Globally, adult intensive care units routinely use the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) scoring system for identifying overt disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). However, in our pediatric intensive care unit, a modified diagnostic criterion (Texas Children’s Hospital [TCH] criteria) that requires serial monitoring of the coagulation variables is employed. A re...

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a condition characterized by a systemic activation of coagulation that leads to fibrin deposition without specific localization and occurring intravascularly. There is ample experimental and pathological evidence that the fibrin deposition in DIC contributes to multiple organ failure. The massive and ongoing activation of coagulation, may result i...

Plitvice Lakes waters were collected at 14 sampling points, including springs, tributaries and lakes, for the period 2002-2007. The results of the physical and chemical conditions of calcite precipitation as well as the δ(13)C values of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) were used to study the processes influencing calcite precipitation. Significant differences between spring, lake and stream wat...

The hydrothermal vent chemolithoautotroph Thiomicrospira crunogena grows rapidly in the presence of low concentrations of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) (= CO(2) + HCO(3)(-) + CO(3)(-2)). Its genome encodes alpha-carbonic anhydrase (alpha-CA), beta-CA, carboxysomal beta-like CA (CsoSCA), and a protein distantly related to gamma-CA. The purposes of this work were to characterize the gene produ...

Sepsis-induced disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a major cause of death in patients admitted to intensive care units. Endothelial injury with microparticle production is reported in the pathogenesis of sepsis. Endothelial microparticles (EMPs) present several cell-specific surface antigens with different bioactivities, for example, tissue factor (TF), thrombomodulin (TM), and endo...

BACKGROUND Incidental carcinoma of the prostate gland is a common clinical problem among elderly males but this malignancy presenting initially with features of Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy (DIC) in the African blacks is rare. Disseminateded intravascular coagulathy is the most frequent coagulation disorder in patients with prostate cancer, However DIC as a first manifestation of pro...

Direct impedance control (DIC) technique used for an electroacoustic absorber in this paper requires a pair of pressure and velocity sensor. However, it can be quite costly to develop array system of this electrostatic absorber for acoustically large space. To overcome this problem, in this paper instead of using velocity sensor, disturbance-observer-type velocity estimator is applied to DIC te...

We demonstrate high-resolution x-ray differential interference contrast DIC in a compact soft x-ray microscope. Phase contrast imaging is enabled by the use of a diffractive optical element objective which is matched to the coherence conditions in the microscope setup. The performance of the diffractive optical element objective is evaluated in comparison with a normal zone plate by imaging of ...

Digital image correlation (DIC) relies on the visible surface features of a specimen to measure deformation. When the specimen itself has little to no visible features, a pattern is applied to the surface which deforms with the specimen and acts as artificial surface features. Since recent pattern application methods, e.g., micro-stamping [1] and lithography [2] allow for the application of hig...