Does methylprednisolone favourably alter plasma and urinary cytokine homeostasis and subclinical renal injury at cardiac surgery?
Methylprednisolone administration during cardiac surgery significantly reduces plasma and urinary TNFsr-2 and IL-1ra, urinary TGFbeta1 and subclinical renal injury but not dysfunction.
HFIA effectively augmented severely osteoporotic bone for screw purchase, but this effect was not seen for osteoporotic bone. In a model simulating both osteoporotic and severely osteoporotic bone, we found that HFIA can be used to repair stripped screw holes, but the resulting construct remains weaker than nonstripped controls.