Objective: The use of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) for post-surgical cardiothoracic, orthopedic, plastic, and obstetric and gynecologic procedures has been described. However, there are no data regarding its use for lower limb bypass incisions. We aimed to investigate the outcomes of NPWT in preventing surgical site infection (SSI) in patients with lower limb arterial bypass incisions...

Aim: Tibial plateau fractures are complex that often develop after high-energy trauma, involving intra-articular fractures. They rarely treated conservatively. Surgical planning and approach very important in preventing possible complications. In this study, we compared two different incisions the same fracture types.
 Material Method: A total of 26 patients (20 males-6 females) with tibia...

BACKGROUND Activation of the complement system is one component of the inflammatory response. Various components of the complement system participate in killing foreign organisms, recruiting immune cells, enhancing edema, and stimulating cytokine formation. Complement-mediated enhancement of the inflammation surrounding surgical incisions may increase pain. METHODS In these studies, the autho...

We discuss the design and implementation of forward-imaging instruments for optical coherence tomography (OCT), which require the delivery, scanning, and collection of single-spatial-mode optical radiation. A hand-held surgical probe for use in open surgery can provide cross-sectional images of subsurface tissue before surgical incisions are made. A rigid laparoscope for minimally invasive surg...

In this paper, we present the design of our surgery simulator under the aspects of multimodal object representation and parallelization on multicore architectures. Special focus is put on cutting. Surgical incisions can be accomplished interactively with force feedback.

purpose: to evaluate the outcomes of keratorefractive surgery for correction of postkeratoplasty astigmatism in keratoconus. methods: in this retrospective study, surgical records of 45 eyes of 45 patients that underwent relaxing incisions with or without compressive sutures were evaluated. the minimum interval between complete suture removal and operation was 1 month. location and extent of in...

Standard open and percutaneous minimally invasive surgical procedures co-exist in the treatment of fractures of the thoracolumbar spine. Shorter skin incisions just above the pedicles are used in minimally invasive procedures. Full-length skin incisions and invasive preparations are applied in the standard open approach. While both methods show equivalent rates of intraoperative surgical compli...

C lear corneal incisions have marked a breakthrough in phacoemulsification, because they reduce surgical time, speed patients’ postoperative recovery, and reduce the rate of induced astigmatism. They also significantly decrease the incidence of the complications associated with scleral tunnels such as conjunctival manipulation and hyphema. Studies, however, have suggested a potentially increase...