Surgical Fires and Burns: A 5-Year Analysis of Medico-legal Cases.

Surgical fires and unintended intraoperative burns cause serious patient harm, yet surveillance data are lacking in Canada. Medico-legal data provide unique descriptions of these events which can inform burn prevention strategies. We extracted 5 years of data on closed (2012-2016) medico-legal cases involving surgical fires and burns from the database of our organization which, in 2016, provided medico-legal support to >93,000 Canadian physicians.

Valgus instability of the elbow due to medial epicondyle nonunion: treatment by fragment excision and ligament repair--a report of 5 cases.

We identified 5 patients with valgus instability of the elbow due to nonunion of a previous fracture of the medial epicondyle. There were 4 male patients and 1 female patient with a mean age of 35 years (range, 15-54 years). The original avulsion fracture of the medial epicondyle had occurred a mean of 10.

Interactions between protein kinase CK2 and Pin1. Evidence for phosphorylation-dependent interactions.

The peptidyl-prolyl isomerase Pin1 interacts in a phosphorylation-dependent manner with several proteins involved in cell cycle events. In this study, we demonstrate that Pin1 interacts with protein kinase CK2, an enzyme that generally exists in tetrameric complexes composed of two catalytic CK2 alpha and/or CK2 alpha' subunits together with two regulatory CK2 beta subunits. Our results indicate that Pin1 can interact with CK2 complexes that contain CK2 alpha.