Thrombotic microangiopathy is a form of antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR): it is the main complication of ABO-incompatible (ABOi) kidney transplantation (KT). Herein, we report on two cases of ABMR with biological and histological features of thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) that were treated by eculizumab after ABOi KT. The first patient presented with features of TMA at postoperative day (PO...

1392 December 2012 We read with interest the recent article by Flink et al.1 in which the authors evaluated the frequency of postoperative delirium (POD) in 106 elderly patients aged 65 yr or older after elective knee replacement. The screening for POD was thorough and well-conducted with recognized screening tools, with an incidence of 25% on days 2–3 postoperatively. The pathophysiologic mech...

DESIGN Inhaled iloprost was known to alleviate ischemic-reperfusion lung injury. We investigated whether intraoperative inhaled iloprost can prevent the development of primary graft dysfunction after lung transplantation. Data for a consecutive series of patients who underwent lung transplantation with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation were retrieved. By propensity score matching, 2 comparabl...

The Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) is a method that may be applied to linear and nonlinear structures for extracting important information from a measured structural response. Previous methods of using the POD for system identification typically use the POD for model reduction only and system identification is accomplished via standard methods. A method for using the POD-based identifica...

BACKGROUND Pneumoperitoneum with an intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) of 14 mmHg is known to decrease renal function. Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) requires an IAP of more than 15 mmHg for operation. Therefore, we retrospectively investigated whether patients who underwent RARP experienced renal insufficiency during the postoperative period (at postoperative days 7 and 30). METHO...

In this paper, proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is used for model reduction of mixed finite element (MFE) for the nonstationary Navier–Stokes equations and error estimates between a reference solution and the POD solution of reduced MFE formulation are derived. The basic idea of this reduction technique is that ensembles of data are first compiled from transient solutions computed equation...

The development of transgenic soybean has produced numerous economic benefits; however the potential impact of root exudates upon soil ecological systems and rhizospheric soil microbial diversity has also received intensive attention. In the present study, the influence of saline-alkali tolerant transgenic soybean of betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase on bacterial community structure and soil phosp...

BACKGROUND Perioral dermatitis (POD) is a common inflammatory skin disease without standard therapy. OBJECTIVE We sought to evaluate the clinical value of a soothing fluid for the treatment of POD. METHODS We included 51 patients with POD in this 8-week clinical trial. The Toleriane Fluide Efficacy in Perioral Dermatitis (TOLPOD) study had an open-label design and involved twice-daily appli...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of deep breathing exercises (DBE) and the flow-oriented incentive spirometry (IS) in patients undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) through the following variables: forced vital capacity - FVC, forced expiratory volume in 1 second - FEV(1), maximal respiratory pressures and oxygen saturation. METHODS Thirty six patients in CABG postoperative period ...

The activities of polyphenol oxidase (PPO) and peroxidase (POD) in hot pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) pericarp were evaluated using spectrophotometric method. The enzymes were extracted from the pepper pericarp 5 g with 20 mL of 0.1 M phosphate buffer solution pH 7. PPO and POD activities were determined using catechol and guaiacol as a substrate, respectively. The effects of the amounts of enzyme...