Skeletal muscle arterioles from obese Zucker rats (OZR) exhibit oxidant stress-based alterations in reactivity, enhanced alpha-adrenergic constriction, and reduced distensibility vs. microvessels of lean Zucker rats (LZR). The present study determined the impact of these alterations for perfusion and performance of in situ skeletal muscle during periods of elevated metabolic demand. During bout...

Loss of Achilles tendon combined with overlying soft tissue loss is a challenging problem. Multiple techniques like tendon graft with coverage by soft tissue flap or composite flaps have been used. All these options are technically demanding. Reports do exist whereby muscle flaps bridging the defect used as cover in course of time could transmit the tendon force across the defect. We are presen...

RESULTS: Fourteen patients met inclusion criteria. Six patients had congenital facial palsy and 8 patients had acquired. The average age at time of surgery was 10.3 ± 4.4 years for congenital and 14.0 ± 5.7 years for acquired etiology (p=0.20) Causes of congenital disease included idiopathic (5) and birth trauma (1). Causes for acquired facial palsy were tumor resection (5), meningitis (1), and...

WHALEN, W.J., D. BUERK, AND CLAIRE ANN THUNING. Blood jlow-limited oxygen consumption in resting cat skeletal muscle. Am. J. Physiol. 224(4) : 763-768. 1973.-In isolated, autoperfused preparations of the cat soleus (n = 10) and gracilis (n = 9) muscles, blood flow and venous and tissue Po2 were measured at several levels of perfusion pressure. Oxygen consumption (Vo2, steadystate conditions) de...

INTRODUCTION The repair of complex urethrorectal fistulas, which can be the result of treating prostate cancer with radical prostatectomy, is a big problem in urology and its final result is not always satisfactory. There are no universally accepted methods for repairing such fistulas. In our work we present a retrospective analysis of patients treated for urethrorectal fistulas after previous ...

BACKGROUND A patient's sex is likely to play an important role in facial paralysis reanimation, with women being superior in terms of development of brain plasticity after reanimation. The purpose of this study was to compare the rate of movement dissociation and spontaneity of men versus women reanimated with gracilis transfer neurotized to the masseteric nerve. METHODS We conducted a retros...