In total brachial plexus palsy, fingers flexion restoration is a real challenge. Nerve surgery can generally restore shoulder abduction and elbow flexion. However, results of nerve grafts or nerve transfers are generally poor for hand function. As a matter of fact, the long distance between nerve sutures and terminal nerve branches in muscles decreases the rate of reinnervation. When finger fle...

In recent developments in the repair of large surgical defects where simple flap rotation may have been previously employed, myocutaneous flaps are being used because of functional advantages and to decrease the number of reconstructive procedures. The authors have employed myocutaneous flaps in 40 cases from January 1980 until April 1985 at Presbyterian Medical Center in Chonju. The primary di...

Modern methods of tensor-product approximation by separation of variables allow an efficient lowparametric calculus of functions and operators in higher dimensions. Most common separable representations combine the Tucker, canonical, tensor train (TT) and the more general MPS-type decompositions. The idea of data quantization makes it possible to represent (approximate) the multivariate functio...

Quantics tensor train (QTT), a new data-sparse format for one– and multi–dimensional vectors, is based on a bit representation of mode indices followed by a separation of variables. A radix-2 reccurence, that lays behind the famous FFT algorithm, can be efficiently applied to vectors in the QTT format. If input and all intermediate vectors of the FFT algorithm have moderate QTT ranks, the resul...

Prosthetic cardiac valve replacement has been carried out at Brugmann University Hospital since 1962. In a series of 370 valvular replacements, operative and hospital deaths have attained a low rate (5%). The overall survival of 70% is comparable to that of most published series. Late thromboembolic complications, in spite of longterm anticoagulant therapy, remain the principal disadvantage of ...

HISTORY The optimal ACL reconstruction is still a highly demanding clinical issue in orthopaedic research. In vitro and in vivo studies highlight that pure single bundle ACL surgery is not completely able to functionally restore knee rotational stability patterns. In the past few decades, several surgical reconstructions, combining intraand extra-articular procedures, have been proposed with th...

PURPOSE Gait impairment due to encephalopathy and neuropathy has been reported in carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication. Heterotopic ossification (HO) as a cause of gait impairment after CO intoxication has never been reported. In this study we report a patient with HO after CO intoxication. CASE REPORT A 21 year-old woman developed HO after CO intoxication, which resulted in progressive difficul...

Complex pressure ulcer wound sites often present with a wide scope of barriers to healing ranging from high colonization of multi-drug-resistant pathogens to tortuous internal anatomy which make the wound recalcitrant to traditional wound care including standard negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT). Negative pressure wound therapy with instillation (NPWTi-d) provides an opportunity to manage ...