Ablation therapy
Androgen Ablation Therapy and Prostate Cancer: An Update
... androgen ablation therapy and ...androgen ablation therapy plus extended beam radiotherapy EBRT in men with localised advanced prostate cancer- that the addition of 4 months androgen ...
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Coaxial Antenna Slot Impact On Thermal Effectiveness In Microwave Ablation Therapy
... microwave ablation has made it to be a viable alternative to partial nephrectomy [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], ...microwave ablation safer and more effective in the treatment of renal tumour ...
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Endoscopic ultrasound-guided ethanol ablation therapy for pancreatic insulinoma: an unusual strategy
... ethanol ablation therapy was promptly considered as an option, and a total of ...the ablation therapy including abdominal pain, fever or mild post-procedure pancreatitis (amylase: 31 U/L ...
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Transcervical Interstitial Microwave Ablation Therapy for the Treatment of Adenomyosis: A Novel Alternative to Hysterectomy
... or ablation using some form of physical energy, it is expected that the symptoms caused by adenomyotic tissue would be relieved ...microwave ablation of adenomyotic tissue under safe and acute ultrasound ...
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Compression therapy following ClariVein® ablation therapy: a randomised controlled trial of COMpression Therapy Following MechanO Chemical Ablation (COMMOCA)
... COMpression Therapy Following MechanO- Chemical Ablation; CVD: Chronic venous disease; EQ-5D: EuroQol 5 Dimensions (standardised instrument for use as a measure of health outcome); EVLT: Endovenous laser ...
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Effect of dutasteride in men receiving intermittent androgen ablation therapy: The AVIAS trial
... Methods: We conducted a randomized, placebo-controlled Phase II trial in men with localized prostate cancer and a rising prostate- specific antigen (PSA) level post-primary treatment. Patients were randomized to ...
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Design of a minimally invasive single port HDR brachytherapy applicator for the treatment of lung cancer
... of ablation therapy is radiofrequency (RF) ablation; however, other technologies such as microwave (MW) and laser ablation are being developed and tested as lung cancer ...RF ablation ...
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Differentiated thyroid carcinoma : diagnostic and therapeutic studies
... RaI ablation of thyroid remnants, many clinics follow this ...RaI therapy is given for three ...RaI therapy may destroy occult microscopic carcinomas, thereby decreasing the long-term risk of ...
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Impact of Thyroglobulin on Survival and Prognosis of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
... [11] Toubeau, M., Touzery, C., Arveux, P., et al . (2004) Predictive Value for Disease Progression of Serum Thyroglobulin Levels Measured in the Postoperative Period and after 131I Ablation Therapy in ...
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A New Risk-Based Screening Criterion for Treatment-Demanding Retinopathy of Prematurity in Denmark
... screening, preterm delivery, retinopathy of prematurity, threshold disease, retinal ablation therapy, expected missed treatment-demanding ROP cases, risk-based criterion, conventional sc[r] ...
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A novel temperature-responsive micelle for enhancing combination therapy
... was evaluated in the tumor model. The loss of body weight in mice was used as a measure of treatment effects. None of the mice exhibited significant changes in body weight during the treatment, indicating a potential for ...
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Androgens as therapy for androgen receptor-positive castration-resistant prostate cancer
... androgen ablation therapy is the primary treatment for metastatic prostate ...this therapy is associated with several undesired side-effects, including increased risk of cardiovascular ...androgen ...
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I-131 remnant ablation after thyroidectomy induced hepatotoxicity in a case of thyroid cancer
... I-131 ablation therapy in thyroid- ectomy ...glucocorticoid therapy well, but not basic hepatic protection ...of ablation I-131 therapy induced liver ...
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Efficacy and Safety of Percutaneous Microwave Ablation and Cementoplasty in the Treatment of Painful Spinal Metastases and Myeloma
... Microwave ablation was performed using the AveCure micro- wave ablation system (MedWaves, San Diego, California) under CT (16-slice Somatom Sensation; Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) or fluoroscopic (Axiom ...
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Femtosecond ultraviolet laser ablation of silver and comparison with nanosecond ablation
... fs ablation with respect to both material removal and ion ...fs ablation described above, the ablation efficiency is ...for ablation of Ag with 26 ns, 248 nm laser irradiation at 2 J cm 2 on a ...
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A randomized trial of early endovenous ablation in venous ulceration
... laser ablation, radiofrequency ablation, foam sclerotherapy, and surgical stripping for great saphenous varicose veins with 3-year ...compression therapy alone versus compression plus surgery in ...
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Original Article Safety and feasibility of prostatic tissue ablation in dogs by percutaneous irreversible electroporation (IRE) using a newly-developed high-voltage steep-pulse-therapy device
... All 18 Beagle dogs were food-fasted for 24 hours prior to surgery and allowed free access to water. All animals were weighed and then received Xylazine at a dose of 0.1 ml/kg intra- muscularly (Jilin Huamao Animal Health ...
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Radiofrequency Ablation for Hepatic Metastasis from Gastric Adenocarcinoma
... In April 1999, we started RF ablations for hepatic tumors in our institution. We used four kinds of commercially available RF devices manufactured by three different companies. Among them, two RF devices were used in our ...
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Atrial fibrillation ablation in patients with heart failure review
... Pharmacological therapy for atrial fibril- lation in the heart failure population remains limited due to sub-optimal drug efficacy and a likely increa- sed mortality due to ...tion ablation, since it allows ...
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Adjuvant treatment with thyrotropin alpha for remnant ablation in thyroid cancer
... radioiodine ablation of low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) during thyroid hormone therapy with L-thyroxine ...remnant ablation results in a longer effective radioiodine half-life within ...
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