Gradient and pressure recovery of a self-expandable transcatheter aortic valve depends on ascending aorta size: In vitro studyCentral MessagePerspective by Milad Samaee, PhD, Hoda Hatoum, PhD, Michael Biersmith, MD, Breandan Yeats, MS, Shelley C. Gooden, MS, Vinod H. Thourani, MD, Rebecca T. Hahn, MD, Scott Lilly, MD, PhD, Ajit Yoganathan, PhD, Lakshmi Prasad Dasi, PhD

“…Objective: In this study we aimed to understand the role of interaction of the Medtronic Evolut R transcatheter aortic valve with the ascending aorta (AA) by evaluating the performance of the valve and the pressure recovery in different AA diameters with the same aortic annulus size. …”
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Impaired chronotropic response to physical activities in heart failure patients by Hong Shen, Jianrong Zhao, Xiaohong Zhou, Jingbo Li, Qing Wan, Jing Huang, Hui Li, Liqun Wu, Shungang Yang, Ping Wang

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In Silico Medicine: The Practitioners’ Points of View Medicine: The Practitioners’ Points of View Medicine: by Matteo Cerri, Markus Reiterer, Marco Viceconti

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Efeito dos aparelhos iPod e MP4 sobre o funcionamento dos marcapassos. by Marcelo Domingo BENASSI, Elina VALERO Ricardo PESCE, Luis JURADO

“…Foram analisados marcapassos bicamerais: 2 Axios (Biotronik); 1 Rapsodhy (ELA Medical); 1 Insignia, 4 Intellis II (Guidant); 3 Sigma, 2 Vitatron, 1 Kappa, 1 Thera (Medtronic); 3 Afinity e 9 Identity (St Jude); e unicamerais: 5 Axios, 1 Kairos, 27 Pikos E,1 Pikos LPE (Biotronik); 3 Nexus, 1 Insignia (Guidant); 1 Easy (Medico); 2 Vitatron, 1 Preveil (Medtronic); 2 Verity e 1 Identity (St Jude). …”
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Efeito dos aparelhos iPod e MP4 sobre o funcionamento dos marcapassos. by Marcelo Domingo BENASSI, Elina VALERO Ricardo PESCE, Luis JURADO

“…Foram analisados marcapassos bicamerais: 2 Axios (Biotronik); 1 Rapsodhy (ELA Medical); 1 Insignia, 4 Intellis II (Guidant); 3 Sigma, 2 Vitatron, 1 Kappa, 1 Thera (Medtronic); 3 Afinity e 9 Identity (St Jude); e unicamerais: 5 Axios, 1 Kairos, 27 Pikos E,1 Pikos LPE (Biotronik); 3 Nexus, 1 Insignia (Guidant); 1 Easy (Medico); 2 Vitatron, 1 Preveil (Medtronic); 2 Verity e 1 Identity (St Jude). …”
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Transcatheter Valve Unable to Cure Patient–Prosthesis Mismatch of Mosaic Bioprosthesis by Daniela Serio, Andreas Zierer, Mirko Doss, Anton Moritz

“…We report a case with severe PPM after inserting a 23-mm Sapien (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, United States) valve into degenerated 23-mm Medtronic Mosaic prosthesis (Medtronic, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States).…”
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An actor-model framework for visual sensory encoding by Franklin Leong, Babak Rahmani, Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Diego Ghezzi

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Differential application of laser and navigation technologies in surgery of periventricular oligoastrocytomas by V.M. Kliuchka, A.V Rozumenko, V.D. Rozumenko, V.M. Semenova, V.Ya. Shutka, V.M. Zagorodniy, S.V Konotopchik, I.I. Al-Qashqish

“…The navigational support for surgical interventions was carried out using the Medtronic StealthStation TREONPlus (Medtronic, USA) surgical navigation system. …”
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Diagnostic Yield and Clinical Implications of Implantable Loop Recorders in Patients with Syncope in Germany: A National Database Analysis by Johanna Mueller-Leisse, Henrike Aenne Katrin Hillmann, Laura Iserloh, Bjoern Fruehauf, David Duncker

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Preloop trial: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial by Elisa Mäkäräinen-Uhlbäck, Heikki Wiik, Jyrki Kössi, Pasi Ohtonen, Tero Rautio

“…Method/Design The Preloop trial (Clinical Trials NCT03445936) is a prospective, randomized, controlled, multicenter trial to compare synthetic mesh (Parietene Macro™, Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN, USA) and biological implants (Permacol™, Medtronic) at a retromuscular sublay position for the prevention of incisional site hernias after loop-ileostomy closure. …”
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Do tapered tracheostomy cuffs improve translaryngeal gas flow when compared to barrel cuffed fenestrated tubes: A laboratory study by Ulf Borg, Katie Bull

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Aortic prosthetic valve endocarditis as a cause of acute myocardial infarction by José Valencia

“…This is the case of a 69-year-old male patient treated of aortic valve disease in 1994 implanted with a 25 mm Medtronic-Hall mechanical valve (Medtronic, United States). …”
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Distinguishing cardiac catheter ablation energy modalities by applying natural language processing to electronic health records by Jamie Margetta, Alicia Sale

Long Term Performance of a Bi-Directional Neural Interface for Deep Brain Stimulation and Recording by Scott R. Stanslaski, Michelle A. Case, Jonathon E. Giftakis, Robert S. Raike, Paul H. Stypulkowski

“…The leads were connected to either an Activa PC+S® (Medtronic) or Percept PC°ledR (Medtronic) deep brain stimulation and recording device. …”
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Efeito dos aparelhos iPod e MP4 sobre o funcionamento dos marcapassos. by Marcelo Domingo BENASSI, Elina VALERO Ricardo PESCE, Luis JURADO

“…Foram analisados marcapassos bicamerais: 2 Axios (Biotronik); 1 Rapsodhy (ELA Medical); 1 Insignia, 4 Intellis II (Guidant); 3 Sigma, 2 Vitatron, 1 Kappa, 1 Thera (Medtronic); 3 Afinity e 9 Identity (St Jude); e unicamerais: 5 Axios, 1 Kairos, 27 Pikos E,1 Pikos LPE (Biotronik); 3 Nexus, 1 Insignia (Guidant); 1 Easy (Medico); 2 Vitatron, 1 Preveil (Medtronic); 2 Verity e 1 Identity (St Jude). …”
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Ureter Injury in Laparoscopic Para-Aortic Lymphadenectomy for Endometrial Cancer by the Transperitoneal Approach by Hiroharu Kobayashi, Misa Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Takaki, Yuki Kondo, Yuri Hamada, Haruhiko Shimizu, Yumi Shimizu, Masaru Nagashima, Hiroshi Adachi

“…A laparoscopic fan retractor (EndoRetract II, Medtronic) was used to lift the intestinal tracts and expand the field of view. …”
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Inappropriate tachycardia at rest as a consequence of atrial preference pacing algorithm by Baris Akdemir

“…A 34-year-old female with a past medical history of sick sinus syndrome which requiring placement of single chamber (atrial) permanent pacemaker (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN, USA). One year after pacemaker implantation, the patient reported exercise intolerance and palpitation at rest. …”
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Comparison of Automatic and Manual Threshold Testing in Patients with Permanent Pacemakers: Results from COMET Study by Kenji Ando, MD, Fumiharu Miura, MD, Fumiaki Masani, MD, Hiroyuki Kakugawa, MD, Tomoyuki Tejima, MSc, Kentaro Doi, PhD

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Locomotion of Sensor‐Integrated Soft Robotic Devices Inside Sub‐Millimeter Arteries with Impaired Flow Conditions by Lucio Pancaldi, Lorenzo Noseda, Amit Dolev, Adele Fanelli, Diego Ghezzi, Andrew J. Petruska, Mahmut Selman Sakar

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Multimodal Imaging of a Chimney-Stenting Procedure Performed Simultaneously with a Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) in a Reanimated Human Heart including Post-Implant... by Michael A. Bielecki, Amanda N. DeVos, Francesco Bianchini, Paul A. Iaizzo

“…A chimney stenting technique was implemented simultaneously with the deployment of a Medtronic Evolut^™ Pro+ valve (Medtronic PLC; Minneapolis, MN, USA). …”
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