Heart failure (HF) rates elevate worldwide with the aging population. Miniaturized and wireless implants real-time data transfer capability can alleviate surgical complexities of cardiac pressure monitoring. Despite recent developments mm-size complex circuitries self-powering units, a simple, passive, effective implant design for reading is missing. Here, piezo capsule, cost-effective, miniatu...

We report a 64-year-old diabetic woman who developed neovascularization of the posterior capsule 2 years after cataract surgery and intraocular lens implantation. The patient was treated with single injection of 1.25 mg of intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) via pars plana. After one week, complete regression of the posterior capsule neovascularization was achieved allowing us to perform Nd: YAG...

DOI: 10.5935/abc.20160144 67 year-old female patient, pacemaker user since 1983 due to complete atrioventricular block. Between 1991 and 2004, the patient underwent six surgeries. The first was to replace the batteries, and the others for electrode displacement, generator extrusion, and finally for endocarditis, when surgical extraction of the system and epicardial electrode implantation in the...

Magnetic actuation is a versatiletechnology, widely applied in medical robotics for noncontact steering of flexible instruments and untethered agents. In this article, we exploit the benefits technology by developing magnetically actuated catheter capable controlled ejection retrieval an magnetic capsule. The advanced manipulation system. scanning ultrasound used 3-D shape reconstruction cathet...

BACKGROUND Most recently we reported that RHB‑104 triple antibiotics combination in culture is bactericidal and should be effective for treatment of Crohn's disease (CD)-associated with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) (Alcedo et al. in Gut Pathog 14:32, 2016). The combination exhibited unique synergistic antimicrobial growth activity. The proprietary RHB-104 capsule formul...

Wireless power transmission (WPT) technology can solve the energy shortage problem of the video capsule endoscope (VCE) powered by button batteries, but the fixed platform limited its clinical application. This paper presents a portable WPT system for VCE. Besides portability, power transfer efficiency and stability are considered as the main indexes of optimization design of the system, which ...

In this research study, an intelligent detection system to support medical diagnosis and detection of abnormal lesions by processing endoscopic images is presented. The images used in this study have been obtained using the M2A Swallowable Imaging Capsule a patented, video color-imaging disposable capsule. Schemes have been developed to extract texture features from the fuzzy texture spectra in...

PURPOSE To describe a new method of measuring posterior capsule opacification (PCO) and intraocular lens (IOL) rotation and report the validation of the method. SETTING Ophthalmology Department, St. Thomas' Hospital, and Medical Imaging, Department of Physics, King's College, London, United Kingdom. METHOD A new interactive software program, POCOman, was developed for the semiobjective asse...