Percutaneous left atrial appendage closure for thromboembolic prophylaxis in patients with atrial fibrillation. The impact of operator’s experience on the procedure course by Dorota Kolanowska, Piotr Łach, Marta Frąc, Agnieszka Nadolna, Tomasz Fabiszak, Iwona Świątkiewicz, Adam Sukiennik, Sławomir Sielski, Marek Woźnicki, Jacek Kubica

“…This study was conducted to determine whether the experience of the operating team affects the duration of the procedure and its complication rate. METHODS: This retrospective single-centre study examined LAA percutaneous closure procedures in 43 consecutive AF patients with contraindications to oral anticoagulation (13 female, 30 male; mean age 70.98 ± 10.69 years). …”
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Procedimento operacional padrão no ambiente hospitalar: percepção de enfermeiros Standard operating procedure in the hospital context: the nurses’ perception by Rossana da Rosa Walter, Maria Helena Gahlen, Silomar Ilha, Claudia Zamberlan, Hilda Maria Barbosa de Freitas, Fabiani Weiss Pereira

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Estimated collective effective dose to the population from nuclear medicine diagnostic procedures in Croatia: A comparison of 2010 and 2015. by Ivana Kralik, Mario Štefanić, Hrvoje Brkić, Gordan Šarić, Stanko Težak, Svjetlana Grbac Ivanković, Neva Griotto, Damir Štimac, Otmar Rubin, Tamer Salha, Zrinka Ivanišević, Slaven Jurković, Dario Faj

“…<h4>Methods</h4>The survey was performed according to the European Commission Dose DataMed (DDM) project methodology. 28 most frequent NM diagnostic procedures were identified. Data about frequencies of procedures and average administered activities of radioisotopes used in those procedures were collected. …”
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Investigating the Construction Procedure and Safety Oversight of the Mechanical Shaft Technique: Insights Gained from the Guangzhou Intercity Railway Project by Jianwang Li, Wenrui Qi, Xinlong Li, Gaoyu Liu, Jian Chen, Huawei Tong

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A Multi-Level Semi-Automatic Procedure for the Monitoring of Bridges in Road Infrastructure Using MT-DInSAR Data by Diego Alejandro Talledo, Anna Saetta

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Efficacy of Hyoscine N-butyl Bromide on Cervical Dilatation Prior to Hysteroscopy Procedure: An Open-Label Randomized Controlled Trial by Maryam Sadat Hosseini, Farah Farzaneh, Hanieh Najafiarab, Saba Bazzazi

“…Background: Due to the high prevalence of intrauterine pathologies, postmenopausal women are more eligible for hysteroscopy procedure. Cervical dilatation is always a major challenge for performing hysteroscopy. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROCEDURES OF QUALITY CONTROL OF MAGNETIC MEDICATIONS (MAGNETIC MEDICAL OINTMENTS, MAGNETIC SUPPOSITORIES, IRON-CARBON COMPOSITE FOR THE CRYOSURGERY) by Yu. Ya. Kharitonov, O. G. Cherkasova, S. P. Zavadskiy, E. Yu. Shabalkina, I. I. Krasnyuk (Jr.), V. Yu. Grigorjeva, S. N. Tsybusov, E. A. Abizov

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A Nine-Year Audit of Open-Access Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures: Results and Experience of a Single Centre by Dean Keren, Tova Rainis, Edy Stermer, Alexandra Lavy

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Systematic review of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax polyclonal infections: Impact of prevalence, study population characteristics, and laboratory procedures. by Luis Lopez, Cristian Koepfli

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Application of Real-Time 3D Navigation System in CT-Guided Percutaneous Interventional Procedures: A Feasibility Study by Priya Bhattacharji, William Moore

“…Twenty-two procedures were performed in abdominal and thoracic phantoms. …”
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Clinical, Radiographic, and Histologic Evaluation of Maxillary Sinus Lift Procedure Using a Highly Purified Xenogenic Graft (Laddec®) by Renzo Guarnieri, Fabrizio Belleggia, Stefano Ippoliti, Patrica DeVilliers, Luigi Vito Stefanelli, Stefano Di Carlo, Giorgio Pompa

“…Material and Methods: In fifteen patients requiring unilateral maxillary sinus augmentation, the grafting procedure was performed with Laddec®. Forty-two implants were installed after a 6 month healing period. …”
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Corrigendum to “Transumbilical laparoscopy-assisted malone procedure for fecal incontinence in children” [PEDN 63 (2) (2021) 154-158] by Hsuan Huang, Yih-Cherng Duh, Paul Chia-Yu Chang, Yu-Wei Fu, Yao-Jen Hsu, Fu-Huan Huang, Ming-Hung Shen, Chin-Hung Wei

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Antithrombotic Treatment After Valve-in-Valve, Valve-in-Ring, and Valve-in-MAC Procedures: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Gonçalo Terleira Batista, Gonçalo Costa, Joana Delgado Silva, Lino Gonçalves

“…Clinical VT rates were 4.2% for all procedures, and patients on anticoagulants were associated with a a lower risk of clinical VT (1.1% vs 8.3%; OR: 0.18; 95% CI: 0.07 - 0.42, I2: 0%) and total VT (1.3% vs 8.5%; OR: 0.16; 95% CI: 0.07 - 0.37, I2: 0%). …”
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A GLIM-defined malnutrition-based model for predicting prognosis of cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension following TIPS procedure by Wen-Ting Huang, De-Lei Cheng, Liang Yin, Li Dong, Yi-Jiang Zhu, Liu Zhang, Dong Lu, Chun-Ze Zhou, Wei-Fu Lv

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A Confidence Scoring Procedure for eDNA Metabarcoding Records and Its Application to a Global Marine Fish Dataset by Andrea Polanco F., Romane Rozanski, Virginie Marques, Martin Helmkampf, David Mouillot, Stéphanie Manel, Camille Albouy, Oscar Puebla, Loïc Pellissier

“…Here, we present a modular procedure, available as an R script, that uses a set of five steps to assess the confidence of species‐level eDNA records by assigning them a score from 0 to 5. …”
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DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE FOR DETECTION OF HPAI H5N8-BULGARIAN EXPERIENCE DURING THE EPIZOOTIC WAVE IN 2016/2017 by G. Goujgoulova, G. Stoimenov

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THE PROCEDURE OF THE RECEPTION OF THE MEDICAL EXAMINATION INQUEST OF THE UNDER-AGED ACCUSED IS AN INDIVIDUAL CASE OF THE UPRISE OF THE EXPERT'S INQUEST IN THE CRIMINAL CASE by Elena Alexandrovna Artamonova

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Procedimento operacional padrão no ambiente hospitalar: percepção de enfermeiros Standard operating procedure in the hospital context: the nurses’ perception by Rossana da Rosa Walter, Maria Helena Gahlen, Silomar Ilha, Claudia Zamberlan, Hilda Maria Barbosa de Freitas, Fabiani Weiss Pereira

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Procedimento operacional padrão no ambiente hospitalar: percepção de enfermeiros Standard operating procedure in the hospital context: the nurses’ perception by Rossana da Rosa Walter, Maria Helena Gahlen, Silomar Ilha, Claudia Zamberlan, Hilda Maria Barbosa de Freitas, Fabiani Weiss Pereira

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CYP2C19 Genotype‐Guided Antiplatelet Therapy and Clinical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing a Neurointerventional Procedure by Kayla R. Tunehag, Ashton F. Pearce, Layna P. Fox, George A. Stouffer, Sten Solander, Craig R. Lee

Subjects: “…percutaneous neurointerventional procedures…”
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