Subperiosteal endoscopic brow lift showed clinical and statistical effectiveness in correcting eyebrow ptosis, promoting also a spontaneous and progressive elevation of eyebrows, without enlarging the interbrow distance.
Mammaplasty for patients who have experienced massive weight loss involves some concepts that differ from those that apply to mammaplasty for normal patients. Breast anatomic characteristics make this procedure a very challenging situation. The authors present their experience with a new mammaplasty technique using an extended thoracic wall flap associated with a loop of pectoralis. This procedure is a simple and reproducible method for patients with massive weight loss that results in a pleasing breast shape and long-lasting results.
Desde os mais remotos tempos pesquisam-se incessantemente drogas que acelerem o processo cicatricial normal. No Hospital de Clínicas da UFPr preconiza-se a limpeza de feridas limpas com solução salina de NaCl a 0,9%. Alguns serviços têm utilizado empiricamente o Agarol® e o Trigliceril® na confecção do curativo após este procedimento. Este estudo objetivou avaliar experimentalmente a evolução de feridas cutâneas, em ratos, produzidas por incisão cirúrgica tratadas com solução de NaCl a 0,9%, Agarol® e Trigliceril® . Utilizou-se 24 ratos, divididos em três grupos: C, controle, submetido à troca diária de curativo após limpeza com solução de NaCl a 0,9%; grupo A com aplicação de Agarol® e grupo T com aplicação de Trigliceril®. Verificou-se que no terceiro e décimo quarto dias de pós-operatório o Agarolâ e o Triglicerilâ não influenciaram o processo cicatricial. No sétimo dia de pós-operatório verificou-se houve aumento da quantidade de tecido de granulação nos grupos tratados com Agarolâ e diminuição da neovascularização no grupo Triglicerilâ . For centuries, mankind has been incessantly researching with drugs that could accelerate the normal wound healing process. In the Hospital de Clinicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná, it has been recommended that the cleansing of clean wounds with saline solution of 0.9% sodium chloride, followed by a cover of dry dressing. However, some services have empirically used Agarol and Trigliceril in the confection of dressings after cleansing. This study aimed to evaluate the evolution of cutaneous wounds treated with normal saline, Agarol and Trigliceril in rats. A group of twenty-four rats were submitted to three skin circular incisions of 1.2 cm in diameter on their backs which exposed the subcutaneous tissue. The wounds were cleaned daily with normal saline solution. This group was distributed at random within three groups: Group C, control, received a clean and dry dressing after cleansing; groups A and T received dressings with Agarol and Trigliceril respectively. The evaluation of the wounds was done on the 3rd, 7th and 14th postoperative days by histological and macroscopic studies. The results showed that on the 3rd and 14th days, no evident influence of the drugs on the healing wound was noticed. On 7th postoperative day, Agarol demonstrated to increase the amount of granulation tissue, while Trigliceril appears to decrease the neovasculature during the healing process
We propose a multivariate regression model to deal with multiple outcomes along with repeated measures in the context of longitudinal data analysis. Our model allows for flexible and interpretable modelling of the covariance structure within outcomes by using a linear combination of known matrices, while the generalized Kronecker product is employed to take into account the correlation between outcomes. We present maximum likelihood estimation along with extensions of the classical multivariate analysis of variance and multiple comparison hypothesis tests to deal with multivariate longitudinal data. The model and the associated multivariate hypothesis test are motivated by a prospective study conducted to compare three aesthetic eyelid surgery techniques, namely blepharoplasty, endoscopic forehead lift and endoscopic forehead lift associated with blepharoplasty. The effect of the techniques was assessed using measurements of a horizontal line through pupil centre and then three vertical lines, which go in direction to lateral canthus, middle pupil and medial canthus to the top of the brow. In this study, 30 female patients were randomly divided into three groups. Preoperative measurements were compared with postoperative measurements taken 30 days, 90 days and 10 years after the surgery. The presented multivariate model provided a better fit than its univariate counterpart. The results showed that the three surgery techniques tend to increase all considered outcomes in a long-term perspective, that is, from preoperative to 10 years postoperative evaluations. The only exception was for the outcome lateral eyebrow, for which the blepharoplasty had no significant effect.
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