OBJECTIVES Short- and mid-term data regarding the use of precurved, fenestrated endografts have shown that these devices are both safe and effective in carefully selected patients. The first generation of the product was limited to patients with proximal landing zones (LZs) of >20 mm. The next generation of these endografts has been refined to enable the treatment of patients with shorter proxi...

Under normal sealing and storage conditions, Nylon-6, poly-caprolactam-based plastic laminates may release impurities to packaged foods and liquids and the application of heat for cooking often increases the rate of migration. Epsiloncaprolactam is one of the main contaminates found to migrate from a Nylon-6 polycaprolactam plastic film. The objectives of this study were to determine the effect...

BACKGROUND/AIM Anastomotic leakage remains a frequent and serious complication in gastrointestinal surgery. In order to reduce its incidence, several clinical and experimental studies on anastomotic sealing have been performed. In a number of these studies, the sealing material has been fibrin glue (FG), and the results in individual studies have been varying. The positive effect of anastomotic...

BACKGROUND Osteoclasts are bone-degrading cells, which play a central role in physiological bone remodeling. Unbalanced osteoclast activity is largely responsible for pathological conditions such as osteoporosis. Osteoclasts develop specialized adhesion structures, the so-called podosomes, which subsequently undergo dramatic reorganization into sealing zones. These ring-like adhesion structures...

Suture ligation with subsequent cutting of blood vessels to maintain hemostasis during surgery is time consuming and skill intensive. Energy-based electrosurgical and ultrasonic devices are often used to replace sutures and mechanical clips to provide rapid hemostasis and decrease surgery time. Some of these devices may create undesirably large collateral zones of thermal damage and tissue necr...

introduction : furcal perforations are one of the most challenging causes of endodontic failures. several materials including mta have been used for non surgical repair of these perforations. the aim of this study was to compare treatment outcome of furcal perforation treatment in primary molars using root mta and proroot mta. materials and methods: this in vitro study was conducted on 54 prima...

introduction: the aim of this study was to compare the sealing ability of real seal (rs) and gutta-percha (gp). materials and methods: forty nine extracted human maxillary central incisors were used. the coronal part of each tooth was removed; the root canal was prepared using the crown down technique and apical enlargement to rotary file # 40. the specimens were randomly divided in to 3 groups...

fluid invasion from water-based drilling mud (wbdm) into the shale formations causes swelling,high pressure zone near the wellbore wall, and eventually wellbore instability problems duringdrilling operations. for the stability of the wellbore, physical plugging of nanoscale pore throats couldbe considered as a logical approach toward avoiding the fluid invasion into the shale formation. thispap...