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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"palliation"”.
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Staged surgical palliation and ventricular performance in functionally single ventricle anatomy
… to investigate the acute effect of surgical palliation on ventricular function in children with functionally single ventricle anatomy. Ventricular volume and pressure were measured using a combined pressure-conductance catheter. Initial laboratory-based experiments were performed using a …
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Lumped Parameter Model for a Self Powered Fontan Palliation of the Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
<p>Out of all newborn infants with congenital heart disease (CHD), 8% have a single functioning ventricle. The Fontan surgical procedure, where the superior and inferior venous returns are connected directly to the pulmonary arteries to allow the single functioning ventricle to perfuse the systemic …
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Fully Covered,Retrievable Self-Expanding Metal Stent(Niti-S) in Palliation of Malignant Esophageal Obstruction
… metal stent has proved its effectiveness in palliation of malignant dysphagia and safety of endoscopic retrieval with a comparably low migration rate maintaining its good advantage of lower incidence of tumor ingrowth and overgrowth. Key words; malignant dysphagia, fully covered SEMS, stent …
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A prospective randomised trial comparing plastic and uncovered self-expanding metal stents for palliation of symptomatic jaundice in patients with malignant distal biliary obstruction
The aim of this study was to determine the safety and clinical effectiveness of 10Fr plastic biliary stents compared to uncovered self-expanding metal stents (SEMS) for palliative treatment of patients with inoperable malignant distal biliary obstruction in a public hospital in South Africa. …
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Late radiation proctitis : the incidence and contributing factors in patients with locally advanced cervical carcinoma treated at Pretoria Academic Hospital
… to our treatment policies would ensure effective palliation without severe late radiation proctitis.
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A review of the incidence and management of complications following malignant oesophageal stenting
Background Stenting provides effective palliation of malignant dysphagia for irresectable tumours due to either local invasion, metastatic disease, or poor performance status. Immediate technical success rates are very high, with clinical improvement approaching 90% in most reported series. …
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Complexation of trivalent lanthanides by three diphosphonate ligands in the blood plasma
… phosphonate (EDTMP) is effective in pain palliation therapy of bone cancer. Blood plasma models for this ligand with Sm(III) and Ho(III) have been successfully constructed explaining the differences between ¹⁵³SmEDTMP and ¹⁶⁶HoEDTMP. The latter isotope is preferred because of its more …
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Chemotherapy for lung cancer: Determinants of guideline adherence and associated patient outcomes
… benefit, thereby likely foregoing beneficial palliation. Care concordant with guidelines is influenced by age, and economic considerations, such as income, and transportation barriers. Guideline adherent use of chemotherapy reduced risk of dying. Overuse of chemotherapy also reduced risk of …
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Laboratory Development of a Self-Powered Fontan for Treatment of Congenital Heart Disease
… ventricle. The Fontan operation has served as a palliation for this anomaly for decades, but the surgery entails multiple complications and survival rate is less than 50% by adulthood. A rapidly testable novel alternative is proposed by creating a bifurcating graft, or Injection Jet Shunt (IJS), …
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Multi-Scale Fluid Flow Analysis of the Cardiovascular System
… for years, it is still not the effective palliation to heal HLHS patients since those who have undergone this procedure experience chronic diseases. In order to mitigate the risk associated with the Fontan procedure, an Injection Jet Shunt (IJS) is suggested to connect the aorta to the …
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A Fully-Automated, Deep Learning-Based Framework For Ct-Based Localization, Segmentation, Verification and Planning of Metastatic Vertebrae
… radiotherapy is an effective treatment for the palliation of symptoms caused by vertebral metastases. Visible evidence of disease is localized on medical images as part of the treatment planning process. However, complicating factors such as time pressures, anatomic variants in the spine, and …
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Radioresistance in oral squamous cell carcinoma
… being reserved for adjuvant therapy, palliation or in patients unfit for surgery. Radiotherapy is also used in cases where there is doubt about the completeness of resection and where adverse histological characteristics are present.Unfortunately, on average about 10% of tumours …
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Disease profile and outcomes of neonates admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit at Red Cross War Memorial Children's hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
… variables independently associated with death/palliation were oscillatory ventilation, TPN and feeds received. Conclusion We describe a cohort of predominantly term and normal birth weight neonates but also includes expremature babies. Closer analysis of neonatal referral pathways can build on …
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Infecção após tratamento cirúrgico de cardiopatias congênitas: revisão sistemática da literatura
… and adolescents submitted to correction or palliation of CHD were included in the systematic review. Homogeneity was not found among the studies about the incidence of nosocomial infection, main infections and pathogens. The incidence of cross infections varied from 2,8 to 68% among the …
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Feeling Better: The Therapeutic Drug in Modernism
… through drug intoxication. This method of palliation ultimately reveals that in modernist thought, the subject is located on an experiential spectrum spreading from the pole of discrete, reflexive consciousness to the utter non-being of death. In the interest of exploring this spectrum, I …
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Dysphagia progression-free survival in patients with locally advanced and metastatic oesophageal cancer receiving palliative radiation therapy
… In patients with advanced oesophageal carcinoma palliation of dysphagia is important to maintaining a reasonable quality of life. The primary aim of this study was to determine the dysphagia progression-free survival (DPFS) in patients with advanced oesophageal carcinoma treated with palliative …
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Advanced breast cancer: A retrospective review comparing two palliative radiotherapy protocols used at Groote Schuur Hospital between 2010 and 2013
… They both remain reasonable options in local palliation in patients with locally advanced breast cancer.
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Preclinical Development of a Pharmacologic Agent for the Treatment of Recurrent Acute Pancreatitis
… are limited to supportive care and symptom palliation. There are currently no drugs on the market directly targeting the pathogenesis of CP. The objective of this research is to develop a pharmacologic agent for the treatment of recurrent acute pancreatitis (RAP), thereby limiting …
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Temozolomide and Bevacizumab Therapy In Advanced Hemangiopericytoma/ Solitary Fibrous Tumor
… options are therefore needed for improved palliation and disease control. We hypothesize that HPC/SFT are a spectrum of soft tissue tumors with unique clinical, pathological, and molecular makeup and clinical behavior. HPC/SFT respond to unique therapeutic agents that specifically target …
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A Retrospective Review of the Technical Success of Endoscopic Stenting for Malignant Gastric Outlet Obstruction
Introduction: Palliation of patients with advanced and irresectable malignancies causing gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) with the endoscopic placement of a self-expanding metal stent (SEMS) has become standard. Internationally, technical success rates are high. This study reviewed endoscopic stent …
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