Journal ArticleAnn Transplant · August 28, 2018
BACKGROUND Central nervous system complications after transplantation occur in up to 40% of recipients and these complications are associated with increased length of hospital stay and mortality. Catatonia is a neuropsychiatric clinical syndrome which has ...
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Journal ArticlePsychosomatics · July 2018
BackgroundWernicke encephalopathy is a common neuropsychiatric syndrome due to thiamine deficiency. There is no consensus regarding thiamine dosing when Wernicke encephalopathy is suspected. A longstanding dosing strategy for Wernicke encephalopat ...
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Journal ArticlePrim Care Companion CNS Disord · December 22, 2016
BACKGROUND: Reverse colocation care models reduce lifestyle risk factors, emergency department visits, and readmissions. Persons with serious mental illness have higher than average rates of cardiovascular disease-related morbidity and mortality, with seco ...
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Journal ArticleEJIFCC · March 2015
Serum protein electrophoresis (SPE) and immunofixation is commonly used to screen for plasma cell dyscrasias. Interpretation of these tests is qualitative by nature and can yield trace, faint, or scarcely visible immunoglobulin bands (TFS), which can be di ...
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Journal ArticleLaryngoscope · September 2010
OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: Pediatric skull base surgery is limited by several boney sinonasal landmarks that must be overcome prior to tumor dissection. When approaching a sellar or parasellar tumor, the piriform aperture, sphenoid sinus pneumatization, and in ...
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Journal ArticleJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · September 2009
OBJECTIVE: Although anoxia/reoxygenation of cultured cells has been used to model lung ischemia-reperfusion injury, this does not accurately mimic events experienced by lung cells while a lung is retrieved from a donor, stored, and transplanted. We develop ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol · July 2009
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) of the innate immune system contribute to noninfectious inflammatory processes. We employed a murine model of hilar clamping (1 h) with reperfusion times between 15 min and 3 h in TLR4-sufficient (C3H/OuJ) and TLR4-deficient (C3H ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Respir Crit Care Med · May 1, 2009
RATIONALE: Modulation of the activity of sarcoendoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase (SERCA) can profoundly affect Ca(2+) homeostasis. Although altered calcium homeostasis is a characteristic of cystic fibrosis (CF), the role of SERCA is unknown. OBJECTIVES: ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol · January 2009
Immortalization of human bronchial epithelial (hBE) cells often entails loss of differentiation. Bmi-1 is a protooncogene that maintains stem cells, and its expression creates cell lines that recapitulate normal cell structure and function. We introduced B ...
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