Feet sunk in molten aluminium: The burn and its prevention.

Nowadays, despite improvements in safety rules and inspections in the metal industry, foundry workers are not free from burn accidents. Injuries caused by molten metals include burns secondary to molten iron, aluminium, zinc, copper, brass, bronze, manganese, lead and steel. Molten aluminium is one of the most common causative agents of burns (60%); however, only a few publications exist concerning injuries from molten aluminium.

Treatment of peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis with ciprofloxacin monotherapy: clinical outcomes and bacterial susceptibility over two decades.

Background: There is controversy about the preferred initial antibiotic therapy for peritoneal dialysis (PD)-related peritonitis. Quinolones have been used extensively in this setting, yet their long-term effectiveness is unknown.

Aim: To analyze the results of a protocol of treatment of PD-related peritonitis with ciprofloxacin, maintained over two decades.

Short-term regulation of peptide YY secretion by a mixed meal or peritoneal glucose-based dialysate in patients with chronic renal failure.

Background: Malnutrition is very prevalent among patients with chronic renal failure. The role of derangements in the gut-brain axis for regulation of appetite in the genesis of anorexia of these patients has not been adequately investigated. Design.

Importance of kidney biopsy in graft selection.

Pretransplantation biopsies of kidney grafts have become a key to select organs suitable for transplantation from marginal donors. The main microscopic features to be evaluated are as follows: percentage of glomerulosclerosis, interstitial fibrosis and vascular pathology. Although the percentage of glomerulosclerosis prognosticates kidney outcome, it has not yet been established what the age limit and type of kidney injury absolutely forbid the use of a particular organ.

Complex oncologic reconstruction of a mandibular and floor of mouth defect with a fibula free flap in an achondroplastic patient.

The fibular free flap is seen as one of the foremost technical options in mandibular reconstruction, especially in those defects where long bone is required. Cases with squamous-cell carcinoma of the floor of the mouth with mandibular spread and subsequent segmentary mandibular removal are the cornerstone examples. A case of squamous-cell carcinoma of the whole floor of the mouth with mandibular invasion is reported.