Solitary fibrous tumour (SFT) occurs most commonly in the pleura and is extremely rare in the pericardium. The authors report a case of a 60-year-old man in whom a large mediastinal mass was accidentally discovered. Computed tomography showed involvement of the left anterosuperior mediastinum with displacement of the trachea, large vessels and oesophagus; histopathological findings after comple...

Allograft rejection is a significant cause of renal transplant failure which needs prompt diagnosis and treatment for graft salvage. Angiotensin II type 1 receptor antibody-mediated (AT1R-AMR) increasingly being identified as the etiology in kidney recipients with allograft but without detectable human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibodies. While some reports have suggested that AT1R-AMR may be re...

Pericardium is a biomaterial widely used for covering the outflow tubes of glaucoma drainage devices. Recently, glycerol preserved cornea has been introduced as an alternative that offers durability and improved cosmesis because of its clarity. We retrospectively reviewed 262 patients in the University of Alabama Birmingham Glaucoma Service who underwent shunt procedures using either cornea tis...

forty renal allograft patients with three months under immunosuppression by cycloserine were examined for their gingival overgrowth and it's correlation with several parameters including the trough levels of blood cyclosporine and it's metabolites measured by the fluorescence polarization immunoassay technique. no correlation was found between the scores of gingival overgrowth and both the age ...

We studied the effects of the right ventricle (RV) and pericardium on left ventricular (LV) diastolic pressure-volume (P-V) relations in the normothermic isolated blood-perfused dog heart. Studies were performed at a constant heart rate (atrial pacing at 120 beats/min) with a coronary perfusion pressure of 100 mm Hg. LV volume was directly controlled by an intraventricular balloon, whereas RV f...

O CONGENITAL ABSENCE of the pericardium is a well described but uncommon condition.'`9 In 1959, Ellis et al.2 noted that in the vast majority of cases partial or complete left-sided pericardial defects were present; right-sided or total pericardial absence is extremely rare. Although characteristic roentgenographic findings are usually present in congenital absence of the pericardium, clinicall...

The manner in which the pericardium adapts to chronic cardiac dilation is not known. Recent work from our laboratory indirectly suggested that the size of the pericardium and/or its pressure-volume relation was altered by chronic cardiac enlargement. To examine this question further, we compared pericardial pressure-volume and stress-strain relations, surface area, mass, and average thickness i...

Although autologous pericardium has been used in pedicled fashion for various reconstructive procedures in congenital cardiovascular surgery with the expectation that it will be able to grow and remain viable after implantation, no clinical study has evaluated the histological characteristics of implanted pedicled pericardium long after previous implantation. We describe herein histological fin...

INTRODUCTION Traditional Chinese medicine offers several theories to explain the mechanism of acupuncture. One of these theories proposes that acupuncture points and meridians have unique electrical properties and their electrical skin impedance is lower than surrounding areas. The aim of this study was to evaluate the differences in electrical skin impedance between PC4 and the pericardium mer...