Our experience with dermal substitute Nevelia® in the treatment of severely burned patients.

Background: This research aims to retrospectively evaluate the effectiveness and safety of dermal substitute (DS), Nevelia®, for the treatment of severely burned patients.

Methods: Twenty severely burned patients were enrolled in this study between May 2017 and May 2018. After escharotomy of the wound, the treatment protocol was applied following a two-step procedure -DS implantation followed by split-thickness skin graft (STSG) application.

Delayed presentation of posttraumatic diaphragmatic hernia.

Background: Missed diaphragmatic injuries after trauma may present with herniation of intraabdominal organs into the thoracic cavity. We aimed to review our patients who presented with delayed posttraumatic diaphragmatic hernia.

Methods: A retrospective review of the medical records of patients with delayed diagnosis of posttraumatic diaphragmatic hernia between 2001 and 2009 was performed.

[Color flow duplex ultrasonography is an effective alternative method].

Increasing use of percutaneous interventional cardiac and peripheral arterial procedures has resulted in high incidence of femoral pseudoaneurysms. This case report presents a 68 year-old male with a femoral pseudoaneurysms after percutaneous iliac transluminal angioplasty, who was treated with ultrasound guided compression successfully. Although surgical procedures are widely performed in Turkey, it should be kept in mind that compression therapy is effective and may present as an initial step in the management of femoral pseudoaneurysms.

[The role of supplementation or inhibition of nitric oxide production in burn injury to reduce ischemic damage].

Background: To determine the role of nitric oxide (NO) which is vasodilator agent and inflammatory cytokine, in burn injury.

Methods: Rats were divided into 5 groups, and a 30 % burn was inflicted. In addition to sham control and burn control groups, other 3 groups were given L-Arginine, and L-nitro-L-Arginine methylester (L-NAME), and both.