1001 May 2013 A D VA N C E M E N T S in the field of anesthesia have led to significant improvements in our monitoring capabilities, safer anesthetic drugs, and improved pain control. Despite this remarkable progress, acute organ injury remains one of the leading causes for morbidity and mortality in surgical patients. Patients who require a major surgical intervention—such as cardiothoracic, v...

Abstract Burn injuries are a significant cause of death worldwide, leading to systemic inflammation, multiple organ failure and sepsis. The progression burn injury is explicitly correlated with mitochondrial homeostasis, which disrupted by the hyperinflammation induced injury, dysfunction cell death. Mitophagy plays crucial role in maintaining cellular homeostasis selectively removing damaged m...

OBJECTIVES To examine the performance of the urinary biomarker panel tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-2 and insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 7 in patients with sepsis at ICU admission. To investigate the effect of nonrenal organ dysfunction on tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-2 and insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 7 in this population. METHOD In this ancillary an...

INTRODUCTION Currently, the gold standard for donor organ preservation in clinical organ transplantation consists of 3 plastic bags and an ice box. The first plastic bag includes the organ itself immersed in preservation solution (e.g. Celsior). This bag is put in a second bag filled with saline, and then these two are put in a third bag filled with saline which is then put in the ice box.  The...

Background: Sepsis related-multiple organ dysfunction is associated with ileum injury. We aimed to determine the causes of ileal injury in two models of microbial sepsis resulted from infection with Aeromonas hydrophila or its endotoxin. We also evaluated the protective effect of phytic acid. Methods: Thin sections of ileum from 60 Swiss male mice in control, bacteria-infected or lipopolysaccha...