Applications of optical sensing and imaging spectroscopy in indoor farming: A systematic review.

As demand for food continues to rise, innovative methods are needed to sustainably and efficiently meet the growing pressure on agriculture. Indoor farming and controlled environment agriculture have emerged as promising approaches to address this challenge. However, optimizing fertilizer usage, ensuring homogeneous production, and reducing agro-waste remain substantial challenges in these production systems.

[Laparoscopy at the pediatric surgery department for a five-year period].

Introduction: Laparoscopy in small children was developed only after the adoption and verification of basic principles in adult patients and is mostly concentrated in specialized facilities due to the possible complications and necessity of follow-up specialized anesthesiological and post-operative care. In the 1990s, the Clinic of Paediatric Surgery, Orthopaedics and Traumatology at University Hospital Brno was one of the first in the Czech Republic to begin operating on children laparoscopically. The presented study informs about the development of these minimally invasive methods, the frequency of their use, and the spectrum of patients at the pediatric surgery facility where laparoscopy in children has been systematically developed over many years.

Comparison of the accuracy and correctness of mortality estimates for Intensive Care Unit patients in internal clinics of the Czech Republic using APACHE II, APACHE IV, SAPS 3 and MPMoIII models.

Aim To verify and compare the accuracies of mortality predictions in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Internal Clinic of Central Military Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, using model APACHE II and the newer systems of the APACHE IV, SAPS 3 and MPMo III. Methods The data were collected retrospectively between 2011 and 2012, 1000 patients were evaluated. The assessment of the overall accuracy of the mortality predictions was performed using the standardized mortality ratio (SMR), and the calibration was assessed using the Lemeshow-Hosmer "goodness-of-fit" C statistic.

Arterial stiffening contributes to impairment of cerebrovascular reactivity in patients with coronary artery disease without carotid stenosis.

Impaired cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR), an important risk factor for future stroke, is affected by a presence carotid stenosis. However, in some cases CVR can be impaired in the absence of carotid stenosis due to several poorly characterized mechanisms. We hypothesized that arterial stiffening as observed in coronary heart disease (CHD) could be associated with alteration in CVR in CHD patients without carotid stenosis.

[Intercondylar eminence fracture in children. Results of long-term follow-up].

Purpose Of The Study: An intercondylar eminence fracture is injury more common in children and adolescents than in adults. Also if it is considered a benign lesion, a displaced medial spine fracture can result in cruciate ligament laxity. We report the evaluation of long-term results of conservative and arthroscopic stabilisation in children and adolescents with different types of intercondylar eminence fracture.

Chronic radial artery occlusion after transradial catheterization. Re-canalization via an ipsilateral ulnar artery.

Transradial approach to coronary angiography is a progressive and increasingly more often used technique. Apart from its advantages, radial artery occlusion (RAO) represents the most serious drawback. Re-canalization of an iatrogenic RAO, although asymptomatic in the majority of cases, remains a discussed and challenging topic.

[Knee arthroscopy in children and adolescents with trauma histories].

Purpose Of The Study: In this retrospective study we analysed the major indications for knee arthroscopy and the diagnoses made using it in children and adolescents who had sustained knee joint injuries.

Material And Methods: A total of 731 knee joint artroscopies were performed and retrospectively evaluated in patients under 19 years of age. The group included patients with knee joint injuries treated at our department in the 2000-2010 period.

[Treatment of sequelae after Monteggia lesions in childhood].

Purpose Of The Study: To review the current methods of operative management of post-traumatic chronic radial head dislocation in chronic Monteggia lesions in children.

Material And Methods: Post-traumatic chronic dislocation of the proximal radius usually occurs following missed or ineffectively treated Monteggia fractures. The radial head is usually dislocated anteriorly.

[Synthetic biocompatible degradable material for juvenile bone cyst treatment].

Purpose Of The Study: Owing to advances in operative techniques and biotechnology, bone replacement biocompatible materials have recently come into focus for orthopaedic and trauma surgeons. Bone lytic lesions, such as tumorous bone defects, diseases simulating cancer, chronic inflammatory lesions or skeletal injuries, often require stabilisation of the skeleton and treatment of the bone affected. Juvenile bone cysts are benign lytic lesions posing a threat to bone compactness in childhood.

[Analysis of the results of bone healing in femurs lengthened by the gradual distraction method in children and adolescents].

Purpose Of The Study: Treatment of leg length inequality via lengthening of the shorter extremity is an infrequent orthopedic procedure due to the requirement of special distraction devices and possible serious complications. Essential qualitative changes in operative technique development are associated with the name of G. A.

Use of locking compression plates for deformity correction of the forearm bones in children.

The Aim Of The Study: The aim of our study was to assess treatment results of angular deformities in distal radius by a system of the locking compression plates (LCP) at our clinic.

Methods: Our source data was collected prospectively from the records of patients where the locking compression plate was used for angulation correction of distal forearm between 2006 and 2007. The patients were divided by sex, the age range was defined and two groups were formed based on the initial diagnosis: the group of posttraumatic deformities (2 patients; 29 %) and the group of no traumatic deformities (3 patients with congenital shortening of ulna, valgus deformity and overgrowth of radius and 2 patients with exostoses multiplices with shortening of ulna and overgrowth of radius with ulnar angulation).

[Surgical treatment in congenital vertical talus].

Introduction: The vertical talus is a rare congenital deformity of the foot. It is an isolated idiopathic deformity in about half of all cases. In the others, it is associated with abnormalities such as arthrogryposis, myelodysplasia, DDH.

[Proximal tibial growth plate trauma in childhood and options for its management].

Aim: Traumas to the proximal tibial epiphyseal growth plate account for less than 2% of all physeal injuries, therefore, it may cause diagnostic or therapeutic difficulties. The authors studied a group of patients treated in the Clinic of pediatric surgery, orthopedics and traumatology of the Brno Faculty Hospital (FN Brno) during past 11 years, in order to assess its treatment outcomes and complication rates.

Methodology: Based on the Salter-Harris (SH) classification, the studied patients with proximal tibia epiphyseolyses were assigned to groups using the following criteria: type of epiphyseolysis and treatment approach, and the authors identified associated complications in individual patients.

[The use of biodegradable materials in the management of bone cysts in children].

Aim: The commonest benign lytic bone disorders, which compromise the bone robustness include juvenile bone cysts. Provided the cysts do not undergo spontaneous healing, which is commonly facilitated by pathological fracturing or introduction of osteosynthetic material into the cyst, the cystic cavity must be filled in. Numbers of potential defect management procedures, including use of corticoids, autografts, allografts or recently introduced methods of application of synthetic anorganic biomaterials, have been used.

[Remodelling ability of the distal radius in fracture healing in childhood].

Introduction: Distal forearm fractures are among the commonest skeletal injuries in childhood. The aim of this work is to analyze factors determining remodelling abilities of the distal radial metaphysis in dislocated fractures, considering a requirement for eventual non-operative repositioning.

Material And Methodology: The primary patient group included a group of patients treated in 2004 for distal radial metaphysis fractures, left to heal in a dislocated position.

[Nitrates in cardiology practice].

Nitrates have been applied in cardiology over one hundred years. They act via nitric oxide release. Nitric oxide is the same substance as endogenous endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF).

A congenital orbital defect with periorbital-dural tissue adhesion.

This case demonstrates a previously unreported congenital orbital deformity. The patient was born with a unilateral exophthalmos. The etiology of the defect was demonstrated by CT scan as a convex bowing of the right superomedial orbital wall behind the axis of the eye.