Update on Anticoagulation Strategies in Patients with ECMO-A Narrative Review.

The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has recently increased exponentially. ECMO has become the preferred mode of organ support in refractory respiratory or circulatory failure. The fragile balance of haemostasis physiology is massively altered by the patient's critical condition and specifically the aetiology of the underlying disease.

Growing Evidence for LV Unloading in VA ECMO.

Impressively increasing availability of mechanical circulatory/cardiac support systems (MCSs) worldwide, together with the deepening of the knowledge of critical care medical practitioners, has inevitably led to the discussion about further improvements of intensive care associated to MCS. An appealing topic of the left ventricle (LV) overload related to VA ECMO support endangering myocardial recovery is being widely discussed within the scientific community. Unloading of LV leads to the reduction in LV end-diastolic pressure, reduction in pressure in the left atrium, and decrease in the LV thrombus formation risk.

Using the national electronic prescription system to determine the primary non-adherence to medication in the Czech Republic.

The primary medication non-adherence occurs when a patient does not collect his or her newly prescribed medication. Various studies give estimates that this occurs between 0.2 percent and 74 percent.

Anaesthesia for non-cardiac surgical procedures in patients after heart transplantation.

Over the last 5 years, around 75 heart transplantations a year have been performed in the Czech Republic. According to these data and longer survival of these patients, it is obvious that non-cardiac surgical procedures in this particular group of patients are not rare. In the patients after heart transplantation, there is a significantly higher risk of undergoing elective and emergency surgical procedures due to various reasons.

Quercetin protects jejunal mucosa from experimental intestinal ischemia reperfusion injury by activation of CD68 positive cells.

The aim of our study was to analyse the possible protective effect of quercetin application during the jejunal ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) in rats. Quercetin was administered intraperitoneally 30min before 1h ischemia of superior mesenteric artery with following 24h lasting reperfusion period. The male specific pathogen-free (SPF) Charles River Wistar rats were used.

Quercetin attenuates the ischemia reperfusion induced COX-2 and MPO expression in the small intestine mucosa.

Quercetin, the active substance of tea, fruits and vegetables, exerts a broad spectrum of pharmacological activities and is considered to have potential therapeutic application. The present study was designed to investigate the beneficial effect of quercetin against experimental ischemia- reperfusion (IR) injury of the small intestine in rats. Quercetin was administrated intraperitoneally 30min before 1h ischemia of superior mesenteric artery with following reperfusion periods lasting 1, 4 and 24h.

The effect of R-(-)-deprenyl administration on reproductive parameters of rat males.

The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of R-(-)-deprenyl administration on the reproductive parameters of rat males. After 30 days of intraperitoneal administration of saline or 0.0025mg/kg (10(-5)mol/l) of R-(-)-deprenyl dissolved in saline, males were mated with females of the same strain.