Microarchitecture of the Augmented Bone Following Sinus Elevation with an Albumin Impregnated Demineralized Freeze-Dried Bone Allograft (BoneAlbumin) versus Anorganic Bovine Bone Mineral: A Randomized Prospective Clinical, Histomorphometric, and Micro-Computed Tomography Study.

Serum albumin has been identified as an endogenous protein that is integral to early bone regeneration. We hypothesized that albumin addition to allografts may result in better bone remodeling than what can be achieved with anorganic xenografts. Sinus elevations were performed at 32 sites of 18 patients with the lateral window technique.

Systematic Occlusion of Shunts: Control of Early Postoperative IOP and Hypotony-related Complications Following Glaucoma Shunt Surgery.

Objective: Evaluation of a protocol of total intraluminal occlusion of Baerveldt shunts and its effects on early postoperative intraocular pressure (IOP) control and hypotony-related complications.

Design: This was a noncomparative, prospective, and interventional study.

Participants: Glaucoma patients were recruited to undergo Baerveldt shunt surgery.

[LORETA (low resolution electromagnetic tomography): a three-dimensional EEG source localization method].

The author presents a brief overview of the EEG source localization method LORETA (Low Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography) with special reference to the not widely discussed data.

[A dural fistula as a rare cause for a pulse-synchronized tinnitus aurium].

Pulse-synchronized tinnitus aurium is commonly caused by vascular processes within the area of the temporal bone. With a microphone or a stethoscope in the external ear or on the mastoid perceptible noises can be heard by the physician. The most important differential diagnoses of an objective tinnitus are paraganglioma of the glomus jugulare or the glomus tympanicum, vascular stenosis, arteriovenouse malformations, aneurysms and atypic findings of the bulbus venae jugularis interna of the temporal bone.

Valproate selectively reduces EEG activity in anterior parts of the cortex in patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy. A low resolution electromagnetic tomography (LORETA) study.

Purpose: To localize the cortical area where the anticonvulsive drug valproate (VPA) exerts its effect in patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE).

Methods: In a prior study we investigated 15 IGE patients in the untreated condition and compared their low resolution electromagnetic tomography (LORETA) results to a normal control group. The investigation of these patients was continued in the present study.

Metronomic trofosfamide inhibits progression of human lung cancer xenografts by exerting anti-angiogenic effects.

Background: Recent studies of conventional chemotherapeutic drugs administered in metronomic therapy schedules showed remarkable inhibitory effects on tumor angiogenesis. Subsequent and prolonged tumor regression was achieved moreover by circumventing acquired drug resistance. In this study, metronomic and conventional trofosfamide were compared on human NSCLC xenograft "LX-1.