Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) is a subgroup of pulmonary arterial hypertension with a poor prognosis. The diagnosis is usually delayed and treatment options other than lung transplantation are unfortunately limited. We report the case of 51-year-old female gardener diagnosed with PVOD by open lung biopsy before her death. Although there are many reported cases of hepatic veno-occlusiv...

INTRODUCTION The best modality, for continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is currently uncertain and it is poorly understood how transport of different solutes, whether convective or diffusive, changes over time. METHODS We conducted a prospective cross over study in a cohort of critically ill patients, comparing small (urea and creatinine) and middle (beta2 microglobulin) molecular wei...

A method of performing veno-arterial modified ultrafiltration is described that utilizes conventional blood flow through the aortic and venous cannulae. A dual-pump blood cardioplegia console is adapted to aspirate blood from the cardiopulmonary bypass venous line. The blood is ultrafiltered, sent through the cardioplegia heat exchanger, and returned to the aorta via the cardioplegia needle. Ve...

Introduction The susceptibility differences between venous blood, calcifications, iron laden tissues and surrounding tissues can be utilized to created new contrast in MR imaging(12). Several studies have addressed the capability of veno-BOLD to be sensitive to venous vasculature based on BOLD effects (3-4), which indicates that veno-BOLD may be helpful in detection and assessment of vascular m...

Objective: Normal gas exchange and sufficient oxygenation are key preconditions for tracheal tumor resection. Due to the complex of diseases, conventional airway management during anesthesia, in some special cases, may meet some difficulties or risks. Then, some other options should be considered. We presented three cases where extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was used for cardiopulmo...

BACKGROUND This paper aimed to verify the effects of renal replacement therapy on changing the levels of serum creatinine for different veno-arterial and veno-venous configurations in prolonged extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) patients. METHODS The subjects were chosen 71 patients who had undergone more than 1,440 minutes (24 hours) of the therapy from among 117 patients who had und...