... R, Orrit J, Billes MA, Hoffmann DA, Cox JL, Champsaur GL: Surgical ablationofatrialfibrillation with offpump, epicardial, high-intensity focused ultrasound: Results of a multicenter trial J ... suffered in 20% of cases of paroxysmal, in 37% of persistent, and in 41% of cases of long standing persistent AF There was no statistical significant correlation in between type of AF and diagnosis ... parameters including type of AF, duration of AF, left atrial diameter, left ventricular ejection fraction as well as the size of the UltraCinch ablation device (number of transducer elements) were...
... combination of bipolar radiofrequency and cryothermy We made a lesion set ofablationofatrialfibrillation which was different from that of Gillinov’s technique Our technique consists of a combination ... perform mitral valve, tricuspid valve procedure, atrial septal defect closure, and atrialfibrillationablation Three patients underwent ablationofatrialfibrillation in minimally invasive mitral ... Schematic view of right atrium (RA) and left atrium (LA) through a transseptal approach to the mitral valve Creation of a cryoablation lesion set for atrialfibrillation ablation: combination of pulmonary...
... right atrial; RAAFT ¼ Radiofrequency AblationAtrialFibrillation Trial; STOP-AF ¼ Sustained Treatment Of Paroxysmal AtrialFibrillation Online ¼ references available on the dedicated AtrialFibrillation ... Paroxysmal AtrialFibrillation study; CACAF ¼ CatheterAblation for the Cure ofAtrialFibrillation study; CPVA ¼ circumferential pulmonary vein ablation; CTI ¼ cavotricuspid isthmus; LA ¼ left atrial; ... separate analyses of the efficacy of antiarrhythmic drugs and of LA catheterablation in AF imply greater benefit from ablation. 131 However, considering the potential of AF catheterablation to achieve...
... complication of inadequate atrial preservation J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1983, 85:105-115 Kolvekar S, D’Souza A, Akhtar P, Reek C, Garratt C, Spyt T: Role ofatrial ischemia in development ofatrialfibrillation ... alterations of the cardiac structure and electrophysiological profile of the atria due to the surgical atrial trauma itself [5], and ischemic atrial injury [18,19] Koletsis et al Journal of Cardiothoracic ... the atrial septum and atrial wall remain warmer than the wall of the left ventricle [4,21,22] Therefore, the protection of the atrial wall remains relatively inadequate compared to that of the...
... the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation) ; North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology: ACC/AHA/ESC guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation: executive ... U; STAF Investigators: Randomized trial of rate-control versus rhythm-control in persistent atrial fibrillation: the Strategies of Treatment ofAtrialFibrillation (STAF) study J Am Coll Cardiol ... recurrence ofatrialfibrillation Canadian Trial ofAtrialFibrillation Investigators N Engl J Med 2000, 342:913-920 31 The AFFIRM First Antiarrhythmic Drug Substudy Investigators: Maintenance of sinus...
... and treatment ofatrialfibrillation in medical intensive care unit patients What is the pathophysiology ofatrialfibrillation in medical intensive care unit patients? Does atrialfibrillation ... [10-17] What are the adverse effects of any treatment? Can (preventive) treatment ofatrialfibrillation improve survival? Can (preventive) treatment ofatrialfibrillation improve morbidity? Should ... patients with atrial arrhythmias: inflammatory mechanisms and persistence ofatrialfibrillation Circulation 2001, 104:2886-2891 31 Falk RH: Etiology and complications ofatrial fibrillation: ...
... impairment of health-related quality of life in patients with atrial fibrillation: implications for the assessment of investigational therapy JACC 2000, 36:1303-1309 Kang Y: Relation ofatrial arrhythmia-related ... symptom severity ofatrialfibrillation at the bedside: the CCS-SAF scale Can J Cardiol 2006, 22:383-386 Thrall G, Lane D, Carrol D, Lip GYH: Quality of life in patients with atrial fibrillation: ... health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with atrialfibrillation (AFQoL) Health Qual Life Outcomes 2007, 5:37 Reynolds MR, Ellis E, Zimetbaum P: Quality of life in atrial fibrillation: Measurement...
... impairment of health-related quality of life in patients with atrial fibrillation: implications for the assessment of investigational therapy JACC 2000, 36:1303-1309 Kang Y: Relation ofatrial arrhythmia-related ... symptom severity ofatrialfibrillation at the bedside: the CCS-SAF scale Can J Cardiol 2006, 22:383-386 Thrall G, Lane D, Carrol D, Lip GYH: Quality of life in patients with atrial fibrillation: ... health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with atrialfibrillation (AFQoL) Health Qual Life Outcomes 2007, 5:37 Reynolds MR, Ellis E, Zimetbaum P: Quality of life in atrial fibrillation: Measurement...
... Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2009, 4:61 Background Postoperative atrialfibrillation (AF) occurs after 30-40% of cardiac surgeries [1-3] and is associated with increased risk of stroke ... symptoms of heart failure Of the 1936 surgical procedures, 1493 (77%) were CABG only (Table 2) Postoperatively, 1778 (92%) of the Effect of Statins Postoperative AF occurred in 31% of statin-treated ... Current Smoking, % History of myocardial infarction, % History of heart surgery, % LV ejection fraction
... restoration of SR were recorded in all patients Diagnosis of septic shock The diagnosis of septic shock was based on the definitions of the American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical ... Panaretou M: C-reactive protein and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: evidence of the implication of an inflammatory process in paroxysmal atrialfibrillation Acta Cardiol 2001, 56:375-380 Anderson ... JE, Corley SD, AtrialFibrillation Follow-up Investigation of Rhythm Management (AFFIRM) Investigators: A comparison of rate control and rhythm control in patients with atrialfibrillation N...
... the feasibility and safety of HIFU for pancreas ablation [13] In the present study, we aimed to confirm the feasibility and safety of HIFU ablation to the pancreas of pigs using microscopy to ... compliance with the guide for the care and use of laboratory animals from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China Instruments HIFU ablation was performed with a HIFU tumor ... diameter of 0.5 mm was used to map the acoustic pressure field of the focused transducer at focal peak intensities of 200~300 W/cm2 [2] The focal region was cigar shaped, with dimensions of 9.8...
... approximately 85% of [c32P]-8-azido-ATP (Fig 1C) [27] The fact that a concentration of staurosporine almost one order of magnitude lower than that of ATP is needed to displace half of the bound [c32P]-8-azidoATP ... structural features of both proteins are almost identical In quantitative terms, the high degree of overlap of the two structures is reflected by the value of the rmsd It is the measure of the average ... kinetics of the ATP displacement by staurosporine, [c32P]-azido-ATP was UV crosslinked with the ARM domain in the presence of increasing concentrations of staurosporine After visualization of the...
... pulse and a pulse width of 34 ns at 10 Hz ablated the target The total duration ofablation was h and the size of the laser spot on the target was about = mm Two layers of sponge-like webs, a ... typical morphology of the materials in the yellow web It can be seen that the product consists of nanowires with an average diameter of 14 nm Most of the SiNWs are consist of straight and smoothly ... diagram of the laser ablation apparatus Fig Morphology of Si nanowires taken from the yellow product Ža Low-magnitude TEM image of Si nanowires The inset is SAED pattern Žb HRTEM image of a typical...
... Rutten FH (2010) Guidelines for the manage‐ ment ofatrial fibrillation: the Task Force for the Management ofAtrialFibrillationof the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Eur Heart J 31 (19):2369-2429 ... Korantzopoulos, P, et al The impact of body mass index on the efficacy and safety ofcatheterablationofatrialfibrillation Int J Cardiol (2011) Jul [Epub ahead of print] [88] Tamariz, L, Agarwal, ... Chapter Applications of Signal Analysis to AtrialFibrillation 155 José Joaquín Rieta and Raúl Alcaraz Chapter The Contribution of Nonlinear Methods in the Understanding ofAtrialFibrillation 181...
... cause of these weight differences, we determined the average daily food uptake of male and female animals of all three genotypes over a period of 10 days As shown in Fig 1B, the amount of food ... through an involvement of Sax2 in the development of morphological structures (e.g brain circuits) or the regulation of the expression of factors required for the regulation of energy homeostasis ... Determination of body weight, food uptake and body temperature of Sax2 + ⁄ +, Sax2 ) ⁄ + and Sax2 ) ⁄ ) mice Body weight (A), average daily food uptake (B) and food uptake per gram of body weight (C) of...
... amorphous structure of fused silica at 300 K through a so-called “quenching” procedure [10] The structure of the Molecular dynamics simulation of ultrafast laser ablationof fused silica film ... as in (1), qA is the charge of the ion, k is the index of structure layer, rk is the distance between the ion and the center of layer k, and nk is the number density of free electrons in layer ... term ablation used here is different from the traditional meaning ofablation which is commonly used to describe material removal from a target surface.) Figure displays the snapshots of the...
... (2002) 118–123 Fig Transient microphotographs ofablation at average fluence of 3.1 J/cm2 Fig Transient microphotographs ofablation at average fluence of 5.3 J/cm2 D.A Willis, X Xu / Applied Surface ... and expansion of the air adjacent to the heated surface The remainder of the photographs are for experiments above the phase explosion threshold fluence of 2.0 J/cm2 Results ofablation at an ... removal process at low laser fluences The possible causes of the attenuation Fig Transient microphotographs ofablation at average fluence of 2.3 J/cm2 122 D.A Willis, X Xu / Applied Surface Science...
... transmission of the probe at long negative delay; therefore, the self absorption effect of the probe pulse is already included in these data CHOWDHURY et al Ultrafast two-color ablationof fused ... advantage of the enhanced absorption that should accompany the decrease in transmissivity seen in the pump-probe experiments in Fig 1, two-color ablation experiments were conducted The results ofablation ... pulse However, an exact correlation of ∼ 50% increases in ablation with the ∼ 40% decreases in transmissivity is not possible because of two reasons Firstly, the ablation rate is not linearly related...
... carried out due to the limitation of the length of the delay stage Similar thermal-fluid mechanisms of material modification and melting duration of hundreds of picoseconds have been observed in ... Time-resolved measurements of the scattering of a probe pulse from fused silica10 have shown that the scattering signal rises after a delay of about ps, which matches with the onset of decay in our reflectivity ... of double-pulse ablation The total ablated volume decreased with the increase of the delay time due to the screening by the plasma formed by the first pulse AFM imaging revealed the presence of...