a Department of Cardiology, Heart Valve Clinic, University of Liège Hospital, University Hospital, GIGA Cardiovascular Sciences, CHU du Sart Tilman, 1, avenue de l’Hôpital, 4000 Liège, Belgium b Gruppo Villa Maria Care and Research, E.S. Health Science Foundation, Lugo (RA), Italy c Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, GVM Care and Research, Maria Eleonora Hospital, Department of Surgery and C...

Standardization improves performance and safety. A template for standardizing the embryo transfer procedure is presented here with 12 basic steps supported by published scientific literature and a survey of common practice of SART programs; it can be used by ART practices to model their own standard protocol.

Institute of Clinical Physiology, Via G. Moruzzi, 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy; Hammersmith Hospital, NHLI, Imperial College London, UK; Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland; Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium; Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Instituto Cardiovascular, Catho...

Resting and exercise echocardiographic determinants Christine Henri , Julien Magne , Raluca Dulgheru , Saloua Laaraibi , Damien Voilliot , Seisyou Kou , Luc Pierard ⁎, Patrizio Lancellotti a,⁎ a University of Liège Hospital, GIGA Cardiovascular Sciences, Department of Cardiology, Heart Valve Clinic, CHU Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium b University of Montreal, Department of Medicine, Montreal Heart...

From a Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Institut de Recherche Experimentale et Clinique (IREC), Pole de Pneumologie, ORL & Dermatologie, Brussels, Belgium; b the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, CHU Sart-Tilman, Liege, IGIGA Research Group, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium; and c the Upper Airway Research Laboratory and Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belg...

Digital tomosynthesis mammography (DTM) is a promising new modality for breast cancer detection. In DTM, projection-view images are acquired at a limited number of angles over a limited angular range and the imaged volume is reconstructed from the two-dimensional projections, thus providing three-dimensional structural information of the breast tissue. In this work, we investigated three repres...

Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has been shown to increase mass detection. Detection of microcalcifications in DBT is challenging because of the small, subtle signals to be searched in the large breast volume and the noise in the reconstructed volume. We developed an adaptive diffusion (AD) regularization method that can differentially regularize noise and potential signal regions during rec...

BACKGROUND To investigate the role of radiotherapy (RT) for upper urinary tract urothelial cell carcinoma (UTUC) after surgery. METHODS Between July 1997 and February 2007, 40 patients who had undergone radical surgery and RT were selected. Twenty patients received RT as adjuvant treatment for advanced disease (PORT). The remainder received RT as salvage treatment (SART). The prescription dos...