Treating hemodialysis access thrombosis with the InThrill Thrombectomy System: Technique and case report.

The purpose of this report is to describe via a case example an efficient mechanical thrombectomy technique for hemodialysis access thrombosis using the InThrill Thrombectomy System (Inari Medical, Irvine, CA). A man in his late 60s with end-stage renal disease and a thrombosed femoral arteriovenous graft (AVG) underwent a thrombectomy procedure to remove all thrombotic material including the arterial plug and restore use of the graft for hemodialysis. The InThrill Thrombectomy System used in this procedure consists of a mechanical thrombectomy catheter with a wall-apposing coring element and a sheath with a retractable funnel and aspiration port.

Isolation and Characterization of Nocardiae Associated with Foaming Coastal Marine Waters.

Nocardiosis is an infectious disease caused by species that occurs worldwide, albeit more prevalently in tropical/subtropical regions. It can appear as either acute, subacute or as a chronic infection mostly with those with a compromised/weakened immune system. Inhalation of spores and or mycelium fragments is the main transmission route for developing pulmonary nocardiosis.

Reduced willingness to approach genuine smilers in social anxiety explained by potential for social evaluation, not misperception of smile authenticity.

We investigate perception of, and responses to, facial expression authenticity for the first time in social anxiety, testing genuine and polite smiles. Experiment 1 (= 141) found perception of smile authenticity was unaffected, but that approach ratings, which are known to be reduced in social anxiety for happy faces, are more strongly reduced for genuine than polite smiles. Moreover, we found an independent contribution of social anxiety to approach ratings, over and above general negative affect (state/trait anxiety, depression), for genuine smiles, and not for polite ones.

All tears are crocodile tears: Impaired perception of emotion authenticity in psychopathic traits.

In everyday life, other peoples' distress is sometimes genuine (e.g., real sadness) and sometimes pretended (e.

Screening for Transplant Renal Artery Stenosis: Ultrasound-Based Stenosis Probability Stratification.

Objective: The objective of our study was to evaluate which spectral Doppler ultrasound parameters are useful in patients with clinical concern for transplant renal artery stenosis (TRAS) and create mathematically derived prediction models that are based on these parameters.

Materials And Methods: The study subjects included 120 patients with clinical signs of renal dysfunction who had undergone ultrasound followed by angiography (either digital subtraction angiography or MR angiography) between January 2005 and December 2015. Five ultrasound variables were evaluated: ratio of highest renal artery velocity to iliac artery velocity, highest renal artery velocity, spectral broadening, resistive indexes, and acceleration time.

Perceived emotion genuineness: normative ratings for popular facial expression stimuli and the development of perceived-as-genuine and perceived-as-fake sets.

In everyday social interactions, people's facial expressions sometimes reflect genuine emotion (e.g., anger in response to a misbehaving child) and sometimes do not (e.

Diagnosis and Management of Transplanted Kidney Extrarenal Pseudoaneurysms: A Series of Four Cases and a Review of the Literature.

Extrarenal pseudoaneurysms of transplanted kidneys are very rare but can have devastating consequences. In the past, these extrarenal pseudoaneurysms have often led to graft loss as well as significant morbidity and mortality. The role of advanced diagnostic imaging studies and of modern radiologic interventional management has not been studied.

Occurrence and value of the color Doppler "line sign" after radiofrequency ablation of solid abdominal organs.

Objectives: The purposes of this study were to identify the frequency of the color "line sign" after track coagulation during electrode removal and to evaluate the usefulness of color Doppler sonography in predicting complications after radiofrequency ablation.

Methods: A total of 104 consecution radiofrequency ablations of either the liver (n = 68) or the kidney (n = 36) were evaluated for hemorrhagic complications by color Doppler sonography. All radiofrequency ablations were performed in a similar fashion, including track coagulation during electrode removal.