Hypercholesterolemia is a common disorder in adult population, but total cholesterol concentrations beyond 1000 mg/dl occur rarely, and are found in patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia and familial lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase deficiency, in chronic graft-versus-host disease of the liver, after intravenous infusion of fat emulsion (intralipid), in newborn infants with...

PURPOSE Repair of bulbar strictures using anastomotic techniques may cause sexual complications, while 1-side graft urethroplasties may not be sufficient to provide an adequate lumen in narrow strictures. We evaluated the urinary and sexual results of a 2-sided dorsal plus ventral graft urethroplasty by preserving the narrow urethral plate in tight strictures. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between 20...

BACKGROUND In severe coronary artery disease, coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery is indicated to re-establish an adequate blood supply to the ischemic myocardium. Effectiveness of CABG surgery for symptom relief and mortality decrease should therefore depend on bypass graft patency. As bypass using a left internal mammary artery (LIMA)-to-left anterior descending coronary artery (LA...

background: several grafting materials have been used for alveolar ridge augmentation. the literature lacks researches to compare cenobone to other grafting materials. the aim of this study was to compare cenobone/cenomembrane complex to bio-oss/bio-gide complex in lateral alveolar bone augmentation in terms of radiographic, histologic, and histomorphometric parameters. materials and methods: i...

BACKGROUND Previously, we reported that neonatal porcine pancreatic cells transfected with hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) gene in an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-based plasmid (pEBVHGF) showed improved proliferation and differentiation compared to those of the control. In this study, we examined if pancreatic cells transfected repeatedly with pEBVHGF can be successfully grafted to control blood glu...

costochondral and rib grafts have long been used for reconstruction of lost condyle. donor site morbidity has less been under investigation and researched. pleural disruption pneumothorax and ugly scars are among the donor site complications. this study aims to determine the rate of pleural disruption following costochondral graft harvesting from the 4th to the 7th ribs of right and left ribs f...