It is therefore mandatory to optimise clip placement in situ to reduce the complication rate. The present study was performed to investigate the reliability of intraoperative microvascular Doppler ...

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Background: Autologous fat grafting for temporal augmentation is increasingly popular in aesthetic surgery. However, its high absorption rate, unpredictable volume retention rate, and potential safety ...

Examination of the Novel National Institutes of Health-Supported Relative Citation Ratio, a Measure of Research Productivity, Among Academic Plastic Surgeons.

Background Microvascular obstruction (MVO) and intramyocardial haemorrhage (IMH) are associated with adverse prognosis, independently of infarct size after reperfused ST-elevation myocardial ...

Figure 1. M1 and M2 macrophage polarization: Upon inflammatory (LPS, INFγ, TNFα) stimuli, macrophages are polarized into inflammatory M1 phenotype by activating NF-kB inflammatory pathway, ...

GWAS have identified hundreds of height-associated loci. However, determining causal mechanisms is challenging, especially since height-relevant tissues (e.g. growth plates) are difficult to study. To ...