A greater one-horned Asian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) presented for presumed ocular trauma to the left eye, with secondary bacterial infection, resulting in severe and progressive corneal ulceration. Following a poor response to medical therapy, the animal was anesthetized for further examination, and a bulbar conjunctival pedicle graft performed. This graft failed by 48-h postsurgery as...

This report describes superficial medial collateral ligament reconstruction of the knee using a novel method of graft fixation with the ACL Tightrope RT (Arthrex, Naples, FL). After tibial fixation with either a standard interference screw or staple, femoral fixation of the semitendinosus tendon is performed with the adjustable-loop suspensory fixation device, which allows for both initial graf...

Patellar tendon ruptures are rare but very invalidating lesions. We describe a case of re-rupture of a sutured patellar tendon. An autologous semitendinosus graft was used for tendon augmentation in the reconstruction procedure. This technique uses an easy-to-harvest graft which has low donor site morbidity. Additionally, the strength of the graft allows early rehabilitation, and no further sur...

INTRODUCTION Venous thrombosis is a serious surgical complication that frequently results in loss of kidney graft. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a female patient recipient of a decease kidney transplant that in the tenth postoperative presented with hematuria, graft pain and oliguria. Ultrasound examination was suggestive of venous thrombosis with abnormal doppler waveform pattern a...

Background. Renal re-transplants are increasing in number, due to many first renal transplant patients coming back to dialysis treatment. There are controversial opinions about the evolution of these re-transplanted patients. The aim of our study is to analyse the prognosis of patients and grafts under a renal re-transplant.Methods. This was a retrospective study of 579 renal re-transplants rea...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether patency rates after bulbar urethroplasty with buccal mucosa graft onlay differ on the basis of whether the graft is placed ventrally or dorsally. METHODS This was a retrospective single-center study of all single-stage bulbar urethroplasties performed from 2001 to 2011 by 2 surgeons in which buccal mucosa was used as an onlay graft. Failure was defined as the ne...

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OBJECTIVE To determine the re-recurrence and the postoperative complications in recurrent pterygium cases treated by intraoperative 0.02% Mitomycin C (MMC) and conjunctival autograft (CAG). STUDY DESIGN Quasi-experimental. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Ophthalmology, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro, Hyderabad and Chandka Medical College Hospital, Lark...

BACKGROUND Coarctation of the aorta accounts for almost 5% of all congenital cardiac malformations, and it is usually treated by open surgical procedures. Despite the excellent primary results, many patients may develop anastomotic pseudo-aneurysms, associated with considerable morbidity and mortality rates. We investigated the role of endovascular repair as an alternative to open re-do surgery...

Dear Editor, We read with interest the article by Raees-Jalali and colleagues1 recently published in the Iranian Journal of Kidney Diseases, titled “Hyperlipidemia after kidney transplantation: long-term graft outcome.” They evaluated the prevalence of hyperlipidemia and its relation with renal allograft function within 10 years of follow-up among 73 kidney transplant patients in a single cente...