A 39-year-old woman underwent bilateral total hip arthroplasty with conventional, ethylene oxide-sterilised liners when she was a subject in a radiostereometric analysis study. Within 2 years she had rapid polyethylene wear with aggressive, asymptomatic, and periprosthetic osteolysis on both sides. Oral alendronate therapy halted the progression of osteolysis over a year and revision to cross-l...

A process is described by which hydrocephalus shunt catheters can be impregnated with antimicrobials. The processed catheters showed antimicrobial activity at their surfaces for long periods and could be sterilised by autoclaving. When tested in vitro in a model of catheter colonisation using large challenge doses of Staphylococcus epidermidis and prolonged perfusion, some antimicrobials failed...

in the abdominal cavity was somewhat circular and about 1 in. in diameter. Through this opening about 18 inches of the small intestines with mesentery and also a portion of the great omentum had protruded. The accident took place at 4 p.m. and the boy was brought to me at 10 p.m. The viscera were wrapped in dirty rags and were tied on the abdomen. His temperature was 102?, pulse weak, eyes sunk...

OBJECTIVE To test the dependency of haemolytic and cytocidal manifestations of pathogenicity of Trichomonas vaginalis on direct contact between the target cells and the organism. TEST ORGANISM: T vaginalis strain Baltimore 42. DESIGN Haemolysis in the presence of live T vaginalis and of its filter-sterilised metabolic products was compared. The dependence of haemolytic and cytocidal effects o...

A survey was conducted in 2000 into the use of analgesic drugs by veterinarians in South Africa. This survey was repeated in 2005 to establish whether the use of analgesic drugs has increased and which analgesic drugs are being used for acute pain and osteoarthritis. The number of sterilisations performed and the number of new cases of osteoarthritis in dogs and cats was estimated. It is estima...