post operative pain. This has led recently to the description of various regional blocks including buccal and periorbital blocks for peri-operative local anesthetic. No study has looked at superiority of regional pain management in this patient population. This study will aim to assess three established anesthetic protocols for oral pain control in a blinded, randomized controlled trial. Hypothesis: Patients who have buccal block will have lower post op pain without any increase adverse oral outcomes.
SSPC includes degree of Stenosis, Symptoms, Plaque stability and Compensation of the cerebral blood flow. SSPC, a comprehensive evaluation system on carotid artery stenosis, is established and advocated in this trial in order to make assessment on risk of carotid revascularization preoperatively and prediction of cerebral events postoperatively.
The optimal pharmacological therapy after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) to prevent valve thrombosis and reduce thromboembolic complications without significantly increasing the risk of bleeding is not yet fully defined and constitutes an important unmet clinical need. Recently, single antiplatelet therapy (SAPT) with Aspirin has been increasingly adopted to avoid bleeding early after TAVI compared with dual antiplatelet therapy. However, TAVI population is affected by a diversity of chronic pathologies that increase the risk of post-TAVI ischemic complications. Stroke is prevalent, especially peri- and early post-TAVI (<1-8% in the 1st year). Although peri-TAVI myocardial infarction (MI) is rare (1-3%), concomitant coronary artery disease (CAD), diabetes mellitus (DM), and peripheral vascular disease (PVD), is very frequent in the TAVI population, affecting around 30-70% of patients. In patients with CAD, the need to re-access the coronary arteries after TAVI is challenging and can be hampered by the trancatheter valve struts. This is critical in TAVI patients with an acute coronary syndrome and in younger patients with long-life expectancy after TAVI. The use of a P2Y12 inhibitor provides significant ischemic protection in the in the coronary, cerebral and peripheral vascular territories compare to Aspirin. The use of a P2Y12 inhibitor as antiplatelet treatment can decrease the need for new coronary revascularizations and reduce the incidence of thromboembolic complications after TAVI.
Lumbar degenerative disease is a common disease develops into degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis(DLSS)in the elderly and eventually. The long course of disease and other characteristics determine that conservative treatment cannot be effective in a short time, surgery is recommended to relieve symptoms quickly. However, the incidence of complications and disease recurrence rate after surgical treatment is high, and the reoperation rate is as high as 30-50%. Conservative treatment has the advantages of low price and high acceptance, so the treatment strategy first returns to conservative treatment.The complexity and repeatability of DLSS are the main reasons for the adoption of comprehensive treatment in modern medicine, but the efficacy is not significant. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has its own theories and various methods to treat low back pain.
Indication for aortic valve replacement (AVR) in aortic stenosis (AS) is currently based on the classical triad of clinical AS symptoms, estimation of AS severity, and cardiac repercussion at rest. However, presence of symptoms in elderly is often subjective and underreported, and cardiac function analysis at rest underestimates the true impact of the chronic afterload increase. This complicates the diagnosis and hampers timely aortic valve replacement therapy with an impact on prognosis and cardiac function recovery. Exercise imaging in AS may reveal underlying cardiac repercussion and symptoms at an earlier stage and therefore impact prognosis and cardiac function recovery after AVR. Therefore the principal objective of this study is to reveal the factors that determine clinical outcome and hemodynamic function recovery after AVR in AS.
Benign airway stenosis and respiratory tract fistula are common types of airway injury. The diseases occurred after endogenous and exogenous stimuli (tuberculosis, tumor, surgery, tracheal intubation) causing damage to the airway mucosa, resulting in scar repair and irreversible loss of airway epithelium. Autologous adipose vascular fraction (stromal vascular fraction, SVF) is a mixture of cells obtained from adipose tissue through digestion and centrifugation, containing a variety of cell types, such as mesenchymal cells, endothelial progenitor cells, endothelial cells, pericytes, and macrophages. Previous studies have shown that SVF can achieve regeneration and wound healing through modulating the immune microenvironment, promoting angiogenesis, thereby promoting endogenous regeneration of the in situ adult stem cells. This project utilizes the tissue repair function of autologous SVF to treat benign airway stenosis and respiratory tract fistula. To clarify the efficacy and safety of autologous SVF in the treatment of airway injury.
Rationale: Approximately 15-20% of strokes originates from an atherosclerotic plaque rupture in the carotid artery. To reduce the risk of stroke, patients should be evaluated for possible carotid endarterectomy (CEA), which is based on simple geometrical and clinical measures. Multiple studies have shown that the current risk stratification may lead to both over- and under-treatment for patients with carotid artery stenosis. This implicates that the current guidelines are lacking patient-specific parameters and have limited sensitivity. There is a wealth of evidence implicating the important role of local (disturbed) blood flow throughout the onset and progression of atherosclerosis. Novel flow-related measures, that go beyond simple geometrical indications, are required to improve diagnosis and treatment in patients with carotid artery stenosis. Nowadays, ultrasound (US) is one of the main techniques to assess for the presence and extent of carotid artery stenosis. However, current clinically-used US systems are unable to acquire and visualize the complex flow phenomena that play such a crucial role in the atherosclerotic disease process. With the advent of ultrafast ultrasound imaging, acquiring thousands of images per second, continuous tracking of flow in all directions became feasible, which enables us to image two-dimensional blood flow and possible disturbances with high accuracy and precision. In this project, we aim to assess whether flow (related) parameters are associated with disease progression (and if so, which), in order to map the progression of atherosclerotic plaques using non-invasive, US-based blood flow imaging. In the future, this could improve risk stratification for individual patients for surgery, decrease patient mortality and morbidity, and therefore reduce healthcare costs. Objective: To longitudinally assess the association between spatio-temporal blood flow velocities (peak systole and end-diastole at common carotid artery, maximum stenosis and internal carotid artery) and the progression of carotid atherosclerosis defined by duplex measurements. Secondary objectives are to investigate the association between blood flow-derived parameters, including wall shear stress (WSS), vector complexity and vorticity, and the progression of atherosclerosis defined by duplex measurements. Furthermore, to assess the association between spatio-temporal blood flow velocities and blood flow-derived parameters (WSS, vector complexity and vorticity) and the progression of atherosclerosis as measured using ultrasound-based strain imaging.