BACKGROUND Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a rare multisystem genetic disorder. During the course of the disease it can be rarely complicated with pulmonary hypertension (PH) which confers a dismal prognosis. CASE PRESENTATION We describe the case of a 57-year-old female patient with NF1 complicated by severe precapillary PH despite dual disease-specific oral combination therapy. The patien...

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PURPOSE To demonstrate the value of sequential determinations of pelvic drainage in the identification of increased risk of anastomotic leakage (AL) after anterior resection for rectal cancer with a double stapling technique. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between January 2004 and December 2011, data for the daily postoperative pH of pelvic drainage fluid in 753 consecutive patients with rectal cancer ...

the objective of this study was to produce fish peptone from tuna (thunnus tonggol) viscera, by alcalase. response surface methodology (rsm) was employed for optimizing the temperature and ph. hydrolysis was done in different tempratures (50-65˚c) , ph (8-8. 5) and selected 13 treatments. samples with higher value of protein were used instead of the standard peptones which applied in commercial...

The effect of extraction buffer on extractable calpain and calpastatin activity in postmortem muscles was examined. Muscles were removed from ovine carcasses 24 h after slaughter and extracted with three volumes of two extraction buffers containing 20 (pH 7.5) and 100 (pH 8.3) mM Tris. There was a significant difference in pH of the muscle homogenates, having a pH of 5.84 and 7.58 for 20 and 10...

Hydrogen gas can be recovered from the microbial fermentation of organic substrates at high concentrations when interspecies hydrogen transfer to methanogens is prevented. Two techniques that have been used to limit methanogenesis in mixed cultures are heat treatment, to remove nonsporeforming methanogens from an inoculum, and low pH during culture growth. We found that high hydrogen gas concen...

The in vitro activities of mupirocin, quinupristin/dalfopristin, linezolid, eperezolid, sitafloxacin, clinafloxacin, moxifloxacin, amoxycillin, metronidazole and clarithromycin were tested at pH 7.4 against 57 strains of Helicobacter pylori. The most active agents (mupirocin, sitafloxacin and clinafloxacin) were also tested for activity at pH 5.4 against the same strains. Mupirocin was very act...