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Saphenous vein graft (SVG) failure following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a critical clinical problem, with recent studies revealing that as many as 25% of vein grafts develop stenosis within 12-18 months after surgery, and up to 50% of grafts occlude within 5-10 years. CABG surgery is the gold standard treatment for patients with severe multi-vessel disease, with over 370,000 procedu ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Stroke injury occurs over a long duration through pathologic changes leading to long-term neurologic dysfunction. There is an urgent need of therapeutic strategies that can provide safe and efficacious therapeutic effects to the hypoperfused brain with long-lasting endogenous neuroprotection for prevention of long-term neurologic dysfunction. Sufficient evidence has pointe ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Since 2014, Congenital Syphilis (CS) cases in the United States, caused by the transplacental transmission of the bacterium Treponema pallidum from mother to child, have increased at an alarming rate. Targeted surveillance studies indicate a rise andgt;185% from 2014 to 2018 alone. Women who acquire syphilis within 4 years of pregnancy will transmit the infection to 80% of their fe ...

Dental CBCT is a 3D imaging modality widely adopted to help dentists detect and diagnose jaw lesions. Due to minimum information loss (compared to conventional 2D radiography) and low radiation exposure (compared to conventional CT), it has become the “go-to” radiographic technique in various dental fields. Gaps: Accompanying the clear benefits of dental CBCT is an overwhelming amount of 3D da ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The goal of the proposed project is to evaluate the potential of HBI-002, a novel oral formulation of carbon monoxide (CO), as a neuroprotective agent in Parkinson’s disease (PD). A growing body of research suggests that low doses of CO - and the heme oxygenase (HO) enzymes that generate endogenous CO - protect against neuronal cell loss in PD, and epidemiologic studies have asso ...

ABSTRACT The long-term goal of this project is to develop and commercialize a navigation system that can accurately determine margins in real-time during surgery for lung cancer. Surgery is currently the standard of care for early stage lung cancer. A critical challenge is to reliably identify small, early-stage tumors and resect them with sufficient margins (distance between the edge of tumor and ...

Abstract Our mission is to develop an innovative anti-cancer drug delivering bone cement for bone metastasis patients, which can be injected into metastasis-caused bone degeneration sites in a minimally invasive manner, to regress cancer, regenerate bone, and stop the pain. Metastasis is the main cause of cancer death. Bone is one of the most frequent cancer metastatic sites. About 350,000 America ...

ABSTRACT – Kawasaki disease (KD) is the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children. Treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) reduces the incidence of coronary aneurysms and risk of long-term cardiovascular complications. IVIG is recommended to be given within 10 days of illness; however only 4.7% receive the correct diagnosis at the first medical visit. Timely and accurately ...

Project Summary/AbstractThe opioid epidemic is a growing public health crisis with dramatic increase in overdose deaths caused by potent opioids like fentanyl. Currently, the standard treatment for opioid-induced respiratory depression is naloxone, a µ-opioid receptor antagonist. However, naloxone is less effective against potent synthetic opioids like fentanyl and induces withdrawal in chronic o ...

Project Abstract1.4 million people in the US (2021) have implanted cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) of which ~50% will require an MRI scan in their lifetime. All ICDs generate large artifacts in MRI such as signal-voids in cardiac MR (cMR) images, which frequently occur in important pathological (infarcted) regions. Reliable diagnosis of ventricular tachycardia, premature ventricular contraction ...