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ACUTE PROSTHETIC AORTIC VALVE OBSTRUCTION LEADING TO FREE AORTIC INSUFFICIENCY ...

Introduction: Mechanical prosthetic valve thrombosis (PVT) and obstruction is a lifethreatening event. The significant morbidity and mortality associated with this condition warrants rapid diagnostic evaluation and treatment. Case report: A 66-year-old female patient with a history of aortic valve replacement 13 years before, was admitted to our intensive cardiac care unit with symptoms and signs of prosthetic ...

Cross-cultural perspectives on the consumer perception of Port wine and its imp...

Short and long-term clinical impact of transcatheter aortic valve implantation ...

Introduction: The Portuguese National Registry of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation records prospectively the characteristics and outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) procedures in Portugal. Objectives: To assess the 30-day and one-year outcomes of TAVI procedures in Portugal. Methods: We compared TAVI results according to the principal access used (transfemoral (TF) vs. non-transfem...

Data mining models to predict patient's readmission in intensive care units

Decision making is one of the most critical activities in Intensive Care Units (ICU). Moreover, it is extremely difficult for health professionals to interpret in real time all the available data. In order to improve the decision process, classification models have been developed to predict patient’s readmission in ICU. Knowing the probability of readmission in advance will allow for a more efficient planning o...

Poster: EMMON: a WSN system architecture and toolset for large-scale and dense ...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attracted growing interest in the last decade as an infrastructure to support a diversity of ubiquitous computing and cyber-physical systems. However, most research work has focused on protocols or on specific applications. As a result, there remains a clear lack of effective and usable WSN system architectures that address both functional and non-functional requirements in ...

EMMON: a WSN system architecture for large scale and dense real-time embedded m...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attracted growing interest in the last decade as an infrastructure to support a diversity of ubiquitous computing and cyber-physical systems. However, most research work has focused on protocols or on specific applications. As a result, there remains a clear lack of effective, feasible and usable system architectures that address both functional and non-functional requiremen...

EMMON: a system architecture for large- scale, dense and real-time WSNs

In spite of the significant amount of scientific work in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), there is a clear lack of effective, feasible and usable WSN system architectures that address both functional and non-functional requirements in an integrated fashion. This poster abstract outlines the EMMON system architecture for large-scale, dense, real-time embedded monitoring. EMMON relies on a hierarchical network ar...

Optical microtopographic inspection of the surface of tooth subjected to stripp...

In orthodontics, the decreasing of tooth-size by reducing interproximal enamel surfaces (stripping) of teeth is a common procedure which allows dental alignment with minimal changes in the facial profile and no arch expansion. In order to achieve smooth surfaces, clinicians have been testing various methods and progressively improved this therapeutic technique. In order to evaluate the surface roughness of teet...

Limiting internal supply voltage spikes in DC-DC converters

Implementing monolithic DC-DC converters for low power portable applications with a standard low voltage CMOS technology leads to lower production costs and higher reliability. Moreover, it allows miniaturization by the integration of two units in the same die: the power management unit that regulates the supply voltage for the second unit, a dedicated signal processor, that performs the functions required. Thi...