Extremity injuries make up 54% of combat wounds sustained in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. In a cohort of war-wounded service members, we identified the conditions secondary to battle injury that result in disqualification from continued service. The Army Physical Evaluation Board records of 464 wounded service members who were injured between October 2001 and January ...

PURPOSE We used what is to our knowledge a new method to estimate volume loss after partial nephrectomy to assess the relative contributions of ischemic injury and volume loss on functional outcomes. MATERIALS AND METHODS We analyzed the records of 301 consecutive patients who underwent conventional partial nephrectomy between 2007 and 2010 with available data to meet inclusion criteria. Perc...

Trauma to the femoral arteries corresponds to 30 percent of all arterial traumas. The authors reviewed 74 patients with noniatrogenic trauma of the femoral arteries treated from January 1991 to December 1993. Ages ranged from 11 to 50 years, with a mean of 24. Seventy-one patients were male and three female. Fifty-two patients (70.2 percent) were white, 20 (27 percent) were black and two (2.8 p...

This article presents a case of severe burn injury at work involving 80 % of body surface area and patient treatment and rehabilitation, which resulted in preserved working ability. The worker was injured by hot water and steam. After initial treatment in the intensive care unit, he underwent comprehensive clinical and outpatient rehabilitation that took 92 weeks, after which he returned to wor...

leishmaniasis is one of the most important parasitic diseases in terms of human injury and economic consequences which has a wide range of clinical protests of skin damage to fatal visceral discomfort covers. kala-azar is a mediterranean-type in and its main reservoirs are dogs and canine family. currently the most common disease centers are in parts of provinces such as ardebil, fars, east of ...

We studied the predictive impact of proxy ‘‘outsider’’ reports, injury type, and functional independence on trajectories of happiness over the first 5 years following medical treatment for a traumatic spinal cord injury, brain injury, severe burns or interarticular fractures (total N = 1,271). It was anticipated that lower functional independence and outsider status would predict lower happines...

Endothelial injury in vivo is associated with platelet deposition and a localized plateletdependent vasoconstrictive response. To assess the influence of nitroglycerin on platelets and vasoconstriction, quantitative `111n-labeled platelet deposition (no platelets x 106/cm2) of the injured segment and the degree of angiographic vasoconstriction (percent diameter narrowing proximal and distal to ...

Sixty-four patients with traumatic brachial artery injuries were treated. Fifty had penetrating and 14 had blunt injuries. Associated extremity and torso injuries were common. Despite an excellent vascular patency rate of 97 percent, limb loss resulted from severe soft-tissue injury and functional disability occurred due to nerve injury.

Endothelial injury in vivo is associated with platelet deposition and a localized plateletdependent vasoconstrictive response. To assess the influence of nitroglycerin on platelets and vasoconstriction, quantitative `111n-labeled platelet deposition (no platelets x 106/cm2) of the injured segment and the degree of angiographic vasoconstriction (percent diameter narrowing proximal and distal to ...