... allow for controlled, disease specific, flexible intervention. Ultimately, it is hypothesized that the combination of support and assist could be used to facilitate cardiac rehabilitation therapy. The principles guiding this approach involve simply creating the conditions under which natural growth...

... (esmolol overdose). The passive support component was used to effectively shift the EDPVR leftward, i.e., counter to the effects of disease. The active assist component was used to effectively decompress the constrained heart and restore lost cardiac output and stroke work in the esmolol failure model...

... systems. 29 03 2011 02 09 2011 15 11 2011 15 11 2011 biomechanics biomembranes cellular biophysics diseases eye geometry physiological models vision Retinal diseases such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinal vein occlusion (RVO...

...Megha Agrawal; Vaibhavi A. Sonetha; Smriti Sharma; Satyajeet Parakh; Bharat Dalvi; Jayesh R. Bellare Persistence of the ductus arteriosus (DA) after birth leads to the congenital heart disease known as patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). The objective of this study is to develop an evaluation protocol...

... Albumin Loss ,” Kidney Int. , 50 ( 2 ), pp. 432 – 435 . 10.1038/ki.1996.333 05 05 2011 23 05 2011 08 08 2011 08 08 2011 biotransport convection diffusion diseases filtration haemodynamics kidney patient treatment Convection hemodiafiltration...

...Ameya Walimbe; Jeremy C. Koehler; John Whalen; Chia-Fang Chang 15 06 2011 15 06 2011 biomedical materials compressibility deformation diseases nickel alloys prosthetics silicones surgery titanium alloys 5.7 million Americans are clinically diagnosed each year...

...Grant Kruger; Steve E. Harte; Eric Ichesco; Mainak Mitra; Shen Keat Cheok; Xu Yun; Daniel J. Clauw; Albert Shih 14 06 2011 14 06 2011 biological tissues diseases health care medical computing noise patient treatment Chronic pain is a significant public health problem...

...Michael P. Craven; Steven P. Morgan 13 06 2011 13 06 2011 biomedical equipment diseases economics innovation management Markov processes patient treatment Medical device start-ups are increasingly being challenged to justify the economic value of their innovation...

...Paul F. McAlpine; Lai Yu Leo Tse; Anupinder S. Dulat; Christopher S. McAlpine; Amir Sabet Sarvestani; Kathleen H. Sienko 13 06 2011 13 06 2011 biological organs biomedical equipment diseases Sub-Saharan Africa is the region most heavily affected by HIV, accounting for 67...

...Alexander H. Slocum, Jr.; Anand Jagannath; Tyrel Waagen; Arvind K. Agnihotri; Robert A. Levine 13 06 2011 13 06 2011 bellows catheters diseases haemodynamics physiological models pulsatile flow surgery Percutaneous treatments for heart disease have created new...

...Rik Steenbergen; Jos Lassooij; Just Herder 13 06 2011 13 06 2011 biomedical equipment diseases muscle patient care In the Netherlands, approximately 100,000 people have a muscle disease. Often this disease is progressive, so patients’ disabilities get worse over time...

...Sukhraaj Basati; Michael LaRiviere; Richard Penn; Andreas Linninger 09 06 2011 09 06 2011 bioelectric phenomena biomedical electrodes biomedical equipment biomedical measurement brain diseases electric impedance measurement electric sensing devices patient monitoring...

.... The authors of the individual chapters rightly pointed out the symptoms of biofilm disease such as common features of chronic infections, tissue damage, recalcitrance to antimicrobial therapy, and resistance to clearance by the host immune system. Hence, the role of biofilms in device-related infections...

...Xin Pan; Ming Long; Hao Liang; Xiao Chen; Han Li; Guang-bo Li; Zi-ye Zhao The close phylogenetic relationship between humans and nonhuman primates makes nonhuman primates an irreplaceable model for the study of human infectious diseases. In this study, we describe the development of an automatic...

... , and UNICEF , 2006 , Pneumonia: The Forgotten Killer of Children , UNICEF , New York . 2004 , Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Theory and Practice , K. E. Nelson , C. M. Williams , and N. M. H. Graham , eds., Jones and Bartlett , Sudbury , p. 1207 . García-Vázquez , E...

... tool was designed for use in traditional circumcision ceremonies to increase the likelihood of safe outcomes. biomedical equipment diseases injuries microorganisms HIV AIDS Africa circumcision traditional circumcision medical device 10 01 2010 05 04 2010 08 11...

...Thomas L. Merrill; Denise R. Merrill; Todd J. Nilsen; Jennifer E. Akers Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Despite decades of care path improvements approximately 30% of heart attack victims die within 1 year after their first heart attack. Animal testing has...

... machine that would function without an external energy source in resource-limited settings. 12 08 2010 biomedical equipment diseases muscle noise patient treatment sleep 2010 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

...Sukhi Basati; Timothy J. Harris, Jr.; Andreas A. Linninger In diseases such as hydrocephalus, the cerebral ventricles enlarge. The treatment options for these patients are presently based on pressure, which has limited capabilities. We present the design of a volume sensor as an alternative...

...Henk Versteeg; Abdul Qaiyum Shaik Pressurized metered-dose inhalers (pMDIs) have been the most effective therapeutic treatment for controlling lung diseases such as asthma and COPD. The flow through a two-orifice system of pMDI is very complex and poorly understood. Previous experimental work has...