OBJECTIVES We observed early acute lung injury (ALI) after a switch from veno-arterial extracorporeal life support (VA-ECLS) to long-term mechanical circulatory support (MCS). The aim of our study was to analyse the frequency, impact on mortality and characteristics of patients presenting ALI after MCS implantation in the bridge-to-bridge (BTB) strategy. METHODS We retrospectively analysed da...

RATIONALE Acute lung injury (ALI) that develops 6 hours after transfusion (TRALI) is the leading cause of transfusion-related mortality. Several transfusion characteristics have been postulated as risk factors for TRALI, but the evidence is limited to retrospective studies. OBJECTIVES To compare patient and transfusion risk factors between patients who do and do not develop ALI. METHODS In ...

Essentials Tissue factor (TF) represents a central link between hemostasis and inflammation. We studied the roles of myeloid and airway epithelial TF in acid-caused acute lung injury (ALI). TF on myeloid cells displays a non-coagulatory role regulating the inflammatory response in ALI. Airway epithelial TF contributes to hemostatic functions, but is dispensable in ALI pathogenesis. SUMMARY In...

CONTEXT Acute lung injury (ALI) and ARDS are currently defined by the American-European Consensus Conference (AECC) definition criteria, which contain a radiographic criterion. The accuracy or reliability of this consensus radiographic definition has not been evaluated, and no radiographic definition of ALI-ARDS has been evaluated by a large international group of experts. OBJECTIVE To study ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Landsat program has been dedicated to sustaining data continuity over the 20-year period during which Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced TM Plus (ETM+) sensors have been acquiring images of the earth's surface. In 2000, NASA launched the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) Advanced Land Imager (ALI) to test new technology that could improve t...

f3 real. (See, for instance, [1], p. 224, ex. 4.) We offer the following proof whic h, although it also uses Bieberbach's result, is considerably different. PROOF: Let cP (z) J~ . Then cP sends the open unit disk into itself. Let cP 1= cP and inductively 1 a? define cPn=cP OcPlI t. If cPll(Z)=An,1 z+AIl,z Z2+ . .. ,it is clear that A"'=M' A I ,2= M' AII ,I = A", AIl I,t, and A II ,2 = AI ,I A n...

Automatic Language Identification (ALI) is the problem of automatically identifying the language of an utterance through the use of a computer. In 1977, House and Neuburg proposed an approach to ALI which focused on the phonotactic constraints of different languages. Their work suggested that simple language models could be used effectively for language identification if an accurate phonetic re...

Keywords: Biomedical signal processing Prosthetics Myoelectric control Psychophysiology Mother wavelet EMG EEG VPA Pattern recognition Daubechies (db 44) a b s t r a c t During the last two decades, wavelet transform has become a common signal processing technique in various areas. Selection of the most similar mother wavelet function has been a challenge for the application of wavelet transfor...

A cute lung injury (ALI) and its more severe form, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), are important public health issues, and both incidence and mortality increase with age [1]. Given that only a moderate percentage of individuals with the same level of exposure develop ALI/ ARDS, it is logical to investigate whether inherent interindivid-ual variation will, in part, determine the risk...