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Reconstructive Options for the Thumb Axis in a Brachial Plexus Injury
The restoration of hand function in a patient with a complete brachial plexus injury remains the most difficult challenge faced by the upper extremity surgeon. The development of successful options for restitu...
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Wrist Arthrodesis in the Adult Brachial Plexus Patient
In patients with brachial plexus injuries, intrinsic muscle function, wrist and digital movement, pinch, and grasp are difficult to restore with nerve grafting and nerve transfers; therefore, free functioning ...
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Alternative therapies for diabetes and its cardiac complications: role of vanadium
It is now well known that a cardiomyopathic state accompanies diabetes mellitus. Although insulin injections and conventional hypoglycemic drug therapy have been of invaluable help in reducing cardiac damage a...
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Vanadium Effects in Diabetes
Over the past twenty years vanadium compounds have garnered much attention with respect to the treatment of diabetes. Vanadium’s attraction as a hypoglycaemic agent lies in its oral route of administration. Se...
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Mg2+-Dependent Atpase Activity in Cardiac Myofibrils from The Insulin-Resistant JCR:La-Cp Rat
There is a great deal of information presently available documenting a cardiomyopathic condition in insulin-deficient models of diabetes. Less information is available documenting a similar status in non insul...