5 to 1% of patients with Kawasaki disease can be fatal if associated with thrombosis. Some patients may show persistent inflammation and fever despite treatment with repeated doses of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), steroids, and aspirin. This report describes an infant boy with resistant Kawasaki disease who presented with extensive coronary artery involvement and coronary thrombosis. His inflammation GSK2879552 cell line was not controlled with multiple doses of IVIG, parenteral and oral steroids, or high-dose aspirin, and he finally needed infliximab, a monoclonal antibody against tumor
necrosis factor alpha. The progression of coronary thrombosis was arrested by the platelet glycoprotein 2b/3a receptor blocker, abciximab, during the acute
phase of the disease.”
“BACKGROUND: Various methods, including centrifugation, filtration, electroflocculation, flocculation and flotation, have been developed for harvesting CBL0137 in vitro microalgae. However, some economic or technical problems still remain with current methods for algal recovery, such as high capital, energy and running costs, flocculant toxicity or low separation efficiency. Therefore, there is great interest in developing new efficient approaches for harvesting microalgae.
RESULT: An efficient electroflocculation method integrated with dispersed-air flotation has been developed for harvesting Botryococcus braunii. The recovery efficiency of B. braunii reached 93.6% after 30 min using an electroflocculation process. Microalgae recovery was improved significantly when the electroflocculation
process was integrated with dispersed-air flotation; the recovery efficiency of B. braunii reached 98.9% after 14 min.
CONCLUSION: The present work demonstrated that electroflocculation integrated with dispersed-air flotation is a promising method suitable Vorinostat ic50 for microalgae harvesting. The strategic air supply obviously shortened the algal recovery time in the process of electroflocculation due to facilitating algal aggregation and flotation to the solution surface. (C) 2010 Society of Chemical Industry”
“We report hemodynamic findings in two patients with pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum (PAIVS) after “”one-and-a-half ventricle repair”" and placement of a bidirectional Glenn shunt using four-dimensional (4D) flow magnetic resonance imaging. Quantification of flow and analysis of flow patterns revealed the hemodynamic “”battle”" between the right ventricle (RV) and the Glenn shunt. Moreover, with a novel approach we calculated during Glenn anastomosis the flow distribution from the superior vena cava (SVC) to the pulmonary arteries. Our results showed a highly asymmetric flow distribution, with most of the flow from the SVC toward the RV and not to the lungs. The evidence provided by 4D flow demonstrates poor efficiency of this system and suggests that both patients might benefit from adding an artificial pulmonary valve to avoid right heart failure.