background: to evaluate the intermediate-term outcomes of radius shortening as a treatment for kienbock’s disease. materials and methods: in a historical cohort, 16 skeletally mature patients (9 men and 7 women) with kienbock disease, who were treated with radial shortening osteotomy between 2002 and 2012, were reviewed in our study. the mean age of our patients was 30 (range 18-43) years old. ...

background: bone marrow-derived mesenchymal cellscan transdifferentiate into cardiomyocyte cells and improveheart function after transplantation. since biomaterials canimprove the cell retention in the site, cell survival and differentiation,heart tissue engineering is now being explored as anapplied solution to support cell-based therapies and increasetheir efficacy for myocardial diseases. ch...

background abnormalities in the velocity and pattern of myocardial shortening on tissue doppler imaging (tdi) have been proposed to aid in the noninvasive diagnosis of coronary artery disease (cad). objectives we investigated the diagnostic value of post-systolic shortening (pss), a delayed ejection velocity of the myocardium after the closure of the aortic valve, on tdi in the diagnosis of cad...

Background:  There is no consensus on the best surgical treatment in Kienböck disease. We compared the shortterm outcomes of radial shortening osteotomy and capitate shortening osteotomy in patients affected with this disease.  Methods:  In a retrospective study of 21 patients with Lichtman stage IIIA of Kienböck disease, 12 patients with an average follow up of 3.2 ± 0.6 years had radial short...

background: limited resources for adult stem cells necessitate their in vitro culture prior to clinical use. investigating mitochondrial dna (mtdna) and telomere shortening has proved to be important indications of stem cell validity. this study was designed to investigate these indicators in multiple passages of three adult stem cell lines which were produced in our stem cell laboratory. metho...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between compensatory shortening and coarticulation in German tense and lax vowels in trochees and iambs and to determine whether this relationship was influenced by prosodic accentuation. Speakers produced near minimal pairs differing in vowel tensity in monosyllabic and disyllabic words (both trochees and iambs) in accented and deaccent...