Two-sided incompressible surfaces in Seifert fiber spaces with isolated singular fibers are well-understood. Frohman [3] and Rannard [6] have shown that one-sided which either pseudo-horizontal or psuedo-vertical. We extend their result to characterise essential may surfaces, i.e., S1-foliated 3-manifolds fibered model neighbourhoods isomorphic a solid torus Klein bottle.

BACKGROUND & AIMS To evaluate the prevalence and risk factors for low bone mineral density (BMD) in persons co-infected with HIV and Hepatitis C. METHODS HIV/HCV co-infected study participants (n=179) were recruited into a prospective cohort and underwent dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) within 1 year of a liver biopsy. Fibrosis staging was evaluated according to the METAVIR system. Ost...

Simultaneous prosthetic joint infection of ipsilateral hip and knee arthroplasties is often accompanied by significant bone loss and presents a challenging reconstructive problem. Two-stage reconstruction is favored and requires the placement of a total femur spacer, which is not a commercially available device. We describe a surgical technique, reporting on 2 cases in which a customized total ...

Abstract We report an extremely rare case of primary aortocaval fistula with simultaneous development aortoenteric in a 68-year-old man. The patient developed under oral anticoagulation spontaneous intracaval aortic rupture. An emergency intervention was performed covering the aorto-uniiliac stent graft and femoro-femoral crossover bypass. One week later, transferred to our institution diagnosi...

Degenerative aneurysms of the superficial femoral artery (SFA) are relatively rare and often recognized when they become symptomatic such as rupture. Infected SFA much rarer, especially those caused by Campylobacter fetus bacteremia. We report a case 67-year-old woman referred to our hospital owing presence painful reddish swelling on her left thigh. A huge aneurysm rupture was diagnosed...