BACKGROUND Infrequent but serious complications of transforaminal epidural steroid injection (TFESI) occur due to inadvertent intravascular injections. A few studies reported that the different needle types can influence on the occurrences of intravascular incidence in TFESI. This study prospectively evaluated whether short-bevel needle can reduce the incidences of intravascular injection of TF...

PURPOSE To assess the short-term safety and efficacy of an intravitreal injection of bevacizumab in a patient with neovascular glaucoma. CASE REPORT Intravitreal bevacizumab injection was given in a patient with neovascular glaucoma and the changes in the visual acuity, intraocular pressure (lOP), iris neovascularisation were noted before injection and after one day, one week, three weeks and...

Text-independent speaker verification against short utterances is still challenging despite of recent advances in the field of speaker recognition with i-vector framework. In general, to get a robust i-vector representation, a satisfying amount of data is needed in the MAP adaptation step, which is hard to meet under short duration constraint. To overcome this, we present an endto-end system wh...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the current evidence for the efficacy of corticosteroid injection and non-electrotherapeutic physiotherapy compared with control for treating lateral epicondylitis. DESIGN Systematic review. PARTICIPANTS We searched five databases in September 2012 for randomised controlled studies with a minimum quality rating. Of the 640 studies retrieved, 11 were included, represen...

Background & Aim: Childhood vaccination as the most common iatrogenic pain is the main source of pain, anxiety and stress in children and parents, which is often done without pain management. Therefore, given the importance of pain control in children, and the recognition and application of pain control methods by the health team members, this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of ShotB...

Hydraulic conductivity variations around the boreholes in uniformly graded sands for cyclic water injection pressure have been evaluated by laboratory tests. Prototype laboratory devices have been designed and constructed for this research. The cell has a capability to model the well, the boundary condition and to measure the hydraulic conductivity. While increasing water injection pressure, hy...

In this work, we propose an end-to-end approach to the language identification (LID) problem based on Convolutional Deep Neural Networks (CDNNs). The use of CDNNs is mainly motivated by the ability they have shown when modeling speech signals, and their relatively low-cost with respect to other deep architectures in terms of number of free parameters. We evaluate different configurations in a s...

Self-Plugging Microneedles In article number 2102599, Jeong Hun Kim, WonHyoung Ryu, Ali Khademhosseini, and co-workers, develop self-plugging microneedles (SPM) for intravitreal injection. Once injected, the end of SPM is swollen to seal incision due injection rest delivers drugs desired duration. Unlike general injections, doesn't need additional sealing procedures, so this manner lowers possi...

We present E2E, an end-to-end entity linking system that is designed for short and noisy text found in microblogs and text messages. Mining and extracting entities from short text is an essential step for many content analysis applications. By jointly optimizing entity recognition and disambiguation as a single task, our system can process short and noisy text robustly.