Pregnancy

Assessment of Magnetic Dextran-Spermine Nanoparticles for Capecitabine Delivery to Cancerous Cells.

Cationic polymeric nanoparticles have great potential for developing drug delivery systems with limited side effects for tumor medication. The goal of this research is investigation of cationic dextran-spermine polymer (DS) efficacy for improvement of hydrophilic drug delivery to negatively charged cancerous cells. Capecitabine (as a hydrophilic antineoplastic drug) was loaded into the magnetic de...

Effects of premedication with Pronase for endoscopic ultrasound of the stomach: A randomized controlled trial.

AIM: To analyze the effects of premedication with Pronase for endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) examination of the stomach.

Computer aided prognosis for cell death categorization and prediction in vivo using quantitative ultrasound and machine learning techniques.

PURPOSE: At present, a one-size-fits-all approach is typically used for cancer therapy in patients. This is mainly because there is no current imaging...

A new look at bronchopulmonary dysplasia: postcapillary pathophysiology and cardiac dysfunction.

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) and right ventricular function are the focus of cardiovascular effects of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). We assessed ca...

Antiphospholipid Syndrome with Antiβ2glicoprotein-1 Antibodies as the Cause of Recurrent Tibial Vein Thrombosis in SAPHO syndrome.

The antiphospholipid antibody syndrome is defined by the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies in patients with recurrent venous or arterial thrombo...

Pregnant after assisted reproduction: a risk pregnancy is born! 18-years perinatal outcome results from a population-based registry in Flanders, Belgium.

BACKGROUND: Although the increased risk for perinatal morbidity and mortality of babies born after ART is largely attributed to a higher rate of multi...

Robotic intrafractional US guidance for liver SABR: System design, beam avoidance, and clinical imaging.

PURPOSE: To present a system for robotic 4D ultrasound (US) imaging concurrent with radiotherapy beam delivery and estimate the proportion of liver st...

The Feasibility of a Completely Automated Total IV Anesthesia Drug Delivery System for Cardiac Surgery.

BACKGROUND: In this pilot study, we tested a novel automatic anesthesia system for closed-loop administration of IV anesthesia drugs for cardiac surgi...

Robot-assisted segmental resection of tubal pregnancy followed by end-to-end reanastomosis for preserving tubal patency and fertility: An initial report.

The objective of this study was to evaluate whether robotic tubal reanastomosis after segmental resection of tubal pregnancy is a feasible means of pr...

Clinical Assessment of Soluble FMS-Like Tyrosine Kinase-1/Placental Growth Factor Ratio for the Diagnostic and the Prognosis of Preeclampsia in the Second Trimester.

BACKGROUND: Preeclampsia is one of the most common and serious complications of pregnancy. Various reports have demonstrated that disturbances in angi...

Design and validation of an MR-conditional robot for transcranial focused ultrasound surgery in infants.

PURPOSE: Current treatment of intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) involves cerebral shunt placement or an invasive brain surgery. Magnetic resonance-gui...

Robotic path-finding in inverse treatment planning for stereotactic radiosurgery with continuous dose delivery.

PURPOSE: Continuous dose delivery in radiation therapy treatments has been shown to decrease total treatment time while improving the dose conformity ...

Fetal facial standard plane recognition via very deep convolutional networks.

The accurate recognition of fetal facial standard plane (FFSP) (i.e., axial, coronal and sagittal plane) from ultrasound (US) images is quite essentia...

Electrosynthesis of magnetoresponsive microrobot for targeted drug delivery using calcium alginate.

Targeted drug delivery systems deliver drugs precisely to a specific targeted site inside the body, and can also release the drugs with controlled kin...

A comparison of multimodal biomarkers for chronic hepatitis B assessment using recursive feature elimination.

An effective assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is highly desired because it is important not only for clinical c...

High Concentrations of the Angiogenic Peptide VEGF-A in Seminal Fluid and its Association to Prostasomes.

BACKGROUND: Angiogenesis is the formation of new blood vessels by capillary sprouting from pre-existing vessels. This process is associated with incre...

Evaluation of a novel portable micro-pump and infusion system for drug delivery.

In this paper the design, fabrication and experimental results of a novel portable fixed-displacement micro-pump for controlled dosing and timing is d...

Genetic algorithms for dipole location of fetal magnetocardiography.

In this paper, we explore the use of Maximum Likelihood (ML) method with Genetic Algorithms (GA) as global optimization procedure for source reconstru...

Prediction of individual prosthesis size for valve-sparing aortic root reconstruction based on geometric features.

Valve-sparing aortic root reconstruction is an up- and-coming approach for patients suffering from aortic valve insufficiencies which promises to sign...

An automated bladder volume measurement algorithm by pixel classification using random forests.

Residual bladder volume measurement is a very important marker for patients with urinary retention problems. To be able to monitor patients with these...