Publications by authors named "R Lion"

Postoperative critical care management of congenital heart disease patients requires prompt intervention when the patient deviates significantly from clinician-determined vital sign and hemodynamic goals. Current monitoring systems only allow for static thresholds to be set on individual variables, despite the expectations that these signals change as the patient recovers and that variables interact. To address this incongruency, we have employed statistical process monitoring (SPM) techniques originally developed to monitor batch industrial processes to monitor high-frequency vital sign and hemodynamic data to establish multivariate trajectory maps for patients with d-transposition of the great arteries following the arterial switch operation.

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Biotechnological processes hold tremendous potential for the efficient and sustainable conversion of one-carbon (C1) substrates into complex multi-carbon products. However, the development of robust and versatile biocatalytic systems for this purpose remains a significant challenge. In this study, we report a hybrid electrochemical-biochemical cell-free system for the conversion of C1 substrates into the universal biological building block acetyl-CoA.

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The movement of potyviruses, the largest genus of single-stranded, positive-sense RNA viruses responsible for serious diseases in crops, is very complex. As potyviruses developed strategies to hijack the host secretory pathway and plasmodesmata (PD) for their transport, the goal of this study was to identify membrane and/or PD-proteins that interact with the 6K2 protein, a potyviral protein involved in replication and cell-to-cell movement of turnip mosaic virus (TuMV). Using split-ubiquitin membrane yeast two-hybrid assays, we screened an Arabidopsis cDNA library for interactors of 6K2.

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Article Synopsis
  • - The study reviewed the hemodynamic effects of packed red blood cell transfusions in infants post-arterial switch operation, capturing real-time data from vital sign monitors over a specific period before, during, and after the transfusions.
  • - A total of six patients received 10 transfusions, showing significant increases in systolic and mean arterial blood pressures (5-12.5%) three hours after the transfusions, along with a 6.2% rise in renal near-infrared spectroscopy readings.
  • - No notable changes were found in ventilation, vasoactive support, or oxygen balance laboratory values, highlighting the need for further understanding of the overall efficacy of these transfusions.
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Background: The pediatric patient-reported outcomes version of the common terminology criteria for adverse event measure was developed and validated for use in pediatric cancer clinical trials to better capture the symptom experiences through direct self-report. The study aim was to develop and validate a Swahili language version of the patient-reported outcomes version of the common terminology criteria for adverse event measure.

Methods: The pediatric version of 15 core symptom adverse events, and the corresponding questions, were selected from the patient-reported outcomes version of the common terminology criteria for adverse event library, then forward and back translated into Swahili by bilingual translators.

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