A 75-year-old man underwent a Bentall procedure and hemi-arch replacement with a Biovalsalva conduit (Vascutek Terumo, Renfrewshire, Scotland) and concomitant coronary re-vascularisation. Three days later, the patient underwent an uneventful re-sternotomy due to cardiac tamponade. During the procedure, blood was drained to release the tamponade; however, no primary area for blood loss was found...

Lamellar keratoplasty consists of transplanting partial-thickness donor cornea onto a complementary recipient bed. Manual lamellar dissection is technically very difficult, time-consuming, and imprecise. Also, the manually-dissected lamellar interface often has topographical irregularities that may optically degrade the best-corrected visual acuity. The femtosecond clinical laser (IntraLase FS ...

success or failure of Legal Adoption that everyone working in the field?magistrates, case workers, family doctors, health visitors and others?will welcome this book. It is a report of four years' research, sponsored by the National Association for Mental Health. Miss Robina Addis chaired the advisory panel and the research was financed by the Buttle Trust and made possible by the goodwill of an...

Better understanding manual reverse engineering can make it and any associated systems reengineering more effective. We reverse engineered a version of a system (referred to as "BOS/X") in support of a broader reengineering effort. System reengineering goals and other circumstances dictated a focused, limited duration, manual reverse engineering exercise. This presented an opportunity to study ...

Previous studies have shown that ripe Xenopus 00cytes, 1.4 mm in diameter and suitable for microinjection, undergo meiotic cell division in response to progesterone by a mechanism involving a decrease in the level of CAMP. In order to investigate the mechanism by which the level of CAMP is reduced by progesterone treatment, adenylate cyclase activity was measured in manually dissected plasma me...