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Ann Vasc Surg
November 2024
Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Research Unit of Vascular Surgery, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Objective: To investigate the role of the Omniflow II prosthesis in the prevention of vascular graft infection (VGI) in patients with peripheral arterial disease and to report on short-and mid-term graft-related morbidity.
Material And Methods: Patients were included in prospective registry between October 2019 and March 2023. The primary endpoint was to report infection-related problems, operation-related wound problems, and short- and mid-term graft-related morbidity.
Leg Med (Tokyo)
March 2023
Department of Visceral-, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
Deaths due to external bleeding outside the hospital setting are often suspected to involve violence. However, some disease-related causes, can also lead to fatal external bleeding. While bleeding from natural body orifices is a common end stage of non-curable gastrointestinal bleeding, fatal bleeding via newly formed skin defects is quite rare and highly suspicious in light of external impact.
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March 2022
Dr Fran Mihaljević University Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia; University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia.
The aim of this study was to characterize and compare changes in subcutaneous fat in the malar, brachial and crural region in a cohort of HIV-infected patients taking antiretroviral therapy. This prospective longitudinal study included 77 patients who were selected from the initial cohort evaluated in 2007 and 2008. We examined reversibility of lipoatrophy measured by ultrasound over at least five-year period and factors related to its reversibility.
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February 2022
Parc de Salut Mar, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Unlabelled: Proximal medial gastrocnemius release (PMGR) is a technique that is performed to relieve tension in the Achilles-calcaneus-plantar system when a biomechanical overload is present. One of the main indications for this technique is recalcitrant plantar fasciitis. This procedure may also be useful in second-rocker metatarsalgia or midportion Achilles tendinitis.
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December 2021
Medical School, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UK.
A 44-year-old man was admitted after being found suspended by his ankles from a bridge for 5 days. The events leading to it was not clearly known initially. On examination, the patient was hypotensive and hypothermic, airway was oedematous and both lower limbs were mottled with dusky feet.
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