Deliberate Compensated Vasoplegia-A Novel Pharmaceutical Approach for Controlling Blood Pressure During Surgery for Pheochromocytoma.

Background: The most dreaded adverse event of pheochromocytoma surgery is operative severe blood pressure fluctuations. Preoperative protocols with alpha-blockade have achieved controversial results. No study to date evaluated the use of operative protocols in pheochromocytoma patients.

A Retrospective Investigation of Neuraxial Anesthesia Rates for Elective Cesarean Delivery Before and During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic.

Background: Our hospital used to perform cesarean delivery under general anesthesia rather than neuraxial anesthesia, mostly because of patient refusal of members of the conservative Bedouin society. According to recommendations implemented by the Israeli Obstetric Anesthesia Society, which were implemented due to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, we increased the rate of neuraxial anesthesia among deliveries.

Objectives: To compare the rates of neuraxial anesthesia in our cesarean population before and during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

The effect of preoperative anxiety on phenylephrine dose during cesarean delivery: An open controlled one-arm clinical trial.

Background: We performed an open controlled one-arm clinical trial to assess whether preoperative anxiety influences phenylephrine dosage required to maintain normotension during cesarean section under spinal anesthesia.

Methods: Ninety-four parturients undergoing elective cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia were included. Anxiety levels were measured using a verbal numerical scale anxiety score (0-10).

[SEX DIFFERENCES IN PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO PAIN THROUGHOUT SURGICAL PROCEDURES].

Background: Recent research has shown that women and men respond differently to pain, and that biological mechanisms partially moderate sex-related differences in pain sensitivity. Previous pain studies regarding the relationship between pain and physiological aspects, such as brain function and hormone levels, have demonstrated gender differences. In this study we examined whether male and female autonomic reactivity patterns to pain, defined as increases in heart rate and blood pressure, differ throughout anesthetized abdominal surgical procedures.

Protection of cultured Cyprinus carpio against a lethal viral disease by an attenuated virus vaccine.

Massive mortality of koi and common carp--Cyprinus carpio species--has been observed since 1998 in many countries worldwide, resulting in severe economic losses. The cause of the disease is an as yet unclassified large DNA virus, designated carp nephritis gill necrosis virus (CNGV) or koi herpes virus (KHV). Previously, we demonstrated that the wild type CNGV lost its pathogenecity following serial transfer in cell culture, and that clones isolated from the attenuated population can be used as a prophylactic vaccine.

Description of an as yet unclassified DNA virus from diseased Cyprinus carpio species.

Numerous deaths of koi and common carp (Cyprinus carpio) were observed on many farms throughout Israel, resulting in severe financial losses. The lethal viral disease observed is highly contagious and extremely virulent, but morbidity and mortality are restricted to koi and common carp populations. Diseased fish exhibit fatigue and gasping movements in shallow water.

Pathogenesis of acute viral disease induced in fish by carp interstitial nephritis and gill necrosis virus.

A lethal disease of koi and common carp (species Cyprinus carpio) has afflicted many fish farms worldwide since 1998, causing severe financial losses. Morbidity and mortality are restricted to common carp and koi and appear in spring and autumn, when water temperatures are 18 to 28 degrees C. We have isolated the virus causing the disease from sick fish, propagated it in koi fin cell culture, and shown that virus from a single clone causes lethal disease in carp and koi upon infection.

Efficient vaccine against the virus causing a lethal disease in cultured Cyprinus carpio.

We have isolated a virus, which causes a mortal disease in cultured ornamental Koi and Common carps (Cyprinus carpio) in many countries worldwide. This unclassified virus, which causes nephritis and gill necrosis, and so has been given the name carp nephritis and gill necrosis virus (CNGV), has a morphology resembling the herpes virus, but bears a genomic DNA of ca 250-300 kbp. So far, both others and we have been unable to find CNGV-DNA sequences possessing a significant similarity to known DNA viruses.