The diameter of the inferior vena cava (IVC) measured with echocardiography is clinically used as a parameter to estimate right atrial pressure, which reflects dehydration or overhydration. Because elderly patients fall easily into dehydration, normal values for IVC diameters in elderly patients may be helpful for geriatric medicine. However, normal values of IVC diameter in relation to age hav...

For women diagnosed with leukemia, transplantation of cryopreserved ovarian tissue after disease remission is not advisable. Therefore, to restore fertility in these patients, we aim to develop a biodegradable artificial ovary that offers an environment where isolated follicles and ovarian cells (OCs) can survive and grow. Four NMRI mice were ovariectomized and their ovaries used to isolate OCs...

Abstract Nowadays, Tunisia faces challenging environmental and energy issues which relate mainly to the implementation of an appropriate solid waste management system capable dealing with high production biowaste on one hand, increased need for water resources other. Therefore, current study is intended develop a closed cycle technical concept treating food (FW) through combined biological proc...

OBJECTIVE 1) To evaluate the mid-term efficacy and safety of a permanent nitinol inferior vena cava (IVC) filter; 2) to evaluate filter effectiveness, filter stability and caval occlusion. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective evaluation of the TrapEase IVC filter was performed on 42 patients (eight men, 34 women) ranging in age from 22 to 78 years (mean age 66 years). All patients were ill wit...

objective: to evaluate the feasibility and results of using serosal patch of small bowel for repair and replacement of inferior vena cava (ivc) after resection of a part of infra-renal ivc in an animal model, as it may be encountered in extensive tumors of retroperitoneal and trauma patients. methods: five healthy sheep of both sexes were prepared. after general anesthesia and laparotomy, a def...

This study investigated the impact of composting substrate types on the bacterial community structure and dynamics during composting processes. To this end, pig manure (PM), chicken manure (CM), a mixture of PM and CM (PM + CM), and a mixture of PM, CM and anaerobic digestion residue (ADR) (PM + CM + ADR) were selected for thermophilic composting. The bacterial community structure and dynamics ...

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The management of household biowaste in the UK has undergone significant changes during the last decade. Legislation and policy have prom...

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) with its major complication, pulmonary embolism, is a global health problem. Mechanisms of DVT remain incompletely understood. Platelets play a role in DVT, but the impact of specific platelet receptors remains unclear. Platelet C-type lectin-like receptor 2 (CLEC-2) is known to maintain the physiological state of blood vasculature under inflammatory conditions. DVT i...

Modeling composting processes is the prerequisite to realize the process control of composting. In this paper, a simulation model for domestic solid waste composting processes was developed based on microbial process kinetics, mass conservation equation, energy conservation equation and water balance. Differential equations describing microbial, substrate, oxygen concentrations, moisture conten...

In this study, filtration flows through the walls of the rat aorta, pulmonary artery (PA), and inferior vena cava (IVC), vessels with very different susceptibilities to atherosclerosis, were measured as a function of transmural pressure (DeltaP), with intact and denuded endothelium on the same vessel. Aortic hydraulic conductivity (L(p)) is high at 60 mmHg, drops approximately 40% by 100 mmHg, ...