Extracorporeal Carbon Dioxide Removal Using a Renal Replacement Therapy Platform to Enhance Lung-Protective Ventilation in Hypercapnic Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019-Associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is associated with high mortality. Lung-protective ventilation is the current standard of care in patients with ARDS, but it might lead to hypercapnia, which is independently associated with worse outcomes. Extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal (ECCOR) has been proposed as an adjuvant therapy to avoid progression of clinical severity and limit further ventilator-induced lung injury, but its use in COVID-19 has not been described yet.

Modelling waste stabilisation ponds with an extended version of ASM3.

In this paper an extended version of IWA's Activated Sludge Model No 3 (ASM3) was developed to simulate processes in waste stabilisation ponds (WSP). The model modifications included the integration of algae biomass and gas transfer processes for oxygen, carbon dioxide and ammonia depending on wind velocity and a simple ionic equilibrium. The model was applied to a pilot-scale WSP system operated in the city of Florianópolis (Brazil).

[Pathological intestinal findings: case related differential diagnosis and investigations].

Transabdominal ultrasound is the most commonly performed initial examination for intestinal diseases and due to its high availability and the absence of side effects from ionic radiation, it is ideal for serial examinations. New techniques such as tissue harmonic imaging combined with the use of contrast media appear to increase the diagnostic accuracy. For diverticulitis, infectious colitis and intestinal tumours, there is as yet a lack of data.

[19-year-old patient with adrenal cortex insufficiency--only the tip of the iceberg. Polyendocrine autoimmune syndrome type II (Schmidt syndrome)].

We report on a 19-year-old woman with polyglandular autoimmune syndrome type II (APS II). She was diagnosed with addison's disease and hypothyroidism due to chronic autoimmune thyroiditis. Her mother had celiac disease and her brohter had diabetes mellitus typ 1.

Thermophilic anaerobic digestion in compact systems: investigations by modern microbiological techniques and mathematical simulation.

Thermophilic anaerobic digestion in compact systems can be an economical and ecological reasonable decentralised process technique, especially for rural areas. Thermophilic process conditions are important for a sufficient removal of pathogens. The high energy demand, however, can make such systems unfavourable in terms of energy costs.