PURPOSE This study used intraoperative monitoring of the access flow to evaluate the results of flow reduction in the management of high-flow arteriovenous access-related symptoms of distal ischemia and cardiac insufficiency. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted of 95 patients (78 with ischemia, 17 with cardiac failure) who underwent flow reduction between 1999 and 2005. A preoperative...

The aim of this study was to assess the nostril symmetry following primary cleft rhinoplasty done with either a dorsal onlay or columellar strut graft in patients with non-syndromic complete unilateral cleft lip and palate. In this retrospective study 30 consecutive patients treated with autogenous or alloplastic dorsal onlay grafts and 30 consecutive patients treated with autogenous or allopla...

Autogenous immune sera from several strains of mice have been examined for type-, group-, or interspecies-specific reactivities against leukemia virus envelope antigens and virus-induced cell surface proteins. The natural antibody of these test sera react with gp69/71, gp43, and p15 structural components on murine leukemia viruses including AKR, Friend, Rauscher, Moloney, and xenotropic BALB:vi...

Surgery on the skeleton frequently requires harvesting of autogenous bone graft from the pelvis, but this procedure is complicated by problems. The purpose of this retrospective, comparative descriptive study was to compare the efficacy of metal-derived bioactive glass (Novabone) versus autogenous iliac crest bone graft in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis surgery. The study was carried out on fo...

In the absence of adequate bone height, augmentation of the maxillary antrum prior to placement of endosseous implants is a well–-established procedure. Although there is a debate among clinicians as to which grafting materials are the most advantageous, autogenous bone is still considered by many to be the gold standard. Often patients require more graft material than is generally available fr...

Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-2 induces bone and cartilage tissue formation. Large amounts of BMP-2 are difficult to purify or to produce in vitro using eukaryotic cells. The goal of the present study was to assess the clinical use of Escherichia coli-derived recombinant human BMP-2 (ErhBMP-2) on bone fusion after cervical and lumbar spine surgery in a goat model, compared with the standard ...

The principal objective of this investigation was to define the roles of injected and autogenous, kidney-localizing antibodies in the pathogenesis of rat nephrotoxic nephritis by relating data obtained with fluorescent antibody techniques to clinical and histologic observations. Such an analysis of the nephritis that developed in 28 rats after injection with the crude gamma-globulin fraction of...

self-desiccation is the major source of autogenous shrinkage and crack formation in low water-binder ratio (w/b) concretes which can be reduced by internal curing. in this paper performance of high strength self consolidating concrete (hs-scc) with w/b of 0.28 and 0.33 including autogenous shrinkage, drying shrinkage, compressive strength, and resistance to freezing-thawing was investigated. th...

background: various materials and techniques have been developed to facilitate bone healing process and reduce its healing period. in recent studies, it is pointed out that, platelet-rich fi brin (prf) which is derived autogenously from the own blood of the individuals, increase regeneration and accelerate the healing of the wound, due to the consisting various growing factors. the aim of the e...

BACKGROUND We report two cases of unilateral upper eyelid swelling with multiple small lumps as an unusual complication of autogenous fat injection for cosmetic forehead augmentation. CASE PRESENTATION Two female patients were referred to our clinic for unusual unilateral eyelid swelling, with multiple small lumps. The duration of symptoms differed in each case, but both patients had a histor...