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The vegetal biomembrane in the healing of chronic venous ulcers
Frade,Marco Andrey Cipriani; Assis,Raimunda Violante Campos de; Coutinho Netto,Joaquim; Andrade,Thiago Antônio Moretti de; Foss,Norma TiraboschiBACKGROUND: The vegetal biomembrane has been used to treat cutaneous ulcers. OBJECTIVES: To assess the role of the vegetal biomembrane on the chronic venous ulcers treatment compared to treatment with collagenase cream. METHODS: Fourteen patients were selected to be treated with vegetal biomembrane and 7 with Fibrase®(CONTROL), followed clinically and photographically by the Wound Healing Index by ImageJ during...
Mitral restenosis in the early postoperative period of a patient with systemic ...
Pomerantzeff,Pablo Maria Alberto; Corrêa,Jeanne D'Arc Honória; Brandão,Carlos Manuel de Almeida; Assis,Raimunda Violante Campos de; Jatene,Adib DomingosA forty eight year old woman, who had undergone mitral comissurotomy and subsequently developed early restenosis, presented with major comissural fusion and verrucous lesions on the cuspid edges of the mitral valve, with normal subvalvar apparatus. Patient did well for the first six months after surgery when she began to present dyspnea on light exertion. A clinical diagnosis of restenosis was made, which was c...