Contribution by Departments of Forensic Medicine to Tissue Donation for Transplant Purposes.

Background: A department of forensic medicine (DFM) can be a valuable source for tissue donation, but logistics can prove difficult to overcome as it pertains to obtaining tissues for donation. This article describes the potential of tissues that can be procured for transplantation.

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Appearance of individual amino acid concentrations in arterial blood during steady-state infusions of different amino acid formulations to ICU patients in support of whole-body protein metabolism.

Background: Previous work has demonstrated a relationship between arterial amino acid concentrations and uptake of amino acids across peripheral tissues in healthy volunteers, as well as in chronically and acutely ill patients. The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether different amino acid profiles in commercially available amino acid formulations are translated into significantly different arterial amino acid concentrations presumably high enough to promote protein metabolism in intensive care unit (ICU) patients.

Methods: Nonprotein calories (60% glucose: 40% lipid) were simultaneously and constantly infused over 72 hours.

[Liver dialysis using MARS in acute hepatic failure. Promising results in a pilot setting].

Acute hepatic failure (AHF) is a life threatening condition with a high mortality rate. There is a need to buy time, either waiting for the liver to regenerate or waiting for urgent liver transplantation. Different modalities of "liver dialysis" have been used during the last decades but of no true success.