Electrocardiographic Early Changes After Abdominoplasty.

Introduction: Abdominoplasty aims to reduce the abdominal excess tissue and tighten the abdominal wall. The tightening of the abdominal wall has structural and habitual consequences on the body, which might have an early effect on electrocardiography (ECG) of the patients through volumetric and pressure changes in thoracic and abdominal cavities. ECG serves as a diagnostic tool for assessing cardiac electrical conductions in routine clinical practice.

Brazilian Butt Lift: An Experience Over 3000 Patients.

Introduction: The Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) is a safe technique that entails body reshaping through buttock augmentation using autologous fat transfer.

Method: Between 2018 and 2022, 3000 patients underwent surgery. Each procedure commenced with the patient in supine position, starting with abdominal liposuction, followed by fat transfer to hips.

A new experimental burn model with an infrared heater.

Background: This study was undertaken to develop new experimental burn injury model using conventional infrared heaters.

Methods: 21 Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into 3 groups. Portion of dorsal area was exposed to infrared radiation from distance of 50 cm to create burn injury.

Staged repair of severe open abdomens due to high-energy gunshot injuries with early vacuum pack and delayed tissue expansion and dual-sided meshes.

Background: Open abdomen is a salvage procedure that prevents catastrophes after severe intraabdominal traumas. However, following this life saving attempt, it is mostly not feasible to close the abdomen immediately after the recovery of intraabdominal injuries. Consequently, a staged reconstruction is required, and the first stage is usually a temporary closing approach.

The Effects of Desferroxamine on Bone and Bone Graft Healing in Critical-Size Bone Defects.

Background: Autogenous bone grafts are still the criterion standard treatment option in critical-size bone defect reconstructions, and many therapies can affect its incorporation. In this study, it was aimed to research the effects of desferroxamine (DFO) application on bone and bone graft healing due to the effects of osteoblast and osteoclast regulation and stimulation of angiogenesis.

Methods: Rat zygomatic arch critical-size bone defect model (5 mm) was used as the experimental model.

[Neodymium magnet injury causing nasal fracture: a case report].

In parallel with technological developments, small size but strong magnets are commonly used in modern devices. In terms of foreign body injuries, magnet injuries are quite rare. However, due to their unique characteristics, there are some difficulties in their management.

Reflectance confocal microscopy as a useful diagnostic tool for monitoring of skin containing vascularized composite allograft rejection: A preliminary study on rats.

Vascularized composite allografts can undergo immune-mediated rejection, and skin biopsies are needed for monitoring of the transplant. However it is an invasive method, and requires processing time and pathological assessment. The purpose of this study is to use a new noninvasive monitoring method of the reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) to determine severity of the allograft rejection on rats.

The Reverse Fasciocutaneous ALT Flap Harvested From Deeply Wounded and Scarred Area for Reconstruction of the Knee: A Case Report.

Because of limited flap alternatives, soft tissue reconstruction over the knee is a challenging problem for reconstructive surgeons. When accompanied with surrounding tissue damage in major injuries, local flap alternatives are not available and reconstruction is more difficult. In this report, we present the first case in the literature of a patient who had reconstruction by the reverse fasciocutaneous anterolateral thigh (ALT) flap harvested from a deeply wounded and scarred area for soft tissue defect of knee region.

Our experiences on the reconstruction of lateral scalp burn alopecia with tissue expanders.

Introduction: Cicatricial alopecia is a form of hair loss that causes both cosmetic and psychological concerns. Although tissue expanders are the common approach to reconstruction, no algorithm exists in the literature for this process. In this study, it was aimed to create an algorithm for the reconstruction of lateral scalp alopecias with the goal to achieve better and standardized results.

Reconstruction of the one-digit foot with an osteocutaneous fibula flap: a case report.

The decision to amputate or reconstruct after high-energy foot injuries is controversial. A 25-year-old male patient was admitted to our clinic with a complex injury to his left foot sustained during a mine explosion, and the second to fifth digits and metatarsals of the left foot had been traumatically amputated before admission to our facility. The complex left foot defect was reconstructed with an osteocutaneous fibula flap during a single session.

An extraordinary case of axillary contracture: trapped healthy skin and its adnexes under contracted scar.

Although striking improvements have been achieved in overall management of burn injury, postburn contractures are still an ongoing challenge to burn surgeons. Axillary adduction contracture is one of the most common types of these disabling postburn complications that usually result from suboptimal treatment after acute burns. An unusual and complicated case of axillary contracture in which the unburned, healthy axillary dome skin was trapped as a cystic mass under the scarred area was reconstructed by transfer of a big (17×13-cm) thoracodorsal artery perforator flap after contracture release.