Objective: To study the efficacy of middle meningeal artery (MMA) embolization for treatment chronic subdural hematoma (SDH) and characterize its post-embolization volumetric resolution. Methods: Ten patients diagnosed with 13 cSDH underwent MMA embolization. SDH volumes were measured from time initial discovery on imaging to pre-operative, post-operative, short-term long-term follow-up. Time b...

Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is a distinct obliterative cardiomyopathy characterized anatomically by right/left/bi ventricular endocardial fibrotic thickening and varying degrees of obliteration of the ventricular cavity. Chamber obliteration leads to diastolic restriction to ventricular filling and thus diastolic ventricular dysfunction. Involvement of the chordae tendinae and papillary muscl...

Eudragit-E was originally developed as a non-adhesive liquid embolic material in the late 1990s and is a copolymer of methyl and butyl methacrylate and dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate that is dissolved in ethanol and iopamidol. This material has been used for endovascular embolization of brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) for some time but is currently not widely used. Because safety and ...

The mastoid cavity after ''debridement" becomes one of the main causes of failure in the follow-up of tympanoplasty when left unobliterated. Various trials have been made to seek an effective method of filling up the cavity. We conducted a study on mastoidplasty using autogenous bonemarrow and free skingraft and found the results were satisfactory. 15 patients were observed clinically, histolog...

A single-stage fitting of a bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) implant and abutment with mastoid obliteration both obviates the need for two separate procedures and utilises the BAHA soft tissue reduction in the mastoid obliteration. Such a procedure has good outcomes in terms of osseointegration and achieving a dry ear. We present a 6-patient case series report highlighting the technique of comb...

Persistent urachal anomalies are rare congenital lesions of the urinary tract. They result from failed obliteration urachus and classified according to persistent segment urachus.

To assess the usefulness of two-dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis of endomyocardial disease, 7 subjects with this disorder, proved by angiography or necropsy, were studied. Typical echographic findings included apical obliteration of either one or both ventricles by an echogenic mass with preserved systolic inwards motion. Some subjects showed increased specullar echo reflectance at...

The authors have studied the morphological differences of sutural areas in human skulls at distinct stages of obliteration. A computed tomography aided with computer algorithm of tonal correction was applied to visualise structural changes in the sutural areas that are correlated with sutural ossification. The results of our study suggest that obliteration of cranial sutures is accompanied by l...