Gas Digital Microfluidic Platform: Application to Highly Volatile Compound Preconcentration.

Digital microfluidics platforms (DMFPs) have shown their efficiency in sample handling, using elementary operations that may be combined to perform complex applications. In this article, we present a new platform for gaseous samples handling involving a two-step digital preconcentration using the miniaturized preconcentrators of the DMFP. Choosing -pentane at very low concentrations as a model for highly volatile compounds, poorly retained on the sorbent, the DMFP allowed bypassing the limit set by the breakthrough volume by repeating an elementary operation.

A microfluidic device for digital manipulation of gaseous samples.

Digital microfluidics is known for fine manipulation of sub-millimeter samples, with applications from biological sample preparation to diagnostic testing. Unfortunately, until now, it has been only limited to liquid phases. In this paper, we present a new system based on a digital microfluidic platform (DMFP), which is able to digitally manipulate gaseous samples, such as alkanes from n-hexane to n-nonane.

Coil-Induced Perforation of Recently Ruptured Cerebral Aneurysm during Embolization. Causes and Avoidance.

Most coil-induced aneurysmal ruptures during endovascular treatment occur in small, recently ruptured aneurysms, and after placement of at least one coil. In cases where the distal part of the microcatheter cannot move back due to its straightness and tightness, the last coil deployed may advance towards the aneurysmal wall through intercircles of deposited coils. To solve this problem, after complete occlusion of the sac is obtained, the microcatheter is slightly withdrawn until the tip of the catheter is placed in the neck, and then the neck is occluded with the appropriate coil.