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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) presented with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction of 48% and severe ischemia quantified as 21% by stress Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan. A coronary angiogram revealed ostial 90% stenosis of the left main coronary artery (LMCA). A guidewi...

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 manipulation of tablets containing the slightly water-soluble substance aspirin, used in paediatric care as an antiplatelet agent. The evidence base, however, for choosing certain tablet formulations and manipulation methods over others for extraction of pr...

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...

Left Atrial Appendage Segmentation Using Fully Convolutional Neural Networks and Modified Three-Dimensional Conditional Random Fields.

Thrombosis has become a global disease threatening human health. The left atrial appendage (LAA) is a major source of thrombosis in patients with atri...

Robotic-assisted transradial diagnostic coronary angiography.

Robotic percutaneous coronary interventions have recently been introduced in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. Robotics offers benefits of great...

High Incidence of Deep Vein Thrombosis in the Perioperative Period of Neurosurgical Patients.

INTRODUCTION: A prospective study was designed to elucidate incidence and predictors of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in patients undergoing craniotomi...

Drug eluting stents are superior to bare metal stents to reduce clinical outcome and stent-related complications in CKD patients, a systematic review, meta-analysis and network meta-analysis.

Aims To compare clinical outcome in Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients receiving coronary stents according to stent type BMS versus DES and 1st gen...