The Cinch Operation

The O'Connor cinch revisited.

The modified O'Connor cinch operation is a useful, but little used, adjustable resection operation. For increased understanding of its shortening and adjustment characteristics, a standard cinch was performed in animals and patients with strabismus. Animal studies showed that, as each strand of the cinch was removed, a small, relatively equal release of the cinch effect occurred. Measurement of...

An Alternative Alar Cinch Suture

Nasal widening is commonly associated to maxillary osteotomies, but it is only partially dependent on the amount of skeletal movement. Techniques for controlling lateralization of the ala, including the alar base cinch technique, originally described by Millard, have been well reported by Collins and Epker and later modified by others. In this article, authors report the effect of a new alar ci...

Defending against Malicious Peripherals with Cinch

Malicious peripherals designed to attack their host computers are a growing problem. Inexpensive and powerful peripherals that attach to plug-and-play buses have made such attacks easy to mount. Making matters worse, commodity operating systems lack coherent defenses, and users are often unaware of the scope of the problem. We present Cinch, a pragmatic response to this threat. Cinch uses virtu...

Editorial Comment Percutaneous Mitral Annuloplasty: Not Always a Cinch

The basic surgical paradigm for mitral annuloplasty involves placing an undersized ring that encircles the entire mitral valve and uses the force of ring to compress the mitral annulus and leaflets along the septal to lateral axis (Fig. 1B). This septal-lateral compression is sometimes called septal lateral annular cinching (SLAC) [1,2]. Percutaneous adaptations of this procedure have used the ...

Life’s not a cinch for a stressed finch, or is it?