OBJECTIVES To Study the histopathology of spleens with a history of traumatic rupture with a view to establish possible predisposing factors to the rupture METHODS This study examined the gross and microscopic features of consecutive cases of splenectomies done for traumatic rupture during a five year period in order to evaluate the presence or absence of any pathology prior to rupture. RES...

Vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia (VBD) is a common phenomenon among people over 50 years old, and the related clinical expressions are varied. One of our VBD patients presented with brainstem infarction initially, received low molecular weight heparin treatment, and developed rupture of the dolichoectasia segment. Another patient with a similar-sized VBD experienced recurrent brainstem infarction...

INTRODUCTION Sinus of Valsalva aneurysms (SVAs) constitute about 1% of congenital cardiac anomalies and occur most commonly in patients of Asian origin. It is most commonly described in the right sinus (70%), to a lesser degree in the non-coronary, and least common in the left sinus. These aneurysms can cause aortic regurgitation, cardiac ischemia and arrhythmias. They can rupture into the righ...

The paper presents the data on percent lysis of hemoglobin in Tuberculosis patient’s blood. Osmotic fragility is the ability of RBC’s to resist rupture (lysis) in hypotonic saline. The degree of hemolysis can be estimated by measuring the colour intensity of the supernant in a spectrophotometer at 540nm and comparing it with 100%. The task is to examine the relationship between the extent of he...

A systematic study on the interaction of silica nanoparticles (NPs) with human cells has been carried out in the present work. Endocytosis and exocytosis are identified as major pathways for NPs entering, and exiting the cells, respectively. Most of the NPs are found to be enclosed in membrane bounded organelles, which are fairly stable (against rupture) as very few NPs are released into the cy...

BACKGROUND In this paper, we report our experience of the clinical features of single and repeated globe rupture after penetrating keratoplasty. METHODS We undertook a retrospective analysis of single and repeated globe ruptures following keratoplasty in eight eyes from seven consecutive patients referred to Kanazawa University Hospital over a 10-year period from January 2002 to March 2012. W...

BACKGROUND Cardiac rupture after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is unpredictable and almost always fatal, so the present study reviewed all the clinical characteristics of patients with cardiac rupture to determine if its occurrence can be predicted. METHODS AND RESULTS The clinical characteristics of 1,296 consecutive AMI patients from January 1992 to February 2002 were retrospectively ev...

The simultaneous occurrence of subcutaneous emphysema and intravascular air due to an air embolism is a rare condition. Here, we report a patient with COPD who developed a severe episode of hemoptysis due to rupture of a previously undiagnosed lung cavern. Intubation and ventilation led to the development of both massive subcutaneous emphysema and a massive air embolism, resulting from aspirati...

60 vs. 61 to 90 degrees) and randomized to CCh or placebo 2:1 in favour of the former. Post hoc meta-analysis of IMPRESS I and II data revealed that men treated with CCh showed a mean 34% improvement in penile curvature, representing a mean ±SD −17.0±14.8 degree change per subject, compared with a mean 18.2% improvement in placebo treated men, representing a mean −9.3±13.6 degree change per sub...