PURPOSE To report a specific line of research developed at the University of São Paulo/Brazil on fibrin glue used for sealing corneal perforations and the perspectives of use on non-perforated corneal ulcers and photorefractive keratectomy-operated corneas. METHODS To describe fibrin glue manufacture, development of a device to test the glued perforated corneal area resistance, subsequent exp...

OBJECTIVE Iatrogenic preterm premature rupture of membranes (iPPROM), the main complication of invasive interventions in the prenatal period, seriously limits the benefit of diagnostic or surgical prenatal procedures. This study aimed to evaluate preventive plugging of punctured fetal membranes in an ex vivo situation using a new mussel-mimetic tissue adhesive (mussel glue) to inhibit leakage. ...

draft; comments welcome In this paper I will describe a tentative proposal for using unification rather than lambda-calculus to effect semantic assembly in LFG glue logic. Some motivations for trying this out are: (1) a. The resulting relationship between f-structures and 'logical forms' is more in accordance with the general form of correspondence-based grammatical architectures. b. The system...

introduction: vesicovaginal fistula remains a challenge in surgical therapy. in this study autologous platelet rich plasma and platelet rich fibrin glue were used as a minimally invasive approach for vesicovaginal fistula closure. materials and methods: data including age, parity, iciq-ui (international consultation on incontinence questionnaire-urinary incontinence), iciq-qol (international co...

Alternative methods of wound closure after formal circumcision have been studied to decrease the repair time and complications, and to improve cosmesis. This was a prospective non-comparative preliminary clinical study involving 15 patients where Cyanoacrylate glue was used as a tissue adhesive for wound closure after formal circumcision. It was found that the repair time was short, complicatio...

How can off-the-shelf editors be reused in applications that need mature editing support? We describe our editor multiplexer which enables interactive, application guided editing sessions using GNU Emacs and Vim. At a cost of less than 1 KLOC of editor-specific glue code, both IDE builders and users benefit. Rapid integration of existing editors reduces application development cost, and users a...

Glue is widely used to improve the reliability of ball grid array (BGA) under mechanical shock and vibration. Although it has been demonstrated to have a positive effect on the reliability of BGA under mechanical impact, it can have adverse effects on BGA under thermal cycling. This paper investigates the effect of glue on the reliability of BGA under thermal cycling using both experimental and...

PURPOSE To present complications of using fibrin glue in conjunctival-limbal autografting in pterygium surgeries other than recurrences and discuss their prevention and management strategies. MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY The charts of all patients who underwent fibrin glue assisted pterygium excision surgery with conjunctival-limbal autograft transplantation from 2010 to 2013 were reviewed. Pati...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether laser-cured fibrinogen glue can close bleb leaks in rabbits. METHODS Full-thickness filtration surgery with intraoperative mitomycin and a sutured limbus-based conjunctival flap was performed in 1 eye each of 19 New Zealand albino rabbits. On the second postoperative day, a 2- to 3-mm hole was made in the bleb. In 9 rabbits, the hole was glued using fibrinogen g...

Portal hypertension induces congestion of the liver and spleen, thus any capsular or parenchymal injury to these organs can produce intractable bleeding which generally is not easily controlled. To cope with intractable bleeding such as being encountered during liver transplantation, we developed an infiltrating hemostasis technique as a conceptual shift from conventional application methods, i...