In a multicenter, retrospective review of patients admitted with intact and ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), ...

Mount Carmel’s heart and vascular teams have debuted several new, highly advanced surgical procedures in Central Ohio.

Thoracoabdominal esophagectomy was performed for esophageal tumors and for esophagogastric junction tumors extending into the esophagus. For esophagogastric junction tumors, a thoracoabdominal ...

Our data suggest that CCR4 is an important negative regulator of atherosclerosis. The atherosclerotic lesions in the aortic root and thoracoabdominal aorta were analyzed as described previously. 40 ...

The polygraphy was manually analysed according to the following definitions: Hypopnoea was defined as ≥30% flow reduction ≥10 s with proportional thoracoabdominal in-phase (central) or out-phase ...

True positive hypopnoea (over 50% reduction in oronasal signal and in thoracoabdominal movement together with over 2% decrease in oxygen saturation). False positive hypopnoea (if a system had ...

3 Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Background Most patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are treated with mechanical insufflation–exsufflation (MI-E) in ...

The diaphragm is a dome-shaped muscle that separates the chest from the abdomen. This muscle, also called the thoracic diaphragm, is the main muscle used for breathing and is also involved in other ...