The Pediatric Circulatory Support Program (PCSP) of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) was established to fund the development of novel circulatory support devices for children with medically refractory heart failure.1 Before this, developers of circulatory support devices found little incentive to enter the pediatric market because of the small patient numbers that are gener...

Objective—To study the mortality experience of workers at a hydrometallurgical nickel refinery and fertiliser complex in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. Methods—A total of 1649 male employees of Sherritt International who worked for at least 12 continuous months during the years 1954 to 1978 at the Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta hydrometallurgical nickel refinery and fertiliser complex were fol...

The purpose of this study was to describe the mortality patterns in the southern provinces of China, and to provide epidemiologic data on sex and age differences of death outcomes. Reliable mortality and population data from January 2004 to December 2010 were obtained from 12 Disease Surveillance Point (DSP) sites in four provinces of China. Death data from all causes and respiratory disease, c...

Adults with congenital heart disease are increasing due to improvement in infant heart surgery and availability of better cardiac care. Pregnancy in these patients requires multidisciplinary team approach due to circulatory changes. We describe an anesthetic management of the parturient undergoing cesarean section having severe pulmonary restenosis.

Postoperative intractable arrhythmia can result in high morbidity and mortality. This report describes our experiences using mechanical circulatory support (MCS) to control medically intractable arrhythmias in three pediatric patients with congenital heart disease (CHD), after palliative or total corrective open-heart surgery.

In this article, we document the first pig-isolated complete genome sequence of foot-and-mouth disease virus type O in Bangladesh. The complete viral genome revealed a potential serotypic recombination at the 5' untranslated region (UTR). Conventional amino acid deletion was lacking in 3A region, and antigenic heterogeneity to circulatory type O existed within the VP1 region.

Abstract Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic and complex autoimmune disease that can cause multi-organ damages. Patients with SLE often have higher risk for heart disease, poorly defined underlying mechanisms. We generated Cx3cr1-deficient MRL/lprlupus-prone mouse which exhibits distinct phenotype of exacerbated glomerulonephritis. Upon feeding high-fat diet, Cx3cr1−/−MRL/lprmice de...

BACKGROUND Circulatory congestion is an adverse predictor of mortality in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the nutritional status, energy intake, and expenditure profile of PD patients with and without previous circulatory congestion. DESIGN We conducted a cross-sectional study in 244 PD patients, of whom 92 had previous circulatory congestion. We estimated ...

background: the heartworm disease is an infectious disease of dogs with dirofilaria immitis combined with cardiovascular and circulatory abnormalities. the heartworm disease can become a serious health risk when associated with a severe infection. in this study, a male, 8 year-old dog that died suddenly was necropsied and all tissues were examined grossly. methods: major organs including heart,...

We describe the case of fulminant myocarditis due to Lyme disease and use of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) for the treatment of the Lyme carditis associated with refractory cardiogenic shock. Fulminant Lyme myocarditis in young adult male patient led to a sudden onset of acute, severe biventricular heart failure with progressive cardiogenic shock, and multiorgan failure immediately after...