The First 100 Liver Transplants at UCLA

Liver transplantation: intraoperative changes in coagulation factors in 100 first transplants.

Six intraoperative blood samples were obtained at intervals from each of 100 individuals undergoing their first liver transplants. The patients fell into the following diagnostic categories: postnecrotic cirrhosis 28, primary biliary cirrhosis 20, sclerosing cholangitis 19, miscellaneous diseases 14, carcinoma/neoplasia 12 and fulminant hepatitis 7. Coagulation factor values in the initial (bas...

Evaluation of the first 100 liver transplantations.

BACKGROUND/AIMS We aimed to present the experience of the first 100 liver transplantations carried out at Akdeniz University. METHODS The data of 100 patients in pediatric and adult age groups who underwent liver transplantation at Akdeniz University Organ Transplantation Center between January 2000 and January 2007 were examined retrospectively. The cases between January 2000 and December 20...

Beatwave Acceleration Experiments at Ucla

The possibility of using high density plasmas as a medium for a high gradient accelerator is being studied experimentally at UCLA. This proof-ofprinciple experiment uses a large C@ laser to excite plasma waves with large accelerating fields and a 1.5 MeV linac to probe the fields. Preliminary results from optical scattering diagnostics indicate that the length L of the wave times the accelerati...

RFID Middleware at UCLA WINMEC

Introduction Contactless RFID technology holds promise for object tracking, supply chain, smart payment and security management. Most RFID systems have their own unique hardware and software interfaces and are therefore are not readily available in the plug and play mode. At UCLAWINMEC, we have developed a unique RFID middleware platform and this platform is being implemented in software to mak...

The first baboon-to-human transplants.