occlusion

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The drugmaker said the Food and Drug Administration had approved Eylea HD for the treatment of patients with macular edema following retinal vein occlusion, a common cause of vision impairment in adults.

From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025

The problem mainly lies in properly aligning the semantic information extracted independently from the 2D and 3D datasets, which is hard due to issues such as imprecise calibration or occlusion.

From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2024

Similar systems of occlusion and erasure are at work 150 years later in the current hype around AI.

From Salon • May 30, 2023

Vascular occlusion is another potential complication, where a blood vessel blockage prevents blood from moving through pathways in your body.

From BBC • May 9, 2023

Another of the dangers is gradual occlusion of the arteries bringing about necrosis with softening of the brain substance.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall