OBJECTIVES To determine the effects of prolonged ventilation tube retention on tympanic membrane healing and the efficacy of patching procedures used concomitantly at the time of tube removal. DESIGN Retrospective chart review. SETTING Tertiary referral academic institution. PATIENTS Seventy-six patients aged 12 years and younger, with a total of 99 ears identified from January 1989 to De...

Despite advances in modularity, security, and reliability of software, offline patching remains the predominant form of updating or protecting commodity software. Unfortunately, the mechanics of hot patching (the process of upgrading a program while it executes) remain understudied, even though such a capability offers practical benefits for both consumer and mission-critical systems. A reliabl...

BACKGROUND In tetralogy of Fallot, transannular patching is suspected to be responsible for late right ventricular dilatation. METHODS AND RESULTS In our institution, 191 patients survived a tetralogy of Fallot repair between 1964 and 1984. Transannular patching was used in 99 patients (52%), patch closure of a right ventriculotomy in 35, and direct closure of a right ventriculotomy in 55. Tw...

A case treated with onlay bone grafting and simultaneous osseointegrated implant insertion is reported. The patient had an oronasal fistula in the center of the premaxillary region due to failed repair of a bilateral cleft palate. Four fixtures were inserted with onlay bone grafting of the maxillary alveolar ridge. Twelve months postsurgery, one fixture was lost as a result of severe bone resor...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Optimal diagnosis and management of spontaneous intracranial hypotension remains uncertain. CT-guided blood patching has been described but has not been evaluated in larger case series. We sought to evaluate the efficacy of CT-guided blood patching of observed or potential CSF leaks in spontaneous intracranial hypotension. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients referred for eva...

Multimedia streaming applications consume a significant amount of server and network resources due to the high bandwidth and long duration of audio and video clips. Making streaming services economically viable requires techniques for minimizing the incremental cost of serving a new client, particularly for popular content. Patching [1] reduces server and network overhead by allowing a client t...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether patency rates after bulbar urethroplasty with buccal mucosa graft onlay differ on the basis of whether the graft is placed ventrally or dorsally. METHODS This was a retrospective single-center study of all single-stage bulbar urethroplasties performed from 2001 to 2011 by 2 surgeons in which buccal mucosa was used as an onlay graft. Failure was defined as the ne...

The aim of this study was to retrospectively investigate the outcomes of patients who underwent one-stage onlay or inlay urethroplasty using a lingual mucosal graft (LMG) after failed hypospadias repairs. Inclusion criteria included a history of failed hypospadias repair, insufficiency of the local skin that made a reoperation with skin flaps difficult, and necessity of an oral mucosal graft ur...

Ruas jalan Gresik – Paciran merupakan akses utama menuju pertambangan, pusat industri dan pelabuhan di Kabupaten Lamongan, Kota Surabaya sehingga dilewati oleh berbagai macam jenis kendaraan termasuk truk dengan muatan. Pada ruas ini terdapat kerusakan beberapa titik pada tersebut. Kondisi tentu mengganggu kenyamanan keamanan pengguna diperlukan perbaikan untuk mempertahankan kondisi agar tetap...