Prosthetic Limbs
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1. CAD e engenharia reversa como ferramentas de auxílio na fabricação de cartuchos para próteses ortopédicas
The manufacturing of above and below-knee prosthesis starts by taking surfac measurements of the patients residual limb. This demands the making of a cartridg with appropriate fitting and customized to the profile of each patient. The traditiona process in public hospitals in Brazil begins with the completion of a record file (according to law n388, of July
Publicado em: 2007
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2. Cryopreserved saphenous vein allografts for below-knee lower extremity revascularization.
OBJECTIVE: Cryopreserved saphenous vein allografts have been offered as an alternative conduit for bypass in ischemic limbs. The authors examined the efficacy of this conduit for arterial bypass to the distal popliteal and tibial arteries in patients in whom autogenous vein was not available. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: Previous experience with arterial and ven
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3. Selective preservation of infected prosthetic arterial grafts. Analysis of a 20-year experience with 120 extracavitary-infected grafts.
OBJECTIVE: The authors report on their 20-year experience with 120 patients with infected extracavitary prosthetic arterial grafts (95 polytetraflouroethylene, 25 Dacron). Throughout this experience, an effort was made, when appropriate, to salvage all or a portion of these infected grafts. METHODS: When patients had arterial bleeding (20 cases) or systemic