After establishing anatomical feasibility, functional reconstruction to replace the anterolateral part of the deltoid was performed in 20 consecutive patients with irreversible deltoid paralysis using the sternoclavicular portion of the pectoralis major muscle. The indication for reconstruction was deltoid deficiency combined with massive rotator cuff tear in 11 patients, brachial plexus palsy ...

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BACKGROUND Nephrotic syndrome (NS) leads to elevation of serum total and LDL cholesterol. This is largely due to impaired LDL clearance, which is caused by hepatic LDL receptor (LDLR) deficiency despite normal LDLR mRNA expression, pointing to a post-transcriptional process. The mechanism(s) by which NS causes LDLR deficiency is not known. By promoting degradation of LDLR, Proprotein Convertase...

Several categories of torsional eye movements obey Listing's law; however, systematic deviations from this law occur during vergence. Two kinematic models attempt to incorporate these deviations, both of which are supported by experimental evidence; however, they lead to different torsion predictions. These discrepancies have been explained in terms of experimental procedures, but it now seems ...

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PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical usefulness of binocular multifocal electroretinography (mfERG) by comparing results with conventional monocular mfERG in patients with monocular macular disease. METHODS mfERG testing was conducted on 32 patients with monocular macular disease and 30 normal subjects. An initial mfERG was simultaneously recorded from both eyes with two recording electrodes unde...