e., any donation-related pain on POD56. Study findings have potential implications for LKD education, surgical consent, postdonation care, and outcomes measurement. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.As the number of patients with heart failure continues to grow, heart transplantation (HT) remains the therapy of choice for…[Read more]

. CONCLUSION Bone consolidation was efficaciously obtained with the studied expanded hBM-MSCs combined to biomaterials, by clinical and radiological evaluation, and confirmed by bone biopsies, with lower consolidation scores in smokers. BACKGROUND Upper extremity injuries have a significant impact on social and professional life. They represent…[Read more]

Only one of the 198 (0.5%) patients presented with an acute small bowel obstruction secondary to an IH during follow-up. However, the prevalence of asymptomatic IH was noted to be much higher in the postoperative CT scans occurring in 22 of 105 (21%) patients. DC661 CONCLUSION Asymptomatic IH after laparoscopic left-sided colorectal resection is…[Read more]

The immunocapture-based ELISA for extracellular vesicles (EVs)/exosomes, originally described in 2009 by Logozzi and colleagues, allows to capture, detect, characterize and quantify extracellular vesicles in both human body fluids and cell culture supernatants. It is based on the use of two antibodies directed one against a typical exosomal…[Read more]