Medicare Patients with Symptomatic Carotid Disease Requiring Carotid Revascularization are Likely to Have Delayed Access: An Analysis of a Multicenter Surgical Data.

Background: The Society for Vascular Surgery guidelines recommend carotid revascularization within 14 days of symptom onset for neurologically stable stroke patients. However, in the United States, insurance status may affect surgical timing, although large-scale studies are lacking. Using the Vascular Quality Initiative database, we evaluated the impact of insurance status on surgical wait times for patients with symptomatic carotid disease.

THE SCALE INSECTS OF IRAN (HEMIPTERA: COCCOMORPHA) PART 3 THE SOFT SCALES (COCCIDAE) AND OTHER FAMILIES.

The present work is the third and final part in a series of monographs on the Iranian scale insect fauna (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) by the same authors: Part 1, the armoured scales (Diaspididae), was published in 2021, and Part 2, the mealybugs (Pseudococcidae and Rhizoecidae) and Putoidae, was published in 2022. Here we cover ten families: Asterolecaniidae, Cerococcidae, Coccidae, Cryptococcidae, Eriococcidae, Kermesidae, Margarodidae, Monophlebidae, Ortheziidae and Phoenicococcidae, bringing the total number of scale insect families recorded in Iran to 14. A key is provided to separate all 14 families.

Acute impact of autoregulation of applied blood flow restriction pressures on bilateral single-joint upper limb resistance exercise.

To investigate the acute effects of 4 sets of autoregulated (AR-BFR) versus non-autoregulated (NAR-BFR) applied pressures during blood flow restriction (BFR) resistance exercise to volitional failure compared with low-load exercise without BFR. A randomized crossover design study was conducted on 32 healthy adults (20.8 ± 2.

Single-layer graphene oxide nanosheets induce proliferation and Osteogenesis of single-cell hBMSCs encapsulated in Alginate Microgels.

Microfluidics cell encapsulation offers a way to mimic a 3D microenvironment that supports cell growth and proliferation, while also protecting cells from environmental stress. This technique has found extensive applications in tissue engineering and cell therapies. Several studies have demonstrated the advantages of graphene oxide (GO) as an osteogenic inducer; however, the significance of GO on stem cell fate in the single-cell state is still unclear.