Publications by authors named "Mostafa Elian"
Lateral plantar nerve release with or without calcaneal drilling for resistant plantar fasciitis.
J Orthop Surg (Hong Kong)
August 2015
Purpose: To compare the outcome following lateral plantar nerve release with or without calcaneal drilling for resistant plantar fasciitis.
Methods: 30 women and 3 men aged 30 to 60 (mean, 45) years with resistant plantar fasciitis were randomised to undergo release of the first branch of the lateral plantar nerve with (group 1, n=18) or without (group 2, n=15) calcaneal drilling.
Results: Patients were followed up for a mean of 27 months.
Article Synopsis
- The study examined how combining radiofrequency (RF) ablation with chemotherapy (paclitaxel and doxorubicin) affects tumor destruction, cell death, and survival rates in rats with mammary adenocarcinomas.
- Results showed that the combination therapies like paclitaxel-RF ablation significantly improved tumor coagulation compared to individual treatments and led to higher drug uptake within the tumors.
- The findings indicated that the addition of these treatments not only enhanced tumor destruction but also increased apoptosis, contributing to longer survival times for the subjects.
Purpose: To determine whether radiofrequency (RF) ablation causes increased hepatic embryonic stem cell trafficking in the rat liver model.
Materials And Methods: Right hepatic lobe RF ablation was performed in rats for 5 minutes at 15 minutes (n = 2) and 48 hours (n = 2) before administration of rat hepatic embryonic stem cells (rhESCs). Green fluorescent protein-labeled rhESCs were injected intravenously, and all rats were killed 5 days after rhESC injection.
It has been shown that magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) can improve the specificity of the MR examination by the spectroscopic detection of choline (Cho). Commonly, the lesion is first visualized on postcontrast studies, and the MRS voxel is prescribed accordingly. The implicit assumption made in this approach is that the presence of gadolinium-based contrast agents will have a negligible effect on the MR spectra obtained from the lesion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To determine the optimum combination strategy of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and radiofrequency (RF) ablation in an experimentally induced hepatic tumor model.
Materials And Methods: Twenty-five New Zealand White rabbits with VX2 carcinoma-induced hepatic tumors were randomly divided into five treatment groups, which received (i) chemoembolization followed 15 minutes later by RF ablation; (ii) RF ablation followed by chemoembolization; (iii) chemoembolization alone; (iv) RF ablation alone; and (v) bland embolization followed by RF ablation. Animals were euthanized at 48 hours to determine tumor infarction and coagulation, which were compared with analysis of variance.