Sentences with phrase «reduce ablation»

The researchers caution that a more randomized and controlled clinical trial is needed before doctors can reliably use their cardiac imaging analysis routinely with patients, but if confirmed, they say the method should reduce ablation procedures unlikely to work, along with the procedures» substantial costs and complication risks.

In fact, according to [Moelg and Hardy, 2004] precipitation aids net accumulation much more through the albedo affect, which reduces ablation, than through the mass added directly by snowfall.

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«Our study suggests that in patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation is an effective alternative treatment that can help patients avoid or discontinue this drug to reduce the risk of these long - term side effects.»

«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.»

This will reduce the chances of complications occurring during routine but skilled procedures such as ablation procedures in the heart.

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.

«The use of catheter ablation for AFL is very effective and can significantly reduce hospital visits and demand on health care services,» Marcus said.

Endometrial ablation, uses heat, cold or mechanical means to destroy the endometrium and thus reduces menstrual bleeding.

Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute initially set out to discover if catheter ablation reduces the long - term risk of atrial fibrillation and whether the patients» age at the time of the procedure affected their risk.

«Study finds cardiac ablation doesn't reduce atrial fibrillation risk for patients with syndrome.»

Researchers have attributed glacial decline to increasing temperatures, which have reduced the period of glacial accumulation and extended the period of summer ice melting (ablation).

Moreover, ablation of a STAT5A allele reduces tumor incidence in a mouse model of breast cancer in which mammary epithelial cells express T antigen (48).

Anything that reduces recovery time and limits a patient's pain and discomfort is a boon, Fong said of the growing trend toward robotic surgery and ablation.

Acute ablation of autophagy leads to animal death caused by infection, diabetes, and neurodegeneration, as well as muscle dystrophy and reduced fat storage [18].

Ablation of TLR4 in mice has been shown to reduce atherosclerotic plaque formation (29).

Michael Nolan, assistant professor of radiation oncology and biology, received $ 23,060 for a study on using enhanced ethanol ablation, or direct ethanol injections to reduce tumors, as a lower - cost treatment for oral cancer.

Michael Nolan, assistant professor of radiation oncology and biology, received $ 23,060 for a study on using enhanced ethanol ablation, or direct ethanol injections to reduce tumors, as a

The sensitivity would be reduced if sublimation were really the only ablation mechanism.

According to [Moelg and Hardy, 2004], if air temperature were 1 degree C colder than at present, the potential ablation would be reduced by 14.2 millimeters per month (liquid water equivalent).

Snowpack ablation is reduced somewhat for the Snotel sites are that more protected by surrounding forest (Wells Creek and Thunder Basin).

The Whitechuck Glacier has simply not been happy with the 1.4 o F warming the North Cascade region has experienced since the 19th century, and its reduced income in the form of reduced accumulation, and increased expenditures in the form of increased ablation have led to a negative balance in its glacier ice savings account.

The cold air reduced above water ablation of the icebergs.