Cryotherapy, a technique extensively used in retinal surgery during the past few years, is claimed to be a safer procedure than diathermy and photocoagulation (Kirkconnell and Rubin, I965; Curtin, Fujino, and Norton, I966; Lincoff and McLean, I966; McDonald and Tasman, I967), but occasional complications have been described (Burch and Morse, I968; Shea, I968). The present report records the occ...

In this article, a novel cryotherapy approach using a uniform, controlled, and consistent in vivo application of liquid nitrogen (LN2) spray as a Metered Cryospray™ (MCS) process is described. Although MCS may be used for many potential clinical applications, this paper focuses on the development that led to the controlled and consistent delivery of radial LN2 cryogen spray in order to generate...

Cryotherapy has similar cure rates to topical salicylate (a pharmacologic therapy) for nongenital common warts (strength of recommendation [SOR]: B, based on systemic review of variable quality randomized trials). Duct tape may be equivalent to cryotherapy (SOR: B, based on a single randomized trial). CO2 laser, photodynamic therapy, pulsed dye laser (PDL), and Er:Yag laser therapies may also b...

BACKGROUND People suffer unique health problems in high altitude areas, due to such factors as elevation, aircraft ascent and descent, extreme cold, hypoxia, hypobaria, and low relative humidity. This study was conducted to evaluate ENT morbidity at high altitude. METHODS Serving soldiers introduced to a high altitude environment who presented with various ENT symptoms were examined to identi...

introduction: accurate diagnosis of dental pulp conditions plays a key role in selection of an appropriate treatment including conservative vital pulp therapy (treatable pulp) or root canal treatment (untreatable pulp). the purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy of sensibility tests and the correlation of pulp response to sensibility tests with histologic pulp condition . material and...

Cryofibrinogenemia is a cryopathy in which hypersensitivity to cold is a prominent feature. Cryofibrinogenemia developed in an 18-year-old Japanese female patient during methimazole therapy for Graves' disease. She developed cryopathy (livedo reticularis, Raynaud's phenomenon and acral ulcer) and polyarthralgia during methimazole therapy, and we detected cryofibrinogen in her plasma. Her sympto...

RATIONALE Restoration of vitamin D sufficiency may reduce asthma exacerbations, events that are often associated with respiratory tract infections and cold symptoms. OBJECTIVES To determine whether vitamin D supplementation reduces cold symptom occurrence and severity in adults with mild to moderate asthma and vitamin D insufficiency. METHODS Colds were assessed in the AsthmaNet VIDA (Vitam...

A new type of per-fluorinated polymer, "Low Temperature Fomblin," has been tested as a wall coating in an ultracold neutron (UCN) storage experiment using a gravitational storage system. The data show a UCN reflection loss coefficient η as low as ≈ 5 × 10(-6) in the temperature range 105 K to 150 K. We plan to use this oil in a new type of neutron lifetime measurement, where a bellows system ("...

 gera 2001 1gera: 17571/di/re LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP ON PATIENTS WITH FIBROSITIS TREATED WITH ACUPUNCTURE. WAYLONIS GW. ohio state medical journal. 1977,73(5),299-302 (eng). A long-term, follow-up study of 39 pafients with chtonic fibrositis treated wifh electroacupuncture was carried out. The length of follow-up after threatment was 3 to 34 months (average 19.6 months). Forty-six precent of the ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy and tolerability of surgical excision and radiotherapy with those of cryotherapy and intralesional steroid treatment of keloids. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Twenty-six patients with a total of 76 keloids were enrolled in this study. Nineteen patients with 44 keloids underwent surgical excision combined with immediate 12-Gy irradiation (group A) while the remaining 9...