soon after successful results of balloon valvuloplasty in treatment of congenital pulmonary stenosis, use of this technique for relief of congenital aortic stenosis (as) was attempted in different parts of the world. with the purpose of assessment the value of valvuloplasty in comparison with surgical valvotomy in relief of congenital as, we retrospectively studied 115 patients with valvar as, ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the efficiency of a 1000 cc intragastric balloon as an aid for weight reduction. SUBJECT Thirty-three morbidly obese persons, after multiple attempts for weight loss. DESIGN Intragastric 1000 cc balloons were endoscopically inserted into the stomachs of subjects. The balloons were left in place for six months. During that period the patients received dietary therapy. Ho...

Introduction: The strategic use of temporary intracranial arterial occlusion is an important technique in aneurysm surgery. Metal clips similar to permanent aneurysm clips are employed but they are not ideally suited to the task. Methods: Balloon occluders placed around intracranial arteries at the Circle of Willis can provide immediate control of intra-luminal flow. These remotely controlled d...

OBJECTIVES The aim of our study was to investigate the feasibility of pPCI in hospital without cardiac surgery, and to compare our "real-world" results to current guidelines and historical controls. METHODS Data of all STEMI patients treated by PCI were prospectively recorded. RESULTS From January 2005 through October 2007, 366 consecutive patients with STEMI were enrolled. In-hospital mort...

statement of problem comprehensive diagnosis is regarded as an important base for orthodontic treatment. an effective way to achieve a correct diagnosis is to compare the craniofacial skeleton of patients with normal cases in the same race through lateral cephalograms. purpose the present study was designed to determine the cephalometric norms of senior high school students in the city of hamed...

balloon angioplasty for aortic coarctation was introduced in 1979 for the fust time.1 this procedure soon became the choice treatment for restenosis of operated coarctation,2-5 but remains controversial for native (unoperated) coarctation. however, it seems to be rapidly becoming the intervention of choice for relief of unoperated coarctation as well. in this study, we evaluate the outcome of t...

critical pulmonary valve stenosis (cpvs) and atrial septal defect (asd) is an uncommon form of congenital heart disease. concurrent transcatheter pulmonary valvuplasty and closure of secundum atrial septal defect appears to be an interesting alternative to surgical correction. we present the simultaneous balloon valvuloplasty of critical pulmonary stenosis (ps) with supra systemic right ventric...

Synchronization complicates the use of ultrasound in phonetics research, particularly with methods that incorporate video data of external reference points (e.g., [3, 4]). The challenge of a third stream is compounded in longer spans of data at higher than NTSC standard frame rates. As part of work toward developing high-speed ultrasound techniques for long spans of running speech, this paper p...

CASE REPORT A 48-year-old female with a body mass index of 38 kg/m and previous insertion of an Orbera intragastric balloon (Bioenterics Intragastric Balloon, Apollo Endosurgery, Austin, TX) 7 days before presented with vomiting, tachycardia, and hypotension with tenderness in the upper abdomen. Blood analyses showed elevated C-reactive protein, renal failure, and electrolyte disorder. Abdomina...

Peribulbar anaesthetic blocks were administered to 70 patients and the intraocular pressure (IOP) measured immediately before and within 1 minute of the injections. In 10 patients IOPs were recorded at 1 minute intervals for 15 minutes after injection and then compared with the IOPs recorded in 60 patients after 5 or 10 minutes of Honan balloon ocular compression. The IOP rose significantly aft...