Mechanical thrombectomy using neurovascular catheter from radial artery during acute myocardial infarction: A case report.

Coronary occlusion due to large thrombus is frequently encountered during ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Despite guidelines discourage this practice, often thrombus aspiration is necessary to reduce thrombotic burden and to prevent embolization. We report a case of mechanical thrombectomy with a Neurovascular Catheter from radial artery during inferior STEMI.

Experimental Property Reconstruction in a Photonic Quantum Extreme Learning Machine.

Recent developments have led to the possibility of embedding machine learning tools into experimental platforms to address key problems, including the characterization of the properties of quantum states. Leveraging on this, we implement a quantum extreme learning machine in a photonic platform to achieve resource-efficient and accurate characterization of the polarization state of a photon. The underlying reservoir dynamics through which such input state evolves is implemented using the coined quantum walk of high-dimensional photonic orbital angular momentum and performing projective measurements over a fixed basis.

Erratum: Quantifying Qubit Magic Resource with Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Encoding [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 210502 (2022)].

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.

Promising High-Tech Devices in Dry Eye Disease Diagnosis.

Background: Dry eye disease (DED) is a common and debilitating condition that affects millions of people worldwide. Despite its prevalence, the diagnosis and management of DED can be challenging, as the condition is multifactorial and symptoms can be nonspecific. In recent years, there have been significant advancements in diagnostic technology for DED, including the development of several new devices.

Quantifying Qubit Magic Resource with Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Encoding.

Quantum resource theories are a powerful framework for characterizing and quantifying relevant quantum phenomena and identifying processes that optimize their use for different tasks. Here, we define a resource measure for magic, the sought-after property in most fault-tolerant quantum computers. In contrast to previous literature, our formulation is based on bosonic codes, well-studied tools in continuous-variable quantum computation.

Apixaban and eftrenonacog alfa treatment in a patient with moderate hemophilia B and cardiovascular disease.

In developed countries, the life expectancy of patients with hemophilia (PwH) is now close to that of the unaffected male population. This means that these patients are at risk of developing age-related comorbidities, including cardiovascular disease. Managing cardiovascular disease in PwH patients can be particularly challenging, due to their high bleeding risk.

Universal Gate Set for Continuous-Variable Quantum Computation with Microwave Circuits.

We provide an explicit construction of a universal gate set for continuous-variable quantum computation with microwave circuits. Such a universal set has been first proposed in quantum-optical setups, but its experimental implementation has remained elusive in that domain due to the difficulties in engineering strong nonlinearities. Here, we show that a realistic three-wave mixing microwave architecture based on the superconducting nonlinear asymmetric inductive element [Frattini et al.

Machine Learning-Based Classification of Vector Vortex Beams.

Structured light is attracting significant attention for its diverse applications in both classical and quantum optics. The so-called vector vortex beams display peculiar properties in both contexts due to the nontrivial correlations between optical polarization and orbital angular momentum. Here we demonstrate a new, flexible experimental approach to the classification of vortex vector beams.

Three-qubit refrigerator with two-body interactions.

We propose a three-qubit setup for the implementation of a variety of quantum thermal machines where all heat fluxes and work production can be controlled. An important configuration that can be designed is that of an absorption refrigerator, extracting heat from the coldest reservoir without the need of external work supply. Remarkably, we achieve this regime by using only two-body interactions instead of the widely employed three-body interactions.

Experimental Engineering of Arbitrary Qudit States with Discrete-Time Quantum Walks.

The capability to generate and manipulate quantum states in high-dimensional Hilbert spaces is a crucial step for the development of quantum technologies, from quantum communication to quantum computation. One-dimensional quantum walk dynamics represents a valid tool in the task of engineering arbitrary quantum states. Here we affirm such potential in a linear-optics platform that realizes discrete-time quantum walks in the orbital angular momentum degree of freedom of photons.

Robust quantum state engineering through coherent localization in biased-coin quantum walks.

We address the performance of a coin-biased quantum walk as a generator for non-classical position states of the walker. We exploit a phenomenon of in the position space - resulting from the choice of small values of the coin parameter and assisted by post-selection - to engineer large-size coherent superpositions of position states of the walker. The protocol that we design appears to be remarkably robust against both the actual value taken by the coin parameter and strong dephasing-like noise acting on the spatial degree of freedom.

Coherently opening a high-Q cavity.

We propose a general framework to effectively "open" a high-Q resonator, that is, to release the quantum state initially prepared in it in the form of a traveling electromagnetic wave. This is achieved by employing a mediating mode that scatters coherently the radiation from the resonator into a one-dimensional continuum of modes such as a waveguide. The same mechanism may be used to "feed" a desired quantum field to an initially empty cavity.

Nonclassicality criteria from phase-space representations and information-theoretical constraints are maximally inequivalent.

We consider two celebrated criteria for defining the nonclassicality of bipartite bosonic quantum systems, the first stemming from information theoretic concepts and the second from physical constraints on the quantum phase space. Consequently, two sets of allegedly classical states are singled out: (i) the set C composed of the so-called classical-classical (CC) states-separable states that are locally distinguishable and do not possess quantum discord; (ii) the set P of states endowed with a positive P representation (P-classical states)-mixtures of Glauber coherent states that, e.g.

Gapped two-body Hamiltonian for continuous-variable quantum computation.

We introduce a family of Hamiltonian systems for measurement-based quantum computation with continuous variables. The Hamiltonians (i) are quadratic, and therefore two body, (ii) are of short range, (iii) are frustration-free, and (iv) possess a constant energy gap proportional to the squared inverse of the squeezing. Their ground states are the celebrated Gaussian graph states, which are universal resources for quantum computation in the limit of infinite squeezing.

Vitamin D status and mortality risk in patients with chronic kidney disease.

Several studies have shown that mineral metabolism disorders play a major role in determining a higher mortality rate for end-stage renal disease patients. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with cardiovascular events in hemodialysis patients. Recently, an association between vitamin D insufficiency and cardiovascular or renal events has been found, in patients with chronic renal failure who have not started renal replacement therapy yet.

Thermal bound entanglement in macroscopic systems and area law.

Does bound entanglement naturally appear in quantum many-body systems? We address this question by showing the existence of bound-entangled thermal states for harmonic oscillator systems consisting of an arbitrary number of particles. By explicit calculations of the negativity for different partitions, we find a range of temperatures for which no entanglement can be distilled by means of local operations, despite the system being globally entangled. We offer an interpretation of this result in terms of entanglement-area laws, typical of these systems.

Transbrachial intraaortic balloon pumping in severe peripheral atherosclerosis.

Preoperative intraaortic balloon pumping improves the results of complex coronary surgery; however, insertion may be harmful or contraindicated in severe and diffuse atherosclerosis of the descending aorta and peripheral arteries. We report our experience with 10 consecutive patients with severe peripheral atherosclerosis or distal abdominal aortic aneurysms, in whom a 7.5F intraaortic balloon catheter was inserted through the brachial artery.

The present and future of drug-eluting stents.

The only widely accepted way to reduce restenosis rate after percutaneous balloon angioplasty has been the use of coronary bare metal stents, and the last decade has witnessed a prompt and widespread adoption of bare metal stents that has revolutionized the field of interventional cardiology. The new millennium has seen the recent development of drug-eluting stents (DES), allowing controlled release of a drug directly to the injured artery, which seem to have prevented by large the problem of in-stent restenosis. The goal of this review was to summarize recent laboratory and clinical investigations concerning the effects of DES in various settings relevant to coronary heart disease.

Properties of two interlinked chi(2) interactions in noncollinear phase matching.

We present a compact experimental realization of the interaction among five field modes in a chi(2) nonlinear crystal. The classical evolution of the fields can be analytically described assuming that two of the fields play the role of nondepleted pumps. If one of the fields has a nonzero input amplitude, then the other two fields at the output are holographic replicas of the input signal.

[Mechanism of troponin and CK-MB release after percutaneous coronary interventions].

Cardiac troponins are highly sensitive and specific markers of early detection of myocardial injury. The incidence of cardiac troponin increase is of 5-40% after percutaneous coronary interventions and is significantly higher in patients undergoing stenting than in patients with balloon angioplasty only. Four mechanisms are responsible for myocardial necrosis during coronary angioplasty: 1) distal embolization of small fragments of the atherosclerotic plaque; 2) side branch occlusion; 3) intimal dissection, and 4) temporary vessel occlusion.