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Three single loops enhance the biomechanical behavior of the transtibial pull-out technique for posterior meniscal root repair

2017

Purpose: To investigate the effect of applying an additional suture to enhance the biomechanical behavior of the suture–meniscus construct used during the transtibial pull- out repair technique. Methods: A total of 20 fresh-frozen porcine tibiae with intact medial menisci were used. In one half of all speci- mens (N = 10), two non-absorbable sutures were passed directly over the meniscal root from the tibia side of the meniscus to the femoral side (2SS). In other ten specimens, three sutures were passed over the meniscal root (3SS). All specimens were subjected to cyclic loading followed by load-to-failure testing. Displacement of the construct was recorded at 100, 500, and 1000 cycles. Fur…

Time-Course of Grammatical Processing in Deaf Readers: An Eye-Movement Study.

2019

Abstract Twenty participants who were deaf and 20 chronological age-matched participants with typical hearing (TH) (mean age: 12 years) were asked to judge the correctness of written sentences with or without a grammatically incongruent word while their eye movements were registered. TH participants outperformed deaf participants in grammaticality judgment accuracy. For both groups, First Pass and Total Fixation Times of target words in correct trials were significantly longer in the incongruent condition than in the congruent one. However, whereas TH students showed longer First Pass in the target area than deaf students across congruity conditions, deaf students made more fixations than t…

Orthostatic Hypotension and Complications

2020

Orthostatic hypotension prevalence exponentially increases with age, and an early detection of it can prevent the severe complications it may lead to. Among those, we mention (orthostatic) syncope and falls, cardiovascular diseases, and neurological diseases. Increased blood pressure variability related to standing which can provoke brain hypoperfusion and ischemia, higher arterial stiffness, and activated systematic inflammation, which have both been strongly involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, finally leading to CVD.

Behavioral and hemodynamic effects of prefrontal anodal stimulation in healthy older adults: a simultaneous tDCS/fNIRS study

2019

Beidseitige progrediente Hörminderung als Erstmanifestation eines metastasierenden Pankreaskopfkarzinoms - Kasuistik -

2001

We report the history of a patient who presented first with a progressive unilateral hearing loss and later with a bilateral deafness and an unilateral facial nerve palsy as first and only symptoms of a pancreatic adenocarcinoma. By means of magnetic resonance tomography tumor-suspect lesions in both internal auditory canals were detected. Referring to the results of further examinations these intracanalicular lesions are most probably due to rarely seen bilateral metastasis of a pancreatic adenocarcinoma in the temporal bone. In addition to this rarely diagnosed localisation of metastasis it is rather uncommon that this kind of primary malignoma had not been detected because of gastrointes…

Corrigendum to “Arterial stiffness indexes in acute ischemic stroke: Relationship with stroke subtype” [Atherosclerosis 211 (2010) 187–194]

2016

Hyaluronic Acid in the Treatment of Pain Due to Knee Joint Immobilisation

1995

This open, randomised study was carried out in order to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a course of 5 intra-articular injections (one per week) of hyaluronic acid (HA), administered to patients with pain and joint stiffness resulting from immobilisation of the knee in a plaster cast. The study was made in comparison with an untreated control group. 30 patients of both genders, aged between 18 and 65 years, immobilised in a plaster cast for at least 20 days and presenting with pain and reduced mobility, were included in the study. The results of the study show that, in comparison with the control group, treatment with HA produced a more rapid and effective reduction in pain and increase …

Different Morning Blood Pressure Increases are Associated to a Diverse Microvascular Damage

2007

Usability of photoplethysmography method in estimation of conduit artery stiffness

2011

Three channel photoplethysmography (PPG) signal waveform studies of leg conduit arteries during a provocative occlusion test were performed. PPG waveform second derivative amplitude ratio and arterial pulse wave velocity values showed significant correlations with ultrasound (US) reference method of local and regional arterial stiffness (AS), showing the ability to use PPG for AS change quantitative assessment.

Effects of power training on neuromuscular performance and mechanical efficiency

2007

Effects of power training with stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) exercises on mechanical efficiency (ME) were investigated with 9 young women who trained 3 times a week for 4 months. The training included various types of jumping exercises. Before and after the training as well as after the detraining (2 months) the subjects performed 6 different submaximal exercises with a special sledge apparatus. Each exercise involved 60 muscle actions lasting for a total of 3 min per testing condition. The work intensities were determined individually according to the recordings of distance obtained during the single maximal concentric exercises. The training caused the greatest changes of ME in condition…