Deep Phenotypic Analysis of Blood and Lymphoid T and NK Cells From HIV+ Controllers and ART-Suppressed Individuals.

T and natural killer (NK) cells are effector cells with key roles in anti-HIV immunity, including in lymphoid tissues, the major site of HIV persistence. However, little is known about the features of these effector cells from people living with HIV (PLWH), particularly from those who initiated antiretroviral therapy (ART) during acute infection. Our study design was to use 42-parameter CyTOF to conduct deep phenotyping of paired blood- and lymph node (LN)-derived T and NK cells from three groups of HIV+ aviremic individuals: elite controllers (N = 5), and ART-suppressed individuals who had started therapy during chronic (N = 6) vs.

Inflammation of the periodontium associates with risk of future cardiovascular events.

Background: While growing evidence suggests a link between periodontal disease (PD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD), the independence of this association and the pathway remain unclear. Herein, we tested the hypotheses that: (1) inflammation of the periodontium (PD ) predicts future CVD independently of disease risk factors shared between CVD and PD, and (2) the mechanism linking the two diseases involves heightened arterial inflammation.

Methods: F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography ( F-FDG-PET/CT) imaging was performed in 304 individuals (median age 54 years; 42.

Hypervolemic hypernatremia is the most common type of hypernatremia in the intensive care unit.

Background: A high incidence of hypervolemic hypernatremia has been described in patients recovering from acute kidney injury (AKI) in intensive care units. However, this has been limited to only a few cases.

Methods: One hundred fifty adult patients recovering from AKI in the intensive care unit of a single institution during a 6-year period, who developed hypernatremia during the course of their illness, were investigated.

Short- and medium-term outcome differences in women and men after primary percutaneous transluminal mechanical revascularization for acute myocardial infarction.

Women presenting with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have a higher mortality with conventional medical and thrombolytic therapy when compared with men. The outcome after primary percutaneous transluminal mechanical revascularization has not yet been fully investigated. This study was performed to compare the characteristics and the short- and medium-term outcomes of women and men with AMI treated with primary percutaneous revascularization.

In vivo blood flow abnormalities in the transgenic knockout sickle cell mouse.

The accepted importance of circulatory impairment to sickle cell anemia remains to be verified by in vivo experimentation. Intravital microscopy studies of blood flow in patients are limited to circulations that can be viewed noninvasively and are restricted from deliberate perturbations of the circulation. Further knowledge of sickle blood flow abnormalities has awaited an animal model of human sickle cell disease.