Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; HUH Heart and Lung Center, University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; University Clinic of Heart Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; Swedish Heart and Vascular Institute, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA Correspondence to: Johannes Bonatti, MD, FETCS. Cardiac Surgeon, Chief Hea...

Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) is a common clinical condition that often leads to unnecessary antimicrobial use. The reduction of antibiotic overuse for ABU is consequently an important issue for antimicrobial stewardship and to reduce the emergence of multidrug resistant strains. There are two issues in everyday urological practice that require special attention: the role of ABU in pre-operati...

In this work, we applied advanced Synchrotron Radiation (SR) induced techniques to the study of the chemisorption of the Self Assembling Peptide EAbuK16, i.e., H-Abu-Glu-Abu-Glu-Abu-Lys-Abu-Lys-Abu-Glu-Abu-Glu-Abu-Lys-Abu-Lys-NH₂ that is able to spontaneously aggregate in anti-parallel β-sheet conformation, onto annealed Ti25Nb10Zr alloy surfaces. This synthetic amphiphilic oligopeptide is a go...

John T. Maple, DO, FASGE, Chair and primary author, Rahul Pannala, MD, MPH, Barham K. Abu Dayyeh, MD, MPH, Harry R. Aslanian, MD, FASGE, Brintha K. Enestvedt, MD, MBA, Adam Goodman, MD, Sri Komanduri, MD, Michael Manfredi, MD, Udayakumar Navaneethan, MD, Mansour A. Parsi, MD, FASGE, Zachary L. Smith, DO, Nirav Thosani, MD, Shelby A. Sullivan, MD, Subhas Banerjee, MD, FASGE, previous Committee C...

The peptide bond formation of N-protected non-coded amino acids having different structures as acyl donor substrates that is catalyzed by thermoase in organic media was investigated. In these reactions, N-protected l-non-coded amino acids, including l-Orn, l-Cit, -aminobutyric acid (l-Abu) and phenylalanine homologues, were used as the acyl donors and phenylalanine derivatives were used as the ...

A.Y. Bani Hashim1, N.A. Abu Osman2, W.A.B. Wan Abas2, and L. Abdul Latif3 1 Department of Robotics & Automation, Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Durian Tunggal, 76100 Melaka, Malaysia 2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 3 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,...

Since the recognition of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU), several studies have questioned its significance. It is a very common condition, observed in many healthy individuals. Current guidelines mandate that ABU should not be treated in all cases, as it does not seem to improve the outcome. Conditional restrictions for treatment of ABU can be relaxed in certain situations, with minimal exceptio...

Literature reviews of all references concerning the parasitic fauna of fishes in fish farms of Babylon province, middle of Iraq, showed that a total of 92 valid parasite species are so far known from the common carp (Cyprinus carpio), the grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella), and the silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) as well as from three freshwater fish species (Carassius auratus, Liza...

OBJECTIVE To determine the risk factors related to asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) in pregnant women. MATERIAL AND METHOD Three hundred and sixty asymptomatic pregnant women who attended their first antenatal appointment at Rajavithi Hospital from August 1 and October 31 2005 were enrolled. Those with symptoms of urinary tract infection within one month, those who had been prescribed antibioti...