OBJECTIVES This study was designed to see if ischemic postconditioning could attenuate ischemic reperfusion injury of transplanted lungs recovered from non-heart-beating donors. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty Sprague-Dawley rats were randomized into 2 groups: the control group and the ischemic postconditioning group, with 10 donor rats paired with 10 recipient rats in each group. Twenty rats und...

A 61-year-old man presents with 2 weeks of exertional dyspnea. Pertinent medical history includes hypertension, nephrolithiasis, and internal hemorrhoids. He takes no medications and has no known drug allergies. His father died after a myocardial infarction at 57 years of age. He formerly smoked 1 pack of cigarettes daily for 15 years but ceased tobacco use 10 years before presentation. He inge...

OBJECTIVE To determine if an athlete's capacity to perform exercise is impaired following concussion and whether this would be reflected by an altered heart rate response. METHODS Of the 14 concussed athletes, nine missed playing time as a direct result of their concussion and five did not. The concussed athletes performed an exercise protocol on a cycle ergometer within 72 hours of being asy...

Methylene blue (MB) is a medication commonly used to treat methemoglobinemia, reducing methemoglobin to hemoglobin. A novel use of MB, as detailed here, is in the treatment of refractory hypotension. A number of reports have detailed use of MB for this purpose in adults, but few data in pediatrics. A 22-month-old girl with Noonan syndrome, biventricular hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and chronic ...

Consumers are frequently presented opportunities to purchase products that are linked to charitable causes, green production, or fair trade practices. In Elfenbein and McManus (forthcoming) we demonstrate that consumers are willing to pay a premium for these items by analyzing a hand-matched data set of identical items sold in charity and non-charity auctions on eBay. This premium may occur bec...

BACKGROUND Valvular heart surgery (VHS) utilizing cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is inevitably associated with ischemic-reperfusion injury, which is known to depend on oxygen tension during reperfusion. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of arterial oxygen tension during reperfusion on myocardial recovery in patients undergoing VHS. METHODS Fifty-six patients undergoing isolated V...

ABSTRACT Introduction Mountaineering is a very healthy reasoning sport event that focuses on intelligence and physical strength, climbing rock walls with the hands. Objective Observe specific indicators of upper limb strength in mountaineering. Methods Athletes from rock-climbing training team were selected as research subjects (N=12, M=6). Before formal experimental test, performed 30-minute w...

S3 Video is a duplicate of S5 Video. Please view the correct S3 Video below. S3 Video. Longitudinal axis B-mode video of a warm-acclimated (WA) zebrafish at 28oC. article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Results: need of the search of new ways of the increase of efficiency of the competitive activity of young handball players is proved theoretically. Psychological characteristics of handball players of 13–14 years old with a different force of the nervous system are provided. Practical recommendations about the organization of pregame warm-up of handball players of 13–14 years old taking into a...