Sentence examples for prosthesis choice from inspiring English sources

The management of developmental anomalies of the ossicular chain and otic capsule in stapes surgery tests the otologist's diagnostic skills and flexibility in technique and prosthesis choice.

The time point at 20%% of the cardiac cycle provides MDCT images with maximal dimensions of structures of the aortic root and aortic valve, which are the most important for pre-TAVI assessment and prosthesis choice.

Possible complications, resulting from wrong prosthesis choice or difficulties encountered during placement, may result in paravalvular regurgitation, valve embolization, coronary obstruction, left bundle branch block (LBBB) or aortic annular rupture [ 8– 10].

Edwards Sapien valve prosthesis choice would change in 25 % (effective diameter) to 48%% (circumference-derived diameter) of cases; CoreValve in 43.8 % (mean diameter) to 48%% (effective diameter) of cases; and JenaValve in 75%% of cases for all three evaluated dimensions.

Although it is yet unclear whether annular dimension changes described in the literature are clinically relevant [ 23], one may assume that measurements derived from the time point at which a structure is at its largest are unlikely to lead to size underestimation and wrong prosthesis choice.

The resulting prosthesis choices were compared in order to deduce how often chosen valve sizes differed between methods used.

Our uncemented prosthesis of choice was the hydroxyapatite-coated Furlong® H-A.C hemiarthroplasty (JRI, Sheffield, UK).

Differences in prosthesis size choice using either maximal or minimal measurements of mean diameter, circumference-derived diameter and effective diameter are summarized in Table  3.

Our cemented prostheses of choice were either the Furlong® cemented hemiarthroplasty (JRI, Sheffield, UK) or the Thompson hemiarthroplasty (Depuy, Leeds, UK).

Mechanical valves were initially the prostheses of choice; with improvement of surgical technique and results, and increased durability of bioprosthetic valves, there has been a trend toward increasing use of bioprostheses.

The percentage of parallel bearing surfaces was increased by a prosthesis endplate lordotic angulation choice guided by ISL measurement.