Endovascular repair is a feasible option for superficial femoral artery injuries: a comparative effectiveness analysis.

Purpose: To compare outcomes between open (OR) and endovascular repair following superficial femoral artery (SFA) injuries.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study querying the 2012-2014 National Inpatient Sample for SFA injuries. Patients were grouped into OR and stent-graft placement (SGP).

Neural innervation patterns in the sacral vertebral body.

Purpose: To characterize the distribution of nerves within a single S1 vertebral body, with particular emphasis on the superior endplate that interfaces with the L5/S1 disc.

Methods: Musculature and connective tissue surrounding the sacrum was carefully dissected away for close visual inspection of penetrating nerve fibers. The S1 vertebral body was then isolated for histology and serial coronal sections were cut and stained with a ubiquitous neural antibody marker (PGP 9.

Innervation patterns of PGP 9.5-positive nerve fibers within the human lumbar vertebra.

Intervertebral disc injury or degeneration is a common cause of low back pain, and yet the specific source of pain remains ambiguous in many cases. Previous research indicates that the central vertebral endplate is highly innervated and can elicit pain responses to pressure. In effort to trace the origin of nerves located at the endplate, we used protein gene product 9.

Expression of the congenital heart disease 5/tryptophan rich basic protein homologue gene during heart development in medaka fish, Oryzias latipes.

The congenital heart disease 5 (CHD5)/tryptophan rich basic protein (WRB) is a protein containing a tryptophan-rich carboxy-terminal region, which was discovered in the human fetal heart. In humans, this CHD5/WRB is located between the markers ACTL5-D21S268 within the Down syndrome (DS) Region-2 at chromosome 21. Congenital heart disease is commonly linked to DS patients.