BACKGROUND Vesicoureteral reflux is thought to predispose to urinary tract infection and renal scarring, and ureteral reimplantation in childhood remains the gold standard for its treatment. It has been reported that the risk of postrenal failure during pregnancy is increased among women with Politano-Leadbetter ureteral reimplantation. In previous case reports on patients with progressive hydr...

BACKGROUND We previously reported a limb-salvage technique by treating tumor-bearing bone with liquid nitrogen. We also reported systemic antitumor immunity was enhanced by cryotreatment in a murine osteosarcoma (LM8) model. We therefore combined the cryotreatment of tumor with dendritic cells to promote tumor-specific immune responses. QUESTIONS/PURPOSES We determined whether our technique c...

BACKGROUND Two-stage reimplantation arthroplasty is one of the standard treatments for chronic periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). Scanty data exist regarding the risk factors for failure after two-stage reimplantation for periprosthetic hip infection. The purpose of this study was to investigate and identify the risk factors associated with failure after two-stage reimplantation hip arthropl...

intentional tooth reimplantation can be an alternative treatment option for teeth with poor or hopeless prognosis where coronal and surgical endodontic treatment(s) are not possible. this technique may help to restore a natural tooth to function in preference to prosthesis/implant replacements. a 38-years old male was referred to private practice with persistent chronic apical periodontitis of ...

OBJECTIVE When a pacemaker box causes erosion it is usually removed and a new pacemaker implanted at a contralateral site. In this study when there was no evidence of systemic infection an attempt was made to clean and reimplant the same pacemaker in the same site. RESULTS Over 10 years 62 patients had pacemaker reimplantation. In 18 patients the procedure was repeated a second time. Reimplan...

OBJECTIVE To report a case of severe hydronephrosis 20 years after bladder exstrophy (BE) repair, managed by bilateral ureteral tapering and secondary ureteroneocystostomy. CASE PRESENTATION A 21-year-old woman with a history of BE and ureteral reimplantation, presented with hematuria-dysuria syndrome and recurrent febrile urinary tract infections. After counselling, she elected to undergo bi...

The technical details of aortic valve reimplantation as a treatment for aortic root aneurism with or without aortic valve insufficiency has been previously described in several studies (1,2). Variations in the aortic valve reimplantation operation have been developed, with the common goal of achieving not only perfect intraoperative results, but also long-term stability. The Valsalva graft (Vas...

OBJECTIVES We have recently shown that valve sparing reimplantation (VSR) improves the durability of bicuspid aortic valve repair in comparison with subcommissural annuloplasty. The aim of this study was to assess the degree of annular reduction provided by these techniques and to correlate these findings with repair durability. METHODS From 1995 to 2010, 161 patients underwent bicuspid valve...