Self-healing systems represent an effective means of increasing the resilience cementitious structures, extending service life and reducing cement production. This is achieved through mitigation cracking related durability problems. The success a self-healing system critically dependent on selection appropriate healing agent, which depends upon specific application, as well number criteria incl...

BACKGROUND The medial wall of mammalian veins is generally thin and fragile compared with the thick muscle seen in arteries. This makes venous microanastomoses time consuming and challenging. This study aimed to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of using the BioWeld(®) Tube in conjunction with a surgical glue (butyl-2-cyanoacrylate) in performing sutureless venous microanastomoses. ...

INTRODUCTION The World Health Organization has solicited rapid and minimally invasive techniques to facilitate scale-up of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC). STUDY DESIGN Non-blinded randomized controlled field trial with 2:1 allocation ratio. PARTICIPANTS 75 adult male volunteers. SETTING Outpatient primary care clinic. INTERVENTION Open surgical circumcision under local anest...

......................................... Received: 11-02-16 Accepted: 25-07-16 Abstract The main causes of upper digestive tract bleeding are ulcers in the stomach and/or duodenum (peptic ulcer disease). With increasing frequency, patients are being seen who have bleeding gastric varices. This may be due to the increasing number of patients who have portal hypertension caused in turn by liver ...

A 64-year-old man presented to casualty with blurred vision and pain in his left eye, 2 h after inadvertently instilling clear nail glue into his eye instead of postoperative Timolol eye drops. The glue was removed at the slit lamp revealing a corneal abrasion, which was managed with topical antibiotics. Inadvertent ocular cyanoacrylate, or 'superglue', instillation has been reported frequently...

PURPOSE In this work, we propose an in situ precise electrospinning of medical glue fibers onto dural wound for improving sealing capability, avoiding tissue adhesion, and saving time in dural repair. METHODS N-octyl-2-cyanoacrylate, a commercial tissue adhesive (medical glue), can be electrospun into ultrathin fibrous film with precise and homogeneous deposition by a gas-assisted electrospin...

Vacuum metal deposition (VMD) has been previously demonstrated as an effective development technique for latent fingerprints, and in some cases has been shown to enhance prints developed with cyanoacrylate (superglue) fuming. This work utilises scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to investigate the interactions of the two development techniques when applied to latent fingerprints on low density ...

We aimed to compare outcomes using endovenous cyanoacrylate venous closure and thermal ablation (radiofrequency laser therapy) for ulcer healing in patients with Clinical-Etiology-Anatomy-Pathophysiology (CEAP) class 6 chronic insufficiency. Our single-institution, prospectively-maintained database was retrospectively queried CEAP ulcers who underwent between February 2012 July 2022. Electronic...

The costs of medicines pose a growing burden on healthcare systems worldwide. A comprehensive understanding of current procurement processes provides strong support for the development of effective policies. This study examined Brazilian Federal Government pharmaceutical procurement data provided by the Integrated System for the Administration of General Services (SIASG) database, from 2006 to ...