There is a high prevalence of scoliosis in patients with congenital heart disease surgically treated through a median sternotomy. The prevalence of scoliosis increases in patients operated at an earlier age.

Although the complication rate has been high, in dedicated teams and with proper selection of patients, replantation of infrapopliteal lower limb amputations can yield satisfactory results.

These findings suggest that alemtuzumab may not prevent cell-mediated rejection of a hand allograft transplant. Furthermore, C4d deposition warrants attention in clinical composite tissue allotransplants.

Although not statistically significant because of the small sample size, our study might support the idea that both periosteal and corticoperiosteal flaps from the medial femoral condyle are effective, when associated with a bone graft, in the treatment of recalcitrant nonunions with small gaps. A further analysis of the results suggests, albeit no statistical significant, that structural and nonstructural bone grafts are both effective when associated with a vascularized periosteal or corticoperiosteal transfer from the medial femoral condyle.

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