Tricuspid valve diseases are a heterogeneous group of pathologies that typically have poor prognoses when treated medically and are associated with significant morbidity and mortality with traditional surgical techniques. Minimal access tricuspid val...
Progress towards the development and adoption of minimally invasive techniques in cardiac surgery has been slower than that seen in other surgical specialties. Congenital heart disease (CHD) patients represent an important population within cardiac d...
Minimal-access cardiac surgery appears to be the future. It is increasingly desired by cardiologists and demanded by patients who perceive superiority. Minimal-access coronary artery revascularisation has been increasingly adopted throughout the worl...
Minimal access thyroid surgery (MATS) is a technique whereby a part of or whole of a thyroid lobe is removed through a small (3–4 cm) neck incision. Its use in the surgical management of thyroid disease in children has not been well elucidated. We pr...
Background: Despite the superiority of minimal access surgery (MAS) over open surgery, MAS is difficult to perform and has a demanding learning curve. Robot-assisted surgery is an advanced form of MAS. The Versius® surgical robot system was devel...
Minimally invasive techniques in cardiac surgery have found increasing use in recent years. Both patients and physicians often associate smaller incisions with improved outcomes (i.e., less risk, shorter hospital stay, and a faster recovery). Videosc...
Surgical techniques are evolving in Pediatric Surgery, especially in the area of minimal access surgery (MAS) where indications for applications are expanding. Miniaturization of instruments, using natural orifices, single incisions, or remotely cont...
New minimally invasive endodontic cavities have been described and proposed to preserve dentin (and enamel) through strategic access, including point endodontic access cavity (PEAC). There is no consensus to what extent PEAC contributes to tooth&rsqu...
Minimally invasive approaches to the aortic valve have been described since 1993, with great hopes that they would become universal and facilitate day-case cardiac surgery. The literature has shown that these procedures can be undertaken with equival...
Contained electromechanical morcellation has emerged as a safety approach for laparoscopic myomatous tissue retrieval. This retrospective single-center analysis evaluated the bag deployment practicability and safety of electromechanical in-bag morcel...
Background/Objectives: Contemporary dentistry aims to preserve healthy tissues and perform minimally invasive procedures. The availability of ever-improving equipment allows practitioners to follow this conceptual innovation. This approach is also us...
Coronary artery bypass grafting is frequently performed in combination with valve surgery; however, minimally invasive approaches for such combined procedures remain limited due to challenges in exposure and access. While bilateral minimally invasive...
Minimal access techniques are increasingly shaping the landscape of cardiac surgery [...]
Background: Minimal access surgeries are growing more common in neonatal care, but the risk of accidental injury to abdominal wall blood vessels remains a concern. This risk is increased by limited precise anatomical data specific to neonates. Theref...
Background/Objectives: Minimally invasive endodontics (MIE) has gained increasing attention as an approach focused on preserving dental tissues while achieving the objectives of endodontic treatment. This study compared self-perceived knowledge, perc...
Role-based access control (RBAC) is a widely adopted security model that provides a flexible and scalable approach for managing permissions in various domains. One of the critical challenges in RBAC is the efficient assignment of roles to users while...
Animals in the veterinary and experimental settings, including nonhuman primates (NHPs), often require repeated and prolonged vascular access for indications including blood sampling or administration of fluids, blood products, medication, or other t...
An increasing proportion of patients requiring treatment for malignancy are elderly, which has created new challenges for oncologic surgeons. Aging is associated with an increasing prevalence of frailty and comorbidities that may affect the outcome o...
Minimal access cardiac surgery (MACS) can mitigate the increasing risk profile of cardiac surgery patients and is associated with improved postoperative outcomes. One of the ways to manage the steep learning curve of MACS is the use of surgical simul...
First cannulation is a critical manoeuvre in equine laparoscopy. This retrospective study aimed at the comparison of the frequency and type of complications detected when using different human laparoscopy devices for laparoscopic access in standing h...
Background/Objectives: The evolution of minimally invasive urologic surgery has progressively reduced incisional burden, yet successive platforms have largely preserved a cavity-based operative paradigm in which the peritoneal cavity serves as the do...
With the aid of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), this paper investigates simultaneous two-way communications for cooperative cognitive radio networks, where a group of secondary access points (APs) scattered over a primary cell not only serve t...
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) can be effectively used for time-critical sensing applications. UAVs can be used to collect the sensed data from sensors and transfer them to a base station. The real-time transfer...
Background: Total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy via minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has emerged as the standard of care for early-stage endometrial cancer (EC). Prior systematic reviews and meta-analyses have focused on outcomes...
The aim of the current study was to compare outcomes between lateral access vertebral reconstruction (LAVR) using a rectangular footplate cage and the conventional procedure using a cylindrical footplate cage in patients with osteoporotic vertebral f...
We computed the network of channels of the 3A4 isoform of the cytochrome P450 (CYP) on the basis of 16 crystal structures extracted from the Protein Data Bank (PDB). The calculations were performed with version 2 of the CCCPP software that we develop...
Electronic health records are playing an important role in todays’ clinical research, with the possibility to collect a wide amount of data from different sources, not only within a structured clinical setting, but also making best use of new p...
The rapid deployment and enhanced communication capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have enabled numerous real-time sensing applications. These scenarios often necessitate task offloading and execution under stringent transmission delay c...
Background and Objectives: In teeth with open apices, performing single session apexification is a challenging treatment due to the difficulty in handling mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA). Minimally invasive approaches in dentistry have also influenc...
Background/Objectives: Establishing laparoscopic access remains a critical and complication-prone step in minimally invasive surgery. Previous work has shown that proximal vibroacoustic sensing can identify peritoneal puncture events in porcine cadav...
Retroperitoneal liposarcoma presenting as an inguinal hernia is a rare entity. We present the first case of Giant recurrent liposarcoma presenting as a recurrent inguinal hernia in a 40-year-old male. Physical examination showed an irreducible lump i...
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Outbreaks of infectious diseases or multi-casualty incidents have the potential to generate a large number of patients. It is a challenge for the healthcare system when demand for care suddenly surges. Traditionally, valuation of heath care spatial a...
Triorchidism is the commonest variety of polyorchidism, an entity with more than two testis is an extremely rare congenital anomaly of the testis. Although excision of the abnormal testis is a safer alternative proposed, recent literature suggests mo...
Background and Objectives: Transaxillary access is one of the latest innovations for minimally invasive aortic valve replacement (MICS-AVR). This study compares clinical performance in a large transaxillary MICS-AVR group to a propensity-matched ster...
Introduction: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in the world. The liver is the most common site of metastasis with 15 to 25% of patients presenting with synchronous colorectal liver metastasis (CRLM). This study is aimed at eval...
We propose a method for minimizing global buffer access within a deep learning accelerator for convolution operations by maximizing the data reuse through a local register file, thereby substituting the local register file access for the power-hungry...
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) has been used since the 1990s and encompasses a wide range of techniques that lack full sternotomy, including valve and coronary artery graft surgery as well as transcatheter procedures. Due to the potential...
Gasless Transaxillary Robotic Thyroidectomy (G-TART) has undergone significant refinement through the adoption of novel strategies to enhance surgical precision and safety. In this paper, we describe a novel technique that integrates dynamic endoscop...
(1) Background: Right anterior thoracotomy (RAT-AVR) has been the sole established sternum-sparing technique for minimally invasive aortic valve replacement (MICS-AVR) thus far. Nevertheless, transaxillary access, known as Minimally Invasive Cardiac...
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains a leading cause of sudden death worldwide, with wide variation in reported incidence and outcomes driven by heterogeneity in registries, emergency medical services (EMS) organization, and case definitions...
Microbiota dysbiosis has been associated with chronic diseases ranging from gastrointestinal inflammatory and metabolic conditions to neurological changes affecting the gut-brain neural axis, mental health, and general well-being. However, current an...
Background/Objectives: Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is often avoided in patients with obesity due to exposure and surgical access concerns. Nonetheless, these patients have elevated periprocedural risks. Minimally invasive transaxillary aortic...
Single-port access (SPA) laparoscopic surgery and vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (vNOTES) have many advantages. The objective of the present study is to compare patient characteristics, operative details, and postoperative ou...
Self-interference occurs when there is electromagnetic coupling between the transmission and reception of the same node; thus, degrading the RX sensitivity to incoming signals. In this paper we present a low-complexity technique for self-interference...
A sodium channel blocker mexiletine (MEX) is used to treat chronic pain, myotonia and some arrhythmias. Mutations in the pore domain (PD) of voltage-gated sodium channels differently affect tonic block (TB) and use-dependent block (UDB) by MEX. Previ...
Background: Endosalpingiosis is assumed to be the second most common benign peritoneal pathology after endometriosis in women. Although recent studies indicate a significant association with gynecologic malignancies, many underlying principles remain...
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is an effective and validated treatment to address chronic refractory neuropathic pain in persistent spinal pain syndrome-type 2 (PSPS-T2) patients. Surgical SCS lead placement is traditionally performed under general an...
Conventional MAC protocols for wireless sensor network perform poorly when faced with a delay-tolerant mobile network environment. Characterized by a highly dynamic and sparse topology, poor network connectivity as well as data delay-tolerance, delay...
To meet the low-latency constraints arising from future smart mobile devices, Internet-of-Things, and 5G applications, major interest is currently given to the integration of centralized cloud computing and distributed edge computing infrastructures...
This study aims to compare the shaping efficiency of the nickel–titanium instrument systems, One Reci and ProTaper Ultimate, using micro-CT (micro-computed tomography) in traditional and conservative endodontic access cavities. The experimental...
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