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Aims. To study the factors associated with the DSH in the elderly group of 60 years and above and to recommend changes to be implemented in order to improve the management in this specific group. Materials and Methods. Five-year retrospective study was undertaken from July 2005 to July 2010 in the Plastic Surgery Department of the Royal Preston Hospital, NHS Trust. A Performa was designed to collect data about the inpatient admission and included certain areas of key information. The case notes for all patients were extensively analysed in order to gather adequate information for the devised Performa. Results. DSH is getting more common in the elderly group, and males are more affected than females. 60% of the patients had a previous history of DSH. A large number (80%) of patients had a previous history of mental illness. 60% of those DSH patients were living with family. Almost all patients (90%) were reviewed by the Psychiatry Liaison Team. The timing of patients being assessed was highly variable. Conclusions. Marriage is not a protective factor in the prevention of the DSH in the elderly group. A mental health team referral in the early phases of the management would be of huge benefit and a likely step to prevent possible future admissions. The Department would benefit from the creation of a protocol for the management of these patients. There should be a joint effort of the professionals in the management of DSH in the elderly, and GPs play a very important role in the prevention of DSH in the later life.
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Intravenous drug use is an increasing social problem. Repeated venepunctures, injection of insoluble substances and needle sharing habits in intravenous drug users result in complications leading to admissions under various medical specialities. Many of these patients, however, manifest soft tissue wounds requiring specialised care from plastic surgeons. Typical presentations include injection site related abscess, cellulitis, necrotising fasciitis and non-healing wounds. We present a series of 11 consecutive cases treated in our unit over a six-month period, to highlight the varied clinical presentations and potential difficulties in their management.
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Fasciite Necrosante/induzido quimicamente , Fasciite Necrosante/cirurgia , Heroína , Abuso de Substâncias por Via Intravenosa/complicações , Adulto , Fasciite Necrosante/fisiopatologia , Seguimentos , Humanos , Masculino , Uso Comum de Agulhas e Seringas , Medição de Risco , Índice de Gravidade de Doença , Infecções dos Tecidos Moles/induzido quimicamente , Infecções dos Tecidos Moles/fisiopatologia , Infecções dos Tecidos Moles/cirurgia , Retalhos Cirúrgicos , Reino Unido , CicatrizaçãoRESUMO
We present a case of traumatic arteriovenous fistula of the palm and ring finger, which posed management dilemmas and eventually necessitated ray amputation. Subsequent histology revealed a spindle cell haemangioendothelioma that had developed within the fistula. We report the clinical features and management of this patient.
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Fístula Arteriovenosa/cirurgia , Traumatismos dos Dedos/cirurgia , Mãos , Hemangioendotelioma/complicações , Ferimentos não Penetrantes/complicações , Adulto , Amputação Cirúrgica/métodos , Hemangioendotelioma/cirurgia , Humanos , Masculino , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
Malignant melanomas (MM) arising in burn scars are rare with 16 cases previously reported. Malignant melanomas arising on skin grafts are even more rare with only two cases reported. We present the case of MM arising on a burned area that had been previously grafted with a split thickness skin graft. A 19-year-old patient sustained 20% burns in a road traffic accident. The burned areas were debrided and skin grafted. Six months later, the patient developed MM on the left calf (an area that was burned and grafted). The tumour was excised with wide margins. Six months following the excision of the MM, the patient started to develop multiple dysplastic naevi in the skin grafted burned areas. In the present case, the main question to be answered is whether the MM arose from the donor or the recipient site of the split thickness skin graft. After thorough discussion of the two options and reviewing the literature, the authors believe that the MM and the atypical naevi were transferred to the recipient site with the skin graft. Therefore, it is suggested that in the process of harvesting skin grafts, any pre-existing naevi should be avoided or removed, and if this is not feasible, should be recorded in detail in the operation notes. Also, patients at discharge should be advised that any change in the appearance of the grafts or any new lesions in the engrafted areas should be reported to their physicians.
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Queimaduras/complicações , Melanoma/diagnóstico , Inoculação de Neoplasia , Transplante de Pele/efeitos adversos , Adulto , Queimaduras/cirurgia , Cicatriz/complicações , Feminino , Humanos , Melanoma/etiologia , Nevo/patologiaRESUMO
A mixed-mode (reversed-phase/anion-exchange) stationary phase has been used as the capillary column packing for investigation of the separation of peptide mixtures in pressurized capillary electrochromatography (pCEC). This stationary phase contains both octadecylsilanes and dialkylamines. The amine groups of the stationary phase determine the charge density on the surface of the packing and can produce a strong and constant electroosmotic flow (EOF) at low pH. A comparison was made in terms of the capability of separating tryptic digests between the mixed-mode phase and C18 reversed phase. In addition, the constant EOF enabled the tuning of the retention and the selectivity of the separation by adjusting the mobile phase pH from 2 to 5. Furthermore, the magnitude and the polarity of the electric voltage were demonstrated to greatly influence the elution profiles of the peptides in pCEC. An ion trap storage/reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometer was used as an on-line detector in these experiments due to its ability to provide rapid and accurate mass detection of the sample components eluting from the separation column.
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Cromatografia Líquida/métodos , Peptídeos/isolamento & purificação , Análise Espectral/métodos , Concentração de Íons de Hidrogênio , Mioglobina/isolamento & purificação , Pressão Osmótica , Peptídeos/química , Pressão , Sensibilidade e Especificidade , Tripsina/químicaRESUMO
The genotyping of the various isoforms of Apolipoprotein E (apo E) has been performed using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI-MS). The polymerase chain reaction was used to amplify the specific apo E gene sequence followed by digestion with Cfo I (Clostridium formicoaceticum), for generating restriction fragments for rapid and accurate mass analysis. An exonuclease I digestion step was introduced to remove the unused primers after PCR, which can otherwise interfere in the mass spectral analysis. By replacing the gel electrophoresis detection step with MALDI-MS, restriction isotyping of the apo E gene was achieved. Genotyping of an unknown sample and obtained from an independent diagnostic laboratory demonstrated the validity of the MALDI-MS method for the routine analysis of apo E.
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Apolipoproteínas E/genética , Sequência de Bases , DNA/análise , Exonucleases , Genótipo , Humanos , Hidrólise , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase , Mapeamento por Restrição , Espectrometria de Massas por Ionização e Dessorção a Laser Assistida por MatrizRESUMO
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) has been used as a rapid method for the detection of human genetic polymorphisms. In particular, the mutations in the human HEXA gene that cause the infantile Tay-Sachs disease have been studied using MALDI-MS to demonstrate the feasibility of this technique for use in clinical and diagnostic analysis. The protocols involved in this approach include, polymerase chain reaction for the amplification of the mutation site from buccal cell DNA, followed by restriction enzyme digestion of the amplified regions of the template cells. The products of amplification and digestion were studied using MALDI-MS. MALDI-MS experiments are shown to provide essentially the same information as obtained from gel electrophoresis but orders of magnitude faster.
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Testes Genéticos/métodos , Mutação/genética , Espectrometria de Massas por Ionização e Dessorção a Laser Assistida por Matriz , Doença de Tay-Sachs/genética , beta-N-Acetil-Hexosaminidases/genética , Sequência de Bases , Northern Blotting , Bochecha , Primers do DNA , Enzimas de Restrição do DNA/metabolismo , Desoxirribonucleases de Sítio Específico do Tipo II/metabolismo , Eletroforese em Gel de Poliacrilamida , Éxons/genética , Hexosaminidase A , Humanos , Íntrons/genética , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Mucosa Bucal , Reação em Cadeia da PolimeraseRESUMO
Pulsed-delayed extraction using a simple high voltage transistor switch together with various sample purification approaches were used to enhance the resolution in matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOFMS) of oligonucleotides up to 60 bases long. This switch can provide a 0-3 kV voltage pulse with a 75 ns fall time. A resolution of 500-900 was typically observed for samples from 5-mers to 60-mers using pulsed-delayed extraction (PDE) with the switch described herein. The resolution deteriorated to < 100 for oligonucleotides of > or = 65-mers. With the TOF acceleration region configuration used in this work, the resolution was found not to vary significantly over a delay range of 2-5 mus. As the DNA size increased to over 35-mer, HPLC purification was required to retain the enhancement in resolution provided by PDE MALDI-MS.