... clinical trial in patients with acquired braininjury José-Antonio Gil-Gómez1*, Roberto Lloréns1, Mariano Alcañiz1,3 and Carolina Colomer2 Abstract Background: Acquired braininjury (ABI) is the main ... treatment with new exercises, so an evolution of the system is currently being developed Background Acquired Braininjury (ABI) is the main cause of death and disability among young adults [1] ... Group A was made up of subjects with a high risk of falling, with Berg scores ranging from 30 to 45 Group B was made up of subjects with a low risk of falling, with a Berg score ≥46 All the subjects...
... only interact with the environment displayed on the computer screen with or without interface or haptic devices [5] VR offers the chance for intensive repetition of meaningful tasks with augmented ... rehabilitating clients with cognitive impairments such as braininjury [3,711] But no study so far has attempted to create a virtual ATM environment for the training and studying of persons with disabilities ... real ATMs in persons with ABI, while the second compared the effects of using the VR-ATM program with those of using CAI when training persons with ABI to operate ATMs for cash withdrawals and money...
... patellar prosthesis withinjury to the patellar tendon is rare and has not been previously described in the literature Patellar replacement is not a benign procedure, and it can lead to catastrophic ... patellar prosthesis dislocation with patellar tendon injuryfollowing a total knee arthroplasty: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:11 Publish with Bio Med Central and every ... symptoms improved and he was discharged from the clinic within one year He presented again in January 2006 with a painful locked knee following a sudden flexion movement of his right knee Radiographs...
... intracerebral brain contusion and bleeding Four patients presented with a penetrating head injury, and one with a blunt head injury In all patients, hemorrhagic brain contusion was encountered with the ... participating hospitals Traumatic braininjury post hoc subanalysis In accordance with protocol inclusion criteria, all patients were hemodynamically unstable (6 units of RBCs within hours of admission ... severity of braininjury None of the 81 trauma patients in this series had any clinical indication of TE events Zaaroor and Bar-Lavie [23] reported the first series of five patients with TBI with a...
... Thoracic injury 0.13 Abdominal injury 0.34 Extremities injury 0.20 Diffuse injury without brain swelling 12 0.046 Diffuse bilateral brain swelling 12 Diffuse unilateral brain swelling with midline ... (n)a One reacting Both reactingb 12 14 Diffuse injury without brain swelling Diffuse bilateral brain swelling Diffuse injury unilateral brain swelling with midline shift Any mass lesion evacuated ... years, five were admitted with nonreacting midriatic pupils and with clinical evidence of Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) brain death, two presented with haemodynamic instability...
... http://ccforum.com/content/14/2/307 Commentary Traumatic braininjury (TBI) is devastating withcatastrophic consequences Early recognition of injury and prompt delivery of focused care of the traumatic brain injured patient is ... traumatic braininjury Analyses were conducted in all patients and in subgroups according to severity of traumatic braininjury The authors found that resuscitation with albumin was associated with ... unclear due to lack of baseline data about factors known to be associated with increased mortality from traumatic braininjury and concern about the use of short-term outcomes when outcomes between...
... associated with GCS score and mortality after TBI Key messages • In patients with traumatic brain injury, plasma resistin level increased during the 6-hour period immediately, peaked within 24 ... highly associated with GCS scores after traumatic braininjury • Resistin could possibly serve as a novel biomarker in TBI • Plasma resistin level predicted 1-month mortality after TBI with the high ... hypoxic/ischaemic mouse brain Neuroreport 2006, 17:1195-1198 14 Brown R, Thompson HJ, Imran SA, Ur E, Wilkinson M: Traumatic braininjury induces adipokine gene expression in rat brain Neurosci Lett...
... patients within their respective subgroups As expected, patients with TBI had sustained a higher overall magnitude of injury as compared to patients without TBI (P < 0.001) Patients without relevant ... injured patients without TBI (Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) score, head
... the mitral annulus A risk factor in mitralvalve operations J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1987;94:399-404 Feindel CM, Tufail Z, David TE, Ivanov J, Armstrong S Mitralvalvesurgery in patients with ... postoperatively the patient is doing well without any evidence of paravalvular leak or structural valve deterioration Conclusion: Mitralvalvereplacement using a bioprosthesis with equine pericardial patches ... due to severe mitral annular calcification Key words: Mitralvalve replacement, Annular calcification, Surgical procedures Introduction Severe annular calcification of the mitralvalve is a major...
... retrograde perfusion of cold blood cardioplegia Mitralvalvereplacementwith a prosthetic valve (Mosaic Ultra Porcine Valve, 27 mm) and tricuspid annuloplasty with a prosthetic ring (Duran Ancore Annuloplasty ... day 14 after surgery Discussion Minimally invasive mitralvalve surgical approaches consist of partial sternotomy, right parasternotomy, right thoracotomy, and left thoracotomy With improvement ... approaches for valvesurgery The 30-day mortality rate, major complications such as renal failure and neurological deficits, and 5-year overall survival for these approaches for mitralvalve are satisfactory...
... Exclusion; CRT-D: Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy with Defibrillator; MVR: MitralValve Replacement; MS: Mitralvalve Stenosis; MR: Mitralvalve Regurgitation; LVDd: Left Ventricular End-Diastolic ... for an adolescent patient with dilated cardiomyopathy seven years after mitralvalvereplacement and septal anterior ventricular exclusion Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2010, 5:47 ... S, Doi H, Ikeda T, Komeda M, Nakahata T: A long-term follow-up of a girl with dilated cardiomyopathy after mitralvalvereplacement and septal anterior ventricular exclusion J Cardiothorac Surg...
... hours before repeat mitralvalve reconstruction During the redo surgery, the patient underwent sternotomy with lysis of extensive mediastinal adhesions, redo mitralvalve repair with resection of ... short-term prophylaxis using C1 INH in a 51-year-old man with HAE undergoing redo mitralvalve reconstructive surgery Case presentation A 51-year-old man with type HAE, a history of acute respiratory failure, ... pulmonary heart disease, and previous mitralvalve annuplasty was scheduled for redo surgery six months after the initial surgical procedure due to severe mitralvalve regurgitation During the initial...
... Anterior Ventricular Exclusion; MS: mitralvalve stenosis; MR: mitralvalve regurgitation; LVDd: left ventricular end-diastolic diameter; MVR: mitralvalve replacement; LVFS: left ventricular ... Severe heart failure in children is commonly treated with diuretics, ACE inhibitors, calcium blockers, β-blockers and vasodilators [10,11] Patients with DCM and NYHA functional class, who not respond ... wall is not removed but excluded with a patch in the SAVE procedure, the SAVE procedure is better in cardiac function improvement, particularly for the patients with large areas of damaged IVS...
... efficiency and has been shown to correlate with increased release of troponin following aortic valvesurgery [30,31] Third, LV diastolic dysfunction often coexists with latent or patent alterations in ... aortic valvereplacement Ann Thorac Surg 2009, 88:468-474 Hannan EL, Samadashvili Z, Lahey SJ, Smith CR, Culliford AT, Higgins RS, Gold JP, Jones RH: Aortic valvereplacement for patients with ... patients (90%) with low Vp (≤40 cm/sec) as opposed to out of 64 patients with normal-to-high Vp Discussion In this prospective study, 40% of high-risk patients undergoing aortic valve replacement...
... scores, 14 subjects(47%) with mild pain; 9(30%), with moderate pain; and (23%) with severe pain (VRS = 8-10) at Final The InterX post-NIN therapy group had 27 of 28 subjects (96%) with none or mild ... neurostimulation (InterX™™) reduces acute pain in patients following total knee replacement surgery: a randomised, controlled trial Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2011 6:45 Submit your next ... into the study following elective total knee joint replacement from the orthopaedic clinic in the catchment area of Prince Philip Hospital, Carmarthenshire NHS Trust in Wales, UK Surgery was performed...
... echocardiogram three months followingsurgery revealing an almost complete resolution of the pre-existing hematoma Additional file 5: Axial CT images three months followingsurgery Author details ... prior to aortic valve surgery: impact of echocardiography Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009, 35:960-964 Bruegger et al Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2011, 6:50 http://www.cardiothoracicsurgery.org/content/6/1/50 ... intramural hematoma after left atrial thrombus resection and concomitant mitralvalvereplacement - case report Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2011 6:50 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central...
... Cardiothoracic Surgery 2011, 6:124 http://www.cardiothoracicsurgery.org/content/6/1/124 and echocardiographic parameters At one year of clinical and echocardiographic follow up after her mitralvalve replacement, ... symptoms with no more hospitalizations for HF After 18 months post valvesurgery she remains NYHA class II with echocardiogram revealing left ventricular ejection fraction maintained at 45% with ... systemic emboli and valvular dysfunction like severe mitralvalve regurgitation [3] There have been few cases reported of ILVNC associated with severe mitral regurgitation [2,4,5] But due to limited...
... after mitralvalvereplacement through right vertiacal infra-axillary incision (2 weeks after surgery) with high body mass index (BMI) Several methods could be used to raise the heart and mitralvalve ... Demonstration that the mitralvalve operation is performed through the interatrial groove incision and running suture in mechanical valves replacement is usually used with 2-0 prolene line provide ... bioprosthetic valvereplacement total interrupted suture should be used, because running suture may injure bioprosthetic valve leaflet in so deep mitral position and the high struts of tissue valves...
... in the anterior leads ECG at admission three months after valvereplacementwith ECG at admission three months after valvereplacementwith ST-T-abnormalities in the anterior leads Figure ST segment ... Stenosis After Aortic Valve Replacement, Revisited Ann Thorac Surg 2004, 78:2169-2171 Sethi G, Scott S, Takaro T: Iatrogenic coronary artery stenosis following aortic valvereplacement J Thorac ... Electrocardiography showed regular sinus rhythm without additional findings (Fig 1) Echocardiographic assessment revealed a severely calcified aortic valvewith a calculated valve area of 0,80 cm2 and a mean...
... of the leaflets, so replacement of the valve was performed A biological mitralvalve was used reinforced with teflon pledgetted sutures The exposure and replacement of the valve was particularly ... completion of the replacement and during the atriotomy closure it was realized that the atriotomy was extended due to the retraction for better exposure of the valve, with subsequent injury to a) ... chest X-Ray on discharge day was normal Discussion Injury of right inferior pulmonary vein or generally of right pulmonary veins during mitralvalvesurgery is reported extremely rare In English literature,...