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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A detailed guide for quantification of myocardial scar with the Selvester QRS score in the presence of electrocardiogram confounders. 
  • A look at uterine wound healing through a histopathological study of uterine scars. 
  • A realistic complication analysis of 70 sural artery flaps in a multimorbid patient group. 
  • A systematic review of the psychometric properties of self-reported scales assessing burn contractures reveals the need for a new tool to measure contracture outcomes. 
  • A treatment strategy for postburn neck reconstruction: emphasizing the functional and aesthetic importance of the cervicomental angle. 
  • Abdominal wall endometriomas. 
  • Adult skin wounds in the fetal environment heal with scar formation. 
  • Advancing Cardiovascular Science. 
  • Aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibition blocks mucosal fibrosis in human and mouse ocular scarring. 
  • An ECG index of myocardial scar enhances prediction of defibrillator shocks: an analysis of the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial. 
  • Assessment of myocardial scarring improves risk stratification in patients evaluated for cardiac defibrillator implantation. 
  • Association between ICAM-1 Gly-Arg polymorphism and renal parenchymal scarring following childhood urinary tract infection. 
  • Asymmetric retinopathy in patients with diabetes mellitus. 
  • Atypical Cutaneous Presentations of Sarcoidosis: Two Case Reports and Review of the Literature. 
  • Biointegration of the osteo-odonto lamina in the modified osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis: engineering of tissue to restore lost vision. 
  • Body image changes associated with dual-chamber pacemaker insertion in women. 
  • Bone-anchored hearing aid abutment skin overgrowth reduction with clobetasol. 
  • Bullous dermatitis herpetiformis. 
  • CS-4,6 is differentially upregulated in glial scar and is a potent inhibitor of neurite extension. 
  • Cardiac MRI scar patterns differ by sex in an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and cardiac resynchronization therapy cohort. 
  • Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Scar Imaging for Sudden Cardiac Death Risk Stratification in Patients with Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy. 
  • Cellular mechanisms for diminished scarring with aging. 
  • Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia. 
  • Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia: what has been achieved, current clues for future research. 
  • Chronic cicatrizing conjunctivitis in a patient with epidermolysis bullosa acquisita. 
  • Collagen-rich crystalloids in a scarred vascularized cornea. 
  • Completion of the Patient Scar Assessment Scale via a telephone interview. 
  • Congenital erosive and vesicular dermatosis healing with reticulated supple scarring: report of three new cases and review of the literature. 
  • Contribution of prosthetic therapy in the management of nasopharyngeal stenosis following uvulopalatopharyngoplasty. 
  • Customizing femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery in a patient with a traumatic corneal scar and cataract. 
  • Damage extent and predictors in adult and juvenile dermatomyositis and polymyositis as determined with the myositis damage index. 
  • Delayed in utero repair of surgically created fetal cleft lip and palate. 
  • Development and Course of Scars in the Comparison of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Treatments Trials. 
  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Rosacea Fulminans: A Comprehensive Review. 
  • Differential collagen I gene expression in fetal fibroblasts. 
  • Differential expression of receptor tyrosine kinases and Shc in fetal and adult rat fibroblasts: toward defining scarless versus scarring fibroblast phenotypes. 
  • Discoidin domain receptors and their ligand, collagen, are temporally regulated in fetal rat fibroblasts in vitro. 
  • Do new tools help us identify substrate to target for ablation in ventricular tachycardia? 
  • Does transendocardial injection of mesenchymal stem cells improve myocardial function locally or globally?: An analysis from the Percutaneous Stem Cell Injection Delivery Effects on Neomyogenesis (POSEIDON) randomized trial. 
  • Durable scar size reduction due to allogeneic mesenchymal stem cell therapy regulates whole-chamber remodeling. 
  • ECG myocardial scar quantification predicts reverse left ventricular remodeling and survival after cardiac resynchronization therapy implantation: A retrospective pilot study. 
  • ECG quantification of myocardial scar and risk stratification in MADIT-II. 
  • ECG quantification of myocardial scar in cardiomyopathy patients with or without conduction defects: correlation with cardiac magnetic resonance and arrhythmogenesis. 
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  • Effects of keratinocyte growth factor-2 (KGF-2) on wound healing in an ischaemia-impaired rabbit ear model and on scar formation. 
  • Effects of nitric oxide releasing poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogel dressings on dermal wound healing in diabetic mice. 
  • Emergence of Collagen Orientation Heterogeneity in Healing Infarcts and an Agent-Based Model. 
  • Era of Individualization of the Surgical Treatment of Breast Cancer: Similar Problems Can Sometimes Be Treated Differently. 
  • Evaluation of the ECG based Selvester scoring method to estimate myocardial scar burden and predict clinical outcome in patients with left bundle branch block, with comparison to late gadolinium enhancement CMR imaging. 
  • Expanding our understanding of eye rubbing and keratoconus. 
  • Female pattern hair loss and its relationship to permanent/cicatricial alopecia: a new perspective. 
  • Fetal diaphragmatic wounds heal with scar formation. 
  • Fetal fibroblast contraction of collagen matrices in vitro: the effects of epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor-beta. 
  • Fetal rat amniotic fluid: transforming growth factor beta and fibroblast collagen lattice contraction. 
  • Frontal fibrosing alopecia: a retrospective review of 19 patients seen at Duke University. 
  • Gadolinium cardiovascular magnetic resonance predicts reversible myocardial dysfunction and remodeling in patients with heart failure undergoing beta-blocker therapy. 
  • Growth factors regulate beta-catenin-mediated TCF-dependent transcriptional activation in fibroblasts during the proliferative phase of wound healing. 
  • Homeobox genes Hoxd3 and Hoxd8 are differentially expressed in fetal mouse excisional wounds. 
  • Hyaluronate metabolism undergoes an ontogenic transition during fetal development: implications for scar-free wound healing. 
  • ICG angiography predicts burn scarring within 48 h of injury in a porcine vertical progression burn model. 
  • Impact of Smad3 loss of function on scarring and adhesion formation during tendon healing. 
  • Impact of ostium secundum atrial septal defect closure on the resolution of falsely positive electrocardiographic criteria for myocardial scarring. 
  • In vitro model of glial scarring around neuroelectrodes chronically implanted in the CNS. 
  • Incomplete, intrasubstance strain injuries of the rectus femoris muscle. 
  • Inhibition of epidural scar formation after lumbar laminectomy in the rat. 
  • Intracoronary cardiosphere-derived cells for heart regeneration after myocardial infarction (CADUCEUS): a prospective, randomised phase 1 trial. 
  • Keloids and hypertrophic scars. 
  • Keratosis follicularis spinulosa decalvans in a family. 
  • Laryngeal schwannoma: diagnosis and management. 
  • Late traumatic wound rupture following successful partial penetrating keratoplasty. 
  • Localization of mesenchymal stem cells grafted with a hyaluronan-based scaffold in the infarcted heart. 
  • Long-term follow-up of a randomized controlled trial of suture versus mesh repair of incisional hernia. 
  • Microsurgical salvage of the intractable oral vestibule. 
  • Modulation of Rho GTPase activity alleviates chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan-dependent inhibition of neurite extension. 
  • Myocardial cell hypertrophy after myocardial infarction with reperfusion in dogs. 
  • Myocardial scar in sarcoidosis by 12-lead ECG and pathology. 
  • Myocardial thinning in patients with coronary artery disease--reply. 
  • Nanoscale laminin coating modulates cortical scarring response around implanted silicon microelectrode arrays. 
  • Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery: lessons learned from the laparoscopic revolution. 
  • Novel use of a flowable collagen-glycosaminoglycan matrix (Integra™ Flowable Wound Matrix) combined with percutaneous cannula scar tissue release in treatment of post-burn malfunction of the hand--A preliminary 6 month follow-up. 
  • Pancreatitis complicated by gland necrosis: evolution of findings on contrast-enhanced CT. 
  • Patient-Reported Outcome Instruments for Surgical and Traumatic Scars: A Systematic Review of their Development, Content, and Psychometric Validation. 
  • Pax7 expressing cells contribute to dermal wound repair, regulating scar size through a β-catenin mediated process. 
  • Physiological Implications of Myocardial Scar Structure. 
  • Positron emission tomography in the pretreatment evaluation and follow-up of non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with radiotherapy: preliminary findings. 
  • Presurgical columellar elongation and primary retrograde nasal reconstruction in one-stage bilateral cleft lip and nose repair. 
  • Prevalence of regional myocardial thinning and relationship with myocardial scarring in patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Protective astrogenesis from the SVZ niche after injury is controlled by Notch modulator Thbs4. 
  • Psychometric evaluation of Patient Scar Assessment Questionnaire following thyroid and parathyroid surgery. 
  • Pulmonary apical cap. 
  • Radiation dose and screening for vesicoureteral reflux. 
  • Randomized Controlled Trial of Octyl Cyanoacrylate Skin Adhesive versus Subcuticular Suture for Skin Closure after Implantable Venous Port Placement. 
  • Renal scarring and urinary tract infection after successful endoscopic correction of vesicoureteral reflux. 
  • Repair of the traumatically ruptured gravid uterus. A report of two cases resulting in viable pregnancies. 
  • Retinopathy of prematurity. Diagnosis, severity, and natural history. 
  • Right, but not left, bundle branch block is associated with large anteroseptal scar. 
  • Role of TGF-beta1 in renal parenchymal scarring following childhood urinary tract infection. 
  • Scar burden assessed by Selvester QRS score predicts prognosis, not CRT clinical benefit in preventing heart failure event and death: A MADIT-CRT sub-study. 
  • Scar formation in young and aged rabbits. 
  • Scar perceptions after thyroid and parathyroid surgery: comparison of minimal and conventional approaches. 
  • Scarless wound repair: a human fetal skin model. 
  • Specificity for each of the 46 criteria of the Selvester QRS score for electrocardiographic myocardial scar sizing in left bundle branch block. 
  • Studies in fetal wound healing, VI. Second and early third trimester fetal wounds demonstrate rapid collagen deposition without scar formation. 
  • Subretinal Hyperreflective Material in the Comparison of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Treatments Trials. 
  • Summary of North American Hair Research Society (NAHRS)-sponsored Workshop on Cicatricial Alopecia, Duke University Medical Center, February 10 and 11, 2001. 
  • Temporal spatial expression and function of non-muscle myosin II isoforms IIA and IIB in scar remodeling. 
  • The Effect of Microporous Polysaccharide Hemospheres on Wound Healing and Scarring in Wild-Type and db/db Mice. 
  • The Fontan right atrium--in context. 
  • The immediately available physician standard. 
  • The modified Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale: a novel approach to defining pathologic and nonpathologic scarring. 
  • The nucleic acid scavenger polyamidoamine third-generation dendrimer inhibits fibroblast activation and granulation tissue contraction. 
  • The public's perception of dermatologists as surgeons. 
  • The role of osteopontin and osteopontin aptamer (OPN-R3) in fibroblast activity. 
  • Tissue transglutaminase is expressed, active, and directly involved in rat dermal wound healing and angiogenesis. 
  • Tunneled and transposed island flaps in facial reconstructive surgery. 
  • Understanding patient preferences for femoral central venous catheterization among patients with sickle cell disease. 
  • Update on cicatricial alopecia. 
  • Urine macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) in children with urinary tract infection: a possible predictor of acute pyelonephritis. 
  • Viability assessment by delayed enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance: will low-dose dobutamine dull the shine? 
  • Visual internal urethrotome for incision of dense perirenal scar tissue during percutaneous stone removal. 
  • Wound contraction is attenuated by fasudil inhibition of Rho-associated kinase. 
  • [Covering soft tissue defects and unstable scars over the Achilles tendon by free microsurgical flap-plasty]. 
  • [Secondary plastic surgical reconstruction in severely burned patients]. 
  • β-Catenin-regulated myeloid cell adhesion and migration determine wound healing.