Thus, an opportunity for the study of skin-homograft survival in patients having a carefully performed thymectomy was available for the first time. Eighteen children of both sexes from three and a ...

“Homograft roots provide excellent hemodynamics...however, their lack of availability and the advent of stentless xenograft roots called for a randomized trial,” explains Magdi ...

His contributions include, but are not limited to, being the first to perform: carotid endarterectomy (1953), excision and homograft replacement of an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta (1954), ...

Valve replacement surgery is the replacement of one or more of the heart valves with either an artificial heart valve or a bioprosthesis (homograft from human tissue or xenograft e.g. from pig).

Cytotoxic antibodies may develop as a result of homograft rejection and may be detected especially after transplant nephrectomy. 7 On this basis, immediate failures might be expected to be more ...

In women at risk for preterm delivery (less than 37 weeks' gestation), antenatal corticosteroids are frequently administered to prevent fetal lung immaturity at birth. Two milliliters of ...

Purpose: The drug therapy of common conditions and complications during labor and delivery and the fetal and neonatal effects of this therapy are examined. Summary: The pharmacologic therapy of ...