BACKGROUND Intimal hyperplasia contributes to restenosis after percutaneous vascular interventions. Both beta(3)-integrins, alpha(V)beta(3) and alpha(IIb)beta(3) (glycoprotein IIb/IIIa), and leukocytes have been implicated in neointimal formation, based in part on the results obtained using antagonists to 1 or both receptors in animal models. METHODS AND RESULTS The responses in wild-type mic...

Health care personnel are at increased risk of contracting blood borne pathogens due to their occupational exposure to blood and body fluids [1-4]. More than twenty diseases can get transmitted through needle stick injuries including Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV [5]. Occupational exposure to blood can result from percutaneous injury (needle stick or other sharps injury), mucocutaneous injur...

PURPOSE. To evaluate the outcome of percutaneous release of the A1 pulley in 40 cadaveric fingers using a modified Kirschner wire. METHODS. A 2.5-mm-diameter Kirschner wire measuring >12 cm in length was used. One end of the wire was sharpened into a 'J' shape using a grinder. The J-shaped tip featured a blunt, elongated lower tip, a sharp J-shaped curve, and a blunt upper tip. Completeness of ...

Vascular injuries in conjunction with low-energy geriatric hip fractures, although uncommon, can be life-threatening. Furthermore, vascular injuries are usually iatrogenic, related to malpositioning of percutaneous reduction aids, aberrant drilling, or poorly sized implants. The authors describe an older woman who had a low-energy pertrochanteric hip fracture. She was noted preoperatively to ha...

Methods. Consecutive patients admitted to the ICU of the Emergency Department (Careggi Teaching Hospital, Florence, Italy) from January 2009 to October 2009, aged .18 years and with an indication for percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT), were enrolled. Exclusion criteria were infection/injury/malignancy of the neck, thyroid gland hypertrophy, severe head injury with uncontrolled intracr...