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Percutaneous debridement and washout of walled-off abdominal abscess and necrosis using flexible endoscopy: a large single-center experience.

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS: Direct percutaneous endoscopic necrosectomy has been described as a minimally invasive intervention for the debridement of walled-off pancreatic necrosis (WOPN). In this retrospective cohort study, we aimed to confirm these findings in a US referral center and evaluate the clinical value of this modality in the treatment of pancreatic necrosis as well as other types of i...

An experimental study to assess the best maneuver when using a reverse side-bevel histology needle for EUS-guided fine-needle biopsy.

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS: Recently, ProCore™ was developed as an endoscopy ultrasound (EUS)-guided histology needle designed to address several current limitations of EUS-guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA). Nevertheless, tissue yield with the ProCore™ is not consistent. No standard technique has been established. This experimental study was conducted to ascertain the best maneuver when using the...

Quantifying saphenous recirculation in patients with primary lower extremity venous reflux.

BACKGROUND: The great saphenous vein (GSV) in patients with superficial venous insufficiency might act as a beneficial conduit for antegrade venous dr...

Prediction of Protein-Protein Interaction Sites with Machine-Learning-Based Data-Cleaning and Post-Filtering Procedures.

Accurately predicting protein-protein interaction sites (PPIs) is currently a hot topic because it has been demonstrated to be very useful for underst...

Automated mutual exclusion rules discovery for structured observational codes in echocardiography reporting.

Structured reporting in medicine has been argued to support and enhance machine-assisted processing and communication of pertinent information. Retros...

Robotic Mitral Valve Repair for Simple and Complex Degenerative Disease: Midterm Clinical and Echocardiographic Quality Outcomes.

BACKGROUND: Severe primary (degenerative) mitral regurgitation (MR) is repaired with durable results when simple single-scallop disease is addressed. ...

Robotic Mitral Valve Repair for Degenerative Mitral Valve Regurgitation: Is It for Everyone?

Scintigraphic Small Intestinal Transit Time and Defaecography in Patients with J-Pouch.

Objective methods for examination of pouch function are warranted for a better understanding of the functional result and treatment of dysfunction. Th...

Computational probing protein-protein interactions targeting small molecules.

MOTIVATION: With the booming of interactome studies, a lot of interactions can be measured in a high throughput way and large scale datasets are avail...

IAS: Interaction Specific GO Term Associations for Predicting Protein-Protein Interaction Networks.

Proteins carry out their function in a cell through interactions with other proteins. A large scale protein-protein interaction (PPI) network of an or...

Protein complex detection in PPI networks based on data integration and supervised learning method.

BACKGROUND: Revealing protein complexes are important for understanding principles of cellular organization and function. High-throughput experimental...

Robot-assisted laparoscopic management of duplex renal anomaly: Comparison of surgical outcomes to traditional pure laparoscopic and open surgery.

INTRODUCTION: Surgical management of duplex renal anomaly (DRA) is complex because of individual anatomic variation, competing priorities of vesicoure...

Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Diagnosis Using Hierarchical Heterogeneous Descriptor Fusion Support Vector Machine.

A new computer-aided diagnosis method is proposed to diagnose the gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) from endoscopic images of the esophageal-gast...

Design of wormlike automated robotic endoscope: dynamic interaction between endoscopic balloon and surrounding tissues.

BACKGROUND: The current design of capsule endoscope is limited by the inability to control the motion within gastrointestinal tract. The rising incide...

Correlation of esophageal clearance and dysphagia symptom assessment after treatment for achalasia.

BACKGROUND: Early relapse after treatment of achalasia occurs in 10-32 % of patients. The best method to follow up these patients is not known. Sympto...

Exploring the relationship between hub proteins and drug targets based on GO and intrinsic disorder.

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play essential roles in many biological processes. In protein-protein interaction networks, hubs involve in number...

Prediction of cancer proteins by integrating protein interaction, domain frequency, and domain interaction data using machine learning algorithms.

Many proteins are known to be associated with cancer diseases. It is quite often that their precise functional role in disease pathogenesis remains un...

Efficient prediction of progesterone receptor interactome using a support vector machine model.

Protein-protein interaction (PPI) is essential for almost all cellular processes and identification of PPI is a crucial task for biomedical researcher...

Multi-institutional review of outcomes of robot-assisted laparoscopic extravesical ureteral reimplantation.

PURPOSE: We performed a multi-institutional assessment of the outcomes and complications of robot-assisted laparoscopic extravesical ureteral reimplan...

A general framework for wireless capsule endoscopy study synopsis.

We present a general framework for analysis of wireless capsule endoscopy (CE) studies. The current available workstations provide a time-consuming an...