Visiting Educational Scholarship Training Program at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine: A Global Opportunity to Learn.

The Visiting Educational Scholarship Training Program, started by the University of Miami's Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, was designed to uphold the institution's founding mission: the education of our future medical leaders as well as the promotion of health of our local, regional, national, and international communities. It offers the opportunity for international medical students and training physicians to be educated and get exposure to the field of plastic surgery in a United States training institution.

Use of early gastrografin small bowel follow-through in small bowel obstruction management.

Small bowel follow-through (SBFT) is a diagnostic tool commonly used in the management of patients with small bowel obstruction (SBO). This study assessed whether early implementation of Gastrografin SBFT would reduce the time to resolution of the SBO and decrease the time to operative intervention. In this retrospective chart review, 103 patients with the clinical diagnosis of adhesive SBO were evaluated.

Dynamics of bone aluminum over one year of functioning renal graft.

The concentration of aluminum (Al) in serum, urine, and bone, as well as bone histomorphometry parameters were studied before and 1 year after kidney transplantation (Tx) in 20 dialyzed patients. One year after Tx, serum Al fell significantly from 50.3 +/- 8.