Negative pressure therapy for closed spine incisions: a pilot study.

Unlabelled: Negative pressure therapy (NPT), used on open wounds or postoperative infections, has not been evaluated on closed spinal incisions. This was analyzed after 3 days and 5 days of NPT application using biomechanics and histology in a porcine model.

Methods: In 8 mature miniature pigs, 2 end-to-end midline spine incisions were closed in a standard fashion.

Autoinfarcted wandering spleen and fatal pneumococcal sepsis in an infant.

A wandering or ectopic spleen, a rare congenital condition caused by improper fixation of the ligamentous attachments, was identified during a postmortem examination of a 10-month-old female who had died of Streptococcus pneumoniae sepsis. The wandering spleen was autoinfarcted and adherent to the left hepatic lobe, with resultant functional hyposplenism.