Sentence examples for detect blockages from inspiring English sources

But the Dartmouth data also shows that the Elyria doctors have a higher than average tendency to perform diagnostic coronary angiographies on patients — the primary test that is used to detect blockages in the first place.

Cardiac catheterization, in which doctors insert a tube into a vein and then inject a dye to detect blockages in blood vessels, is important because it is the first step in determining whether patients need other life-saving treatments, like heart bypass surgery.

To detect blockage or narrowing of the vessels, arteriogram is used to have an X-ray of the arteries and veins.

PulmoBind uptake by the lung is therefore modified not only by blockage of the large pulmonary arteries, but can also detect blockage of small pulmonary arterioles in models of pulmonary arterial hypertension such as the monocrotaline model [14] and the hypoxia-sugen model [15].

In 2009, she left the academic world to start AUM Cardiovascular, to create a handheld device that detects blockages in the blood vessels around the heart, which can determine whether someone is developing heart disease or may be at risk for a sudden heart attack.

The company specialized in an unusual use of a computer-interpreted electrocardiogram to detect heart blockages, instead of the more common arrhythmia test that EKG's are used for.

He says patients also should take a standard stress test to help detect soft blockages.

Meanwhile, in the case studies, only a few sensors that are located inside the SRFDs can easily detect the blockage abnormal condition in the parallelized microreactor system.

It is meant for measuring flow in PFBR primary pump and also at the outlets of the fuel sub-assemblies to detect flow blockage.

However, force feedback is completely impaired and surgeon can only rely on visual control at the cochleostomy to detect a blockage within the cochlea that will lead to array bending at its proximal part outside the cochlea.

In this paper, a recently developed stochastic model using transient head measurements for detecting partial blockages in water pipelines is tested with two experimental case studies.