... required Wound types (acute or traumatic versus chronic) and location were noted, and durations, numbers, and fre- Table 1: Patient and wound details before and after negativepressurewoundtherapy ... Negativepressurewoundtherapy to treat hematomas and surgical incisions following high-energy trauma J Trauma 2006, 60:1301-1306 Wongwarawat MD, Schnall SB, Holtom PD, Moon C, Schiller F: Negative ... which requires substantial effort and introduces the issue of donor site morbidity [4] Negativepressurewoundtherapy (NPWT) was first described by Argenta and Morykwas [2] This technique can be...
... flexible edges Results Wound contraction under NPWT Various negative pressures (-40, -70, -120 and -160 mmHg) were applied to the sternal wound and the width of the wound was measured Wound contraction ... that wound stabilization is similar at low levels of negativepressure (-50 to -100 mmHg) and high levels of negativepressure (-150 to -200 mmHg) [11] The present study also shows that wound ... formation and wound healing [14] Indeed, it has been shown that early changes in the size of a wound are correlated to the rate of wound healing [17] Sternum wound stabilization A sternotomy wound requires...
... continuous negativepressurewoundtherapy in swine Ann Thorac Surg 2009, 88:1277-1283 Campbell PE: Surgical wound case studies with the versatile wound vacuum system for negativepressurewoundtherapy ... pressurewoundtherapy J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs 2006, 33:176-185, discussion 185-190 Miller MS, Lowery CA: Negativepressurewound therapy: “a rose by any other name” Ostomy Wound Manage 2005, ... evaluation of gauze-based negativepressurewoundtherapy Int Wound J 2008, 5:280-286 Abu-Omar Y, Naik MJ, Catarino PA, Ratnatunga C: Right ventricular rupture during use of high -pressure suction drainage...
... during negativepressurewoundtherapy when using a rigid disc to prevent heart and lung rupture J Cardiothorac Surg 2011, 6(1):42 14 Mouës CM, Heule F, Hovius SE: A review of topical negativepressure ... vacuum-assisted therapy of mediastinitis Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2010, 11(4):493-4 Petzina R, Malmsjö M, Stamm C, Hetzer R: Major complications during negativepressurewoundtherapy in poststernotomy ... this article as: van Wingerden et al.: Major bleeding during negativepressure wound/ V.A.C.®® - therapy for postsurgical deep sternal wound infection - a critical appraisal Journal of Cardiothoracic...
... from the wound edge A g 60 Wound thickness (mm) A Lateral wound width (mm) Page of Figure Graphs showing wound contraction upon negativepressure application The distance between the wound edges ... during negativepressurewoundtherapy of sternotomy wounds, assessment using magnetic resonance imaging Int Wound J 7(4):305-11 29 Isago T, Nozaki M, Kikuchi Y, et al: Effects of different negative ... peripheral rat wounds and using polyurethane foam Negative pressures of -50, -75 and -125 mmHg caused similar reduction in wound area Furthermore, in a pig sternotomy wound model [21], the wound contraction...
... capillary pressure is zero in the non-evaporating region as the non-evaporating film has a flat interface A capillary pressure gradient exists in the meniscus region Capillary pressure reaches negative ... The pressure in the liquid film is obtained using the augmented Young-Laplace equation: PL = Pv - Pc - Pd, where PL is the liquid pressure and Pv is the vapor pressure The average vapor pressure ... high negativepressure at the center of the Maroo and Chung Nanoscale Research Letters 2011, 6:72 http://www.nanoscalereslett.com/content/6/1/72 Disjoining pressure Pd (MPa) Disjoining pressure...
... gel sheeting and compression therapy with an individually designed silicon pressure splint for the helical rim The procedure combines the advantageous effects of pressure and silicon gel sheeting ... helical rim Patients'3left ear after keloid excision with silicon pressure Patients' left ear after keloid excision with silicon pressure splint on the left helical rim Page of (page number not ... as little wound tension as possible which is not always an easy task where the amount of skin is limited, as on the anterior side of the ear Hence, we utilized multi-modal standard therapy forms...
... shock waves, ultrasound is represented by high pressure amplitudes and a steep increase in pressure in a periodic oscillation comparison to the ambient pressure In the atmosphere, shock waves can ... paraboloid It Fig – Pressure curve p(t): the rise to peak pressure (p+) takes place in a few nanosec- is possible to design reflectors with large diameters and great onds (ns) The peak pressures reach ... medically used pressure waves described further below) Another characteristic of shock waves is the relatively low tensile wave Shock wave pressure component p–, which is around 10% of the peak pressure...
... 2, and Figure illustrates the influence of plasma pressure on bacterial count (exp 1-6 in table 1) Minimum CFU values were seen using 1.24 mbar pressure The effect of O2 percentage (exp 5,7, and ... post-discharges at atmospheric pressure for sterilization J Phys D: Appl 2005;38:1905 doi: 10.1088/0022-3727/38/12/009 Saloum S, Naddaf M Diagnostic study of lowpressure Ar– O remote plasma generated ... gas pressure: the case of N2-O2 mixtures IEEE Transaction on Plasma Science 2002;30:1429-36 doi: 10.1109/TPS.2002.804203 Feichtinger J, Schulz A, Walker M, Schuhmacher U Sterilization with lowpressure...
... http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/9/1/35 invasive HER-2/neu positive or negative breast cancers Several other correlative or in vitro studies suggest potentially negative effects of some immune responses in breast ... loss and progression to HER-2/neu negative breast carcinoma To test this hypothesis, we conducted pilot studies in patients with HER-2/neu positive and HER-2/neu negative breast carcinoma to determine ... HER-2/neu-specific IFN-g positive T cell responses in HER-2/neu negative breast cancer patients Of 12 patients with HER-2/neu negative breast cancers (stages I-IIIA) ten patients showed HER-2/neu-specific...
... http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/9/1/35 invasive HER-2/neu positive or negative breast cancers Several other correlative or in vitro studies suggest potentially negative effects of some immune responses in breast ... loss and progression to HER-2/neu negative breast carcinoma To test this hypothesis, we conducted pilot studies in patients with HER-2/neu positive and HER-2/neu negative breast carcinoma to determine ... HER-2/neu-specific IFN-g positive T cell responses in HER-2/neu negative breast cancer patients Of 12 patients with HER-2/neu negative breast cancers (stages I-IIIA) ten patients showed HER-2/neu-specific...
... http://arthritis-research.com/content/10/6/R142 Figure negative for anti-MCV and among them 5% were also RF -negative Therefore, the best diagnostic strategy may be to assay both anti-MCV and RF in anti-CCP -negative RA patients ... anti-CCP, anti-MCV antibodies were positive although RF was negative Similarly, 13.2% of anti-CCPnegative patients who also tested negative for anti-MCV had positive RF titres In contrast, our ... only had negative results for the other two markers and had positive results for both anti-CCP and RF Among the patients with primary Sjögren syndrome and positive anti-MCV titres, only had negative...
... product, greatly reducing negative selection pressure against the new form To assess the validity of this hypothesis, it would be useful to find measures of negative selection pressure that are applicable ... reduced negative selection pressure in alternatively spliced exons Alternative splicing and diploidy appear to give about the same magnitude reduction (three-fold) in negative selection pressure ... alleviate most of the negative effects of the mutation, so that alternative splicing of the mutation would not produce much additional relief of its negative selection pressure This question...
... Ph-positive CP-CML, Ph -negative ALL Wang et al Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2010, 3:14 http://www.jhoonline.org/content/3/1/14 Page of and post two courses of chemotherapy (CT) for Ph -negative ALL, ... BCR/ABL positive control; Lane C: negative control; Lane CP-CML, 200 bp b3/a2 products; Lane ALL and Post-CT, BCR/ABL negative Discussion Isolated instances of Ph -negative acute leukemia or high-risk ... immune response After two courses of chemotherapy for Phnegative ALL, the decrease of TCR subfamilies including Va and Vb were possibly induced by chemotherapy There are two possible mechanisms...
... nasal mask was applied to the patient and titration of optimal pressure was determined at a second sleep study At 10 cm of water pressure of nasal CPAP, the patient’s snoring was eliminated, his ... Polysomnographic parameters and ESS before and after one year on continuous positive airway pressuretherapy Before CPAP After CPAP AHI (events/hour) 60 Mean SpO2 (%) 84 96.3 Min SpO2 (%) Time ... continuous positive airway pressure in three patients with mucosal hemangiomas of the oral cavity Mayo Clin Proc 1999, 74:155-158 13 Becker R, Schäfer H, Bauer BL: Intracranial pressure in sleep apnea,...
... nasal mask was applied to the patient and titration of optimal pressure was determined at a second sleep study At 10 cm of water pressure of nasal CPAP, the patient’s snoring was eliminated, his ... Polysomnographic parameters and ESS before and after one year on continuous positive airway pressuretherapy Before CPAP After CPAP AHI (events/hour) 60 Mean SpO2 (%) 84 96.3 Min SpO2 (%) Time ... continuous positive airway pressure in three patients with mucosal hemangiomas of the oral cavity Mayo Clin Proc 1999, 74:155-158 13 Becker R, Schäfer H, Bauer BL: Intracranial pressure in sleep apnea,...
... series to a Venturi device that created a negativepressure in the circuit, whose magnitude could be precisely fixed The application of the negativepressure did not affect the accuracy of the ... with negative expiratory pressure in sleep disordered breathing Sleep Medicine 2005, 6:205-213 Insalaco G, Romano S, Marrone O, Salvaggio A, Bonsignore G: A new method of negative expiratory pressure ... the patients suffering from OSAH exhibited less negative (sometimes positive) closing (or critical) pressure of the passive upper airways (i.e the pressure inside the upper airways when they close),...
... beats per minute; CI, cardiac index; CVP, central venous pressure; GDT, goaldirected therapy; FFP, fresh frozen plasma; MAP, mean arterial pressure; PRBC, packed red blood cells; SVI, stroke volume ... http://ccforum.com/content/14/1/R18 Page of Figure Standard care protocol MAP, mean arterial pressure; CVP, central venous pressure [21] and the POSSUM score [22] (Table 3) Anesthetic requirements and duration ... (software version 1.14; Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, CA, USA) via the FloTrac pressure transducer and all intravascular pressure measurements were referenced to mid-axillary line level The shape...