The painter who changed her brain at the flick of a switch.

The study of artists with acquired brain damage is an empirical way to investigate the multiplicity of cerebral changes that occur with artistic training. We describe a talented painter with a left progressive cerebral lesion. In spite of losing function of her right hand, she regained dexterity of the left one in ten days for painting and drawing but not for writing.

Do painters need their whole brain to excel?

Skilled professional artists are sometimes able to maintain their talents while other cognitive functions deteriorate due to brain diseases. The objective of this study is to asses the preserved artistry of a professional painter in spite of the presence of strokes affecting brain areas implicated in art expression. She had a neurologic evaluation and brain imaging after the stroke; painter-curators analyzed and compared the painter's pictorial artwork created before and after the stroke.

Treatment of distal femur fractures in a regional Australian hospital.

Aim: To review our outcomes and compare the results of the Less Invasive Stabilization System (LISS) to other implants for distal femur fracture management at a regional Australian hospital.

Methods: The LISS is a novel implant for the management of distal femur fractures. It is, however, technically demanding and treatment results have not yet been assessed outside tertiary centres.

Overaggressive stent expansion without intravascular imaging: impact on restenosis.

Objective: Aggressive stent expansion is required for optimal strut apposition, but risk of stent deformation, fracture and subsequent restenosis is potentially greater when performed without intravascular imaging guidance. We investigated how frequently stents are 'overexpanded' and whether this correlates with restenosis.

Design And Setting: Single-centre prospective database study at a high-volume tertiary university hospital.

Compliance charts to guide non-complex small artery stenting: validation by quantitative coronary angiography.

Objective: To determine whether stent sizing derived from manufacturers' compliance charts provides a reasonable in vivo estimate of final minimum lumen diameter (MLD) when compared with quantitative coronary angiography (QCA).

Design: Single-centre measurement comparison study.

Setting: Tertiary referral university hospital.