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Amputation‐Sparing Treatment by Nature: “Surgical” Maggots Revisited [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2002
Maggots were used as adjunct treatment for infected wounds that showed no response to the classical approach of wound debridement and antibiotic therapy. We summarize findings for 11 patients with necrotic wounds who received treatment with "surgical" maggots (100-2900 applied in 3-10 changes of dressing) for 11-34 days, which apparently aided in ...
G N, Jukema, A G, Menon, A T, Bernards, P, Steenvoorde, A, Taheri Rastegar, J T, van Dissel   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Clean Cut (adaptive, multimodal surgical infection prevention programme) for low‐resource settings: a prospective quality improvement study

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
Clean Cut is a multimodal, adaptive, checklist‐based infection prevention programme designed to improve compliance with six critical perioperative infection prevention practices. After introducing the programme at five hospitals in Ethiopia, compliance with critical infection prevention standards significantly improved and the relative risk of ...
J. A. Forrester, N. Starr, T. Negussie, D. Schaps, M. Adem, S. Alemu, D. Amenu, N. Gebeyehu, T. Habteyohannes, F. Jiru, A. Tesfaye, E. Wayessa, R. Chen, A. Trickey, S. Bitew, A. Bekele, T. G. Weiser   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Root amputation and bone grafting of failed apicoectomy of mesiobuccal root of maxillary first molar

Saudi Endodontic Journal, 2012
Root amputation is an option available to extend the function of a molar tooth when there is a persistent endodontic failure. This case report of a 52-year-old male provides an overview of the feasibility of mesiobuccal root amputation and bone grafting ...
Abdulaziz S Abu-Melha
doaj   +1 more source

Reconstruction technique of multiligamentous knee injury in a patient with traumatic transtibial amputation

Trauma Case Reports, 2023
Multiligamentary knee injuries associated with transtibial amputation is a pathologie with a low incidence, so their diagnosis and treatment represent a great challenge for the medical team, mainly due to the low rate of scientific publications on the ...
Mario Holgado Fernández, Carlos Galindo Rubín, Rebeca García Barcenilla, Gustavo Gutierrez Castanedo, Sara García Gonzalez, Pablo Pernía Gómez, Pedro Muñiz Zatón, Pablo Galindo Rubín   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Civilian upper extremity vascular injury: A National Trauma Data Bank study

Annals of Vascular Surgery - Brief Reports and Innovations
Objective: Traumatic upper extremity vascular injuries (UEVIs) pose unique challenges as they are relatively rare injuries. There are various potential treatment modalities to address these injuries which may be influenced by the location of the injury ...
Marissa Famularo, Hunaiz Patel, Vrutant Patel, Matthew Ward, Melissa Scribani, William Friedman, Daphne Monie, Shelby Cooper   +7 more
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Molecular characterisation of human penile carcinoma and generation of paired epithelial primary cell lines

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Generation of two normal and tumour (cancerous) paired human cell lines using an established tissue culture technique and their characterisation is described. Cell lines were characterised at cellular, protein, chromosome and gene expression levels and for HPV status.
Simon Broad, Mahmood Hachim, Tom Bertin, Karolina Penderecka, Rifat Hamoudi, Saif Khan, Rui Henrique, Natalie Bergmoser, Manit Arya, Kalle Sipila, Matteo Vietri Rudan, Asif Muneer, Aamir Ahmed   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Long‐Term Outcomes and Costs in the Management of Critical Limb Ischemia: A Population‐Based Cohort Study

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2018
Background The optimal treatment for critical limb ischemia remains controversial owing to conflicting conclusions from previous studies. Methods and Results We obtained administrative claims on Medicare beneficiaries with initial critical limb ischemia ...
Jihad A. Mustapha, Barry T. Katzen, Richard F. Neville, Robert A. Lookstein, Thomas Zeller, Larry E. Miller, Michael R. Jaff   +6 more
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Deep Learning–Assisted Differentiation of Four Peripheral Neuropathies Using Corneal Confocal Microscopy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Peripheral neuropathies contribute to patient disability but may be diagnosed late or missed altogether due to late referral, limitation of current diagnostic methods and lack of specialized testing facilities. To address this clinical gap, we developed NeuropathAI, an interpretable deep learning–based multiclass classification ...
Chaima Ben Rabah, Ioannis N. Petropoulos, Mark Stettner, Maryam Ferdousi, Uazman Alam, Nathan Efron, Ahmed Serag, Rayaz A. Malik   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Surgical Treatment of Post-Amputation Foot Deformations in Diabetic Neuropathy

Неотложная медицинская помощь
Relevance The number of amputations performed on patients with diabetic foot syndrome is increasing all over the world. Almost half of these operations are the so-called “minor amputations” carried out within the foot.
P. S. Bardyugov, M. V. Parshikov, N. V. Yarygin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Results of treatment of diabetic patients with chronic critical ischemia of the lower limb

Mìžnarodnij Endokrinologìčnij Žurnal, 2018
Background. In Ukraine, the current shortage of qualified vascular surgical care, especially for diabetic people, remains relevant. The diabetic patients with chronic critical ischemia of the lower limb often undergo unreasonable conservative treatment ...
S.N. Didenko
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