Superwet anesthesia is a method of regional anesthesia for liposuction surgery that uses an evenly distributed, rapidly infused solution under pressure, until tissue blanching and moderate tension are achieved, in a ratio of 0.5 to 1.5 ml per milliliter of injectate to lipoaspirate. It is accompanied by systemic anesthesia and supplemented with intravenous hydration. The efficacy of superwet fo...

OBJECTIVE To compare the yields of gastric aspirates collected for culture of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from children evaluated as outpatients versus inpatients and to determine factors associated with a positive culture. METHODS Retrospective study of 100 children <12 years of age with tuberculosis diagnosed at a pediatric referral hospital or in one of two tuberculosis control programs in ...

INTRODUCTION Peritonitis is the most frequent complication of peritoneal dialysis. Diagnosis of peritonitis includes symptoms and signs of peritonitis with a cloudy aspirate of more than 100 WBC/ml, as well as positive cultures. Although sterile peritonitis has been reported in the literature, to the best of our knowledge this is the first report of an unusual presentation of peritonitis withou...

The pH of sputum and exhaled breath condensate is abnormal in several pulmonary disorders. Though airway pH regulatory proteins may be abnormally expressed in human development, the tracheal aspirate pH of infants born prematurely has not been studied. Undiluted mid-tracheal aspirate samples were obtained on the first day of life from pre-term (23-30 weeks' gestation) and term (> or =37 weeks' ...

Kleinbongard P, Baars T, Möhlenkamp S, Kahlert P, Erbel R, Heusch G. Aspirate from human stented native coronary arteries vs. saphenous vein grafts: more endothelin but less particulate debris. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 305: H1222–H1229, 2013. First published August 9, 2013; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00358.2013.—Stent implantation into atherosclerotic coronary arteries releases particulate deb...

PURPOSE (1) To safely obtain bone marrow aspirates from the distal femur during arthroscopic knee surgery, (2) to purify and efficiently concentrate connective tissue progenitor cells (CTPs) in the operating room (OR), and (3) to confirm that these are CTPs through their ability to differentiate into bone cells. METHODS Bone marrow aspirates were harvested from the distal femur during arthros...

Bone marrow biopsies ( 244) performed buffy coat. The greatest variance was seen with a Jamshidi needle were evaluated in the hypercellular or normocellular marin 53 children with leukemia or aplastic rows, as estimated by biopsy, in which anemia. Adequate specimens were ob39% were misinterpreted as moderately tamed in 85%. Results of cellularity estior severely hypocellular by aspirate. Volmat...