A shared view on the definition of IT governance is lacking and practitioners do not use present IT governance frameworks to support their decision-making. A commonly agreed upon definition of IT governance would be very useful and would serve the development and refinement of IT governance frameworks and assessment methodologies. This article presents an Architecture Theory Diagram, ATD, and a...

Intravascular persistence concomitant with changes occurring in the circulating molecular size distribution were determined in five healthy normovolaemic men dosed with 7 ml/kg of a 6% (w/v) solution of a species of hydroxyethyl starch (HES 450/0.70) possessing a M(w)- of 450 000 daltons combined with a molar hydroxyethyl group substitution (MS) of 0.70 (70 hydroxyethyl groups/100 glucose resid...

Plasma expanders such as dextran and hydroxyethyl starch (HES) are important components of solutions designed to maintain vascular volume in the clinical setting and to preserve organs ex vivo before transplantation. Here, we show that these polymers also exert stabilizing effects on engineered microvessels in microfluidic type I collagen and fibrin scaffolds. Standard growth media, which did n...

BACKGROUND Excessive production of matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) is linked to tissue damage and anastomotic leakage after large bowel surgery. Hence, the aim of this study was to verify whether different strategies of fluids administration can reduce MMP-9 expression. METHODS In the in vitro experiment, the authors tested the hypothesis of a direct inhibition of MMP-9 by the fluids used ...

withdrawn 576 Paper Poster Sessions © 2014 EFNS European Journal of Neurology 21 (Suppl. 1), 388–713 PP3096 Effects of low molecular weight hydroxyethyl starch on blood brain permeability and brain edema following traumatic brain injury in rats

Epidural blood patch is the standard treatment for postdural puncture headache when symptomatic therapy is ineffective. We report the cases of two patients who received an epidural injection of hydroxyethyl starch when an epidural blood patch was contraindicated; one due to Streptococcus agalactiae bacteraemia and one due to acute leukaemia. Relief of headache was achieved in both patients with...

An automated search for metal-poor stars is carried out in the course of the Hamburg/ESO objective-prism survey (HES), which covers the full southern sky at Galactic latitudes |b| & 30◦. As the HES reaches ∼ 1 magnitude deeper and covers areas of the sky which have not been touched by the HK Survey of Beers and collaborators, the total survey volume of the HES represents an increase by a factor...

0308-8146/$ see front matter Published by Elsevier doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2010.01.057 * Tel.: +1 808 959 4343. E-mail address: [email protected] Phytochemical compounds (tocopherols, tocotrienols, and squalene) were measured in seven macadamia cultivars harvested from four locations on Hawaii island to establish whether these compounds enhance the oxidative stability of roasted kernels. ...

Hydroxyethyl starches (HES) are commonly used synthetic colloidal solution in veterinary medicine. Despite of possible adverse effect to kidney injury in human, there is no report about nephrotoxic effects of HES in dogs. HES was administered to a Golden retriever (4-year-old, intact male) with ascites in order to increase plasma osmolality. Initially, the dog was mild azotemic, however, kidney...

The present study was aimed to investigate the effects of infusion of different fluids combined with controlled hypotension on gastric intramucosal pH (pHi) and postoperative gastrointestinal function in patients undergoing hepatocarcinoma surgery. Forty-five patients (ASA II) scheduled for surgical resection of hepatocarcinoma undergoing controlled hypotension were randomly assigned to three g...