A. Boczkowska, P. Chabera, Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Warsaw, Poland A. J. Dolata, M. Dyzia, Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Katowice, Poland A. Oziębło, Institute of Ceramics and Construction Materials, Katowice, Poland A pressure-vacuum infi ltration (T = 720 oC, p = 15 MPa, t = 15 min) and gas...

Correspondence: Albert J Finestone Director, Institute on Aging, Geriatric Education Center, Temple University, Philadephia PA, USA Tel +1 215 707 4741 Fax +1 215 707 3675 In August 2006, after a trip to the New Jersey Shore, Peggy was having great diffi culty catching her breath. In consultation with her children, Peggy decided that she was ready for hospice care. But, she did not want to reli...

Chlorophenols are widely used in various industries, including as preservatives in wood manufacturing, in paper industry, in chemical synthesis, and in biodegradation of herbicide and pesticide [1]. These applications lead to considerable level of contamination in wastewater and ground water [2]. Chlorophenols are highly toxic, poorly biodegradable, and present serious health concerns to human ...

www.thelancet.com Vol 386 August 1, 2015 415 Quite reasonably, patients with bipolar disorder want treatment that provides sustained relief from their illness without incurring serious side-eff ects. Functionally, this translates to the resumption of purpose and enjoyment. But of the numerous drugs available for the management of bipolar disorder, only lithium seems to truly stabilise mood. Its...

Moreover, a wide variation in the course of relative blood volume during dialysis was previously described by Krepel et al. [5] . In this paper, no statistical relationship could be found between changes in relative blood volume and either inferior caval vein diameter (ICVD) or blood pressure, indicating that the initiation of hypotension may result from defective cardiovascular defense mechani...

Objectives: Modi®ed ultra®ltration increases blood pressure and cardiac index following open-heart surgery in children, but it is unclear if this is secondary to an improvement in global left ventricular function. A previous report has suggested that left ventricular systolic function as assessed in a single chord is improved by ultra®ltration (Davies MJ, Nguyen K, Gaynor JW, Elliott MJ. Modi®e...

The recent article about estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) by Levey and colleagues (1) is remarkable. The authors suggest that the new equation may still have some bias and especially may have less precision in patients with GFRs greater than 60 mL/min per 1.73 m 2 . This is even more important if the GFR is greater than 90 mL/min per 1.73 m 2 . In the paper's Methods section, Levey an...

BACKGROUND: The 4-variable Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (4-v MDRD) and Cockcroft-Gault (CG) equations are commonly used for estimating glomerular filtration rate (GFR); however, neither of these equations has been validated in an indigenous African population. The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of the 4-v MDRD and CG equations for estimating GFR in black South Africa...