Purpose: The purpose of this mini review is to elucidate if cervical pessary, with or without progesterone is applicable to twin pregnancies. One-quarter of preterm births (PTB) are twin pregnancies. Cervical cerclage, progesterone, and cervical pessary decrease the PTB incidence in singleton pregnancies. Retrospective cohorts suggest that cervical cerclage is not harmful, and is possibly benef...

PURPOSE To compare patients with or without intra-operative fracture during cementless bipolar hemiarthroplasty. METHODS Records of 76 men and 202 women who underwent cementless bipolar hemiarthroplasty for femoral neck fractures were reviewed. Patients with and without intra-operative fractures and patients with different types of intra-operative fractures were compared. RESULTS Two men an...

Developments in the surgery of retinal detachment since the time of Gonin have led from simple to more complicated methods which are not always more effective. Among the simple methods is the cerclage operation, developed by Arruga, in which a string of Supramid thread is sewn around the eyeball on the sclera and a sharp buckle is created, thus diminishing the volume of the eye and separating t...

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. DOI 10.3109/17453674.2011.570676 We present a 4 cannulated screw compression technique with use of additional cerclage in 4 patients with nonunion after primary ankle ...

A twin gestation invariably leads to a certain extent of cervical length shortening . If this reduction is also associated with gradual dilatation internal os and various biochemical , mechanical changes in matrix can lead mid trimester pregnancy loss or preterm labour. This case report on Dichorionic Diamniotic incompetence which rescue cerclage was performed along judicious use tocolysis vagi...

Spontaneous quadruplet is rarely seen. Quadruplet pregnancy is accompanied with severe complications such as abortion , premature labor , first trimester vaginal bleeding , anemia and …etc . Our patient was a 29- year old lady with history of first pregnancy twin that was aborted. In the second pregnancy at three months of gestation sonography showed quadruplet pregnancy so cerclage was perfo...

A 3-year-old Arabian colt was presented for a major gingiva wound at the right rostral part of mandible. After clinical assessments, rostral mandibular fracture was determined. Stabilization of fractured region was achieved via cerclage wire application under general anesthesia. Fixation wires were left in place for 6 weeks. A 3 -month follow up revealed complete fracture healing. The purpose o...