Sixty-six patients with atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis(rAS) and serum creatinine ≤2.0 mg/dl were treated with antihypertensive therapy, a statin, and aspirin. renal stenting was reserved for patients with inju...
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Sixty-six patients with atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis(rAS) and serum creatinine ≤2.0 mg/dl were treated with antihypertensive therapy, a statin, and aspirin. renal stenting was reserved for patients with injuries to the heart, b rain, or kidneys. The primary end point was stenotic kidney glomerular filtratio n rate(GFr) at 21 months; secondary end points included major adverse clinical e vents, serum creatinine, total GFr, and blood pressure(BP). After baseline evalu ation, 26 of 66 patients underwent renal stenting because of injuries to the hea rt, brain, or kidneys. After 21 months, 6 medical patients requir.d.renal stenti ng, and 5 patients experienced late clinical events(2 medical patients, 3 stent patients). There was no difference in final BP between groups. Whereas medical p atients experienced 6%and 8%decreases in total and stenotic kidney GFr, stent patients experienced 7%and 11%increases in total kidney(p=0.006) and stenotic kidney(p=0.02) GFr. There was no difference in final serum creatinine. In conclu sion, patients with atherosclerotic rAS and baseline creatinine ≤2.0 mg/dl can be safely managed with aggressive medical therapy, with a small decrease in GFr. For patients who develop injuries to the heart, brain, or kidneys, renal artery stenting may further r.d.ce hypertension and improve renal function.
Potential engineering applications of magnesium(Mg)and Mg-based alloys,as the lightest structural metal,have made them a popular subject of ***,the inferior corrosion and wear characteristics significantly limit their...
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Potential engineering applications of magnesium(Mg)and Mg-based alloys,as the lightest structural metal,have made them a popular subject of ***,the inferior corrosion and wear characteristics significantly limit their application *** is widely recognized that surface treatment is the most commonly utilized technique for remarkably improving a substrate’s surface *** methods have been intr.d.ced for the surface treatment of Mg and Mg-based alloys to improve their corrosion behavior and tribological *** these,thermal spray(TS)technology provides several methods for.d.position of various functional metallic,ceramic,cermet,or other coatings tailor.d.to particular *** researches have shown the tremendous potential for thermal spray coated Mg alloys for biomedical and industrial *** this context,the cold spray(CS)method,as a comparatively new TS coating technique,can generate the coating layer using kinetic energy rather than combined thermal and kinetic energies,like the high-velocity oxy-fuel(HVOF)spray ***,the CS process,as a revolutionary method,is able to repair and refurbish with a faster turnaround time;it also provides solutions that do not require dealing with the thermal stresses that are part of the other repair processes,such as welding or other TS processes using a high-temperature *** this review paper,the recently designed coatings that are specifically applied to Mg alloys(primarily for industrial applications)employing various coating processes are *** of the increased utilization of CS technology for both 3d printed(additively manufactur.d.coatings and repair of structurally critical components,the most recent CS methods for the surface treatment,repair,and refurbishment of Mg alloys as well as their benefits and restrictions are then discussed and reviewed in ***,the prospects of this field of study are briefly discussed,along with a summa
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