staple transection as a salvage procedure after failure of acute in]ection sclerotherapy. It is not clear which therapy should be used in patients with bleeding esophageal varices that are not controlled by emergency sclerotherapy. This is a high-risk group with reported mortality rates of between 70% and 90%. We report our 7-year experience with staple transection of the esophagus in this pati...

Peripheral nervous system owns the ability of self-regeneration, mainly in its regenerative microenvironment including vascular network reconstruction. More recently, more attentions have been given to the close relationship between tissue regeneration and angiogenesis. To explore the overlap of molecular mechanisms and key regulation molecules between peripheral nerve regeneration and angiogen...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of olfactory ensheathing cell transplantation on functional recovery of rats with complete spinal cord transection. DATA SOURCES A computer-based online search of Medline (1989-2013), Embase (1989-2013), Cochrane library (1989-2013), Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (1989-2013), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (1989-2013), VIP (1989-2013), Wanfa...

Activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis is characterized by a diurnal rhythm with an AM nadir and PM peak. Splanchnic nerve transection disrupts the diurnal rhythm in plasma corticosterone; however, there is a controversy as to whether the nerve-mediated effect is 1) via inhibition in the AM vs. excitation in the PM, or 2) involves changes in adrenal sensitivity to ACTH. The present...

Background: Total abdominal hysterectomy is most common performed gynaecological operation. There no standard recommendation or guidelines regarding management of vaginal cuff. This study aimed to determine the advantages and disadvantages transection versus entry technique following elective hysterectomies for benign lesions. Methodology: a comparative involving 180 women undergoing in Sparsh ...

Significant intraoperative bleeding and injuries to vital structures in the liver remnant can occur during liver parenchymal transection using the conventional clamp-crushing technique. We performed liver resection on 242 patients using a mosquito clamp-crushing technique combined with a self-assembled saline-linked diathermy for liver parenchymal transection. The mean blood loss was 215 mL (ra...

BACKGROUND Parenchymal transection is the most important step of liver resection, and during this phase, blood loss may lead to morbidity and mortality. Liver parenchyma can be transected by different ways such as finger fracture, clamp crushing, or instrument-based techniques. METHODS A simple and cost-efficient method has been developed for liver transection using a technique based on silk ...

In this study, we used a novel technique to study reflex wind-up when the spinal cord is intact and following an acute spinal transection. Specifically, we evaluated reflex responses evoked by a series of 10 electrical pulses to the tibial or superficial peroneal nerves in 9 decerebrate adult cats, before and after an acute spinal transection. Electromyograms were recorded in four hindlimb musc...

A brain-machine interface (BMI) is a neuroprosthetic device that can restore motor function of individuals with paralysis. Although the feasibility of BMI control of upper-limb neuroprostheses has been demonstrated, a BMI for the restoration of lower-limb motor functions has not yet been developed. The objective of this study was to determine if gait-related information can be captured from neu...