In fact, besides the avoidance of morbidities associated with traditional anterior or posterior interbody fusion techniques, including injury to visceral, vascular or neural structures, minimally invasive LLIF enables the surgeon to spare the anterior and posterior longitudinal ligaments during the surgical approach, and to implant cages with a large footprint, designed to span the dense apophy...

Study Design Retrospective study. Objective Minor trauma, even from a simple fall, can often cause cervical myelopathy, necessitating surgery in elderly patients who may be unaware of their posterior longitudinal ligament ossification (OPLL). The aim of this study is to determine the influence of trauma on the neurologic course in patients who have undergone surgery for cervical OPLL. Methods P...

conclusions the levels of hemoglobin can be used to predict preeclampsia and monitoring the pregnant women and its regular measure in 3 trimesters help us to identify women at risk for preeclampsia. background preeclampsia is one of the most serious complications during pregnancy with important effects on health of mother and fetus that causes maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. this st...

BACKGROUND We developed the first biplane transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) probe with two orthogonal transducers, allowing synchronous side-by-side displays of the heart on a monitor TV, and compared its diagnostic value with that of conventional single-plane TEE using commercially available Doppler equipment in 200 consecutive patients intraoperatively, perioperatively, or on an outpatie...