OBJECTIVES The study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of the porcine small intestine submucosa extracellular matrix (SIS-ECM) in a murine model, as a possible vascular patch for clinical use in reconstructive vascular and potentially cardiac surgery. METHODS Fifteen adult male Sprague Dawley rats and five green fluorescent protein (GFP) rats were enrolled in this study. The SIS-ECM graft (6 mm ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The use of "fresh" (hypothermically stored) and frozen amniotic membrane (AM) was compared in a patient with cicatricial pemphigoid with stem cell failure. The viability of both "fresh" and frozen AM epithelial cells was assessed after storage. METHODS AM was stored at either +4 degrees C ("fresh") or at -80 degrees C (frozen). A "fresh" graft was applied to the cornea followi...

PURPOSE To report the explantation of a detached and opaque donor disc as an alternative to secondary keratoplasty in a case of persistent graft detachment followed by spontaneous clearance of the recipient cornea after non-Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (non-DSAEK). RESULTS Four months after graft explantation, BSCVA was 0.5 and endothelial cell density (ECD) was 1,221...

A 71 year old male who had undergone extra-anatomic bypass grafting between the ascending aorta and the thoraco-abdominal aorta at 41 years of age for aortic coarctation was admitted with back pain and dyspnea. A 16 mm Cooley double velour knitted polyethylene terephthalate (PET) graft was used in the initial operation in 1983. Computed tomography showed disruption of the initial PET graft perf...

Abstract Aim to describe good outcomes in a case with Aortic graft infection (AGI) managed Bovine patch and outline management of AGI. Method Literature review utilising keywords ‘’Aortic infection’’AND’’Bovine Patch’’ revealed initially 1350 articles, all studies English were included, duplicates removed, screening was performed using the PRISMA flow. To correlate findings, we followed up 72-y...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the wound healing effect of primary cultured oral mucosal keratinocytes (OMKs) and to assess their roles in skin wounds. MATERIALS AND METHODS OMK labeled with BromodeoxyUridine were scattered onto 1.5×1.5 cm skin defects of adult female nude mice (OMK group, n=15). For the control, culture media were placed on the wound (control group, ...

BACKGROUND Recurrent hepatitis C virus infection after liver transplantation is associated with reduced graft and patient survival. Re-transplantation for graft failure due to recurrent hepatitis C is controversial and not performed in all centers. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a 54-year-old patient with hepatitis C virus genotype 1b infection and a null response to pegylated interferon-α and...

Surgical correction of aortic coarctation (CoA) has been the standard treatment in infants and adolescents to prevent late consequences related obstruction distal hypoperfusion. Several surgical techniques for CoA repair have traditionally applied. However, complications, including re-CoA pseudoaneurysm formation, are not uncommon. The incidence complications is highly type initial surgery. Her...

7 processing. Conventional dimensionality reduction on-board remote devices is 8 often prohibitive due to limited computational resources; on the other hand, 9 integrating random projections directly into signal acquisition offers an alternative 10 to explicit dimensionality reduction without incurring sender-side computational 11 cost. Receiver-side reconstruction of hyperspectral data from su...

Terminal overgrowth in transverse deficiencies and in amputations, particularly of the humerus and tibia necessitate serial trimming procedures or re-amputation. Capping using an autogenous bone graft or a titanium and polyethylene endoprosthetic cap provides a satisfactory way of avoiding these re-amputations and allowing end-bearing.