OBJECTIVE To present a surgical variant technique to repair left ventricular aneurysms. METHODS After anesthesia, cardiopulmonary bypass, and myocardial protection with hyperkalemic tepic blood cardioplegia: 1) The left ventricle is opened through the infarct and an endocardial encircling suture is placed at the transitional zone between the scarred and normal tissue; 2) Next, the scar tissue...

The aim of the present study was to explore the effects of human cartilage-derived morphogenetic protein-2 (hCDMP-2)-expressing canine myoblasts on the repair of meniscal fibrocartilage injury. Purified canine myoblasts were infected with lentiviruses carrying an empty vector or the hCDMP-2 gene. The following four experimental groups were established to study the in vivo meniscal repair in a c...

In vitro antibacterial efficacy of Vicryl plus suture (coated Polyglactin 910 with triclosan) using zone of inibition assays Objectives: This study evaluates the in vitro antimicrobial efficacy, of an absorbable suture coated with triclosan (Vicryl Plus) against two bacteria, potential responsible for the development of oral diseases: Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Streptococcus mutans. Methods: Vi...

I read the article by Mannan et al with great interest.(1) The authors have presented several interesting cases from Pakistan regarding foreign bodies in the bladder, which is a significant contribution to the literature. However, there were no cases of polypyroplene suture encrustation in bladder in the series. We would like to report a rare case from Turkey, in which a bladder stone was forme...

Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic rocks of the Mérida Massif (SW Iberia) have been grouped into tectonostratigraphic units. Each unit is separated from rest ones by either crustal-scale thrusts and/or extensional detachments. The lowermost (Magdalena Gneisses; lower plate) has continental crust affinity, below a mafic-ultramafic ensemble, referred to as Ophiolite (suture zone). Serie Negra Group co...

This paper presents one of the significant results research Prof. Dr. Milodrag Andjelkovic. The study underlines first field record providing evidence Upper Cretaceous bimodal magmatism that eventually led towards definition Late ?Sava?Vardar Zone? in 2002 (Pamic, 2002). Currently, 20-years old i.e., Sava Suture Zone regarded as a crustal assembly formerly intervening amalgamated Adria and sout...

the source parameters and focal depth of the destructive mw 6.5, 31 march. 2006 iran- silakhor earthquake, the two largest foreshocks and a major aftershock are determined using broadband data from a seismic network in iran based on a time-domain linear moment tensor inversion. the earthquakes occurred in the zagros suture zone in western iran. waveform inversion of the selected events estimate...

A 56-year old female patient presented to our clinic with a complaint of low vision in her right eye. Twenty-two years earlier she had undergone a scleral buckling operation in her right eye because of retinal detachment. She indicated that vision in her right eye was good after the surgery but had recently been gradually declining. Best-corrected vision acuity was counting fingers at 1 meter i...

abstract background: the cosmetic result of the surgical scar has long been considered by surgeons as an important factor for patient satisfaction. on the other hand, there has been an old teaching that perfect closure of contaminated wounds increases the rate of infection. we decided to look into this matter and see if this is a fact or a myth. methods: in this prospective randomized study con...