Successful implementation of a liver transplantation program is dependent on extensive blood bank support. Careful planning, organization, and coordination of the blood bank and other clinical ...services are necessary. In our first 100 orthotopic liver transplantations, our median intraoperative erythrocyte use was 12.6 units, and 30% of the erythrocytes were provided by intraoperative cell salvage. Thus, the need for homologous blood and the number of donors to whom recipients were exposed were reduced. Use of intraoperative cell salvage and expansion of our erythrocyte inventory through the use of AS-1 preservative helped us meet the demands of the liver transplant program without compromising the availability of blood products for all other surgical and medical patients.
Hematoxylin-eosin staining (H&E) of cytomegalovirus (CMV) inclusion bodies was compared with in situ hybridization using a biotinylated DNA probe for the detection of CMV. Of 29 biopsy specimens ...selected from 23 patients with clinical CMV hepatitis and typical CMV inclusions on histopathologic examination, 23 (79%) were positive by DNA probe and 17 (59%) were detected in cell cultures. The mean number of CMV foci per tissue section was higher by DNA probe (12) compared with H&E (5). We do not recommend in situ hybridization in microbiology laboratories as a replacement for histopathology for the diagnosis of CMV in tissue specimens.
Partial deletion of the short arm of chromosome 9 (p24-->pter) and partial duplication of the long arm of chromosome 5 (q32-->qter) were observed in an abnormal boy who died at age 8 weeks of a ...complex cyanotic cardiac defect. He also had minor anomalies, sagittal craniosynostosis, triphalangeal thumbs, hypospadias, and a bifid scrotum. Two other infants with similar cytogenetic abnormalities were described previously. These patients had severe congenital heart defect, genitourinary anomalies, broad nasal bridge, low hairline, apparently low-set ears, short neck, and triphalangeal thumbs, in common with our patient. We suggest that combined monosomy 9p23,24-->pter and trisomy 5q31,32-->qter may constitute a clinically recognizable syndrome.
The pyrrolopyrimidine nucleoside GP3269 (12) was shown to be a potent and selective inhibitor of human adenosine kinase (IC
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= 11 nM) and to exhibit anticonvulsant activity in rats after oral ...administration. Synthesis of GP3269 was accomplished in 4 steps from 4-chloro-5-iodopyrrolopyrimidine (9) and the protected 5-deoxy-1-α-chlororibose (8) using a base-catalyzed nucleoside coupling reaction and the Suzuki reaction to replace the 5-iodo substituent with phenyl.
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Indentured Indian Emigrants to Natal 1860-1902, A Study Based on Ships' Lists by Surendra Bhana. New Delhi: Promilla & Co., Publishers, 1991.
Exchanges : South African Writing in Transition edited by ...Duncan Brown and Bruno van Dyk. Pietermaritzburg:University of Natal Press, 1991.
Going Green: People, Politics and Environment in South Africa edited by Jacklyn Cock and Eddie Koch. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1991.
South Africa's Labour Empire: A History of Black Migrancy to the Gold Mines edited by J. Crush, A. Jeeves and D. Yudelman Cape Town: David Philip 1991 and Westview Press.
A Southern African Guide To World Religions, edited by J De Gruchy and M Prozesky, Cape Town, David Phillip, 1991
Social Psychology in South Africa edited by Don Foster and Joha Louw-Potgieter. Johannesburg: Lexicon, 1991.
An Unofficial War: Inside the Conflict in Pietermaritzburg by Matthew Kentridge. Cape Town: David Philip, 1990.
African Nemisis: War and Revolution in Southern Africa, 1945-2010 by Paul Moorcraft. London: Brasseys 1990.
Transition to Democracy: Policy Perspectives 1991 edited by Robin Lee & Lawrence Schlemmer Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1991,
Hightech Fantasies: Science Parks in Society, Science and Space edited by Doreen Massey, Paul Quintas and David Wield London and New York: Routledge, 1992.
Sammy Marks: The Uncrowned King of the Transvaal by R Mendelsohn Cape Town: David Philip 1991
Johnny Gomas: Voice of the Working Class. A Political Biography by Doreen Musson. Cape Town: Buchu Books, 1989 .
Drama and the South African State by Martin Orkin. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1991.
'Black October': The Impact of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918 on South Africa by H. Phillips. Pretoria: The Government Printer (Archives Year Book for South African History, vol. 1, 1990), 1990.
Beyond Apartheid: Human Resources in a New South Africa. Report of a Commonwealth Expert Group. London: The Commonwealth Secretariat, in association with James Currey, David Philip, and Heinemann, 1991.
Progressive Odyssey - Towards a Democratic South Africa by Ray Swart. Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1991.
The Politics of Race Discrimination in South Africa by Hillel Ticktin. London: Pluto Press, 1991.
Women and Resistance in South Africa by Cherryl Walker Cape Town: David Philip, 1991.
A Little God: The Twilight of Patriarchy in a Southern African Chiefdom by Diana Wylie. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1990.
Pictures from the Past: A History of the Interpretation of Rock Paintings and Engravings of Southern Africa by Royden Yates, John Parkington and Tony Manhire. Centaur Publications: Pietermaritzburg, 1990.
