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Santosh Dev, Manish Yadav, Newton Ashish Shah, Barsha Dev, Shishir Devkota, Laxman Khadka, Dhiraj Kumar Das, Samridhi Yadav, Jayant Kumar Sah, Bikal Ghimire
INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE: Foreign bodies in the liver are uncommon but can lead to severe conditions like liver abscess and sepsis. They typically enter through direct penetration, migration from the gastrointestinal tract, or through the blood. Common foreign objects include metal pins, or sewing needles swallowed accidentally. CASE PRESENTATION: A 25-year-old male presented to our OPD with pain over the right abdomen with a prior history of projectile injury causing laceration over the right anterior abdomen with primary suturing...
May 2024: Annals of Medicine and Surgery
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Arno Haus, Peter Szurman, Lisa Müller, Gerardo Farese, Anna-Maria Seuthe
PURPOSE: To present the modified surgery technique of new suture probe canaloplasty with a specially prepared monofilament 4.0 polypropylene suture combined with suprachoroidal drainage (ScD) and collagen sheet implantation for non-penetrating glaucoma surgery. METHODS: Prospective study with a twelve months follow-up. A standard 4/0 polypropylene suture (ProleneTM by Ethicon; thickness: approximately 250 m) is cut and shaped with an ophthalmic knife (MANI® Crescent Knife, Mani Inc 8-3 Kiyohara Industrial Park, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 321-3231, Japan) to create a blunt end without sharp or compressed edges...
April 29, 2024: International Ophthalmology
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Johannes Bier, Alexandra Klingner, Rupert Stadlhofer, Christian S Betz, Arne Böttcher
OBJECTIVE: Nasal septum perforation (NSP) is a common condition affecting ~1.2% of the general population and is still considered challenging to treat. Therapeutic strategies range from conservative local treatments and septal button closures to over 40 different surgical approaches. This study aimed to present a novel secure approach. METHODS: We describe our novel and unique NSP closure approach using a "fascia taco," in which conchal cartilage is enveloped by temporalis fascia like a taco and splints are left in place for 6-8 weeks...
April 2024: Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology
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S Morteza Seyed Jafari, Simon Bossart, Maurice Adatto, Laurence Feldmeyer, Nikhil Yawalkar, Kristine Heidemeyer
INTRODUCTION: Tattooing has a rich historical presence in various human civilizations, with the earliest physical evidence dating back to around 3258 BC. While acceptance of tattoos is increasing in the Western world, negative associations remain. Short-pulsed lasers, such as Q-Switched (QS) or picosecond lasers, are the gold standard for tattoo removal. CASE PRESENTATION: This case report discusses the successful removal of 17 amateur tattoos, which were self-administered by a 19-year-old female patient using black eyeliner ink and sewing needles...
2024: Case Reports in Dermatology
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Jenny Zhe Liao, Hyung-Lok Chung, Claire Shih, Kenneth Kin Lam Wong, Debdeep Dutta, Zelha Nil, Catherine Grace Burns, Oguz Kanca, Ye-Jin Park, Zhongyuan Zuo, Paul C Marcogliese, Katherine Sew, Hugo J Bellen, Esther M Verheyen
Cdk8 in Drosophila is the orthologue of vertebrate CDK8 and CDK19. These proteins have been shown to modulate transcriptional control by RNA polymerase II. We found that neuronal loss of Cdk8 severely reduces fly lifespan and causes bang sensitivity. Remarkably, these defects can be rescued by expression of human CDK19, found in the cytoplasm of neurons, suggesting a non-nuclear function of CDK19/Cdk8. Here we show that Cdk8 plays a critical role in the cytoplasm, with its loss causing elongated mitochondria in both muscles and neurons...
April 18, 2024: Nature Communications
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Hiroki Harada, Kojiro Eto, Manabu Ohashi, Nozomi Kurihara, Motonari Ri, Rie Makuuchi, Satoshi Ida, Masaru Hayami, Koshi Kumagai, Takeshi Sano, Souya Nunobe
BACKGROUND: Intracorporeal mechanical gastrogastrostomy (IMG) techniques have recently been developed and their short-term safety was presented in their initial evaluation. However, whether they are comparable to extracorporeal hand-sewing gastrogastrostomy (EHG) remains unclear. The aim of the study is to establish the safety of IMG in totally laparoscopic pylorus-preserving gastrectomy (TLPPG) compared to EHG in laparoscopy-assisted pylorus-preserving gastrectomy (LAPPG). METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed the short-term outcomes of patients with middle-third early gastric cancer who underwent LAPPG or TLPPG between 2005 and 2022...
April 15, 2024: Surgical Endoscopy
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Zan Xin Chin, Sew Lay Chua, Yi Li Ang, Sheena Wee, Ken Kah Meng Lee, Yuansheng Wu, Joanne Sheot Harn Chan
Some synthetic dyes are fraudulently added into spices to appeal visually to consumers. Food regulations in several countries, including the United States, Australia, Japan and the European Union, strictly prohibit the use of unauthorised synthetic dyes in food. Nevertheless, illegal practices persist, where spices contaminated with potentially carcinogenic dyes have been documented, posing potential health risks to consumers. In the present study, 14 synthetic dyes were investigated through liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry in 252 commercially available spices in the Singapore market...
April 10, 2024: Food Additives & Contaminants. Part B, Surveillance
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Joseph L Watson, Estere Seinkmane, Christine T Styles, Andrei Mihut, Lara K Krüger, Kerrie E McNally, Vicente Jose Planelles-Herrero, Michal Dudek, Patrick M McCall, Silvia Barbiero, Michael Vanden Oever, Sew Yeu Peak-Chew, Benjamin T Porebski, Aiwei Zeng, Nina M Rzechorzek, David C S Wong, Andrew D Beale, Alessandra Stangherlin, Margot Riggi, Janet Iwasa, Jörg Morf, Christos Miliotis, Alina Guna, Alison J Inglis, Jan Brugués, Rebecca M Voorhees, Joseph E Chambers, Qing-Jun Meng, John S O'Neill, Rachel S Edgar, Emmanuel Derivery
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April 8, 2024: Nature
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Alireza Mohammadzadeh, Ali Samady Khanghah, Mohammad Vakili Ojarood
INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE: Penetrating cardiac injuries among the whole injuries confronting the trauma surgeon is more alarming. The introduction of needles as an attempt to inflict self-injury has rarely been described, so we only found 34 reported cases reviewing the available English literature since 1967. CASE PRESENTATION: We have reported a case of a 35-year-old depressed female who had introduced 17 sewing needles through her chest wall, causing myocardial puncture and mastitis; underwent exploratory sternotomy and mammoplasty in two stages and survived...
March 19, 2024: International Journal of Surgery Case Reports
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Alina Zubarevich, Arian Arjomandi Rad, Eleftherios Beltsios, Jawad Salman, Antonios Pitsis, Aron-Frederik Popov, Bastian Schmack, Farhad Bakhtiary, Arjang Ruhparwar, Alexander Weymann
In the evolving landscape of cardiac surgery, this article explores the potential of minimally invasive mitral valve replacement procedures as a viable alternative to conventional surgical techniques. Leveraging advancements in automated suturing devices and video endoscopy, our work aims to demonstrate that minimally invasive approaches can be applied across a broad spectrum of surgical scenarios. Herein we highlight preoperative diagnostics and operative techniques, with a focus on infra-axillary anterolateral minithoracotomy as the access point...
April 4, 2024: Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
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Isobel Sigley
Alice Dunbar-Nelson is mostly remembered as a poet, activist, and ex-wife of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Her volume The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories (1899) has been largely overshadowed as a result. Yet, the collection contains a portfolio of heroines analogous and contemporaneous to the famed New Woman figure of the fin de siècle. In this article, I consider Dunbar-Nelson's heroines in light of their New Woman-esque agency and autonomy as they find remedies and power in objects and materials steeped in New Orleans's cultural heritage...
April 3, 2024: Journal of Medical Humanities
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Jérôme Cattin-Ortolá, Jonathan G G Kaufman, Alison K Gillingham, Jane L Wagstaff, Sew-Yeu Peak-Chew, Tim J Stevens, Jérôme Boulanger, David J Owen, Sean Munro
The Golgi-localized golgins golgin-97 and golgin-245 capture transport vesicles arriving from endosomes via the protein TBC1D23. The amino-terminal domain of TBC1D23 binds to the golgins, and the carboxyl-terminal domain of TBC1D23 captures the vesicles, but how it recognizes specific vesicles was unclear. A search for binding partners of the carboxyl-terminal domain unexpectedly revealed direct binding to carboxypeptidase D and syntaxin-16, known cargo proteins of the captured vesicles. Binding is via a threonine-leucine-tyrosine (TLY) sequence present in both proteins next to an acidic cluster...
March 29, 2024: Science Advances
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Farhad Bakhtiary, Saad Salamate, Ali El-Sayed Ahmad
Micro-invasive totally endoscopic aortic valve replacement surgery is a minimally invasive cardiac procedure that can be performed with the help of several techniques and technologies that employ the latest innovations in instrumentation and technological advances in the field, thereby greatly limiting the overall invasiveness of the procedure. With the help of a 3-dimensional camera, long instruments, a very small thoracotomy and a soft-tissue retractor without any rib retractor, the aortic valve can be easily and safely accessed for replacement...
March 26, 2024: Multimedia Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery: MMCTS
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T Ratneswaren, N Chan, J Aeron-Thomas, S Sait, O Adesalu, M Alhawamdeh, M Benger, J Garnham, L Dixon, F Tona, C McNamara, E Taylor, K Lobotesis, E Lim, O Goldberg, N Asmar, O Evbuomwan, S Banerjee, L Holm-Mercer, J Senor, Y Tsitsiou, P Tantrige, A Taha, K Ballal, A Mattar, A Daadipour, K Elfergani, R Barker, R Chakravartty, A G Murchison, B J Kemp, R Simister, I Davagnanam, O Y Wong, D Werring, A Banaras, M Anjari, J C L Rodrigues, C A S Thompson, I R Haines, T A Burnett, R E Y Zaher, V L Reay, M Banerjee, C S L Sew Hee, A P Oo, A Lo, P Rogers, T Hughes, A Marin, S Mukherjee, H Jaber, E Sanders, S Owen, M Bhandari, S Sundayi, A Bhagat, M Elsakka, O H Hashmi, M Lymbouris, Y Gurung-Koney, M Arshad, I Hasan, N Singh, V Patel, M Rahiminejad, T C Booth
BACKGROUND: Apical ground-glass opacification (GGO) identified on CT angiography (CTA) performed for suspected acute stroke was developed in 2020 as a coronavirus-disease-2019 (COVID-19) diagnostic and prognostic biomarker in a retrospective study during the first wave of COVID-19. OBJECTIVE: To prospectively validate whether GGO on CTA performed for suspected acute stroke is a reliable COVID-19 diagnostic and prognostic biomarker and whether it is reliable for COVID-19 vaccinated patients...
March 15, 2024: NeuroImage: Clinical
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Anran Qi, Takeo Igarashi
We address the problem of modifying a given well-designed 2D sewing pattern to accommodate garment edits in the 3D space. Existing methods usually adjust the sewing pattern by applying uniform flattening to the 3D garment. The problems are twofold: first, it ignores local scaling of the 2D sewing pattern such as shrinking ribs of cuffs; second, it does not respect the implicit design rules and conventions of the industry, such as the use of straight edges for simplicity and precision in sewing. To address those problems, we present a pattern adjustment method that considers the non-uniform local scaling of the 2D sewing pattern by utilizing the intrinsic scale matrix...
March 18, 2024: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
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Min Chen, Sarfraz Hussain, Yuhong Liu, Ghulam Mustafa, Bingtao Hu, Zhirui Qin, Xue Wang
Coastal land reclamation has become a primary strategy for alleviating conflicts between human development and land resource utilization. However, anthropogenic activities associated with land reclamation inevitably result in significant changes to coastal wetland ecosystems. Previous studies have mainly focused on the ecological consequences of land reclamation on above-ground vegetation, while overlooking the distinctions between different reclamation patterns and the critical role of soil seed bank in maintaining ecosystem stability...
March 6, 2024: Marine Environmental Research
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Maggie E Jewett, Harrison L Hiraki, Michał Wojasiński, Zenghao Zhang, Susan S Xi, Amanda S Bluem, Eashan S Prabhu, William Y Wang, Abdon Pena-Francesch, Brendon M Baker
Capillary scale vascularization is critical to the survival of engineered 3D tissues and remains an outstanding challenge for the field of tissue engineering. Current methods to generate micro-scale vasculature such as 3D printing, two photon hydrogel ablation, angiogenesis, and vasculogenic assembly face challenges in rapidly creating organized, highly vascularized tissues at capillary length-scales. Within metabolically demanding tissues, native capillary beds are highly organized and densely packed to achieve adequate delivery of nutrients and oxygen and efficient waste removal...
October 2, 2023: Advanced Functional Materials
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Abid Saeed Khattak, Azlan Bin Mohd Zain, Rohayanti Binti Hassan, Fakhra Nazar, Muhammad Haris, Bilal Ashfaq Ahmed
OBJECTIVES: To design and develop a classifier, named Sewing Driving Training based Optimization-Deep Residual Network (SDTO_DRN) for hand gesture recognition. METHODS: The electrical activity of forearm muscles generates the signals that can be captured with Surface Electromyography (sEMG) sensors and includes meaningful data for decoding both muscle actions and hand movement. This research develops an efficacious scheme for hand gesture recognition using SDTO_DRN...
March 8, 2024: Biomedizinische Technik. Biomedical Engineering
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Jonas P Ehrsam, Olga Meier Adamenko, Rolf B Schlumpf, Othmar M Schöb
BACKGROUND: Foreign bodies within the pleura and pancreas are infrequent, and the approaches to their treatment still a subject of debate. There is limited knowledge particularly regarding glass foreign bodies. METHODS: We present a case involving large glass splinters in the pleura and pancreas, with an unknown entry point. In addition, a systematic review was conducted to explore entry hypotheses and management options. RESULTS: In addition to our case, our review uncovered eight incidents of intrapleural glass, and another eight cases of glass in other intrathoracic areas...
March 7, 2024: Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques
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Stefanie Gniesmer, Svenja Rebecca Sonntag, Anna Gapeeva, Ala Cojocaru, Sören Kaps, Rainer Adelung, Judith Sewing, Aysegül Tura, Salvatore Grisanti, Swaantje Grisanti
To carry out the preclinical and histological evaluation of a novel nanotechnology-based microshunt for drainage glaucoma surgery. Twelve New Zealand White rabbits were implanted with a novel microshunt and followed up for 6 weeks. The new material composite consists of the silicone polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and tetrapodal Zinc Oxide (ZnO-T) nano-/microparticles. The microshunts were inserted ab externo to connect the subconjunctival space with the anterior chamber. Animals were euthanized after 2 and 6 weeks for histological evaluation...
February 23, 2024: Scientific Reports
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