The bird's nest inferior vena cava filter, in clinical trial since 1982, has been placed in 568
patients at risk for pulmonary embolism. Of the 481 patients in whom the filter had been in …

A filter for the inferior vena cava has been devised for treatment of pulmonary embolism.
Percutaneous insertion of the filter is accomplished with the use of a sheath and an 8-F catheter. …

The appearance of the Bird's Nest inferior vena cava filter on magnetic resonance (MR)
images of 11 patients is described. No complication or symptomatic filter displacement was …

Iohexol is a new, nonionic water-soluble contrast agent undergoing early clinical trials in the
United States. Using a double-blind, parallel format, iohexol was compared with meglumine …

The urokinase receptor (uPAR) serves as a docking site to the serine protease urokinase-type
plasminogen activator (uPA) to promote extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation and tumor …

Singh S. Prevention of intravascular catheter-associated infections. In: Shojania KG, Duncan
BW, McDonald KM, et al., eds. Making health care safer: a critical analysis of patient safety …

The technology transfer application this report describes is the result of a pilot study of image-processing
methods applied to the image enhancement, coding, and analysis of …

… for either the 5' J3 (probe 6) or the 3' JO' (probe 11) cluster (Fig. 2), has shown the restriction
site alleles to be in the JO, not JO' region. Only probe 6 detected the alleles, ie, a single 9.4 …

The paper discusses the aspects of repair and retrofitting technique adopted for a damaged
reinforced concrete beam-column joint specimen under cyclic loading. A specimen …

The article by Urena and Greenwood [1] in the October issue of the American Journal of
Roentgenology was of special interest to me as one of the originators of the Bird's Nest Filter (…