Brain Dead
The optimal hormonal replacement modality selection for multiple organ procurement from brain-dead organ donors
... human brain-dead ...40,124 brain-dead potential donors (in which definitive hormonal replacement therapy was docu- mented) with the aim of identifying the optimal therapy for both individual ...
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Increased resistin in brain dead organ donors is associated with delayed graft function after kidney transplantation
... deceased brain dead donors ...in brain dead organ donors and report for the first time an association between increased resistin levels and the development of DGF in the early posttransplant ...
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Wait, treat and see: echocardiographic monitoring of brain-dead potential donors with stunned heart
... consecutive brain-dead potential organ donors (DBD) with cerebral lesions of different etiology, mostly cerebral ...after brain death declaration and were excluded from the ...15 ...
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Conjunctival microcirculatory blood flow is altered but not abolished in brain dead patients: a prospective observational study
... during brain death? The fact that conjunctival microvascular blood flow is preserved to a large extend during absence of flow in the ICA may be in line with an alternative ocular blood ...in brain ...
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One life ends, another begins: Management of a brain-dead pregnant mother-A systematic review-
... of brain-dead pregnant ...the brain-dead mother can result in a healthy ...the brain-dead patient or simply publication ...
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Decision making on organ donation: the dilemmas of relatives of potential brain dead donors
... In the Netherlands, relatives of potential brain dead do- nors must give their consent to effectuate organ dona- tion. A majority of the Dutch population state that they are willing to be a donor [1]. Yet, ...
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Prednisolone has a positive effect on the kidney but not on the liver of brain dead rats: a potencial role in complement activation
... Our study also demonstrated a reduction in HO-1 expression in the kidney following methylprednisolone pretreatment of BD rats. As has been shown by Terry et al. [46] HO-1 is up-regulated by inflammatory cytokines like ...
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Circulating resistin levels are early and significantly increased in deceased brain dead organ donors, correlate with inflammatory cytokine response and remain unaffected by steroid treatment
... in brain dead organ donors was associated with delayed graft function and need for dialysis in kidney allograft recipi- ents after transplantation of kidneys from these donors ...of brain death and ...
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Prospective Study of Evaluation of the Role of Vasopressin in the Management of Hypernatremia in Clinically Brain Dead Patients
... They, hypothesized that low dose Vasopressin, infusion during organ recovery in critically ill children exerted a pressor effect, without major organ toxicity. Method: 34 VP-treated and 29 age-matched critically ill ...
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Current status of pediatric transplantation in Japan
... determine brain death and harvest organs from brain-dead individ- uals 15 years of age or older despite their unclear (or un- expressed) wishes or from children less than 15 years of age if familial ...
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Apnea Documentation for Determination of Brain Death in Children
... After evaluating eight children who were brain dead, Outwater and Rockoff8 concluded that if the PCO2 exceeded 40 torr at the onset of apnea, a five- minute test would satisfactorily tes[r] ...
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Transplant of stunned donor hearts rescued by pharmacological stress echocardiography: a “proof of concept” report
... of brain-dead donor hearts, left ventricular performance is reduced because the myocardium is regionally stunned or hibernating rather than irreversibly infarcted or ...
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Resuscitation and Withdrawal of Therapy in Pediatric Intensive Care
... sive care unit; RES, resuscitation unsuccessful; WD, therapy limited and/or withdrawn; BD, brain dead; DNR, Do-Not-Resuscitate.. Although issues concerning withdrawal and limi-.[r] ...
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Brain Death in the Newborn
... ated with brain death; (4) term infants clinically brain dead for 2 days and preterm infants brain dead for 3 days did not survive despite electroencephalogram or cerebral blood flow sta[r] ...
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Guidelines for the Determination of Brain Death in Children
... Thompson JR, Ashwal 5, Schneider 5, et al: Comparison of cerebral blood flow measurements by xenon computed to- mography and dynamic brain scintigraphy in clinically brain dead children,[r] ...
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Let‘s Know: Blue Brain
... like brain, take decisions based on the past experience, and response as the natural ...human brain and this artificial one ...natural brain can be up loaded into the ...
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Spatial Temporal Quantitative Global Energy Differences between the Living and Dead Human Brain
... Approximately one picoWatt per meter squared is the consistent value for photon flux density measured by many researchers as the central value from living systems that include bacteria, cells, hippocampal slices, and ...
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Defaming the Dead
... Whether we put the point in terms of blame or wrong, it has both normative and causal strands. First, someone else has to have misbehaved. Not that he failed to do something admirable but not required: we’re not ...
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Voice of the Dead
... NUTRIAS (large rat-like rodents) BAA like little sheep from inside of small, rusty cages as OLD JAZZ MUSIC (similar to the music from Harlan's Grandmother's house) mixed with a CHOPPING SOUND emanates throughout the old ...
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Dead Tired
... When they let go, I can see dust bunnies filing out in lines from under the bed, marching along the floor like little soldiers, heading for the bookcase, the closet.. They march toward[r] ...
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