A nonlinear-elastic constitutive model for soft connective tissue based on a histologic description: Application to female pelvic soft tissue.

To understand the mechanical behavior of soft tissues, two fields of science are essential: biomechanics and histology. Nonetheless, those two fields have not yet been studied together often enough to be unified by a comprehensive model. This study attempts to produce such model.

Training Significantly Improves Fetoscopy Performance: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.

 Implementation of complex fetoscopic procedures that included intracorporeal suturing has been limited due to technical difficulties that might be surmounted with adequate training. Evaluating the impact of laparoscopic or fetoscopic training on fetoscopic performance was the aim of this study.  To evaluate fetoscopic performance after either laparoscopic or fetoscopic training, subjects were asked to perform four surgeon's square knots fetoscopically prior and post 2 hours of hands-on training.

Mechanical properties of pelvic soft tissue of young women and impact of aging.

Introduction And Hypothesis: The female pelvic floor is a complex network of ligaments and muscles whose mechanical properties have not been completely understood. The goal of this study is to understand the biomechanical properties of the pelvic floor tissues of young women and the impact of aging.

Methods: Biomechanical uniaxial tension tests were performed on pelvic floor tissues (ligaments and organs) of six young female cadavers (average 29 years old).

Biomechanical and histological evaluation of abdominal wall compliance with intraperitoneal onlay mesh implants in rabbits: a comparison of six different state-of-the-art meshes.

Background: An ideal prosthetic mesh for incisional hernia repair should mimic the anisotropic compliance of the abdominal wall, and at lower loads should exhibit higher distensibility without impairment of safety at higher loads. This study evaluated the biomechanical properties of six meshes in a rabbit model.

Methods: New Zealand white rabbits were used for this study.

[Should Doppler echography in the diagnosis of the extra-cardiac sites of atherosclerosis be routine in patients with coronary disease? Apropos of 248 cases].

Doppler ultrasound investigation of cervical and aorto-iliac arteries, performed in 248 patients investigated by coronary angiography (including 80% with coronary heart disease: 23% single-vessel, 23% two-vessel and 34% three-vessel disease) confirmed the frequency of dissemination of the atheromatous process (in the cervical vessels: non-stenotic atheroma: 45%, significant single- or multi-vessel stenoses: 16%, in the aorto-iliac vessels: non-stenotic atheroma: 32.8%, significant stenoses: 17.2%), which has been known for a long time.