purpose: to evaluate the safety, efficacy, stability and predictability of posterior chamber collagen copolymer phakic intraocular lens (piol) implantation to correct myopia and myopic astigmatism in keratoconus-affected patients. methods: uncorrected (ucva) and best-corrected (bcva) distance visual acuity, refraction and complications were evaluated in 22 keratoconic eyes of 14 patients who un...

purpose: to compare visual outcomes and surgical complications of three phakic intraocular lenses (piols); artisan, artiflex and the implantable collamer lens (icl) for correction of moderate to high myopia. methods: in this historical cohort study, 112 myopic eyes that were operated between 2005 and 2010 and implanted with one of these three piols were evaluated (artisan 40 eyes, artiflex 36 e...

Several technologies developed for the Transit Navigation System were later transferred to implantable medical devices. These devices include pacemakers, the Automatic Cardiac Implantable Defibrillator, and the Programmable Implantable Medication System for the treatment of diabetes. All of these applications employ Transit-derived telemetry and command systems for programming and data retrieva...

antiarrhythmic drug therapy with implantable defibrillators in patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest: the cardiac arrest study hamburg (CASH). Circulation 2000;102:748–754. 9. Daubert JP, Sesselberg HW, Huang DT. Implantable cardioverterdefibrillators for primary prevention: how do the data pertain to the aged? Am J Geriatr Cardiol 2006;15:88–92. 10. Wilkoff BL, Cook JR, Epstein AE, Greene ...

patient with cardiac arrest, as initial presentation of the underlying cardiac disease, who receives an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, cost cannot be evaluated, unless the first line therapeutic option for these patients is not an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. Another approach could be to randomize these patients to an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator or to other forms ...

BACKGROUND There is a class I recommendation for implantable cardioverter-defibrillator deactivation discussions to occur between physicians and heart failure patients. Few studies have reported the patient's perspective on the timing of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator deactivation discussions. AIM To determine patient awareness, preferences and timing of implantable cardioverter-defib...

I. POLICY TOP Semi-implantable and fully implantable middle ear hearing aids are considered investigational. There is insufficient evidence to support a conclusion concerning the health outcomes or benefits associated with this procedure. Cross-Reference MP-1.019 Implantable Bone Conduction and Bone-Anchored Hearing Prosthetic Devices MP-1.023 Cochlear Implants MP-1.085 Auditory Brain Stem Impl...

purpose : to evaluate the efficacy, safety, predictability and stability of implantable collamer lens (icl) and toric icl for the treat­ment of high myopia and high myopic astigmatism methods : in this prospective nonrandomized clinical trial, 95 eyes of 51 patients who underwent icl (31 eyes) and toric icl (64 eyes) implantations were participate in eye research center, department of ophthalmo...

Anti-bacterial, low-friction, superhydrophobic, and hydrophilic coatings are widely demanded in biomedical engineering for non-implantable implantable devices, such as surgical tools, tubes, wires, rubber seals, stents [...]

Policy [TOP] Semi-implantable and fully implantable middle ear hearing aids are considered investigational.