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Treating chronic osteomyelitis of the lower extremities is challenging. The treatment of acute lower limb trauma by orthoplastic teams has shown good results over the past few decades. Selleck Vorapaxar This study aimed to characterize surgical outcomes of leg and heel chronic osteomyelitis by an orthoplastic team.

The cases of 113 consecutive leg and heel chronic osteomyelitis patients undergoing soft-tissue reconstruction with an orthopedic procedure were reviewed in this retrospective single-center observational study. The main objective was to assess surgical outcomes of skin healing and gait recovery at the 1-year follow-up. The secondary objective was to evaluate the global success rate at the last follow-up.

The median follow-up was 19.7 months. A free flap was performed for 33 patients (29.2 percent) and a locoregional flap was used in 79 patients (69.9 percent). Seventy-two patients (63.7 percent) had chronic osteomyelitis on continuous bone. The others had a septic pseudarthrosis with a mean bone defect length of 42.9 mm. Forty-four patients (38.9 percent) underwent curettage only, eight (7.1 percent) underwent curettage and cement, 20 (17.7 percent) underwent curettage and bone fixation, and 39 (34.5 percent) underwent the Masquelet technique. At the 1-year follow-up, 72 patients (63.7 percent) had achieved skin healing and had recovered their gait. The success rate at all follow-up time points was 82.3 percent. The median time to achieve skin healing was 6.5 months and that to bone union in cases of septic pseudarthrosis was 7.9 months.

Orthoplastic management of leg and heel chronic osteomyelitis patients with combined soft-tissue reconstruction using an orthopedic procedure was a viable strategy that offered good results even though the time to complete healing was long.

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Risk, III.SLIT2 is a secreted polypeptide that guides migration of cells expressing Roundabout 1 and 2 (ROBO1 and ROBO2) receptors. Herein, we investigated SLIT2/ROBO signaling effects in gliomas. In patients with glioblastoma (GBM), SLIT2 expression increased with malignant progression and correlated with poor survival and immunosuppression. Knockdown of SLIT2 in mouse glioma cells and patient-derived GBM xenografts reduced tumor growth and rendered tumors sensitive to immunotherapy. Tumor cell SLIT2 knockdown inhibited macrophage invasion and promoted a cytotoxic gene expression profile, which improved tumor vessel function and enhanced efficacy of chemotherapy and immunotherapy. Mechanistically, SLIT2 promoted microglia/macrophage chemotaxis and tumor-supportive polarization via ROBO1- and ROBO2-mediated PI3K-γ activation. Macrophage Robo1 and Robo2 deletion and systemic SLIT2 trap delivery mimicked SLIT2 knockdown effects on tumor growth and the tumor microenvironment (TME), revealing SLIT2 signaling through macrophage ROBOs as a potentially novel regulator of the GBM microenvironment and immunotherapeutic target for brain tumors.In this work we investigate the ballistic transport of electrons through three-terminal graphene-based devices. The system consists of a Y-shaped junction formed by three armchair-edged graphene nanoribbons with a rectangular gate potential applied to one of the output branches, whereby current control can be established by the controlling of the refractive index in graphene p-n junctions. Transport properties are obtained by using the Landauer-Büttiker formalism and the tight-binding model within the nearest-neighbor approximation, which allows the calculation of the conductance as function of the Fermi energy, the applied potential, and the system size, as well as the current density. The results demonstrate that the applied electric field can tune the current transmission between the input and two output leads and, consequently, the proposed system acts as a current switch.We find that the Schwinger boson mean field theory (SBMFT) supplemented with Gutzwiller projection provides an exceedingly accurate description for the ground state of the spin-12triangular lattice antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model (spin-12TLHAF). However, we find the SBMFT fails even qualitatively in the description of the dynamical behavior of the system. In particular, the SBMFT fails to predict the Goldstone mode in the magnetic ordered phase. We show that the coherent peak in the two-spinon continuum in the presence of spinon condensate should not be interpreted as a magnon mode. The SBMFT also predicts incorrectly a gapless longitudinal spin fluctuation mode in the magnetic ordered phase. We show that these failures are related to the following facts (1) spinon condensation fails to provide a consistent description of the order parameter manifold of the 120 degree ordered phase. (2) There lacks in the SBMFT the coupling between the uncondensed spinon and the spinon condensate, which breaks both the spin rotational and the translational symmetry. (3) There lacks in the SBMFT the rigidity that is related to the no double occupancy constraint on the spinon system. We show that such failures of the SBMFT is neither restricted to the spin-12TLHAF nor to the magnetic ordered phase. We proposed a generalized SBMFT to resolve the first two issues and a new formalism to address the third issue.Objective.Spike sorting is the process of extracting neuronal action potentials, or spikes, from an extracellular brain recording, and assigning each spike to its putative source neuron. Spike sorting is usually treated as a clustering problem. However, this clustering process is known to be affected by overlapping spikes. Existing methods for resolving spike overlap typically require an expensive post-processing of the clustering results. In this paper, we propose the design of a domain-specific feature map, which enables the resolution of spike overlap directly in the feature space.Approach.The proposed domain-specific feature map is based on a neural network architecture that is trained to simultaneously perform spike sorting and spike overlap resolution. Overlapping spikes clusters can be identified in the feature space through a linear relation with the single-neuron clusters for which the neurons contribute to the overlapping spikes. To aid the feature map training, a data augmentation procedure is presented that is based on biophysical simulations.Main results.We demonstrate the potential of our method on independent and realistic test data. We show that our novel approach for resolving spike overlap generalizes to unseen and realistic test data. Furthermore, the sorting performance of our method is shown to be similar to the state-of-the-art, but our method does not assume the availability of spike templates for resolving spike overlap.Significance.Resolving spike overlap directly in the feature space, results in an overall simplified spike sorting pipeline compared to the state-of-the-art. For the state-of-the-art, the overlapping spike snippets exhibit a large spread in the feature space and do not appear as concentrated clusters. This can lead to biased spike template estimates which affect the sorting performance of the state-of-the-art. In our proposed approach, overlapping spikes form concentrated clusters and spike overlap resolution does not depend on the availability of spike templates.The aim of the present work is to investigate the behavior of two diode-type detectors (PTW microDiamond 60019 and PTW microSilicon 60023) in transverse magnetic field under small field conditions. A formalism based on TRS 483 has been proposed serving as the framework for the application of these high-resolution detectors under these conditions. Measurements were performed at the National Metrology Institute of Germany (PTB, Braunschweig) using a research clinical linear accelerator facility. Quadratic fields corresponding to equivalent square field sizesSbetween 0.63 and 4.27 cm at the depth of measurement were used. The magnetic field strength was varied up to 1.4 T. Experimental results have been complemented with Monte Carlo simulations up to 1.5 T. Detailed simulations were performed to quantify the small field perturbation effects and the influence of detector components on the dose response. The does response of both detectors decreases by up to 10% at 1.5 T in the largest field size investigated. InS = 0.63 cm, this reduction at 1.5 T is only about half of that observed in field sizesS > 2 cm for both detectors. The results of the Monte Carlo simulations show agreement better than 1% for all investigated conditions. Due to normalization at the machine specific reference field, the resulting small field output correction factors for both detectors in magnetic fieldkQclin,QmsrBare smaller than those in the magnetic field-free case, where correction up to 6.2% at 1.5 T is required for the microSilicon in the smallest field size investigated. The volume-averaging effect of both detectors was shown to be nearly independent of the magnetic field. The influence of the enhanced-density components within the detectors has been identified as the major contributors to their behaviors in magnetic field. Nevertheless, the effect becomes weaker with decreasing field size that may be partially attributed to the deficiency of low energy secondary electrons originated from distant locations in small fields.Objective. This study examines how the geometrical arrangement of electrodes influences spike sorting efficiency, and attempts to formalise principles for the design of electrode systems enabling optimal spike sorting performance.Approach. The clustering performance of KlustaKwik, a popular toolbox, was evaluated using semi-artificial multi-channel data, generated from a library of real spike waveforms recorded in the CA1 region of mouse Hippocampusin vivo.Main results. Based on spike sorting results under various channel configurations and signal levels, a simple model was established to describe the efficiency of different electrode geometries. Model parameters can be inferred from existing spike waveform recordings, which allowed quantifying both the cooperative effect between channels and the noise dependence of clustering performance.Significance. Based on the model, analytical and numerical results can be derived for the optimal spacing and arrangement of electrodes for one- and two-dimensional electrode systems, targeting specific brain areas.In this work, we performed molecular dynamics simulations of ice nucleation on a rigid surface model of cubic zinc blende structure with different surface dipole strength and orientation. Our results show that, although substrates are excellently lattice-matched to cubic ice, ice nucleation merely occurred as the interfacial water molecules (IWs) show identical or similar orientations to that of water molecules in cubic ice. Free energy landscapes revealed that, as substrates have non-suitable dipole strength/orientation, there exist large free energy barriers for rotating dipole IWs to the right orientation to trigger ice formation. This study stresses that, beyond the traditional view of lattice match and the similarity of lattice length between the substrate and new-formed crystal, the similarity between molecular orientations of interfacial component and component in the specific new-formed crystalline face is also critical for promoting ice nucleation.