Nineteen patients with obliterative arteriosclerotic disease of the legs and suffering from intermittent claudication were studied before and during a 6 months' training program. The maximal walking distance and the calf muscle blood flow during walking (xenon-133 clearance technique) was recorded at monthly intervals. A significant correlation was established between improvement in maximal wal...

Component wear after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with extruded metallosis in the extra-articular tissue of the calf secondary to a periprosthetic fracture is a rare complication. A 77-year-old man with a failed Insall-Burstein II TKA prosthesis presented with calf cellulitis after a fall. Radiologic evaluation revealed severe osteolysis and loosening of prosthetic components and an intramuscu...

A monosynaptic reflex produced by electrical stimulation of the mixed nerve in humans (H-reflex) can frequently be evoked in the calf muscles at a stimulus intensity below threshold for the motor nerve fibres. In special states, such as spasticity, low threshold H-reflexes are more easily elicited and more widely distributed in muscles other than the calf It has been reported that centripetal n...

INTRODUCTION Miyoshi myopathy, a type of distal myopathy with predominant involvement of the posterior calf muscles, has been assigned to mutations in the dysferlin gene. However, many of the late-onset limb-girdle and distal myopathies that resemble dysferlinopathy or Miyoshi myopathy remain unclassified, even after extensive immunohistological and genetic analysis. CASE PRESENTATION We repo...

Nineteen patients with obliterative arteriosclerotic disease of the legs and suffering from intermittent claudication were studied before and during a 6 months' training program. The maximal walking distance and the calf muscle blood flow during walking (xenon-133 clearance technique) was recorded at monthly intervals. A significant correlation was established between improvement in maximal wal...

A 5-day-old female Holstein calf was necropsied because of lethargy, recumbency and anorexia. At necropsy, multiple gross defects were evident in several organs, including unclosed sutures of skull bones, asymmetrical orbits, doming of the skull bones, hydrocephalus, hydranencephaly, cleft palate, brachygnathia, ventricular septal defect, mitral valve dysplasia and rudimentary lungs. On microsc...

The blocking of the posterior tibial, sural, saphenous, superficial peroneal, and the deep peroneal nerves with possible alternative approaches is discussed. Digital blocks, Mayo blocks, and intravenous regional anesthesia are also discussed. The placement of the tourniquet above the ankle but below the calf muscles will avoid deep muscle pain. Lidocaine and bupivacaine cause vasodilatation in ...