introduction: vesicovaginal fistula remains a challenge in surgical therapy. in this study autologous platelet rich plasma and platelet rich fibrin glue were used as a minimally invasive approach for vesicovaginal fistula closure. materials and methods: data including age, parity, iciq-ui (international consultation on incontinence questionnaire-urinary incontinence), iciq-qol (international co...

Alternative methods of wound closure after formal circumcision have been studied to decrease the repair time and complications, and to improve cosmesis. This was a prospective non-comparative preliminary clinical study involving 15 patients where Cyanoacrylate glue was used as a tissue adhesive for wound closure after formal circumcision. It was found that the repair time was short, complicatio...

How can off-the-shelf editors be reused in applications that need mature editing support? We describe our editor multiplexer which enables interactive, application guided editing sessions using GNU Emacs and Vim. At a cost of less than 1 KLOC of editor-specific glue code, both IDE builders and users benefit. Rapid integration of existing editors reduces application development cost, and users a...

Glue is widely used to improve the reliability of ball grid array (BGA) under mechanical shock and vibration. Although it has been demonstrated to have a positive effect on the reliability of BGA under mechanical impact, it can have adverse effects on BGA under thermal cycling. This paper investigates the effect of glue on the reliability of BGA under thermal cycling using both experimental and...

PURPOSE To present complications of using fibrin glue in conjunctival-limbal autografting in pterygium surgeries other than recurrences and discuss their prevention and management strategies. MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY The charts of all patients who underwent fibrin glue assisted pterygium excision surgery with conjunctival-limbal autograft transplantation from 2010 to 2013 were reviewed. Pati...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether laser-cured fibrinogen glue can close bleb leaks in rabbits. METHODS Full-thickness filtration surgery with intraoperative mitomycin and a sutured limbus-based conjunctival flap was performed in 1 eye each of 19 New Zealand albino rabbits. On the second postoperative day, a 2- to 3-mm hole was made in the bleb. In 9 rabbits, the hole was glued using fibrinogen g...

Portal hypertension induces congestion of the liver and spleen, thus any capsular or parenchymal injury to these organs can produce intractable bleeding which generally is not easily controlled. To cope with intractable bleeding such as being encountered during liver transplantation, we developed an infiltrating hemostasis technique as a conceptual shift from conventional application methods, i...

To avoid the adverse effects of aprotinin (Apr) in autologous fibrin glue, we compared the inhibitory properties of four commercial anti-fibrinolytic agents (tranexamic acid (Tra), epsilon-aminocaproic acid (Ips), gabexate mesilate (Gab) and nafamostat mesilate (Naf)). The optimum conditions for the lysing of fibrin glue were an incubation temperature of 37 degrees C, and incubation medium cont...

PURPOSE To compare the effect of using fibrin glue or 10-0 nylon sutures on the clinical outcome of patients undergoing pterygium excision and conjunctival autografting. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 52 eyes from 46 patients who underwent pterygium excision and conjunctival autografting and were followed up for more than 3 months. The operation duration, postopera...

Biological glue is a natural adhesive generated by the interaction between fibrinogen (pre-glue) and thrombin to produce fibrin. The pre-glue is prepared from a single donor (to avoid the problems of pooled plasma) and stored as cryoprecipitate. Before being used it is thawed, dissolved in saline, and activated into an adhesive by the addition of topical thrombin. Biological glue was used proph...