PURPOSE To enhance the learner's competence with knowledge of interventional procedures as an adjunct therapy in the treatment of shingles pain. TARGET AUDIENCE This continuing education activity is intended for physicians and nurses with an interest in skin and wound care. OBJECTIVES After participating in this educational activity, the participant should be better able to:1. Demonstrate k...

pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (avms) are rare vascular malformations of the lung that usually led to a notable risk of serious and life-threatening complications. there is considerable debate about the best management of strategies for the group of patients with diffuse avms. several therapeutic options have been reported for management of this abnormality among which coil embolization ...

conclusions despite close concordance between ultrasonography and chest radiography, ceus is not a suitable alternative for standard chest radiography in detecting cvc location; however, considering its high sensitivity and acceptable specificity in our study, its usefulness as a triage method for detecting cvc location on a real-time basis in the operating room cannot be ignored. results chest...

Thanks to advances in interventional cardiology technologies, catheter-directed treatment has become recently a viable therapeutic option the of patients with acute pulmonary embolism at high risk early mortality. Current transcatheter techniques allow for local fibrinolysis or embolectomy minimal complications. Therefore, these procedures can be considered high-risk as an alternative surgical ...

Abstract Background Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has had great success in treating patients with relapsed or refractory B malignancies, CD19-targeting therapies now approved many countries. However, a subset of fails to respond relapse after CD19 CAR therapy, part due loss, which prompted the search for alternative targets. CD22 is another found on surface cells. CARs targetin...

This review briefly summarizes how cell-based therapeutic interventions are being developed and applied to treat endothelial dysfunction (ED) as a critical clinical target. ED directly contributes to the onset and prognosis for all of the major forms of cardiovascular diseases, including atherosclerosis, pulmonary artery hypertension, peripheral hypertension, stroke, myocardial infarction and c...

methods in this article we checked the derived data from 20 relevant studies published during the last 20 years in international scientific literature at other country except iran and 10 studies from iran. the variables dose-area product (dap), fluoroscopy time, number of sequences and frames per sequence were collected for each ca, ptca, rfa and diagnostic electrophysiology and then the obtain...