The Utility of ECMO, Not Just After but Also During Liver Transplantation

Heart failure: not just the heart but also the lungs.

Full disclosure: not just of conflict, but also of data.

THE events of the past 2 yr since the initial controversial publication by Mangano et al. regarding the effect of aprotinin on renal failure and mortality have been of great interest to the anesthesiology community. In this issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, Dietrich et al. test the hypothesis that any potential nephrotoxic effect of aprotinin (Bayer Healthcare Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is dose dep...

Introducing Procedural Utility: Not only What, but also How Matters

People not only care about outcomes, they also value the procedures which lead to the outcomes. Procedural utility is a potentially important source of human well-being. This paper aims at introducing the concept of procedural utility into economics, and argues that it should be incorporated more widely into economic theory and empirical research. Three building blocks of a concept of procedura...

Not Only What, but Also How Matters Introducing Procedural Utility: Not Only What, but Also How Matters

People not only care about outcomes, they also value the procedures which lead to the outcomes. Procedural utility is a potentially important source of human well-being. This paper aims at introducing the concept of procedural utility into economics, and argues that it should be incorporated more widely into economic theory and empirical research. Three building blocks of a concept of procedura...

Uric acid: a prognostic marker not only before but also after heart transplantation.

OBJECTIVES Early diagnosis of rejection after heart transplantation is mandatory, since even mild rejection can rapidly progress to more severe rejection. However, the identification of patients at high risk of acute cellular rejection and their non-invasive diagnosis remains a challenge. To identify patients with a high risk of acute cellular rejection during the first post-transplantation yea...