Introduction: The use of ossicular graft material in ossicular chain reconstruction has significantly improved hearing results hearing after tympanoplasty and tympanomastoid surgery for chronic otitis media. Today, otologists have a wide array of tools from which to choose, but may find it difficult to know which middle ear implant works best.   Materials and Methods: A prospective study of 80 ...

Conventional dorsal onlay urethroplasty requires circumferential mobilization of the urethra which might cause ischemia of the urethra. The present study was conducted to determine the feasibility and short-term outcomes of applying dorsolateral free graft to treat anterior urethral stricture by unilateral urethral mobilization approach. This hospital based prospective interventional study was ...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of vascular intervention in percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) for the treatment of hepatic artery and hepatic vein stenosis after liver transplantation (LT), including thrombotic total occluded lesions. METHODS Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty after orthotopic liver transplantation was performed to re-open hepatic vessel lesi...

This study was undertaken to describe the association of patient race/ethnicity and renal allograft survival among the national cohort of pediatric renal allograft recipients. Additionally, we determined whether racial and ethnic differences in graft survival exist among individuals living in low- or high-poverty neighborhoods and those with private or public insurance. Among 6216 incident, ped...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Retrograde wire approach has been emerged as a useful tool to enhance success rate in coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO) intervention. Therefore, we tried to report the initial experience of retrograde approach and its clinical implication on CTO intervention. SUBJECTS AND METHODS From February 2007 to July 2008, retrograde approaches were performed in 28 patient...

umerous researchers have attempted to improve the methods of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), with the goal of obtaining equivalent or better long-term results compared with coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). In the beginning of the drug eluting stent (DES) era, the initial success rate was very high rate and the target lesion revascularization (TLR) of PCI was dramatically improved....