… The percentage of US adults who are obese (ie, body mass index [BMI] 30 kg per m 2 ) has
grown from 11.6 percent in 1990 to 21 percent in 2001. The percentage of US adults who are …

Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) is the leading cause of transfusion-related
mortality. To determine TRALI incidence by prospective, active surveillance and to identify risk …

Aging process is often accompanied with a high incidence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD)
due to the synergistic effects of age-related changes in heart morphology/function and …

ContextSevere, uncompensated, traumatic hemorrhagic shock causes significant morbidity
and mortality, but resuscitation with an oxygen-carrying fluid might improve patient outcomes.…

Uterine and umbilical artery velocimetry was carried out on 71 women with hypertensive
disorders in pregnancy. Three categories of hypertensive disease were diagnosed: chronic …

The molecular and cellular processes that lead to renal damage and to the heterogeneity of
lupus nephritis (LN) are not well understood. We applied single-cell RNA sequencing (…

Ultrasound contrast agents have been used for decades in Europe and Asia for cardiac and
abdominal imaging and are now being more commonly utilized in the United States for …

… Colcemid (0.2 ,ug/ml) was added for 2 hours to arrest cells in metaphase, and the cells were
then resuspended in 0.075M KCI for 10 minutes and fixed in three changes of a 3:1 mixture …

Duplex Doppler sonography is a fundamental component of the complete ultrasonographic
examination of the liver. Accurate interpretation of the spectral Doppler tracing from the …

BACKGROUND: Transfusion-associated circulatory overload is characterized by new respiratory
distress and hydrostatic pulmonary edema within 6 hours after blood transfusion, but its …