Thesis (doctoral)--Chirurgisch-Medicinische Akademie zu Dresden. / Praeses ascribed to Burkhard W. Seiler by Gesamtvereichnis des deutschsprachigen Schrifttums (GV) 1700-1910. Half title, p. [17]: De cura herniae radicali per ligaturam. Imprint date in roman numerals. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on October 6, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. Sheila Grant, Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / Congenital abnormalities of the diaphragm, specifically congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), affect 1 in 3,000 live births and are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Evidence in humans and animal models support genetic causation. The etiology of most cases, however, remains unknown, though is likely polygenic in the majority. Another impediment to uncovering CDH etiology is that collection of human specimens at the onset of diaphragm development (4 weeks gestation) is not feasible. Identification of key transcriptional programs involved in normal diaphragm development is needed to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the genetic etiology of CDH. As an initial step, unique transcriptome-wide data sets are generated from laser-captured mouse embryonic diaphragms at three key time-points of diaphragm development. These data sets provide the first unbiased perspective on genes and signaling pathways active during early and late diaphragm morphogenesis. Moreover, using a curated list of known CDR-associated genes as "baits", the normal expression data sets are filtered for identification of biologically relevant CDH candidate genes. By this approach, 27 novel CDH candidate genes are described, among which, pre-B cell leukemia transcription factor 1 (Pbxl) is selected to validate the prioritization approach. Diaphragm defects resembling the human CDH phenotype, never previously appreciated, are observed among Pbxl mutant mice at E15.5. Secondly, a human family containing several affected individuals with CDH is used for gene discovery. A multiplatform analysis approach, coupled with external filtering with the normal diaphragm expression data, provide a mechanism for identification of candidate modifier loci. This integrative strategy, which identifies a FOG2 deletion and several potential modifiers of the CDH phenotype, is described. The design of a customized diagnostic/discovery capture array for next-generation sequencing of a large CDH patient cohort uses the set of CDR-candidate genes identified herein. / 2031-01-02

Orientador: Mario Mantovani / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-23T00:39:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mazzini_DecioLuizSilva_M.pdf: 3640453 bytes, checksum: 57b05fd14bf270a2f91cfd357306726b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1997 / Resumo: O presente experimento tem por finalidade estudar comparativamente o efeito da aplicação de telas absorvíveis e inabsorvíveis, como reforço no fechamento de incisões medianas abdominais em ratos, na situação de aproximação parcial das bordas das aponeuroses. Para isto, foram estudados 45 ratos machos da raça Wystar, divididos em três grupos, nos quais se procedeu da seguinte maneira: Grupo "controle": incisão mediana abdominal atingindo a cavidade peritoneal, seguida por fechamento apenas da pele Grupo "vicryl": incisão mediana abdominal atingindo a cavidade peritoneal, seguida por reforço com tela de vicryl, sobreposta em forma de ponte sobre a aponeurose, mantendo os lábios da aponeurose distantes entre si por 1,0 cm. Grupo "marlex": procedimento idêntico ao grupo "vicryl", substituindo-se a tela de vicryl por marlex. Após um ano os animais foram sacrificados e submetidos à avaliação macroscópica quanto à presença de hérnias e aderências às telas; aferição da resistência tênsil da cicatriz cirúrgica através de tração por dinamômetro e estudo histológico dos seguintes fenômenos da cicatrização: reação inflamatória crônica, inflamação granulomatosa tipo corpo estranho, tecido de granulação, hiperplasia fibroblástica e fibrose. Apenas os animais do grupo "controle" desenvolveram hérnias ao final do experimento. Não houve formação de aderências intestinais significativas em nenhum dos grupos estudados. A resistência tênsil foi significativamente maiOr nos anImaIs em que se aplicaram telas para reforço. A reação inflamatória crônica e a inflamação granulomatosa tipo corpo estranho foram muito mais intensas no grupo em que se utilizou marlex, que nos demais grupos. Quanto ao tecido de granulação e hiperplasia fibroblástica, estavam ausentes em todos os grupos. A fibrose foi mais intensa nos grupos em que as telas foram empregadas. Conclui-se que a utilização de telas nesta situação evita o desenvolvimento de hérnias, no prazo de seguimento de um ano, porque confere maior resistência tênsil à parede abdominal e a aplicação de tela de vi~ryl, além de proporcionar esta resistência, ainda o faz com menor reação inflamatória crônica e granulomatosa tipo corpo estranho / Abstract: The present experiment has as a purpose to study comparatively the efTect of absorbable and unabsorbable mesh, as a reinforcement in the closing of the median abdominal incisions in rats, in the situation of the partial approximation of the borders of the aponeurosis. For this, 45 male rats ofthe Wystar breed were studied, divided into three groups, in which the procedure was in the folIowing manner. "Control group": median abdominal incision reaching the peritoneal cavity folIowed only by the closing of the skin and subcutaneous celular. "Vicryl group": median abdominal incision reaching the peritoneal cavity folIowed by a reinforcement with vicryl mesh, overlaid in the form of a bridge over the aponeurosis, maintaining the lips ofthe aponeurosis distant amid themselves by 1,0 cm. "Marlex group": the procedure is identical to the "vicryl" group, substituting the vicryl mesh by the marlex mesh. After one year the animaIs were sacrificed and submitted to a microscopic valuation as to the presence of hemias and adherences to the meshes; checking the tension resistance of the surgical scar through the traction by dinamometer and histological study of the folIowing phenomenons of the cicatrization; chronical inflamatory reaction, foreign body type granulomatosis inflamation, granulation tissue, fibroblastic hyperplasia and fibrosis. Only animaIs of the "control group" developed hemias in the final experimetlt. There was no significative formation of intestinal adherences in any of the group studied. The tension resistence was signifiçantly greater in the animaIs in which meshes were applied for reinforcement. The chronical inflamatory reaction and the foreing body type granulomatosis inflamation were much more intense in the group in which marlex was used, than in the other groups. As to the granulation tissue and fibroblastic hyperplasia,they were absent in alI the groups. The fibrosis was more intense in the group in which the meshes were employed. Its is concluded that the utilization of meshes in this situation avoids the hemia development in the follow up of one year, because it granted a greater tensile resistance of the abdominal wall the employment of the vicryl mesh, besides offering this resistance, still makes it with less chronical inflamatory reaction and foreign body type granulomatosis inflamation / Mestrado / Mestre em Cirurgia

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In the present study samples were collected from abdominal linea alba aponeurosis of 30 patients (15 males and 15 females) aged from twenty to sixty years [30-59], (Mean=44.9±SD=7.3), with hernia of the anterior abdominal wall to evaluate the immunohistochemistry expression and morphometry of the elastic fibers. Nine of the patients were submitted to surgery at the Hospital de Clínicas in Porto Alegre (HCPA), ten of then at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Rio de Janeiro (SCMRJ), seven of them at the author’s private clinic (CA) in Caxias do Sul, and four of them at the Hospital Pompeia (HP) in Caxias do Sul. All patients had a hernia of the anterior abdominal wall. Fourteen of these cases were umbilical hernias, ten epigastric hernias and six incisional hernias. Specimens were collected from the midline three centimeters above the umbilical scar and from two centimeters below it. At the laboratory, the specimens were subdivided in two parts. One of these specimens was stained with orcein and the elastic fibers were counted by digital analysis using the applicative Image Pro Plus (Media Cybernetics, Silver Spring, USA). The other specimen was submitted to evaluation through immunohistochemistry analysis utilizing monoclonal anti-Emilin Antibody to EMILIN1 GP115 Elastin microfibril interface located protein TNF (Proteintech Group), in 1:100 dilution. Findings obtained from these patients were compared to findings obtained in a control group of non formolized cadavers from the Medical Examiner’s Office of Caxias do Sul. In this cadaver control group without hernias, aged from twenty to sixty years [20-59] (Mean= 40.5±SD=11.8), the same studies were carried out as in the surgical group with hernias to evaluate the differences in quantity and morphometry of elastic fibers between the two groups. Results show that the total amount of elastic fibers was 35% higher in patients with hernia of the anterior wall of the abdomen than in the cadaver control group with no hernias (p<.05). / In the present study samples were collected from abdominal linea alba aponeurosis of 30 patients (15 males and 15 females) aged from twenty to sixty years [30-59], (Mean=44.9±SD=7.3), with hernia of the anterior abdominal wall to evaluate the immunohistochemistry expression and morphometry of the elastic fibers. Nine of the patients were submitted to surgery at the Hospital de Clínicas in Porto Alegre (HCPA), ten of then at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Rio de Janeiro (SCMRJ), seven of them at the author’s private clinic (CA) in Caxias do Sul, and four of them at the Hospital Pompeia (HP) in Caxias do Sul. All patients had a hernia of the anterior abdominal wall. Fourteen of these cases were umbilical hernias, ten epigastric hernias and six incisional hernias. Specimens were collected from the midline three centimeters above the umbilical scar and from two centimeters below it. At the laboratory, the specimens were subdivided in two parts. One of these specimens was stained with orcein and the elastic fibers were counted by digital analysis using the applicative Image Pro Plus (Media Cybernetics, Silver Spring, USA). The other specimen was submitted to evaluation through immunohistochemistry analysis utilizing monoclonal anti-Emilin Antibody to EMILIN1 GP115 Elastin microfibril interface located protein TNF (Proteintech Group), in 1:100 dilution. Findings obtained from these patients were compared to findings obtained in a control group of non formolized cadavers from the Medical Examiner’s Office of Caxias do Sul. In this cadaver control group without hernias, aged from twenty to sixty years [20-59] (Mean= 40.5±SD=11.8), the same studies were carried out as in the surgical group with hernias to evaluate the differences in quantity and morphometry of elastic fibers between the two groups. Results show that the total amount of elastic fibers was 35% higher in patients with hernia of the anterior wall of the abdomen than in the cadaver control group with no hernias (p<.05).

In the present study samples were collected from abdominal linea alba aponeurosis of 30 patients (15 males and 15 females) aged from twenty to sixty years [30-59], (Mean=44.9±SD=7.3), with hernia of the anterior abdominal wall to evaluate the immunohistochemistry expression and morphometry of the elastic fibers. Nine of the patients were submitted to surgery at the Hospital de Clínicas in Porto Alegre (HCPA), ten of then at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Rio de Janeiro (SCMRJ), seven of them at the author’s private clinic (CA) in Caxias do Sul, and four of them at the Hospital Pompeia (HP) in Caxias do Sul. All patients had a hernia of the anterior abdominal wall. Fourteen of these cases were umbilical hernias, ten epigastric hernias and six incisional hernias. Specimens were collected from the midline three centimeters above the umbilical scar and from two centimeters below it. At the laboratory, the specimens were subdivided in two parts. One of these specimens was stained with orcein and the elastic fibers were counted by digital analysis using the applicative Image Pro Plus (Media Cybernetics, Silver Spring, USA). The other specimen was submitted to evaluation through immunohistochemistry analysis utilizing monoclonal anti-Emilin Antibody to EMILIN1 GP115 Elastin microfibril interface located protein TNF (Proteintech Group), in 1:100 dilution. Findings obtained from these patients were compared to findings obtained in a control group of non formolized cadavers from the Medical Examiner’s Office of Caxias do Sul. In this cadaver control group without hernias, aged from twenty to sixty years [20-59] (Mean= 40.5±SD=11.8), the same studies were carried out as in the surgical group with hernias to evaluate the differences in quantity and morphometry of elastic fibers between the two groups. Results show that the total amount of elastic fibers was 35% higher in patients with hernia of the anterior wall of the abdomen than in the cadaver control group with no hernias (p<.05). / In the present study samples were collected from abdominal linea alba aponeurosis of 30 patients (15 males and 15 females) aged from twenty to sixty years [30-59], (Mean=44.9±SD=7.3), with hernia of the anterior abdominal wall to evaluate the immunohistochemistry expression and morphometry of the elastic fibers. Nine of the patients were submitted to surgery at the Hospital de Clínicas in Porto Alegre (HCPA), ten of then at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Rio de Janeiro (SCMRJ), seven of them at the author’s private clinic (CA) in Caxias do Sul, and four of them at the Hospital Pompeia (HP) in Caxias do Sul. All patients had a hernia of the anterior abdominal wall. Fourteen of these cases were umbilical hernias, ten epigastric hernias and six incisional hernias. Specimens were collected from the midline three centimeters above the umbilical scar and from two centimeters below it. At the laboratory, the specimens were subdivided in two parts. One of these specimens was stained with orcein and the elastic fibers were counted by digital analysis using the applicative Image Pro Plus (Media Cybernetics, Silver Spring, USA). The other specimen was submitted to evaluation through immunohistochemistry analysis utilizing monoclonal anti-Emilin Antibody to EMILIN1 GP115 Elastin microfibril interface located protein TNF (Proteintech Group), in 1:100 dilution. Findings obtained from these patients were compared to findings obtained in a control group of non formolized cadavers from the Medical Examiner’s Office of Caxias do Sul. In this cadaver control group without hernias, aged from twenty to sixty years [20-59] (Mean= 40.5±SD=11.8), the same studies were carried out as in the surgical group with hernias to evaluate the differences in quantity and morphometry of elastic fibers between the two groups. Results show that the total amount of elastic fibers was 35% higher in patients with hernia of the anterior wall of the abdomen than in the cadaver control group with no hernias (p<.05).

In the present study samples were collected from abdominal linea alba aponeurosis of 30 patients (15 males and 15 females) aged from twenty to sixty years [30-59], (Mean=44.9±SD=7.3), with hernia of the anterior abdominal wall to evaluate the immunohistochemistry expression and morphometry of the elastic fibers. Nine of the patients were submitted to surgery at the Hospital de Clínicas in Porto Alegre (HCPA), ten of then at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Rio de Janeiro (SCMRJ), seven of them at the author’s private clinic (CA) in Caxias do Sul, and four of them at the Hospital Pompeia (HP) in Caxias do Sul. All patients had a hernia of the anterior abdominal wall. Fourteen of these cases were umbilical hernias, ten epigastric hernias and six incisional hernias. Specimens were collected from the midline three centimeters above the umbilical scar and from two centimeters below it. At the laboratory, the specimens were subdivided in two parts. One of these specimens was stained with orcein and the elastic fibers were counted by digital analysis using the applicative Image Pro Plus (Media Cybernetics, Silver Spring, USA). The other specimen was submitted to evaluation through immunohistochemistry analysis utilizing monoclonal anti-Emilin Antibody to EMILIN1 GP115 Elastin microfibril interface located protein TNF (Proteintech Group), in 1:100 dilution. Findings obtained from these patients were compared to findings obtained in a control group of non formolized cadavers from the Medical Examiner’s Office of Caxias do Sul. In this cadaver control group without hernias, aged from twenty to sixty years [20-59] (Mean= 40.5±SD=11.8), the same studies were carried out as in the surgical group with hernias to evaluate the differences in quantity and morphometry of elastic fibers between the two groups. Results show that the total amount of elastic fibers was 35% higher in patients with hernia of the anterior wall of the abdomen than in the cadaver control group with no hernias (p<.05). / In the present study samples were collected from abdominal linea alba aponeurosis of 30 patients (15 males and 15 females) aged from twenty to sixty years [30-59], (Mean=44.9±SD=7.3), with hernia of the anterior abdominal wall to evaluate the immunohistochemistry expression and morphometry of the elastic fibers. Nine of the patients were submitted to surgery at the Hospital de Clínicas in Porto Alegre (HCPA), ten of then at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Rio de Janeiro (SCMRJ), seven of them at the author’s private clinic (CA) in Caxias do Sul, and four of them at the Hospital Pompeia (HP) in Caxias do Sul. All patients had a hernia of the anterior abdominal wall. Fourteen of these cases were umbilical hernias, ten epigastric hernias and six incisional hernias. Specimens were collected from the midline three centimeters above the umbilical scar and from two centimeters below it. At the laboratory, the specimens were subdivided in two parts. One of these specimens was stained with orcein and the elastic fibers were counted by digital analysis using the applicative Image Pro Plus (Media Cybernetics, Silver Spring, USA). The other specimen was submitted to evaluation through immunohistochemistry analysis utilizing monoclonal anti-Emilin Antibody to EMILIN1 GP115 Elastin microfibril interface located protein TNF (Proteintech Group), in 1:100 dilution. Findings obtained from these patients were compared to findings obtained in a control group of non formolized cadavers from the Medical Examiner’s Office of Caxias do Sul. In this cadaver control group without hernias, aged from twenty to sixty years [20-59] (Mean= 40.5±SD=11.8), the same studies were carried out as in the surgical group with hernias to evaluate the differences in quantity and morphometry of elastic fibers between the two groups. Results show that the total amount of elastic fibers was 35% higher in patients with hernia of the anterior wall of the abdomen than in the cadaver control group with no hernias (p<.05).

The objective of this study was to investigate the quality of clinical outcomes in the surgical setting. Results of the study showed that there is no difference in infection rates between inpatient and outpatient hernia repair patients.