Arterial access-site-related outcomes of patients undergoing invasive coronary procedures for acute coronary syndromes (from the ComPaRison of Early Invasive and Conservative Treatment in Patients With Non-ST-ElevatiOn Acute Coronary Syndromes [PRESTO-ACS] Vascular Substudy).

Transradial access (TRA) decreased bleeding after coronary interventions compared with femoral access (FA). However, no large study focused on arterial access-related outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndromes, although procedure-related bleeding significantly impaired prognosis. The aim was to evaluate access site-related outcomes of patients who underwent an invasive coronary procedure in the PRESTO-ACS Study.

Phenol removal from waste gases with a biological filter by Pseudomonas putida.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility of biologically removing phenol from waste gases by means of a biofilter using a Pseudomonas putida strain. Two series of both batch and continuous tests have been performed in order to ascertain the microbial degradation of phenol. For the preliminary batch tests, carried out in order to test the effective feasibility of the process and to investigate their kinetic behavior, two different microbial cultures belonging to the Pseudomonas genus have been employed, a heterogeneous culture and a pure strain of P.

Limb/pelvis-hypoplasia/aplasia syndrome (Al-Awadi/Raas-Rothschild syndrome): report of two Italian sibs and further confirmation of autosomal recessive inheritance.

A third family with two Italian neonates affected with limb/pelvis-hypoplasia/aplasia syndrome is reported. The disorder shows autosomal recessive inheritance.

[Osteopetrosis: description of 2 cases, non-familial, of the fatal infantile form and of a case of the mild adult form. Impossibility of performing early prenatal diagnosis].

Two non familial cases of the juvenile lethal form of osteopetrosis and one case of the mild adult type are reported. In one case at risk of lethal osteopetrosis an early prenatal diagnosis was attempted, after informing the parents about the extreme difficulty to obtain conclusive results by such investigation. Although several ultrasonographic and one radiological examinations showed an apparently normal foetus, the newborn was affected by the lethal form of osteopetrosis.

Kinetics of alcohol fermentations carried out in rotating biological surface reactors.

This article aims at deriving kinetic models for the RBS reactor operating with and without cell porous support. Since derivation of the kinetic equations from the Monod model is very complex, an empirical derivation from experimental data of continuous alcohol fermentations is used in this work.