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Objective: To study the impact of continuous veno-venous haemofiltration on survival in patients with acute renal failure (ARF) following cardio-pulmonary bypass (CPB) surgery.

Design: A retrospective study of all patients requiring haemofiltration after CPB over a 2 year period.

Setting: A 20 bedded, adult cardothoracic intensive care unit in a postgraduate teaching hospital.

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Immunization with Freund's adjuvant and pneumolysin and stimulation with Freund's adjuvant alone both reduced the severity of the pneumonia caused by injections of bacteria into the apical lobe bronchi of rats. Neither protocol influenced the incidence of pneumococcal bacteremia. Illness sufficiently severe to require sacrifice was delayed from 2.

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