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Hua Huang, Zhenfeng Peng, Jinkun Hou, Xudong Zheng, Yuxi Ding and Han Wu
Disc buckle steel pipe brackets are widely used in building construction due to the advantages of its simple structure, large-bearing capacity, rapid assembling and disassembling, and strong versatility. In complex construction projects, the uncertaintie...
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Chadi Ghafari, Khalil Houissa, Jo Dens, Claudiu Ungureanu, Peter Kayaert, Cyril Constant and Stéphane Carlier
(1) Background: Stent underexpansion is the main cause of stent thrombosis and restenosis. Coronary angiography has limitations in the assessment of stent expansion. Enhanced stent imaging (ESI) methods allow a detailed visualization of stent deployment....
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Emanuela Bologna, Ettore Dinoto, Francesco Di Simone, Felice Pecoraro, Sara Ragusa, Katia Siciliano and Massimiliano Zingales
Background: The treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is today commonly treated by inserting a stent-graft by the endovascular route, without resorting to open surgery. However, some clinical cases do not allow this less invasive approach, meaning...
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Matthew Laffey, Brooke Tornifoglio and Caitríona Lally
Aortic aneurysms (AA) occur in 4.8% of people causing 150,000 deaths annually. While endovascular aneurysm repairs reduce surgical morbidity, device-related failures (leak/displacement) are frequent highlighting the need for test models that better repre...
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S. Shankar Narayan, Abdulkafi M. Saeed, Nahid Fatima, Fuad S. Al-Duais, Khalid Abdulkhaliq M. Alharbi, Venkatesh Puneeth, M. R. Gorji, Nidhal Ben Kheder and Shaimaa A. M. Abdelmohsen
Atherosclerosis and aneurysm are two non-communicable diseases that affect the human arterial network. The arterioles undergo dimensional changes that prominently influence the flow of oxygen and nutrients to distal organs and organ systems. Several stud...
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Sukhwinder K. Bhullar, Huseyin Lekesiz, Ahmet Abdullah Karaca, Yonghyun Cho, Stephanie Michelle Willerth and Martin B. G. Jun
This study develops and characterizes the distinctive mechanical features of a stainless-steel metal stent with a tailored structure. A high-precision femtosecond laser was used to micromachine a stent with re-entrant hexagonal (auxetic) cell geometry. W...
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Rocco Edoardo Stio, Andrea Montalto, Alfredo Intorcia, Vincenzo Polizzi, Mariano Feccia, Carmine Musto, Mauro Pennacchi, Luca Paolucci, Regina Stumpo, Emilio D?Avino, Francesco De Felice, Domenico Gabrielli and Francesco Musumeci
Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) obstruction can be a dramatic and life-threatening complication in patients with advanced heart failure (HF). Despite surgical redo is often required in these patients, it is associated with a high risk of periproced...
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Yehree Kim, Jeon Min Kang, Ho-Young Song, Woo Seok Kang, Jung-Hoon Park and Jong Woo Chung
This study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of a self-expandable retainer (SER) for endoscopic visualization of the external auditory canal (EAC). Tympanomeatal flap (TMF) elevation was performed in six cadaveric heads. Two different types of SE...
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Pietro Venezia, Ferruccio Torsello, Vincenzo Santomauro, Vittorio Dibello and Raffaele Cavalcanti
Purpose: To describe a technique intended to transfer of the intermaxillary and occlusal relationships in a fully digital environment from a complete denture to an implant-supported 3D-printed hybrid prosthesis (an acrylic resin complete fixed dental pro...
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Yuxin Bai, Kun Zhang, Ru Xu, Hongtao Liu, Fangxia Guan, Huiwen Luo, Ye Chen and Jingan Li
It is generally accepted that stent implantation is the mainstream therapy in clinics for esophageal cancer in the later period. However, the restenosis caused by tumor cells, epithelial cells, and fibroblasts seriously interferes with the stent medical ...
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