Dematerialization, represented by declining consumption per GDP of energy or of goods, offers some hope for rising environmental quality with development. The declining proportion of income spent on staples as affluence grows, which income elasticity <1.0 measures, makes dematerialization widespread. Further, as learning improves efficiency of resource use, the intensity of environmental impact...

Closure of skin incisions has received scant attention in the transplant literature. Yet, wound healing can be an important source of morbidity after transplantation. Recently, a novel form of skin closure utilizing absorbable subcuticular staples has become available. It was used in 26 live-related and deceased donor kidney transplant recipients. A large (no. 1) continuous absorbable suture wi...

PURPOSE To compare two commonly used methods of temporary hemiepiphysiodesis (staples and figure of eight plate) in the management of coronal plane deformities of the knee in skeletally immature children. METHODS This prospective study was conducted between November 2012 and November 2015. A total of 40 patients with 67 affected knee joints, having at least 1 year of skeletal growth remaining...

We undertook a randomised controlled trial to compare the outcomes of skin adhesive and staples for skin closure in total hip replacement. The primary outcome was the cosmetic appearance of the scar at three months using a surgeon-rated visual analogue scale. In all, 90 patients were randomised to skin closure using either skin adhesive (n = 45) or staples (n = 45). Data on demographics, surgic...

A 43 years old female presented with recurrent urinary tract infections. Her past history included a laparoscopic colposuspension aged 33 years in which mesh was stapled to the ileopectineal ligament. She developed recurrent incontinence 12 years later and underwent transvaginal tape insertion. Cystoscopy revealed two encrusted staples in her bladder which had migrated following her colposuspen...

OBJECTIVES Nylon sutures and skin staples are used commonly in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) surgical wound closure. However, there is no study that compares the wound healing efficacy and patient satisfaction scores of both techniques in the same knee. METHODS We randomised 70 patients who underwent primary TKA into two groups. In one group of 34 patients, the skin at the upper half of the w...

Limb asymmetry can, and often does, cause various health problems. Blount bone staples (clips) are used to correct such uneven growth. This article analyzes the performance of a biomechanical staple during (tibia) growth arrest. The considered in this study were made 1.4441 stainless steel, model tibia consisted two materials representing corticalis spongiosis. Hooke’s law was for modeling mate...

Objective: The invention of the mechanical suture of the bronchial stump resulted in the signi®cant decrease of the incidence of bronchial ®stulas. Bronchial ®stula constitutes the most dangerous complication of the pulmonary resection. In connection with some negative opinions in world literature regarding the safety of applying some types of mechanical suture, the multi-factor analysis of ef®...

BACKGROUND Inguinal hernia repair is one of the most common surgical procedures worldwide. This procedure is increasingly performed with endoscopic techniques (laparoscopy). Many surgeons prefer to cover the hernia gap with a mesh to prevent recurrence. The mesh must be fixed tightly, but without tension. During laparoscopic surgery, the mesh is generally fixed with staples or tissue glue. Howe...

The global output of food staples is far more stable than most individual nations' outputs, but does this lead to consumption risk sharing? This paper applies tools from the sharing literature address question for rice, wheat, and maize, using a multilateral model that, unlike canonical model, accounts trade costs. While data show that optimal not occur, wheat market comes closest idealized mod...