Diverse therapies for the management of anastomotic leakage after esophageal atresia repair have been reported with various outcomes. The surgical management of anastomotic leakage after esophageal atresia repair can be challenging. We present a child with long-gap esophageal atresia and anastomotic leakage repair with pericardium. This article aimed to illustrate that pericardium may be a subs...

Methods The various xenogeneic tissues (porcine pericardium, aortic valve, aortic wall and bovine pericardium, aortic valve, aortic wall) were fixed in 0.5% glutaraldehyde solution and implanted into the subcutaneous tissue of the wild type-mouse and the KO mouse for 3 months. The implanted mice were harvested and studied for the histopathology, amounts of calcification and immune responses by ...

Knee ligament reconstruction can be performed with autograft or allograft. The use of an has been shown to improve outcomes in primary anterior cruciate for young, active patients, and also revision surgery. A systematic review posterior showed no difference between allograft tissue. There is a paucity data comparing versus fibular collateral posterolateral corner reconstructions, alone combine...

Background To determine the transmural pressure-dimension relations of the right atrium (RA) and right ventricle (RV) before and after pericardiectomy, six open-chest dogs were instrumented with pericardial balloons placed over the RA and RV free walls. Methods and Results RA appendage dimensions and RV free-wall segment lengths were measured using sonomicrometry. Intact-pericardium RA and RV t...

Malignant mesothelioma is the most common primary tumor of the pericardium the clinical presentation is varied and aggressive, with high mortality even with cancer treatment. We report the case of a woman of 56 with recurrent pericardial and requirement of surgical procedures for resolution, which initially presented pericardial liquid negative for malignancy and subsequent decision malignant m...

Several recent studies have proposed that coagulation is triggered during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery by extrinsic pathway activation involving factor VIIa generation, but the methodology was indirect. Therefore, 12 patients were studied during routine cardiac and cardiopulmonary bypass surgery. Samples were taken before, during, and after bypass from the perfusate, from the aorta (retrograd...

background: toxoplasmosis is one of the prevalent parasitic diseases in the world with 10-40 percent of people having it as a latent infection. in cases of renal transplants, the condition either presents itself as a result of reactivation of the latent infection resulting in the weakness of immune system in a recipient or happens when a recipient simply contracts the condition from the donor t...

Acute allograft pancreatitis is common following simultaneous pancreas and kidney (SPK) transplantation with either bladder or enteric drainage w1,2x. Allograft pancreatitis may be caused by infection, bladder drainage problems, alcohol, drugs and diet w1x. Pancreatic allograft rejection, usually occurring in the context of renal allograft rejection, may cause a syndrome similar to acute allogr...