Gallbladder torsion is an uncommon clinical entity and a difficult condition to diagnose preoperatively. Since its first description in 1898 by Wendel there have been over 500 documented cases in the literature. It is known to occur when there is rotation of the gallbladder along the axis of the cystic duct and vascular pedicle. Except for isolated cases reported in childhood, this disease is m...

Various operative techniques have been used for esophageal achalasia, but a definitive technique has not been established yet. During 1958-1994, 117 patients with esophageal achalasia were treated at our clinic. The techniques of Heller and Wendel or the modified Girard method have been successfully performed on 83 cases without any postoperative accidents. In 72 (87%) of these cases, the opera...

Background Osteoarthritis (OA) is associated with metabolic and structural changes in all joint tissues. Subchondral bone sclerosis, cartilage degradation, synovial inflammation are the main hallmarks of OA [1–3]. OMD a keratan sulfate proteoglycan, member small leucine-rich proteoglycan (SLRP) family. was first identified where it involved mineralization process [4,5]. Our previous work demons...

You have accessJournal of UrologySexual Function/Dysfunction: Surgical Therapy (MP57)1 Sep 2021MP57-06 THE URETHRAL MICROBIOME DURING INFLATABLE PENILE PROSTHESIS PLACEMENT John Williams, Hayden Hill, Eric Wendel, and Laborde Williams More articles by this author , HillHayden Hill WendelEric Wendel LabordeEric View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1097/JU.0000000000002087.06AboutPDF Too...

C ataract is the leading cause of blindness in the world, and the leading cause of low vision in European derived populations. The burden of cataract is likely to increase as the world’s population ages. At present, no effective means of preventing cataract exists, with the possible exception of smoking cessation. For the foreseeable future, the sole method of preventing cataract blindness will...

For $p,q\in [1,\infty)$, we study the isomorphism problem for $p$- and $q$-convolution algebras associated to locally compact groups. While it is well known that not every group can be recovered from its von Neumann algebra, show this case $\mathrm{CV}_p(G)$ of $p$-convolvers $\mathrm{PM}_p(G)$ $p$-pseudomeasures, $p\neq 2$. More generally, if isometrically isomorphic $\mathrm{CV}_q(H)$, with $...

Coconut, Cocos nucifera L., in Tamil Nadu, India, was invaded by four whitefly (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) species between 2016 and 2019, increasing the total to six, along with Aleurodicus dispersus Russell Aleurocanthus arecae David Manjunatha. We examined complexity diversity of whiteflies coconut across different agroclimatic zones Nadu found high low damage levels at Veppankulam (70.4%) Rames...

The paper addresses various design aspects of survivability for surface naval and merchant ships through a common rational probabilistic methodology. It is based on earlier work of Kurt Wendel on a probabilistic approach to the damage stability of surface ships. This method was adopted by SOLAS 1974 through Res. A.265 (VIII) as an alternative to the deterministic SOLAS criteria for passenger sh...

Although full thickness macular holes (FTMH) were originally described in the last century, in relation to trauma, inflammation, and myopia, 3 more recent clinical studies have shown that the vast majority are idiopathic and occur with a prevalence of 1/3300 usually in the 6th and 7th decades of life. Many clinical studies have implicated vitreous traction as the cause of idiopathic FTMH format...

In patients with aortic insufficiency and without disease of the coronary ostia or arteries, the occurrence of chest pain having some or many of the characteristics of cardiac pain due to myocardial ischemia has been ascribed classically to a decrease in the coronary blood flow (1, 2), the aortic insufficiency presumably decreasing the coronary blood flow by lowering the mean aortic diastolic p...