J Reconstr Microsurg
November 2024
Background: Even for the experienced microsurgeon, free tissue transfer in pediatric patients is challenging, and large patient series remain scarce in the literature. Moreover, the added value of antithrombotic agents in pediatric free tissue transfer remains unclear.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective outcome analysis of pediatric free tissue transfer with respect to postoperative antithrombotic treatment at our tertiary academic center.
Background: We aimed to correlate alterations in the rat sarcoma virus (RAS)/mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway in vascular anomalies to the clinical phenotype for improved patient and treatment stratification.
Methods And Results: This retrospective multicenter cohort study included 29 patients with extracranial vascular anomalies containing mosaic pathogenic variants (PVs) in genes of the RAS/mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway. Tissue samples were collected during invasive treatment or clinically indicated biopsies.
Background: The free functional muscle gracilis transfer is an established approach in facial reanimation surgery; however, the significance of its neurotization and the patient's age is still inconclusive. Several donor nerves are available for facial reanimation using the free functional gracilis muscle transfer.
Objective: This retrospective cohort study investigates whether the masseteric nerve is an equally reliable donor nerve in both older and younger patients.
Background: The combination of cross-facial nerve graft (CFNG) and masseteric nerve transfer (MNT) for reinnervation of facial paralysis may provide advantages of both neural sources. However, quantitative functional outcome reports with a larger number of patients are lacking in the literature. Here, the authors describe their 8-year experience with this surgical technique.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Free functional muscle transfer has become the criterion standard for the treatment of long-standing flaccid facial paralysis. Clinical experience suggests that a two-stage approach using a cross-face nerve graft (CFNG) as a donor nerve for free functional muscle transfers (FFMT) is less successful in older patients when compared to the pediatric population. However, clear data and scientific evidence are still rare.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The role of microRNAs (miRs) as biomarkers to predict outcome in hepatoblastoma (HB), the most common malignant liver tumor in childhood, has still to be determined. Recently, the so-called four-miR signature has been described to efficiently stratify HB patients according to their prognosis.
Objective: We examined the recently described four-miR signature for its clinical relevance in an independent validation cohort of HB patients and tried to optimize its predictive value by analyzing four additional miRs involved in HB biology.
The inflammatory sequelae of ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) are a major causal factor of tissue injury in various clinical settings. MicroRNAs (miRs) are short, non-coding RNAs, which regulate protein expression. Here, we investigated the role of miR-155 in IR-related tissue injury.
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