iatrogenic coronary artery dissection during coronary angiography with or without rupture is a rare but feared complication . we herein report a case of iatrogenic left main coronary artery dissection in a 49-year-old female. admitted to our hospital with a recent history of severe hypotension, she develpled apnea during angiography. she was intubated  and resuscitated with an epinephrine infus...

purpose: to report the outcomes of manual lamellar keratoplasty (lkp) in patients with delayed-onset mustard gas keratitis (mgk) and compare visual outcomes between subgroups with simultaneous or sequential klal and lkp. methods: in this retrospective, interventional study, 52 eyes of 37 male survivors of chemical warfare with mgk who underwent lkp were included. the results were evaluated with...

a simple emergency risk prediction tool should be developed for clinicians to quickly identify the prognosis of patients with acute aortic dissection.we enrolled 280 patients with acute aortic dissection admitted to emergency department between may 2010 and february 2013. multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to identify independent predictors of in-hospital death.the in-hospi...

BACKGROUND Extrusion is a known complication of lumbar nucleus replacement devices. Despite this fact, this complication has not been well studied in an in vitro cadaveric model under fatigue-loading conditions. METHODS Lumbar constructs (with treated and control levels) were tested in intact, postdisectomy, and postnucleus implant conditions under compression, torsion, and bending for initia...

New methods of teaching gross anatomy are being evaluated as medical and dental schools attempt to find time in their curricula for new content without sacrificing essential anatomical knowledge. This article reports on an innovative method of teaching anatomy at New York University College of Dentistry. In 2005, the instructors completely replaced the dissection of wet cadavers with the study ...

BACKGROUND The benefit of pelvic lymphadenectomy in patients with cancer of the urinary bladder remains controversial. Though the inclusion of lymph node dissection in conjunction with radical cystectomy for patients with clinically negative nodes is well accepted, however, the extent of the nodal dissection remains contentious, particularly in patients with gross disease and T1G3 cancer. The e...

Presenter: Nicole M Nevarez MD | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Methods: In this submitted video we detail the four steps utilized in dissecting uncinate process off superior mesenteric vessels during a robotic assisted pancreaticoduodenectomy. The commonly utilize segment procedure include order:1.Dissection vein from process2.Cranial dissection for landing zone3.Dissection 1s...