Online Surveys Are a Useful Additional Tool in Combination with Clinical Assessments to Easily Assess Demographic and Clinical Data

If the resolving power of a scanning electron microscope can be improved until it is comparable to that of a conventional microscope, it would serve as a valuable additional tool in many investigations.The salient feature of scanning microscopes is that the image-forming process takes place before the electrons strike the specimen. This means that several different detection systems can be employed in order to present information about the specimen. In our own particular work we have concentrated on the use of energy loss information in the beam which is transmitted through the specimen, but there are also numerous other possibilities (such as secondary emission, generation of X-rays, and cathode luminescence).Another difference between the pictures one would obtain from the scanning microscope and those obtained from a conventional microscope is that the diffraction phenomena are totally different. The only diffraction phenomena which would be seen in the scanning microscope are those which exist in the beam itself, and not those produced by the specimen.

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Comparative Analysis: The State of Colorado Study, Part II

Guides Newsletter ◽

10.1001/amaguidesnewsletters.2004.marapr01 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Christopher R. Brigham ◽

Kathryn Mueller ◽

Douglas Van Zet ◽

Debra J. Northrup ◽

Edward B. Whitney ◽

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Keyword(s):

Daily Living ◽

Scientific Evidence ◽

Pain Syndrome ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Clinical Assessments ◽

Physician Judgment ◽

History Of ◽

Key Terms ◽

Causation Analysis ◽

Work Interference

Abstract [Continued from the January/February 2004 issue of The Guides Newsletter.] To understand discrepancies in reviewers’ ratings of impairments based on different editions of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), users can usefully study the history of the revisions as successive editions attempted to provide a comprehensive, valid, reliable, unbiased, and evidence-based system. Some shortcomings of earlier editions have been addressed in the AMA Guides, Fifth Edition, but problems remain with each edition, largely because of the limited scientific evidence available. In the context of the history of the different editions of the AMA Guides and their development, the authors discuss and contextualize a number of key terms and principles including the following: definitions of impairment and normal; activities of daily living; maximum medical improvement; impairment percentages; conversion of regional impairments; combining impairments; pain and other subjective complaints; physician judgment; and causation analysis; finally, the authors note that impairment is not synonymous with disability or work interference. The AMA Guides, Fifth Edition, contrasts impairment evaluations and independent medical evaluations (this was not done in previous editions) and discusses impairment evaluations, rules for evaluations, and report standards. Upper extremity and lower extremity impairment evaluations are discussed in terms of clinical assessments and rating processes, analyzing important changes between editions and problematic areas (eg, complex regional pain syndrome).

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119 The influence of some clinical data in patients with acute myocardial infarction on heart rate turbulence parameters

EP Europace ◽

10.1016/s1099-5129(05)80178-3 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. 61-61

Keyword(s):

Myocardial Infarction ◽

Acute Myocardial Infarction ◽

Heart Rate ◽

Clinical Data ◽

Heart Rate Turbulence ◽

Turbulence Parameters

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Abstract # P-13: Characteristics of Korean T2DM Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy and Macular Edema: A Study Based on a Standardized Clinical Data

Endocrine Practice ◽

10.1016/s1530-891x(20)43826-1 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 22 ◽

pp. 19-20

Author(s):

Sang Youl Rhee ◽

Sejeong Park ◽

Ki Young Kim ◽

Suk Chon ◽

Seung-Young Yu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Diabetic Retinopathy ◽

Macular Edema ◽

Clinical Data

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First clinical experience with the Multi-LOC multiple stent delivery system for focal stenting in long femoro-popliteal lesions

VASA ◽

10.1024/0301-1526/a000658 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 46 (6) ◽

pp. 452-461 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Klaus Amendt ◽

Ulrich Beschorner ◽

Matthias Waliszewski ◽

Martin Sigl ◽

Ralf Langhoff ◽

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Keyword(s):

Observational Study ◽

Clinical Experience ◽

Delivery System ◽

Target Lesion ◽

Lesion Length ◽

Elastic Recoil ◽

Delivery Device ◽

Clinical Assessments ◽

Balloon Catheters ◽

Considerable Length

Abstract. Background: The purpose of this observational study is to report the six-month clinical outcomes with a new multiple stent delivery system in patients with femoro-popliteal lesions. Patients and methods: The LOCOMOTIVE study is an observational multicentre study with a primary endpoint target lesion revascularization (TLR) rate at six months. Femoro-popliteal lesions were prepared with uncoated and/or paclitaxel-coated peripheral balloon catheters. When flow limiting dissections, elastic recoil or recoil due to calcification required stenting, up to six short stents per delivery device, each 13 mm in length, were implanted. Sonographic follow-ups and clinical assessments were scheduled at six months. Results: For this first analysis, a total of 75 patients 72.9 ± 9.2 years of age were enrolled. The majority of the 176 individually treated lesions were in the superficial femoral artery (76.2 %, 134/176) whereas the rate of TASC C/D amounted to 51.1 % (90/176). The total lesion length was 14.5 ± 9.0 cm with reference vessel diameters of 5.6 ± 0.7 mm. Overall 47 ± 18 % of lesion lengths could be saved from stenting. At six months, the patency was 90.7 % (68/75) and all-cause TLR rates were 5.3 % (4/75) in the overall cohort. Conclusions: The first clinical experience at six months suggests that the MSDS strategy was safe and effective to treat femoro-popliteal lesions of considerable length (14.5 ± 9.0 cm). Almost half of the lesion length could be saved from stenting while patency was high and TLR rates were acceptably low.

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