Gender-based outcomes have not been evaluated in unselected patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents (DESs). We investigated whether gender influences the relative safety and efficacy of DESs compared with bare metal stents (BMSs) in routine clinical practice. Using the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Dynamic Registry, in-hospital and 1-yea...

Drug-eluting stents (DESs) decrease the need for repeat revascularization in native coronary arteries and vein grafts. This study examined the safety and efficacy of DESs for the treatment of lesions in the internal mammary artery (IMA) conduits and compared the outcomes with those from bare metal stents (BMSs). Records of 69 consecutive patients who underwent stenting of the IMA from 2001 to 2...

The introduction of drug-eluting stents (DES) has rapidly and profoundly affected the field of interventional cardiology, and DESs are now used in a majority of intracoronary stenting procedures. As a result of the innumerable “trial-and-error” endeavors, DESs have emerged as a potential solution for solving the problem of restenosis. DESs are coated stents capable of releasing single or multip...

In this article, a method for implementing hybrid models, formulated as DEV&DESS, in the QSS based simulator PowerDEVS is presented. PowerDEVS is actually a pure DEVS simulator. However, it is specialised for simulating continuous Models (DESS) using QSS (Quantized State System) to translate them into discrete event models (DEVS). Therefore, it is perfectly suited for the simulation of hybrid m...

E. Staroswiecki, K. L. Granlund, M. T. Alley, G. E. Gold, and B. A. Hargreaves Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States INTRODUCTION: The visualization of articular cartilage is a challenging problem that requires advanced MRI techniques. In order to follow the changes to tissue in early...

A hybrid system is a dynamical system reacting to continuous and discrete changes simultaneously. Many researchers have proposed modeling and verification formalisms for hybrid systems, but algorithmic verification of important properties such as safety and reachability is still an on-going research area. This paper demonstrates that a basic modeling formalism for hybrid systems, DEV&DESS is an...

In analysis and design of a system, the first goal is to obtain an appropriate model of the system. Because of the complex dynamics of discrete event systems (DESs), it is very difficult to obtain a model of unknown DESs from given input and output data. This paper discusses an identification and realization method of a class of DESs by neural networks. We consider a class of DESs which is mode...

Density, viscosity and ionic conductivity data sets of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) formed by tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBABr) paired with ethlyene glycol, 1,3-propanediol, 1,5-pentanediol and glycerol hydrogen bond donors (HBDs) are reported. The properties of DES were measured at temperatures between 303 K and 333 K for HBD percentages of 66.7% to 90%. The effects of HBDs under different t...

In this paper, all of the potential synthesis cases in distributed expert systems (DESs) are identiied based on the relationship between the original evidence sets of solutions, and the types of DESs are classiied based on the relationship of knowledge and available data of expert systems. The innovative ideas are that the relationships among the synthesis cases and the types of DESs are recogn...