BACKGROUND Cervical dilation using mechanical dilators is associated with various complications, such as uterine perforation, cervical laceration, infections and intraperitoneal hemorrhage. To achieve safe and painless cervical dilation, we constructed a new medical device to achieve confident mechanical cervical dilation: a continuous controllable balloon dilator (CCBD). METHODS Controlled p...

in this paper, we first discuss about canonical dual of g-frameλp = {λip ∈ b(h, hi) : i ∈ i}, where λ = {λi ∈ b(h, hi) :i ∈ i} is a g-frame for a hilbert space h and p is the orthogonalprojection from h onto a closed subspace m. next, we provethat, if λ = {λi ∈ b(h, hi) : i ∈ i} and θ = {θi ∈ b(k, hi) :i ∈ i} be respective g-frames for non zero hilbert spaces hand k, and λ and θ are unitarily e...

  Transient ischemic left ventricular dilation (TID) is a marker of severe and extensive coronary artery disease as well as an increased risk of adverse outcomes. The patients with more severe and extensive ischemia, multivessel-type of perfusion abnormality as well as patients with left anterior descending artery (LAD) territory perfusion abnormality have more probab...

Nitric oxide (NO) contributes to hypoxia-induced pial artery dilation, at least in part, through the formation of cGMP and the subsequent release of methionine enkephalin and leucine enkephalin in the newborn pig. In separate studies, these opioids also were observed to elicit NO-dependent pial artery dilation, whereas light/dye endothelial injury reduced hypoxic pial dilation. The current stud...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the prognostic significance of right ventricular dilation on CT pulmonary angiogram in acute pulmonary embolism and to distinguish if this feature predicts mortality independently of the Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index, an established admission severity score. METHODS A retrospective study of patients admitted with pulmonary embolism confirm...

AIMS Agonists that evoke smooth muscle cell hyperpolarization have the potential to stimulate both local and conducted dilation. We investigated whether the endothelium-dependent vasodilators acetylcholine (ACh) and SLIGRL stimulated conducted dilation and whether this was altered by deficiency in apolipoprotein E (ApoE(-/-)). METHODS AND RESULTS Isolated mesenteric arteries were cannulated, ...

Background. Atherosclerosis has been associated with loss of artery wall distensibility in human cadavers and in experimental animal models, giving it the lay term "hardening of the arteries." Methods and Results. To assess the effect of calcification on arterial distensibility, balloon pressure and volume were recorded during dilation of calcified aortas in Watanabe heritable hyperlipidemic (W...

introduction: the main purpose of this study was to compare transient ischemic dilation (tid) ratios in spect-low dose ct and spect myocardial perfusion imaging (mpi) by application of different quantitative programs and quantify the possible shift in the upper normal limits of tid ratio in the spect-ct mpi. methods: 149 patients with low pre-test probability for coronary artery disease (cad),...

We investigate dilation-induced surface deformations in a Discontinuous Shear Thickening (DST) suspension to determine the relationship between dilation and stresses DST. Video is taken at two observation points on of rheometer while shear normal are measured. A roughened observed as particles poke through liquid-air interface, corresponding dilation. Dilation events found be intermittent local...

transient ischemic left ventricular dilation (tid) is a marker of severe and extensive coronary artery disease as well as an increased risk of adverse outcomes. the patients with more severe and extensive ischemia, multivessel-type of perfusion abnormality as well as patients with left anterior descending artery (lad) territory perfusion abnormality have more probability of having tid. evaluati...