A Successful Failure

Successful pregnancy in a woman with premature ovarian failure.

A case of a patient with premature ovarian failure (POF) is discussed. Ovulation failed to occur for 5 years by gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) and human menopausal gonadotropin (hMG) treatment following estrogen-progesterone replacement therapy. After laparoscopic ovarian biopsy, ovulation was successfully induced by hMG, although gonadotropins were not suppressed enough, and th...

BPR in the Public Sector: A Case of Successful Failure

Recent surveys show that business process re-engineering (BPR) has had widespread adoption in western countries. This has been motivated by case studies where drastic improvements in quality, productivity, cost reduction and competitiveness have been reported. The rate of failure in reengineering attempts, though, has been reported to be equally high. It is estimated that over 70 per cent of al...

Successful retransplantation in a patient with acute primary graft failure

Methods and results Case report of 56 year old male with end stage heart disease on the background of ischemic cardiomyopathy bridged to transplantation witha continuous-flow mechanical assist device. After 125 days of support with HeartMate II he received a cardiac allograft from 53 year old male who died from intracranial hemorrhage. After unremarkable procedure with bicaval technique with a ...

A Successful Failure to Collaborate on Storage Technology Education

improvement in severe heart failure post-successful renal transplantation: a single-centre experience with seven cases

heart failure is common in patients with chronic renal disease, either as a complication of renal failure or from shared risk factors, or is the major cause of death in patients on dialysis. at present, end stage renal disease (esrd) patients who have systolic heart failure are considered high-risk for surgery; and nephrologists and cardiologists are reluctant to refer these patients for kidney...