OBJECTIVE This study aims to assess the suitability rates and the causes of lung-donor refusal, to determine which factors could be improved to expand the donor pool available for transplantation (LTx). METHODS Lung donors offered to our Lung Transplantation Unit from October 1993 to December 2007 were reviewed to assess the causes of unsuitability. The donor-lung evaluation was divided into ...

www.chestpubs.org 5 . Jones AE , Shapiro NI , Trzeciak S , Arnold RC , Claremont HA , Kline JA ; Emergency Medicine Shock Research Network (EMShockNet) Investigators . Lactate clearance vs central venous oxygen saturation as goals of early sepsis therapy: a randomized clinical trial . JAMA . 2010 ; 303 ( 8 ): 739 746 . 6 . Rivers EP . Point: adherence to early goal-directed therapy: does it rea...

Received: April 30, 2009 • Accepted: May 15, 2009 Corresponding Author: Moon Shik Kim National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board, 224 Jayang-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-873, Korea TEL) 02-476-2333 FAX) 02-2088-1081 E-mail) [email protected] 1) President of National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board, Republic of Korea (2004. 5~2009. 6.) Korean J Med Educ 2009 Sep; 21(3): ...

N Engl J Med 2005;352:476-87. Copyright © 2005 Massachusetts Medical Society. olorectal cancer is the third most common malignant disease and the second most frequent cause of cancer-related death in the United States, with 145,290 new cases and 56,290 deaths anticipated in 2005. 1 Worldwide, colorectal cancer is the fourth most commonly diagnosed malignant disease, with an estimated 1,023,000 ...

• In a second study, prevalence of tapeworm infection in 157 horses was randomly evaluated at necropsy during a 12-month period. Anoplocephala perfoliata was identified in 27% of the horses, exceeding what fecal testing would indicate in many herds. Horses <2 years of age, perhaps due to immunologic susceptibility, were at greater risk of tapeworm infection than adult horses. The geometric mean...

ISSN 1758-2008 10.2217/NPY.11.50 © 2011 Future Medicine Ltd Neuropsychiatry (2011) 1(5), 467–476 Summary Anorexia nervosa is an enigmatic syndrome and has the highest mortality rate among psychiatric disorders. Nutritional rehabilitation remains both the therapeutic cornerstone and the key challenge, but the evidence for effective therapeutic approaches is still very limited. Cannabinoids have ...

This article is a survey of 476 consecutive cases of tumor death for heart involvement. The somewhat selected group of cases (from a Veterans Administration hospital) shows an incidence of cardiac metastasis of 19.1 per cent. The bulk of tumors metastasizing to the heart were bronchogenic carcinoma, malignant melanoma, malignant lymphoma, and carcinoma of the pancreas and esophagus. Electrocard...

Citation: Laxalt AM, García-Mata C and Lamattina L (2016) The Dual Role of Nitric Oxide in Guard Cells: Promoting and Attenuating the ABA and Phospholipid-Derived Signals Leading to the Stomatal Closure. Front. Plant Sci. 7:476. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00476 The Dual Role of Nitric Oxide in Guard Cells: Promoting and Attenuating the ABA and Phospholipid-Derived Signals Leading to the Stomatal Cl...

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