Does routine transcranial duplex ultrasound heat up the patient brain?
Routine transcranial duplex ultrasound does not increase the intracranial temperature in patients.
Both chlorhexidine and fluconazole become readily leached from PEM/THFM polymer up to four weeks and that the polymerisation of the acrylic does not affect the antimicrobial activity of the agents. Importantly, the amount of drugs released exceeded the MICs of most isolates also during the fourth week of incubation.