Breast cancer patients with significant comorbidities present reconstructive challenges due to a predictably high complication rate. During expander-based breast reconstruction, human acellular dermal matrix (ADM) is often used to prevent pectoralis muscle retraction, facilitate early expansion, and improve cosmetic outcome. Device infection and chronic seroma have been correlated to the additi...

background: tissue expanders are devices which are used to create enough skin to form suitable flap in restoration of great skin deficiencies which are not modified initially. the current study aimed at investigating the patients’ satisfaction and the complications such as rupture, hematoma, wound infection, seroma, leakage, chronic pain, and expander expose of internal (implanted under the ski...

The manual process of manufacturing the welding electrode takes more time and work. It also occupies more space for the control panel with the installation of PLC in the welding electrode manufacturing control panel the size of the panel is reduced to the great extent. It has reduced the cost of the panel and has increased the rate of the production. Here the entire process of electrode manufac...

In this contribution the influence of an extrusion process on the viscosity function of rubber blends is identified. This knowledge is required for performance of realistic numerical simulations of injection heads and extrusion tools for rubber profile production. The experimental basis of this investigation are tests with both, capillary and extrusion rheometer. The latter is a combination of ...

Let AG be the adjacency matrix of G. Let λ1 ≥ λ2 ≥ . . . ≥ λn be the eigenvalues of AG. Sometimes we will also be interested in the Laplacian matrix of G. This is defined to be LG = D−AG, where D is the diagonal matrix where Dvv equals the degree of the vertex v. For d-regular graphs, LG = dI −AG, and hence the eigenvalues of LG are d− λ1, d− λ2, . . . , d− λn. Lemma 1. • λ1 = d. • λ2 = λ3 = . ...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this article, participants should be able to: 1. Understand the evidence regarding the timing of expander/implant breast reconstruction in the setting of radiation therapy. 2. Discuss the implications of a patient's risk factors for possible outcomes and complications of expander/implant breast reconstruction. 3. Implement proper prophylactic antibiotic protoco...

OBJECTIVE We examined the differences in capsule formation between 2 commercially available human acellular dermal matrices in a nonhuman primate model. METHODS Primates were implanted dorsally with a subcutaneously placed tissue expander and randomized into 3 groups, receiving skin coverage only, coverage with non-irradiated freeze-dried human acellular dermal matrix, or coverage with gamma-...

The key component of Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) system is an air compressor/expander. The roundtrip efficiency of this energy storage technology depends greatly on the efficiency of the air compressor/expander. There is a trade off between the thermal efficiency and power density of this component. Different ideas and approaches were introduced and studied in the previous works to imp...

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