FES-Cycling at Cybathlon 2016: Overview on Teams and Results.
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Response to Letter to the Editor: Electrochemotherapy Treatment of Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumors.
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Artificial Organs 2017: A Year in Review.
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In this Editor's Review, articles published in 2017 are organized by category and summarized. We provide a brief reflection of the research and progress in artificial organs intended to advance and better human life while providing insight for continued application of these technologies and methods. Artificial Organs continues in the original missi...
Normothermic Ex Vivo Perfusion of Discarded Human Pancreas.
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Functional Electrical Stimulation.
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Lactic Dehydrogenase in the In Vitro Evaluation of Hemolytic Properties of Ventricular Assist Device.
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Ventricular assist devices (VADs) can effectively improve the survival rate of patients with end-stage heart failure, but the hemolytic complications induced by long-time VAD support have received wide attention recently. The conventional evaluation method of the hemolytic properties of VADs by the indicator of plasma free hemoglobin (PFH) concentr...
Step Ergometer Training Augmented With Functional Electrical Stimulation in Individuals With Chronic Spinal Cord Injury:...
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Spinal cord injury (SCI) often results in loss of upright mobility and independence subsequently challenging rehabilitation practitioners for meaningful intervention strategies. The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and potential impact on walking function of the stimulation and ergometer training protocol (STEP) in chronic SC...
Development of Functional Electrical Stimulation Rowing: The Rowstim Series.
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Potentially, functional electrical stimulation (FES)-assisted exercise may have an important therapeutic role in reducing comorbidities associated with spinal cord injury (SCI). Here, we present an overview of these secondary life-threatening conditions, discuss the rationale behind the development of a hybrid exercise called FES rowing, and descri...
Cadence Tracking and Disturbance Rejection in Functional Electrical Stimulation Cycling for Paraplegic Subjects: A Case ...
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Functional electrical stimulation cycling has been proposed as an assistive technology with numerous health and fitness benefits for people with spinal cord injury, such as improvement in cardiovascular function, increase in muscular mass, and reduction of bone mass loss. However, some limitations, for example, lack of optimal control strategies th...
A Pseudo-One Compartment Model of Phosphorus Kinetics During Hemodialysis: Further Supporting Evidence.
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A pseudo-one compartment model has been proposed to describe phosphorus kinetics during hemodialysis and the immediate post-dialysis period. This model assumes that phosphorus mobilization from tissues is proportional to the difference between the pre-dialysis serum concentration (a constant) and the instantaneous serum concentration. The current s...
