Surgical spinal fusion is a procedure where two or more of the vertebrae of the spine are “fused” together in an attempt to achieve solid arthrodesis and to potentially eliminate painful movement or to correct deformity. The purpose of the spinal hardware is to provide additional spinal stability while helping the fusion set up. The first successful surgical fusion procedures were described by ...

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W HEN there is a right-sided aortic arch, persistence of a left-sided ductus arteriosus can readily be demonstrated by angiocardiography. This is important because in some types of eyanotic congenital heart disease, such as in the tetralogy of Fallot, anl artificial aortico-pulmonary (Blalock-Taussig' or Pott S2 shunt) is often created in order to alleviate the distress produced by anoxia. Two ...

The growth of a country is scaled by the amount of energy it consumes. In the developing India, with the rise of population, increasing number of cities and demanding villages, caused to set up transmission lines with higher capacity. Inter-ties were connected through the transmission lines to lighten every city and village, thus making the whole system complex. This complex system required a r...

The environmental soot and carbon blacks (CBs) cause many diseases in humans, but their underlying mechanisms of toxicity are still poorly understood. Both are formed after the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons but differ in their constituents and percent carbon contents. For the first time, "Sir Percival Pott" described soot as a carcinogen, which was subsequently confirmed by many others....

As the latest standard that is quickly gaining popularity in power substation automation, IEC 61850 offers self-descriptive object data models, standardized configurability with Substation Configuration Language (SCL), the promise of interoperations among intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) from different manufacturers, and lower integration installation costs. The IEC 61850 standard initiall...

Spinal TB is a very dangerous type of skeletal TB as it can be.Focus on the diagnosis of spinal TB using radiographs, as this is the primary modality. Prod1.hul.harvard.educontenth482j21x5548q078fulltext.pdf. Gibbous.The dismal outcome of tuberculosis of the spine in the preantibiotic era has improved. Deficit and deformity are the worst complications of spinal tuberculosis.Any information cont...