BACKGROUND The authors aimed to quantify overall patient satisfaction with three breast reconstruction techniques and identify factors that have influenced satisfaction. METHODS Two hundred sixty-eight questionnaires were mailed at least 6 months after immediate breast reconstruction to consecutive breast reconstruction patients over a 3-year period. A second questionnaire was sent out 9 mont...

OBJECTIVE To prospectively evaluate the psychosocial outcomes and body image of patients 2 years postmastectomy reconstruction using a multicenter, multisurgeon approach. BACKGROUND Although breast reconstruction has been shown to confer significant psychosocial benefits in breast cancer patients at year 1 postreconstruction, we considered the possibility that psychosocial outcomes may remain...

Objective: To characterize nicotinic cholinergic receptors (cholinoceptors) in frog rectus abdominis and mouse esophagus. Material and Methods: Isolated preparations of mouse esophagus and frog rectus abdominis were separately mounted in organ baths filled with Krebs and Ringer solutions respectively. The organ bath medium was continuously gassed with 95% O 2 and 5% CO 2 and the temperature was...

Abstract The presence of postoperative complications may have a significant impact on the outcome breast reconstruction. aim this study was to investigate early and risk factors for their occurrence. A prospective analysis carried out evaluate surgical outcomes after reconstructive surgeries performed over 2-year period. Procedures included expander/implant (TE/IMP), pedicle transverse rectus a...

obstructing the airway, oedema and leaks has made tracheostomy unpopular among surgeons as well as anaesthetists for such cases. However, in our cases, scenario tracheostomy was fortunately advantageous as it enabled (1) the use of long‐acting muscle relaxants and (2) correcting the tracheobronchial axis by allowing further release of the extensive contracture bands and eventual introduction of...

In order to understand the potential selective activation of the rectus abdominis muscle, we conducted two experiments. In the first, subjects performed two controlled isometric exercises: the curl up (supine trunk raise) and the leg raise (supine bent leg raise) at low intensity (in which only a few motor units are recruited). In the second experiment, subjects performed the same exercises, bu...