Introduction: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is more reliable than surgical valve replacement for high-risk or inoperable aortic stenosis patients. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effects of different femoral access methods on the development of vascular complications and contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) after transfemoral (TF)-TAVI. Patients and Methods: In total, ...

1. Brasselet C, Blanpain T, Tassan-Mangina S, Deschildre A, Duval S, Vitry F, Gaillot-Petit N, Clément JP, Metz D. Comparison of operator radiation exposure with optimized radiation protection devices during coronary angiograms and ad hoc percutaneous coronary interventions by radial and femoral routes. Eur Heart J 2008;29:63–70. 2. Harrell FE Jr, Lee KL, Mark DB. Multivariable prognostic model...

This paper studies stock and mutual life insurance company formations in the first half of the 20th century. A common belief is that the growth of state consumer protection regulation rendered the mutual form irrelevant, but the paper finds little evidence connecting such regulation with declines in the form’s popularity. The exception is the initial capital requirement. Mutuals were formed alm...

Farzan Rashidi is with the Engineering Research Institute, Tehran, Iran. Mehran Rashidi is with the Hormozgan Regional Electric Co., Bandar-Abbas, Iran. Hamid Monavar is with the Hormozgan Regional Electric Co., Bandar-Abbas, Iran. Abstract—This paper proposes the design of power system stabilizer based on fuzzy logic and the sliding mode controller. The control objective is to enhance the stab...

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Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging A t this year’s SNM Mid-Winter Meeting in San Antonio, TX, the Cardiovascular Council and Molecular Imaging Center of Excellence cosponsored a program entitled, ‘‘Advances in Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging.’’ The program was organized by Mehran M. Sadeghi, MD, from Yale University, and included a series of lectures focused on the emerging field of molecular ca...

In this paper, an intelligent controller capable of static balancing as well as dynamic balancing of a pole mounted amotorized robot is designed and developed. The brain of the intelligent controller lies in the Fuzzy Inference System, which receives as its input displacement, velocity and acceleration information. An embedded instrumentation system onboard the robot\ measures the displacement ...

Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology (MUET) Jamshoro 76080, Pakistan. Dept of Mining Engineering, MUET Jamshoro 76080, Pakistan, Departmen of Mineral Processing and Petroleum Engineering, Montan University Leoben, Austria. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...