(n.) A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of 19 patients with coronary artery disease and "normal" omnicardiograms, only 8 (42%) had normal ventricular angiography.
(2) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
(3) The technique of two-plane angiography of femoro-popliteal bypasses with 90 degrees knee flexion is described.
(4) In 67 patinets with abnormal mammograms, breast angiography was performed using a "lo-dose vaccum packed film screen system".
(5) This was worsened by the right side compression of trachea end part, due to the abnormal left pulmonary artery as demonstrated by pulmonary angiography.
(6) These results demonstrate, in living human hearts, that diffuse coronary atherosclerosis is often present when coronary angiography reveals only discrete stenoses.
(7) Acute coronary angiography showed myocardial bridging and total occlusion of the left anterior descending artery in the middle one-third of its course.
(8) Current methodology for the in vitro determination of aortic and large artery stiffness is reviewed and involves three approaches: (1) the estimation of distensibility by pulse wave velocity measurement; (2) the estimation of distensibility from the fractional diameter change of a given arterial segment by imaging techniques (e.g., angiography, Doppler ultrasound) against pressure change; (3) the estimation of compliance by determining volume change against pressure change in the arterial system during diastolic runoff from the Windkessel model of the circulation.
(9) Infusion hepatic angiography and computed tomography with angiography were performed yearly, ultrasound every 3 months, and determination of serum alpha-fetoprotein levels every 2 months.
(10) The patient was admitted for surgical revascularization following angiography and an unsuccessful attempt at crossing a severe renal artery stenosis.
(11) In addition the following are recommended: intra-arterial embolization of the A. maxilleris interna by carotis external angiography and intranasal contact irradiation with cobalt, radium, or iridium.
(12) To validate the repeated use of radionuclide equilibrium angiography for determining left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) and end-diastolic and end-systolic volumes (EDV and ESV), 25 patients were studied on an hourly basis an average of 9.1 days after acute myocardial infarction.
(13) On angiography portal-hepatic venous shunt was observed in one case.
(14) Within 4 months of Holter monitoring, the advised coronary angiography was performed in 77% of the patients with variable threshold angina and in 89% of the patients with fixed threshold angina (p less than 0.05).
(15) When an exercise test is not performed, a resting radionuclide left ventricular ejection fraction is recommended, and coronary angiography is considered if the value lies between 0.20 and 0.44 (12% 1-year mortality).
(16) Qualitative planar 201-thallium (201Tl) scans, coronary angiography, or both were also performed (median between studies 11 days).
(17) This was documented by angiography and during surgery when an aortic-pulmonary shunt was done.
(18) Angiography should follow immediately when no secretion is produced on one or both sides.
(19) All MR images were compared with findings of chest X-ray, CT and IVDSA (intravenous digital subtraction angiography) as appropriate.
(20) Global left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) was obtained by radionuclide angiography and analyzed with an automatic detection program.
Craniotomy
Definition:
(n.) The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hematoma clot weighing 10 grams was removed through emergency craniotomy, followed by external decompression.
(2) To evaluate whether local anesthetic scalp infiltration blunts hemodynamic responses to craniotomy in anesthetized children (age, 2-18 yr), two concentrations of bupivacaine (0.125% and 0.25%) with vasoconstrictor (epinephrine 1:400,000) were compared with control data when a solution of vasoconstrictor alone was injected.
(3) On the other hand, the site and size of bony window made in craniotomy for supratentorial lesion has relationship with perfectibility of operation.
(4) Six patients with juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas of the thalamus or basal ganglia underwent seven computer-assisted stereotactic laser craniotomies with complete or nearly complete removal of the tumor in all cases.
(5) A right frontal craniotomy was performed on November 2, 1989, but neck clipping of the aneurysm was impossible, because it was a pseudoaneurysm with quite a fragile neck.
(6) Stereotactic techniques can also be used to aspirate abscesses or localize abscesses or neoplastic lesions excised by craniotomy.
(7) Craniotomy disclosed an abscess containing yellow pus from which Streptococcus viridans was cultured.
(8) An inoperable pituitary adenoma was a massive surrounding fibroblastic reaction was found at craniotomy.
(9) It is currently deployed via a bifrontal craniotomy and is placed primarily as a support beneath the frontal lobes.
(10) The anatomical findings at craniotomy are described.
(11) The exposure and operative management comprised a latero-facial approach combined with multiple exposure osteotomies of the ascending mandibular ramus, orbitozygomatic region and a frontosphenotemporal craniotomy.
(12) Two others had proven brain damage, one a massive cerebral infarct and one a traumatic cerebral hematoma requiring craniotomy.
(13) 24 patients scheduled for elective craniotomy were investigated.
(14) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian At the cutting edge, literally, of NHS treatment, we saw “awake craniotomy” at St George’s hospital, Tooting, south London.
(15) A craniotomy followed by a bilateral external ethmoidectomy was necessary for complete extirpation of the infected mucoceles.
(16) Decompression resulting from craniotomy and biopsy, led to a partial reversal of this cerebral hypofunction.
(17) The effects of craniotomy on cerebral haemodynamics remains controversial from a study of the literature.
(18) Following V-P shunt operation for hydrocephalus, right temporo-parietal craniotomy was performed.
(19) This retrospective study found that: DTICH usually occurs the first week after trauma, but could happen several weeks later; patients with skull fractures are at higher risk (p less than 0.01); osmotherapy as well as barbiturate therapy seem to have no influence on this complication; craniotomy (or craniectomy) appears to be a significant factor in the cause of DTICH (p less than 0.05).
(20) Capillary mean transit time was determined by detection of the passage of a hemodilution bolus through a region of the parietal cerebral cortical surface, using a reflectance spectrophotometer through a small craniotomy in chloral hydrate-anesthetized rats.