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Multicenter experience with photoselective vaporization of the prostate on men taking novel oral anticoagulants.

OBJECTIVE: Photoselective vaporization of the prostate (PVP) is a widely performed surgical procedure for benign prostatic obstruction. This approach has become particular favoured for men on anti-platelet and anticoagulation agents such as clopidogrel and warfarin but there is minimal published experience in the setting of novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs). This study was to examine the periopera...

Reaffirmation of the importance of follow-up ultrasound studies in patients with high D-dimers and clinical suspicion of vein thrombosis.

BACKGROUND: Venous thromboembolism is a common disease seen in the emergency department and a cause of high morbidity and mortality, constituting a major health problem.

A Diagnostic Prediction Model of Acute Symptomatic Portal Vein Thrombosis.

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to develop a diagnostic prediction model to improve identification of acute symptomatic portal vein thrombosis (...

An artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support system for large kidney stone treatment.

A decision support system (DSS) was developed to predict postoperative outcome of a kidney stone treatment procedure, particularly percutaneous nephro...

A case of robotic assisted percutaneous coronary intervention of the left main coronary artery in a patient with very late baffle stenosis after surgical correction of anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery.

A 34-year-old woman with history of surgical correction (Takeuchi procedure) of anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) pres...

Adjusting the dose in paediatric care: dispersing four different aspirin tablets and taking a proportion.

OBJECTIVES: When caring for children in a hospital setting, tablets are often manipulated at the ward to obtain the right dose. One example is manipul...

Fully Automated Segmentation of Lower Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis Using Convolutional Neural Network.

OBJECTIVE: Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a disease caused by abnormal blood clots in deep veins. Accurate segmentation of DVT is important to facilita...

Machine learning approaches for risk assessment of peripherally inserted Central catheter-related vein thrombosis in hospitalized patients with cancer.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to conduct an effective assessment of peripherally inserted central venous catheter (PICC)-related thrombosis bas...

Prediction of coronary thin-cap fibroatheroma by intravascular ultrasound-based machine learning.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Although grayscale intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is commonly used for assessing coronary lesion morphology and optimizing stent...

Robot-Assisted Simple Prostatectomy: Illustration of a Simplified Extraperitoneal Transcapsular Technique.

Robot-assisted simple prostatectomy (RASP) performed with the extraperitoneal (EP) technique (RASP-EP) minimizes the risk of bowel injury, particular...

Robot-assisted laparoscopic midureteral stricture repair and percutaneous stent placement in an infant.

Mid-ureteral strictures in infants are a rare cause of hydronephrosis. In this surgical technique video we demonstrate a repair of a mid-ureteral stri...

The use of artificial neural network analysis can improve the risk-stratification of patients presenting with suspected deep vein thrombosis.

Artificial neural networks are machine-learning algorithms designed to analyse data without a pre-existing hypothesis as to any associations that may ...

A Randomized Control Trial Of Anti-Inflammatory Regional Hypothermia On Urinary Continence During Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy.

The present study seeks to present a single-blind, randomized control trial of a hypothermic anti-inflammatory device, the endorectal cooling balloon ...

Ensemble of machine learning algorithms using the stacked generalization approach to estimate the warfarin dose.

Warfarin dosing remains challenging due to narrow therapeutic index and highly individual variability. Incorrect warfarin dosing is associated with de...

Real-time microrobot posture recognition via biplane X-ray imaging system for external electromagnetic actuation.

PURPOSE: As a promising intravascular therapeutic approach for autonomous catheterization, especially for thrombosis treatment, a microrobot or roboti...

Autonomous detection, grading, and reporting of postoperative complications using natural language processing.

INTRODUCTION: Natural language processing, a computer science technique that allows interpretation of narrative text, is infrequently used to identify...

Design and Development of a Topology-Optimized Three-Dimensional Printed Soft Gripper.

In the past decade, a rich repertoire of soft robots, designed from biomimetic and intuitive approaches, has been developed to overcome challenges fac...

Flexible robotic catheters in the visceral segment of the aorta: advantages and limitations.

Flexible robotic catheters are an emerging technology which provide an elegant solution to the challenges of conventional endovascular intervention. O...

Initial Design and Experimental Evaluation of a Pneumatic Interference Actuator.

Substantial device mass and control complexity can hinder the impact of wearable robotic technologies, such as exoskeletons. Thus, despite promising p...

Viscosity Prediction in a Physiologically Controlled Ventricular Assist Device.

OBJECTIVE: We present a novel machine learning model to accurately predict the blood-analog viscosity during support of a pathological circulation wit...