Heart-Lung Transplantation From Donation After Circulatory Death Using Mobile Normothermic Regional Perfusion.

Combined heart-lung transplant (HTLx) is the most durable treatment available for end-stage heart and lung failure. Many patients are unable to receive combined organs due to organ availability and allocation policies prioritizing separate heart or lung transplantation. While an average of 45 HTLxs have been performed per year in the United States half the listed patients do not receive organs.

Toe Web Infections, the Microbiome, and Toe Web Psoriasis: A Review.

Objective: To present the toe web space as an anatomically, physiologically, and pathologically unique part of the human body; characterize toe web infections and discuss why they occur; and highlight toe web psoriasis as an uncommon condition that providers should consider if toe web intertrigo does not respond to treatment.

Data Source: This review encompassed many years of clinical observation and photographs; medical textbooks; and a literature search of MEDLINE, PubMed, and Google Scholar.

Study Selection: Primary research keywords included intertrigo, toe web intertrigo, toe web infection, tinea pedis, microbiome, skin microbiome, toe web microbiome, ecology, psoriasis, psoriasis microbiome, intertriginous psoriasis, and Wood's lamp.

How is carer strain related to the recovery of stroke survivors with right hemisphere dysfunction? Implications for practice.

Aim: Right hemisphere strokes are associated with neuro-behavioural impairments including hemi-inattention, impulsiveness and anosognosia, which can impede stroke recovery and adversely affect carer health. This study explored the impact of associated impairments on carer strain and depression through a mixed methods approach.

Method: Fifty-one carer-survivor dyads were recruited from inpatient rehabilitation units and followed-up for 6 months.

Optical frequency stabilization with a synchronous frequency-to-voltage converter.

Between a frequency comb mode and a continuous-wave (cw) laser, we demonstrate that a frequency-to-voltage converter can be used to transfer frequency instability in the 10 range for integration times τ between 0.25 and 2100 s. The technique is relevant when the optical beat between laser signals is weak and a high level of frequency stability is required both in the short term and long term, as in the case of laser cooling with very narrow transitions.