An overall success rate of 90% with a less than 5% associated leak rate has been quoted, although a cost benefit analysis has not been performed. However, good grade I evidence is lacking and open surgery may be quicker, though results from on-going trial are awaited with interest.”
“This paper proposes a novel sputter-based method AICAR order for the direct growth of transparent conducting Ti1-xNbxO2 (TNO) polycrystalline films on glass, without the need for any postdeposition treatments, by the use of an initial seed-layer. Anatase TNO epitaxial films grown on LaAlO3 (100) substrates under a reducing atmosphere exhibited a low resistivity

(rho) of (3-6) x 10(-4) Omega cm. On glass, however, highly resistive rutile phase polycrystalline films (rho similar to 100 Omega cm) formed preferentially under the same conditions. These results suggest that epitaxial stabilization of the oxygen-deficient anatase

phase occurs on lattice-matched substrates. To produce a similar effect on a glass surface, we deposited a seed-layer of anatase TNO with excellent crystallinity under an increased oxygen atmosphere. As a result, anatase phase TNO polycrystalline films could be grown even under heavily reducing atmospheres. An optimized film exhibited rho = 1.1 x 10(-3) Omega cm and optical absorption lower than 10% in the visible region. This rho value is more than one order of magnitude lower than values reported for directly deposited TNO SBC-115076 mouse polycrystalline films. This indicates that the seed-layer method has considerable potential for producing transparent conducting TNO polycrystalline films on

glass. (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3148267]“
“Over the past decades, there have been significant demographic changes in patients awaiting deceased donor kidney transplants, with the largest increases in the >= 65 year-age group. Because most allograft failures in older recipients are the result of death with a functioning graft, the transplant community has adopted the position that older donor kidneys, with reduced half-lives, often can provide suitable, lifelong function for an elderly recipient. Since 1999, the Eurotransplant Senior Program (ESP) allocates kidneys from donors >= 65 years, without prospective PLX3397 cell line matching for HLA antigens, to local transplant candidates >= 65 years. The rationale behind this policy was to expedite the change of the elderly to receive a transplant and to reduce cold ischemia time to prevent ischemic injury and hereby delayed graft function and the increased risk of rejection. Two issues have been identified with the use of old donor kidneys. First, there is an increased incidence of acute interstitial rejection, compared with kidneys from younger donors and secondly, once a rejection episode occurs, the ability to mount a tissue repair process seems impaired.