OBJECTIVES We observed early acute lung injury (ALI) after a switch from veno-arterial extracorporeal life support (VA-ECLS) to long-term mechanical circulatory support (MCS). The aim of our study was to analyse the frequency, impact on mortality and characteristics of patients presenting ALI after MCS implantation in the bridge-to-bridge (BTB) strategy. METHODS We retrospectively analysed da...

CONTEXT Acute lung injury (ALI) and ARDS are currently defined by the American-European Consensus Conference (AECC) definition criteria, which contain a radiographic criterion. The accuracy or reliability of this consensus radiographic definition has not been evaluated, and no radiographic definition of ALI-ARDS has been evaluated by a large international group of experts. OBJECTIVE To study ...

A cute lung injury (ALI) and its more severe form, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), are important public health issues, and both incidence and mortality increase with age [1]. Given that only a moderate percentage of individuals with the same level of exposure develop ALI/ ARDS, it is logical to investigate whether inherent interindivid-ual variation will, in part, determine the risk...

Palladium (Pd) electroplating is widely practiced in the manufacture of advanced electronic devices. The Pd(II) present spent solutions treated by cementation with zinc (Zn) metal powder. In order to recover pure Pd from cemented Pd, a process that consisted leaching followed solvent extraction was investigated. For this purpose, experiments using synthesized ionic liquids (ILs) organic and ino...

The genetic susceptibility to the development of and variable outcomes in acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS) has become a topic of great interest in the pulmonary and critical care community. Published studies of variable genetic susceptibility to ALI/ARDS already have identified some important candidate genes and potential gene-environment interactions. This artic...

Submitted for the MAR05 Meeting of The American Physical Society Superfluidity of interacting bosons in one-dimension via strong disorder NOAH BRAY-ALI, UC Berkeley, Physics Department, JOEL MOORE, UC Berkeley, Physics Department; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Materials Science Division — We have found a novel set of superfluid and Mott insulating phases arising in strongly-disordered,...

This study aims to analyze online word-of-mouth regarding notebook computers, based on two large notebook computer forums in Taiwan. Online reviews are extracted between January 1, 2008 and April 1, 2010, with a total of 318 effective samples collected. Empirical study found that the market of the notebook computer can be divided into four groups, namely, game and entertainment, fashion and qua...

Acute limb ischemia (ALI) is a common vascular emergency. Hematologic malignancies are commonly associated with derangement of normal hemostasis and thrombo-hemorrhagic symptoms during the course of the disease are common. However, ALI as an initial presenting feature of acute leukemia is rare. Due to the rarity of this presentation, there is a scarcity of prospective randomized data to optimal...

Recently, the use of the algorithmic lateral inhibition (ALI) method in motion detection has shown to be very effective. The promising results in terms of the goodness of the silhouettes detected and tracked along video sequences lead us to accept the challenge of searching for a real-time implementation of the algorithms. This paper introduces two steps towards that direction: (a) A simplifica...