Sentences with phrase «occlusion of»

Essure is indicated for women who desire permanent birth control (female sterilization) by bilateral occlusion of the fallopian tubes.

† Myocardial Infarction (MI, Acute Myocardial Infarction, AMI, Non-ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction, STEMI, Heart Attack): An acute interruption of vascular perfusion of any portion of the myocardium (muscles of the heart) due to either an occlusion of a coronary artery or to vascular spasm causing damage to the myocardium.

The case arose when a man was admitted to a medical center and was diagnosed with the narrowing of a carotid artery and the occlusion of a coronary artery.

The judge had held that it was more likely than not that the damage had been caused solely by the occlusion of the umbilical cord in association with the attempted forceps delivery.

Since then, satellite reading of temperatures and the occlusion of numerous infrared bands, ground based, aircraft and balloon measurements of same, and an ever - increasing data base of the optical properties of CO2 (and other gases, like water vapour), have helped refine radiation calculations towards determining the atmospheric heat budget.

This kind of occlusion of a carotid artery, which can be the result of things ranging from blunt trauma to heavy exertion, appears to be the prime source of strokes in youngish middle - aged people — i.e. people like me.

These tactile impressions push the formaldehyde tableaux into allegories of the occlusion of a clear path to its object.

I'm in agreement with Richard about aspects of the broader mythology around crowdfunding and the thrust of HM's point around the occlusion of smaller projects in the rush to celebrate the «success» of Kickstarter.

Partial occlusion of the shunt usually results in improvement, but has a more guarded long - term prognosis.

Most pets with this condition are candidates for interventional occlusion of the defect.

Located in New York, and as a former patient at the hospital, Cornell's Cardiology Companion Animal services provide, «a number of interventional therapies including, but not limited to, pacemaker implantation, occlusion of patent ductus arteriosus, balloon valvuloplasty for pulmonic and subaortic stenosis, cardioversion of atrial fibrillation and radiofrequency catheter ablation of arrhythmias.»

Evaluation of portocaval venograft and ameroid ring for the occlusion of intrahepatic portocaval shunts in dogs.

Alternatively, a malformation of a cheek tooth may cause improper occlusion of other cheek teeth or the incisors, causing improper tooth wear and overgrowth.

Scarring, which may affect the cornea, causing cloudiness or occlusion of the tear outflow duct, resulting in tearing.

The stability of plaque is a major factor in the risk of heart attack, as rupture of a plaque and its subsequent occlusion of the artery may be the initiating event of a heart attack.

Several trials have demonstrated that the cardiomyocytes of rodents maintained on IER become more resilient to ischaemic injury induced by occlusion of the left coronary artery 18, 21, 29, which translated into improved long - term survival following such injury in one study.21 In addition, within these studies, associations have been found between the cardiovascular improvements and markers of oxidative stress 24, 30, inflammatory responses 18, 24, 29, 30 and increases in circulating levels of adiponectin.29 Collectively, these reported changes in biochemical and physiological cardiovascular risk factors would be expected to suppress atherosclerotic development and preserve cardiovascular health.

Furthermore, bioengineered artificial ducts can replace the native CBD, with no evidence of cholestasis or occlusion of the lumen.

Cobham - Hervey is superb as Billie and vacillates occlusions of vulnerability, chutzpah and sheer damned aggression against her changing wardrobe and hairstyles as she tries to work out who she is while her family spins on axis around her.

The second one deals with the repressions of bodies and the occlusions of non-normative sexualities in the discourses of history, Catholicism or science.

Not exact matches

Death comes with the brutal crash of steel as autos meet on freeways, through the quiet slit of steel with a razor at the wrist, with the thieving suddenness of a coronary occlusion, with the silent stealth of infant crib death, with the adding - machine efficiency of genocide, or with the plotlessness of invisible mass killings in Kampuchea.

To better understand the significance of the influence of breastfeeding on malocclusion, one must consider that, of the approximately 600 older skulls this author examined and evaluated, nearly all had perfect occlusions.

Umbilical cord occlusion uses a special instrument to tie off the umbilical cord of the sick baby.

Children can develop a number of dental problems such as tooth decay, occlusion problems, and trauma.

At one extreme, some certifiers have abandoned using SIDS as a cause - of - death explanation.7 At the other extreme, some certifiers will not classify a death as suffocation in the absence of a pathologic marker of asphyxia at autopsy (ie, pathologic findings diagnostic of oronasal occlusion or chest compression8), even with strong evidence from the scene investigation that suggests a probable accidental suffocation.

Such «retinal vein occlusions» can trigger transient or even permanent loss of vision.

The researchers next added occlusion testing in which the computer identifies the areas in each image that are of greatest interest and the basis for its conclusions.

Such rules include perspective (parallel lines appear to converge in the distance), stereopsis (our left and right eyes receive horizontally displaced images of the same object, resulting in the perception of depth), occlusion (objects near us occlude objects farther away), shading, chiaroscuro (the contrast of an object as a function of the position of the light source) and sfumato (the feeling of depth created by the interplay of in - and out - of - focus elements in an image as well as from the level of transparency of the atmosphere itself).

Her team is the first to define the function of an enzyme for preventing protein occlusion inside a crystal, she said.

«This is the first study to identify a specific biophysical mechanism through which vaso - occlusion takes place,» said George Karniadakis, professor of applied mathematics at Brown and the study's senior author.

The occlusion body (the virus «cocoon») has a volume of around 0.01 cubic micrometres, about one hundred times smaller than the smallest artificially grown protein crystals that have until now been analysed using crystallographic techniques.

The individual proteins (right) stick together to form the building blocks (left, seen from the side; center, seen from above) of the crystalline occlusion bodies.

The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could provide a way to evaluate drug treatments aimed at easing or preventing sickle cell crisis, also known as vaso - occlusion.

«We're trying to address the problem of occlusion by giving the user an idea of their input, while still being able to see through the hands to the screen,» Wigdor says.

The «Smart Scar - Care» pad designed by Professor Cecilia Li - Tsang in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, PolyU, serves the dual functions of reinforcing pressure and occlusion.

A new device worn like a visor can detect emergent large - vessel occlusion in patients with suspected stroke with 92 percent accuracy, report clinical investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Mount Sinai, the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center and elsewhere in an article published online on March 6, 2018, in the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery.

Reh envisions this approach could be useful for treatment of acute eye injuries and central retinal arterial occlusion — a stroke of the eye.

For some time researchers have suggested the answer to this so - called «occlusion problem» is to put controls on the back of the device, but now there are signs that sophisticated rear - mounted controls may be inching towards commercial reality.

Endovascular therapy within 24 hours is the standard of care for emergent large - vessel occlusion, but the chance of achieving a good outcome decreases by approximately 20 percent for each hour that passes before treatment.

Chronic total occlusion, a complete blockage of the coronary artery, sometimes referred to as the «final frontier in interventional cardiology,» represents a major challenge for catheter - based percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a high - resolution live imaging technique that can be used for early detection of retinal diseases, such as age - related macular degeneration, diabetes - related conditions, glaucoma or vascular occlusions, for example.

Three of the patients did not complete chemotherapy — one died after consent but prior to chemotherapy; one died during chemotherapy because of an arterial occlusion; and one had a myocardial infarction prior to completion of the four courses of chemotherapy.

Consequently, there is substantial interest in using novel imaging methods for preprocedural characterization of chronic total occlusion.

But the experiments of Ramachandran (and very similar results from psychologist Lloyd Kaufman of New York University) showed that the mechanism was even more sophisticated than that; it could segment the image based on implied occlusion and «hallucinate» illusory contours that can serve as tokens for stereoscopic matching.

Cells signaling disparity are in V1 (as shown by Pettigrew), but cells that extract illusory contours (from implied occlusion) are extracted in area V2, the next stage up, as shown by Rudiger von der Heydt of Johns Hopkins University.

In most cases, hypoxia is caused by either a dysfunction of the retinal vasculature, as in diabetic retinopathy and retinal artery and vein occlusions, or it is due to a mismatch between nutrient supply and demand, as in the case of a retinal detachment, where the retina is separated too far from the choroid to receive sufficient oxygen.

Prevention of vascular graft occlusion and thrombus - associated thrombin generation by inhibition of factor XI.

Following coronary artery occlusion, SDF - 1α level is increased in the infarcted area, resulting in the recruitment of progenitor cells expressing CXCR4 for post-infarct repair [47].

We have solved the problem of occlusion with sophisticated computer vision techniques and individual tags.

Swine Model of Thrombotic Caval Occlusion Created by Autologous Thrombus Injection with Assistance of Intra-caval Net Knitting.

Direct observation of mineral - organic composite formation reveals occlusion mechanism, Nature Communications, January 6, 2016, DOI: 10.1038 / NCOMMS10187.