Outpatient albumin infusions reduce hospitalizations and improve outcomes in decompensated cirrhosis: A real-world cohort study.

Background And Aim: Long-term human albumin (HA) infusions improve survival in cirrhotic patients with diuretic resistant ascites. We aimed to determine whether there is a significant benefit in a more unwell real-world cohort.

Methods: This is a single-center retrospective cohort study.

Toward transmural healing: Sonographic healing is associated with improved long-term outcomes in patients with Crohn's disease.

Background And Aims: Transmural healing has emerged as a treatment target in Crohn's disease (CD). We investigated whether transmural healing assessed with intestinal ultrasound (IUS) is associated with improved clinical outcomes in patients with CD in clinical remission.

Methods: Patients with CD in clinical remission at baseline (HBI <4) having IUS between August 2017 and June 2020 with at least 6-months' follow-up were retrospectively studied.

Characterization and evaluation of tea bag papers.

The infusion kinetics of tea bags containing black tea or green tea has been studied in detail in the past. However, the tea bag papers have never been characterized and evaluated earlier to understand their contribution towards tea bag infusion. In the present work, papers used for making tea bags were characterized for thickness, wettability, surface topography, pore size, porosity and permeance to understand their influence on infusion kinetics of tea bags.

Swelling and infusion of tea in tea bags.

The present study deals with swelling and infusion kinetics of tea granules in tea bags. The swelling and infusion kinetics of tea bags differing in tea loading and tea bag shapes were compared with loose tea. Increment in temperature and dipping frequency of tea bag in hot water increased the infusion kinetics of tea bags.

Written instructions to patients to confirm pathology results: is this effective in the transmission of results?

Background: Bowel cancer is the second most common internal malignancy in Australia. Bowel cancer is suited to community screening methods such as faecal occult blood testing and colonoscopy. Typical reporting of histopathology results after colonoscopy takes 3-5 days.

Swelling kinetics of tea in hot water.

In this study, the swelling kinetics of individual tea particles as well as bed of tea granules were investigated for different types of teas. The swelling experiments involved image analysis and volume measurements of tea particles. Each individual particle shows different swelling characteristics.

Combined effect of hydrodynamic and interfacial flow parameters on lysozyme deactivation in a stirred tank bioreactor.

The dynamic environment within a bioreactor and in the purification equipment is known to affect the activity and yield of enzyme production. The present research focuses on the effect of hydrodynamic flow parameters (average energy dissipation rate, maximum energy dissipation rate, average shear rate, and average normal stress) and the interfacial flow parameters (specific interfacial area and mass transfer coefficient) on the activity of lysozyme. Flow parameters were estimated using CFD simulation based on the k-epsilon approach.