BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to assess the acute ablative characteristics of transurethral convective water vapor (steam) using the Rezūm(®) system in men with benign prostatic hyperplasia through histologic and radiographic studies. METHODS Seven patients were treated with transurethral intraprostatic injections of sterile steam under endoscopic visualization followed by previous...

I started to read with great interest the case report entitled “Autologous adipose tissue-derived stem cells induce persistent bone-like tissue in osteonecrotic femoral heads” by Pak (1). However, the contents of the report were greatly disappointing. The most critical fault of this report is that the area in which the author observed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signal change after injecti...

A deep knowledge about endodontic microbiology is a fundamental resource to understand the role of bacteria in origin and development periapical pathosis as well dealing with tissue response infection. Thus, our purpose reviewing literature reveal which are more frequently related necrotic dental pulps order provide information may give support adequate methods eliminate control such

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Previous studies have reported that carotid atherosclerosis frequently can be seen in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients. This study sought to determine the prevalence of compositional features in subclinical carotid atherosclerosis by MRI in CAD patients. METHODS Ninety-six subjects with suspected CAD but free of neurological symptoms underwent coronary CT angiogra...

Preservation of viable tissue is important in wound management. It is achieved by small, incremental removal of devitalised, necrotic and infected tissues. Maggot debridement therapy (MDT) is used in septic necrotic wounds that fail to respond to conventional modalities. MDT has relied on Lucilia sericata, which consumes only necrotic tissues, as opposed to Lucilia cuprina, which devours both f...

Background: Investigation for research on the cellular biology and physiology of colon cancer tissues requires viable dissociation single cells. The amount tissue methods can affect cell viability. Inadequate initial has negative effects data quality by resulting in insufficient number 
 Methods: In context this study different-weigh different-textured tumor have been evaluated to emphasiz...

In radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), microbubbles appearing during the procedure make it difficult to determine effectiveness with ultrasonography (US) imaging. We developed a modified US-volume system and evaluated its efficacy for demonstrating response to therapeutic RFA. Our US-volume system displays multiplanar reconstruction (MPR) images providing a synchro...

A widely adopted surrogate for predicting rates of cardiovascular events involves measure of carotid intimal-medial thickness (CIMT) by B mode ultrasound, a technique available since the mid 1980s. The value of this modality remains in its ability to noninvasively assess cardiovascular risk beyond traditional factors identified by the Framingham risk score, and it is among the few available tec...

The current view that death of dystrophin-deficient muscle fibers is a necrotic process relies primarily upon the histological appearance of the tissue after the degenerative process is well advanced. Here, we tested this view by examining the possibility that apoptosis is a component of dystrophin-deficient muscle cell death. Three assays for apoptosis were employed in analyzing prenecrotic, p...