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Chapter and Conference Paper
Innovative Digital Forensic and Investigation Tools for Law Enforcement: The EMPOWER & TRACY Approach
Constantly growing digitalisation in all sectors and the rapidly changing technological landscape provide vast opportunities for criminals and terrorists. Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) often lack the necessa...
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Open AccessEmbedded Computational Heart Model for External Ventricular Assist Device Investigations
External cardiac assist devices are based on a promising and simple concept for treating heart failure, but they are surprisingly difficult to design. Thus, a structured approach combining experiments with com...
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Open AccessPatient tilt improves efficacy of CO2 field-flooding in minimally invasive cardiac surgery
Space limitations during minimally invasive cardiac surgery impede consistent use of CO2 field-flooding. We compared different gas delivery methods, flow rates and the effect of patient inclination.
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Early predictors of mortality in refractory cardiogenic shock following acute coronary syndrome treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenator
We aimed to analyze the outcome and identify predictors of hospital mortality in patients with refractory cardiac arrest (CA) complicating acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and requiring veno-arterial extracorpor...
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Open AccessEffect of cannulation site on emboli travel during cardiac surgery
During cardiac surgery, micro-air emboli regularly enter the blood stream and can cause cognitive impairment or stroke. It is not clearly understood whether the most threatening air emboli are generated by the...
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Chapter
The Tricuspid Valve
Interest in the anatomy of the tricuspid valve has increased in the past two decades with the awareness that functional tricuspid regurgitation (FTR) is not an innocuous bystander of left-side heart disease bu...
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Reversed Auxiliary Flow to Reduce Embolism Risk During TAVI: A Computational Simulation and Experimental Study
Endovascular treatments, such as transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), carry a risk of embolization due to debris dislodgement during various procedural steps. Although embolic filters are already av...
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New-onset pericardial effusion during transvenous lead extraction: incidence, causative mechanisms, and associated factors
Pericardial effusion (PE) may occur during the lead extraction procedure (TLE). Little is known about the incidence, causes, and predictors of this complication.
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Open AccessBeyond the “B”: a new concept of the surgical staple enabling miniature staplers
Surgical staplers currently all rely on the same staple form—the “B” which necessitates a high delivery profile (12 mm). A novel “D” shape staple allows for an extremely low profile of the applicator. The acut...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Development of an Accurate Method for Motion Analyses of the Heart Wall Based on Medical Imagery
In the field of diagnosis and therapy of coronary artery disease, it is highly important to acquire a fair knowledge of the heart wall motion and its regional variations. Unfortunately, the accuracy of all cur...
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Chest size matching in single and double lung transplantation
We applied predicted vital capacity to chest size matching between donor and recipient in lung transplantation to 15 single-lung transplant recipients with pulmonary fibrosis and to 20 double-lung transplant r...
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Lungenvolumenreduktion bei schwerem Emphysem
□Hintergrund: Die Behandlungsmoglichkeiten des schweren Emphysems sind beschränkt. Die chirurgische Lungenvolumenreduktion (LVR) stellt eine mittelfristig effektive und organerhaltende Behandlungsmöglichkeit der ...
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Uni- versus bilaterale Lungentransplantation bei obstruktiven Lungenerkrankungen
□Hintergrund: Bei Patienten mit terminalem Lungenemphysem, die einer Lungentransplantation zugeführt werden sollen, stellt sich besonders die Frage nach der Wertigkeit der bilateralen im Vergleich zur unilaterale...
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Pulmonale Thrombendarteriektomie
□Hintergrund: Die chronisch thrombembolische pulmonale Hypertonie ist eine Spätfolge der nicht komplett ausgeheilten akuten Lungenembolie. Bei dieser Genese der pulmonalen Hypertonie besteht die Möglichkeit einer...
