We present the case of a previously well seventy-four year old male caucasian grazier who presented with mild back pain and was subsequently found to have a large posterior mitral valve leaflet perivalvular abscess associated with mitral annulus calcification and a mycotic infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) of Staphylococcal origin. He underwent a right axillofemoral bypass with oversew...

This is a report of the first Brazilian experience with the Perceval sutureless aortic prosthesis in two patients with severe aortic stenosis. Transesophageal echocardiography was used during the procedure. The aortotomy was performed 1 cm above the sinotubular junction, followed by leaflets removal and decalcification. Correct valve size was selected, device released and an accommodation ballo...

Cementoblastomas are rare odontogenic tumors developing in close proximity to the roots of teeth. Due their striking morphologic resemblance osteoblastomas peripheral skeleton, we set out determine whether cementoblastomas harbor same FOS rearrangements with overexpression c-FOS as has recently been described for osteoblastomas. In total, 16 were analyzed expression by immunohistochemistry and ...

Performance of OPC and composite cements including limestone ternary blended concretes pastes exposed to natural carbonation, leaching, freeze-thaw (FT) cycles their coupling were investigated. The combined regime is analogous the Capillary suction, internal damage Freeze-thaw (CIF) test. test results showed that cement are more susceptible surface scaling damage. Microanalysis complementary re...

background: knowledge about root canal morphology and its frequent variations can exert considerable influence on the success of endodontic treatment. the aim of this study was to survey the root canal morphology of mandibular first premolar teeth in a gujarati population by decalcification and clearing technique.     methods: one hundred thirty eight extracted mandibular first premolar teeth w...

Due to availability of bone marrow core biopsies (CB) in many pathology laboratories, we evaluated the quality and the biological information of the miRNA profiling using 9 acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 9 chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) matched CB and bone marrow aspirates (BA). Technical replicates showed reproducible results across platforms and clustered together in hierarchical clus...

Orthodontic treatment success is jeopardized by the risk of development of white spot lesions (WSLs) around orthodontic brackets. Unfortunately, the formation of WSLs still remains a common complication during treatment in patients with poor oral hygiene. Nearly 75% of orthodontic patients are reported to develop enamel decalcification because of prolonged plaque retention around brackets. It i...

Ion exchange processes have been of considerable assistance in the cane sugar industry for the reduction of scaling in evaporators and other heat exchange equipment. Similarly, ion exchange decolorizers have been useful for production of high quality consumer sugar as well as in the manufacture of liquid sugar. This paper will develop the technical information rbquired for a successful juice de...