PURPOSE To evaluate the indications, visual outcomes, and complication rate after implantation of a posterior chamber iris-claw aphakic intraocular lens (IOL). SETTING Department of Ophthalmology, University Medicine Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany. DESIGN Retrospective case series. METHODS Eyes without adequate capsule support had posterior chamber iris-claw aphakic IOL implantation (Ver...

The hypothesis that anterior ST segment depression represents concomitant posterior infarction was tested in 49 patients admitted with a first transmural inferior myocardial infarction. Anterior ST depression was defined as 0.1 mV or more ST depression in leads V1, V2 or V3 on an electrocardiogram recorded within 18 hours of infarction. Serial vectorcardiograms and technetium pyrophosphate scan...

BACKGROUND Adjacent-segment pathology is an important issue involving the cervical spine, but there have been few comprehensive studies of this problem. The purpose of the current study was to determine the risk factors for adjacent-segment pathology and to compare the survivorship of adjacent segments in patients who underwent cervical spine operations including arthrodesis and motion-sparing ...

The relationship between epicardial and transmural function (measured with sonomicrometers) was examined in 13 anesthetized open-chest dogs. Systolic wall thickening was used as a standard of integrated transmural function to compare with epicardial function measured as segment shortening parallel to surface fibers. Three levels of coronary inflow restriction were produced by using decrements i...

Recent results [Morata, G. & Kerridge, S. (1981) Nature (London) 290, 778-781] have shown that early Ultrabithorax- clones transform the posterior compartments of the adult meso- and metathoracic legs to prothorax. These transformations have not been seen in Ultrabithorax homozygous larvae, which are reported to show only transformations of the metathorax and the first abdominal segment to meso...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the biomechanical effects of the lumbar posterior complex on the adjacent segments after posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) surgeries. METHODS A finite element model of the L1-S1 segment was modified to simulate PLIF with total laminectomy (PLIF-LAM) and PLIF with hemilaminectomy (PLIF-HEMI) procedures. The models were subjected to a 400N follower load with a 7....

a 14 year old boy suffering from marked penoscrotal lymphedema is reported. reduction scrotoplasty was done and the neoscrotum was made by combining the anterior suprapubic and posterior scrotal v-shaped flaps. a split-thickness skin graft from the thigh was placed over the denuded penis. no complication was encountered and the cosmetic result was satisfactory

used for bile duct cannulation during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) [1]. Here we present a patient with a WGC-induced portobiliary fistula. A 65-year-old man was admitted to our department for further evaluation of a dilated segment IV bile duct detected on computed tomography (CT). There was no evidence of dilated veins or aberrant vessel development around the pancreat...

In this paper, we demonstrate that the optical microangiography (OAMG) is capable of depth-resolved imaging of directional blood perfusion within both retinal and choroid in the posterior segment of human eye. The study uses an OMAG system operating at 840 nm with an imaging speed at 27,000 A-scans per second. Sequentially registered multiple OMAG projection maps of small areas ( approximately ...