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Farid Katiraei – Principal Advisor, Renewable & Protection – Quanta Technology Juergen Holbach – Executive Advisor, Protection & Automation – Quanta Technology Tim Chang – Senior Engineer, Protection Engineering – Quanta Technology Wesley Johnson – Director of Policy and Research – Canadian Solar Industries Association David Wills – Technical working group co-chair – Canadian Solar Industries A...

Defects in the dura matter can be caused by head injury, and many cases require neurosurgeons to use artificial matter. Bovine pericardium is an option due its abundant availability, adjustable size characteristics, because it has more collagen than porcine or equine pericardia. Nevertheless, drawback of bovine that a higher inflammatory effect other synthetic matters. Chitosan been shown have ...

Before 1955 blunt traumatic ruptures of the heart and pericardium were reported almost exclusively in autopsy reports. Since then, because of improved prehospital care and early triage, it has been demonstrated that injuries resulting in rupture of the heart and pericardium are no longer always fatal. We present a case of a patient who arrived at the hospital with increasing abdominal girth and...

Solitary fibrous tumour (SFT) occurs most commonly in the pleura and is extremely rare in the pericardium. The authors report a case of a 60-year-old man in whom a large mediastinal mass was accidentally discovered. Computed tomography showed involvement of the left anterosuperior mediastinum with displacement of the trachea, large vessels and oesophagus; histopathological findings after comple...

INTRODUCTION Heart perforation is a rare complication of pacemaker (PM)/implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation. MATERIAL AND METHODS In our clinic in 2005-2010, 6 patients with heart perforation were hospitalized (3 women, 3 men), mean age 58.6 ±20.8 years (17 to 73 years). The indication to PM/ICD implantation was tachy-brady syndrome in 3 cases, second-degree atrioventric...