6 LIMITING FACTORS IN PROLONGED ECMO TREATMENT BY IMMUNOLOGICAL INTERFERENCE

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO): prolonged bedside cardiopulmonary bypass.

ECMO after prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation as a successful bridge to immediate cardiac retransplant in a 6-year-old girl.

Heart failure, life-threatening arrhythmias, and sudden cardiac death are common complications in patients with advanced chronic cardiac allograft rejection--the major limiting factor of long-term survival after heart transplant. In patients with sustained cardiorespiratory arrest refractory to cardiopulmonary resuscitation extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy is a therapeutic option. We...

Treatment by Prolonged Sleep in Psychiatry

The; treatment of certain types of mental disorder by artificial sleep maintained over a considerable period?8 to 10 days?was first introduced by Klaesi of Zurich in 1920. Since then this form' of treatment has been widely adopted in Europe?except, perhaps, in England ?and many observers have published their results. The drug that has been used most extensively for this purpose has been Somnife...

Limiting and Experimental Factors

Practical applications of phytoremediation are essential for the clean-up of moderately and severely contaminated sites in an economical and environmentally responsible way. The usage of plants to do a job that would otherwise be done by chemicals or energy intensive soil removal is a natural choice on several levels. First, by using plants for clean-up, pollutants are being absorbed by nature ...

Limiting factors for glycogen storage in tumors. I. Limiting enzymes.

The paper presents a study of various enzymes involved in the final accumulation of glycogen in tumor tissues. The solid tumors used are : Novikoff hepatoma, Walker 256 carcinosarcoma, Sarcoma 37, leukemia, and melanoma. It was observed that tumor tissues showed lower activity of phosphoglucomutase and glycogen synthetase as compared with that of normal liver and muscle. All tumors studied exce...