Sentences with phrase «for ablation»
The energy available for ablation of a glacier is determined by the energy budget of the glacier surface, illustrated in the accompanying figure.
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The correlation between annual net balance is higher for ablation season temperature than for accumulation season precipitation.
However, the other terms in the energy balance directly or indirectly affect the amount of absorbed solar radiation which is available for ablation.
Then you have people like me that are just not good at hitting them out of the way... Add two neck surgeries (acdf & posterior placement of rods), endometrial ablation (& tubal ligation as a necessity for the ablation), a gallbladder removal, worsening spinal stenosis and degenerative disease, many bad situations related to life in general, etc, etc, etc... It has not been a good 10 years, no matter how you slice it.
I asked for ablation to help with my flow and menstrual issues.
We targeted AVA interneurons for ablation in ten wild - type L1 stage animals.
To impute aging phenotypes directly to p16Ink4a - expressing senescent cells, van Deursen and colleagues with expertise in the aging and senescence of the relevant tissues developed and tested the effects of a pharmacologically - inducible system for the ablation of p16Ink4a - expressing cells.
(1) One clear disadvantage of using these «early - aging» mice is that they die too early to develop cancer — too early for ablation of p16Ink4a - positive senescent cells to impact the course of the disease.
They expected those people with values lower than 2.86 percent to be better candidates for ablation because atrial fibrillation would be less likely to recur than in those people with more than the 2.86 percent cutoff.
Assisting with EP Studies and settign u the lab for ablations.
Not exact matches
For Mars, there will be some ablation of the heat shield.
Irregular / heavy menstrual bleeding can be treated in several ways: 1) Hormonal medication (a low dose birth control pill or cyclic progestin); 2) A hormone - containing intrauterine device (the most common one used is the Mirena IUD, which manages bleeding very effectively and is placed during an office visit and lasts for 5 years); 3) Endometrial ablation is a surgery commonly performed as an outpatient procedure; the entire lining of the uterus is cauterized (many women never get a menstrual period after an ablation); 4) Finally, I reserve hysterectomy as the treatment of last resort — typically only when the above options have not worked for a patient.
The OB / GYN is ready to care for you from birth control, to STI prevention, to irregular periods, to pregnancy, to peri menopause, to bone health, to surgery and hysterectomy and even offer hysterectomy alternatives like Mirena, ablation, and Lysteda, to post menopause and cancer issues.
Prior to the ablation, each subject underwent computed tomography scans or MRIs of their hearts and were followed for an average of 20 months to assess recurrence of Afib, including a faster than normal heartbeat or an irregular heartbeat lasting longer than 30 seconds.
For the study, designed to identify the best predictors, the researchers used data from 208 atrial fibrillation or «Afib» patients admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital to undergo ablation between June 2010 and December 2015.
While drugs have been available for more than 30 years, ablation is a relatively new treatment.
The study was funded by HealthTronics, a medical technology company that manufactures the ablation probes used for the treatment.
«Catheter ablation better than traditional drug therapies for treating atrial fibrillation.»
«For the first time in a randomized study, the strategy of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation may be better than the current approach for these patienFor the first time in a randomized study, the strategy of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation may be better than the current approach for these patienfor atrial fibrillation may be better than the current approach for these patienfor these patients.
There are multiple techniques currently being studied for this type of drug delivery mechanism, from microneedles to iontophoresis (transdermal drug delivery via electric current), but the Kumamoto University researchers designed to improve a technique called transdermal thermal ablation.
«Novel thermal ablation system for transdermal drug delivery.»
«Based on our study findings, physicians and patients need to be educated that atrial flutter can be readily cured through catheter ablation, and the procedure may reduce the risk for atrial fibrillation.»
Ablation also led to an 11 percent reduction in risk for health care for AF but only a negligible drop in risk for acute stroke.
The researchers used a combination of transparent gel patches, gold nanorods, and near - infrared (NIR) light to create a unique thermal ablation system for transdermal drug delivery.
«Catheter ablation a first - line treatment for atrial flutter.»
Performing a multivariate analysis adjusting for patient demographics and comorbidities, the UCSF researchers determined AFL catheter ablation reduced the risk for overall hospital - based health care by 6 percent, inpatient hospitalization by 12 percent and emergency department visits by 40 percent.
«However, we believe our study findings, in combination with the previous literature and our clinical experience, are sufficient to support catheter ablation as first - line treatment for AFL,» Marcus said.
«The use of catheter ablation for AFL is very effective and can significantly reduce hospital visits and demand on health care services,» Marcus said.
Dr. Kapural and coauthors conclude, «Nonetheless, the findings of this study indicate that CRFA for genicular nerve ablation is superior to a single corticosteroid injection in osteoarthritic subjects for management of knee pain.»
For patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, a minimally invasive procedure called cooled radiofrequency ablation (CRFA) provides better pain reduction and functional improvement compared to steroid injection of the knee, concludes a study in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, published by Wolters Kluwer.
Radio frequency ablation during laparoscopy is useful for destruction of fibroids during laparoscopy that would be difficult to remove in this minimally invasive way.
While on one hand, there is significant potential in the application of nanoparticles in enhancing heat transfer for tumor ablation and targeted drug delivery, there is also much promise in improving imaging and diagnostic protocols using them.
Raydiance's technology has attracted the attention of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which in July 2007 signed the company to a two - year cooperative research and development agreement that has allowed the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) to evaluate the use, safety and effectiveness of Raydiance's USP laser system in a number of areas, including the ablation of corneal tissues in refractive surgery and corneal repair; the administration of light therapy for treating cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes; and the removal of plaque on teeth without damaging the enamel.
Taking our results together we can conclude that RDN is an effective procedure for treating resistant hypertension but success depends on careful selection and completeness of ablation.»
In a small proof - of - concept study, researchers at Johns Hopkins report a complex mathematical method to measure electrical communications within the heart can successfully predict the effectiveness of catheter ablation, the standard of care treatment for atrial fibrillation, the most common irregular heartbeat disorder.
For example, successful ablation improves both the local and global connectivity, and as a result, improves the efficiency and robustness of the communication network.
NFI, for example, uses the specialist laser ablation / inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer technique, which is still too costly for most forensic science institutes.
This study sought to create a measure of success for catheter ablation, so that physicians and patients could know immediately following treatment whether it was effective, or whether they'll need to anticipate another procedure in the future.
«Our study sought to create an accurate predictor and measure of success and we showed that if the procedure improved electrical communication in the heart immediately following catheter ablation, then it can be a read - out for longer term success.»
When drugs aren't effective for treating atrial fibrillation, cardiologists may use a procedure called catheter ablation to cauterize, or burn, the heart tissue that's the source of the electrical misfire.
«Study finds cardiac ablation doesn't reduce atrial fibrillation risk for patients with syndrome.»
A two - way ANOVA revealed that there was no interaction between temperature and ablation of antennae (n.s. = non-significant, P = 0.15), and then Student's t - test was conducted for intergroup comparison (**, P < 0.01).
Dr. Moscat's laboratory, in collaboration with that of Dr. Karin at UCSD, has established for the fist time that p62 is necessary and sufficient for HCC induction in mice and that its high expression level in non-tumor human liver predicts rapid HCC recurrence after curative ablation.
Our laboratory has assembled a comprehensive set of tools for doing this, including mice with conditional ablation of the Btla gene in different subsets of immune cells.
Steffi Böhme of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (Department of Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology) won this year's award for her presentation «Visualisation of silver nanoparticle uptake by Laser Ablation — Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry».
Radislav Sedlacek, Czech Centre for Phenogenomics - KLK5 and KLK7 Ablation Fully Rescues Lethality of Netherton Syndrome - Like Phenotype
These include custom - built light sheet microscopy for single molecule and whole embryo measurements, laser ablation to perturb and dissect the architecture of microtubule structures, quantitative polarization microscopy, and new fluorescence correlation spectroscopy approaches.
«Laser ablation isotope ratio mass spectrometry for enhanced sensitivity and spatial resolution in stable isotope analysis.»
By comparison, the present day GrIS has an AAR of ~ 0.9 (Ettema, 2010), which corresponds to an ablation area of 10 % and a melt area for the GrIS of 31 % (as calculated above).
As applied to the Initiative, the enhanced sensitivity of the laser ablation measurement approach will be harnessed for measuring stable isotope content of nanogram amounts of RNA samples.