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    In: JAMA Cardiology, American Medical Association (AMA), Vol. 7, No. 10 ( 2022-10-01), p. 1000-
    Abstract: In patients with severe aortic valve stenosis at intermediate surgical risk, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a self-expanding supra-annular valve was noninferior to surgery for all-cause mortality or disabling stroke at 2 years. Comparisons of longer-term clinical and hemodynamic outcomes in these patients are limited. Objective To report prespecified secondary 5-year outcomes from the Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis in Intermediate Risk Subjects Who Need Aortic Valve Replacement (SURTAVI) randomized clinical trial. Design, Setting, and Participants SURTAVI is a prospective randomized, unblinded clinical trial. Randomization was stratified by investigational site and need for revascularization determined by the local heart teams. Patients with severe aortic valve stenosis deemed to be at intermediate risk of 30-day surgical mortality were enrolled at 87 centers from June 19, 2012, to June 30, 2016, in Europe and North America. Analysis took place between August and October 2021. Intervention Patients were randomized to TAVR with a self-expanding, supra-annular transcatheter or a surgical bioprosthesis. Main Outcomes and Measures The prespecified secondary end points of death or disabling stroke and other adverse events and hemodynamic findings at 5 years. An independent clinical event committee adjudicated all serious adverse events and an independent echocardiographic core laboratory evaluated all echocardiograms at 5 years. Results A total of 1660 individuals underwent an attempted TAVR (n = 864) or surgical (n = 796) procedure. The mean (SD) age was 79.8 (6.2) years, 724 (43.6%) were female, and the mean (SD) Society of Thoracic Surgery Predicted Risk of Mortality score was 4.5% (1.6%). At 5 years, the rates of death or disabling stroke were similar (TAVR, 31.3% vs surgery, 30.8%; hazard ratio, 1.02 [95% CI, 0.85-1.22]; P  =   .85). Transprosthetic gradients remained lower (mean [SD], 8.6 [5.5] mm Hg vs 11.2 [6.0] mm Hg; P   & amp;lt; .001) and aortic valve areas were higher (mean [SD], 2.2 [0.7] cm 2 vs 1.8 [0.6] cm 2 ; P   & amp;lt; .001) with TAVR vs surgery. More patients had moderate/severe paravalvular leak with TAVR than surgery (11 [3.0%] vs 2 [0.7%] ; risk difference, 2.37% [95% CI, 0.17%- 4.85%]; P  = .05). New pacemaker implantation rates were higher for TAVR than surgery at 5 years (289 [39.1%] vs 94 [15.1%] ; hazard ratio, 3.30 [95% CI, 2.61-4.17]; log-rank P   & amp;lt; .001), as were valve reintervention rates (27 [3.5%] vs 11 [1.9%] ; hazard ratio, 2.21 [95% CI, 1.10-4.45]; log-rank P  = .02), although between 2 and 5 years only 6 patients who underwent TAVR and 7 who underwent surgery required a reintervention. Conclusions and Relevance Among intermediate-risk patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis, major clinical outcomes at 5 years were similar for TAVR and surgery. TAVR was associated with superior hemodynamic valve performance but also with more paravalvular leak and valve reinterventions.
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    ISSN: 2380-6583
    Language: English
    Publisher: American Medical Association (AMA)
    Publication Date: 2022
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    S. Karger AG ; 1980
    In:  Psychopathology Vol. 13, No. 1 ( 1980), p. 38-56
    In: Psychopathology, S. Karger AG, Vol. 13, No. 1 ( 1980), p. 38-56
    Abstract: The 93 patients of the present study resemble each other in their psychosis by phasic course and complete recovery. Frequently the attacks showed an anxious and paranoid syndrome in monopolar repetition or in bipolar change with ecstatic symptoms. Rarely an incoherent state of agitation or stupor could be observed. Considering the distribution of simple inherited serum groups, there is a significant increase of Gc 1-1 and Hp 2-2 in the patient collective. Evidently these serum groups are risk components in a multifactorial hereditary system possessing with Gc 1-1 a marker of the schizophrenic disposition and with Hp 2-2 a determinating trait for affective psychoses. A selective interaction is discussed for both serum groups regarding the vitamin D transport of the Gc fraction with their relation to neuronal function and the possible role of Hp 2-2 in a transport or regulatory system.
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    ISSN: 0254-4962 , 1423-033X
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    Publisher: S. Karger AG
    Publication Date: 1980
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    S. Karger AG ; 1982
    In:  Psychopathology Vol. 15, No. 3 ( 1982), p. 133-144
    In: Psychopathology, S. Karger AG, Vol. 15, No. 3 ( 1982), p. 133-144
    Abstract: By the study of hereditary serum protein markers in psychotic patients and normal controls, a surplus of Gc 1-1 (p 〈 0.01) and transferrin B variants (p 〈 0.0027) has been established in schizophrenias. Affective psychoses are characterized by an excess of the haptoglobin (Hp) serum type 2-2 (p 〈 0.001). These general statements have to be modified in regard to the clinical and psychopathological subdivision beyond the traditional classification into two major groups of endogenous mental disease. Using 〈 i 〉 Leon-hard’s 〈 /i 〉 criteria, the prevalence of Gc 1-1 is restricted to the systematic schizophrenias reaching its highest value in hebephrenias, which are followed by paraphrenic and catatonic forms in this trait. In contrast to this, periodical catatonia and affective paraphrenia, classified as subgroups of the unsystematic schizophrenias, have Gc 1-1 frequencies like healthy controls. On the other hand, the Hp 2-2 value is not increased in the systematic schizophrenias, but it displays a relative overplus in the unsystematic forms. Concerning the Hp 2-2 and Gc 1-1 frequencies a certain similarity can be observed between affective paraphrenia and the paranoid psychoses with late onset, it they are characterized by a cyclic axis syndrome as described by the Vienna school. The cycloid psychoses are marked by an extreme surplus of Hp 2-2 (p 〈 0.001) and an overweight of Gc 1-1 (p 〈 0.05). Probably the Gc and Hp alleles play a role as risk factors or accidental effectors in the multifactorial genetic systems responsible for the biological background of psychoses. For both serum systems a selective interaction is discussed considering the vitamin D transport by the Gc proteins with the relation to neuronal consolidation and the possible influence of Hp 2-2 on transport and receptor functions.
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    ISSN: 0254-4962 , 1423-033X
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    Publisher: S. Karger AG
    Publication Date: 1982
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    S. Karger AG ; 1998
    In:  Cardiology Vol. 89, No. 2 ( 1998), p. 124-129
    In: Cardiology, S. Karger AG, Vol. 89, No. 2 ( 1998), p. 124-129
    Abstract: Myocardial injury after cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass may be related to free oxygen radical-induced lipid peroxidation. The purpose of this study was to monitor perioperative changes of cardiac troponin t and malondialdehyde as an indicator of lipid peroxidation in patients who underwent routine cardiac operation and had no signs of perioperative myocardial infarction. Patients with thoracic surgery alone served as controls. We studied 20 patients with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and 9 patients with other thoracic operations. Serum troponin t, malondialdehyde, myoglobin, creatine kinase (CK) including CK-MB isoenzyme levels were monitored before CPB, immediately after cessation of CPB, 20 and 44 h after CPB. Patients with signs of myocardial infarction before or up to 44 h after surgery were excluded. Of 20 patients with CBP, 18 patients showed a significant increase of troponin t and 16 patients had elevated malondialdehyde serum levels following CPB. Troponin t serum values were raised immediately after CPB to 0.60 ± 0.12 µg/l and increased further to 0.90 ± 0.17 µg/l after 44 h (p 〈 0.005, in comparison to preoperative: 0.08 ± 0.02 µg/l). Patients undergoing the other thoracic operations showed neither any detectable troponin t serum values nor significant changes of serum malondialdehyde during the observed period. In the CPB group serum malondialdehyde peaked immediately after CPB to 98 ± 9 nmol/g albumin (p 〈 0.005) and returned to preoperative levels (63 ± 3 nmol/g albumin) within 20 h (60 ± 3 nmol/g albumin). Individual maximal troponin t serum levels did not correlate with individual maximal serum malondialdehyde levels. The observed increase of troponin t levels had no influence on patients’ outcome followed up for 18 months. The results demonstrate that troponin t and lipid peroxidation increase during uncomplicated cardiac surgery in patients without signs of myocardial infarction. Following uncomplicated cardiac surgery, a moderate increase of cardiac troponin t may not reflect severe cardiac injury.
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    ISSN: 0008-6312 , 1421-9751
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    Publisher: S. Karger AG
    Publication Date: 1998
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 1482041-9
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    In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, The Royal Society, Vol. 371, No. 1694 ( 2016-05-19), p. 20150269-
    Abstract: Species diversity promotes the delivery of multiple ecosystem functions (multifunctionality). However, the relative functional importance of rare and common species in driving the biodiversity–multifunctionality relationship remains unknown. We studied the relationship between the diversity of rare and common species (according to their local abundances and across nine different trophic groups), and multifunctionality indices derived from 14 ecosystem functions on 150 grasslands across a land-use intensity (LUI) gradient. The diversity of above- and below-ground rare species had opposite effects, with rare above-ground species being associated with high levels of multifunctionality, probably because their effects on different functions did not trade off against each other. Conversely, common species were only related to average, not high, levels of multifunctionality, and their functional effects declined with LUI. Apart from the community-level effects of diversity, we found significant positive associations between the abundance of individual species and multifunctionality in 6% of the species tested. Species-specific functional effects were best predicted by their response to LUI: species that declined in abundance with land use intensification were those associated with higher levels of multifunctionality. Our results highlight the importance of rare species for ecosystem multifunctionality and help guiding future conservation priorities.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0962-8436 , 1471-2970
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    Publisher: The Royal Society
    Publication Date: 2016
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 1462620-2
    SSG: 12
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    Walter de Gruyter GmbH ; 2022
    In:  Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering Vol. 8, No. 2 ( 2022-09-02), p. 584-587
    In: Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Vol. 8, No. 2 ( 2022-09-02), p. 584-587
    Abstract: For the use of polymers as biomaterials in the production of implants, several processing methods are needed. Besides injection molding or Fused Deposition Modeling as temperature based processes, also solvent based processes were performed such as solvent-casting and electrospinning. As fabrication of medical devices makes use of potentially hazardous or toxic solvents, they have to be extracted from the final medical device. For analyses of residual solvents different methods can be used e.g. gas chromatography (GC), coulometric elemental analysis or thermogravimetrical analyses (TGA). Here we present first results for the use of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) to yield elemental as well as spatial information on residual solvents in polymeric materials. Therefore we analysed PLLA as biodegradable electrospun polymer, TPC-ET as biostable polymer and a PLLA-iron composite as example of a polymer metal composite via XPS and etching processes. It was possible to determine residual halogen containing solvents in all tested polymers processed from polymeric solution. As discrimination between polymer and solvent was made possible by specific elements, XPS measurements may be a suitable tool to identify even small amounts of solvent. Thus XPS analyses will help to optimize polymer processing in order to remove residual solvents.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2364-5504
    Language: English
    Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    Publication Date: 2022
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    Elsevier BV ; 2011
    In:  Journal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 58, No. 4 ( 2011-07), p. 402-412
    In: Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Elsevier BV, Vol. 58, No. 4 ( 2011-07), p. 402-412
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0735-1097
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    Publisher: Elsevier BV
    Publication Date: 2011
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 1468327-1
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    Elsevier BV ; 1998
    In:  Remote Sensing of Environment Vol. 66, No. 1 ( 1998-10), p. 52-70
    In: Remote Sensing of Environment, Elsevier BV, Vol. 66, No. 1 ( 1998-10), p. 52-70
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0034-4257
    Language: English
    Publisher: Elsevier BV
    Publication Date: 1998
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 1498713-2
    SSG: 11
    SSG: 14
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    In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 111, No. 1 ( 2014-01-07), p. 308-313
    Abstract: Although temporal heterogeneity is a well-accepted driver of biodiversity, effects of interannual variation in land-use intensity (LUI) have not been addressed yet. Additionally, responses to land use can differ greatly among different organisms; therefore, overall effects of land-use on total local biodiversity are hardly known. To test for effects of LUI (quantified as the combined intensity of fertilization, grazing, and mowing) and interannual variation in LUI (SD in LUI across time), we introduce a unique measure of whole-ecosystem biodiversity, multidiversity. This synthesizes individual diversity measures across up to 49 taxonomic groups of plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria from 150 grasslands. Multidiversity declined with increasing LUI among grasslands, particularly for rarer species and aboveground organisms, whereas common species and belowground groups were less sensitive. However, a high level of interannual variation in LUI increased overall multidiversity at low LUI and was even more beneficial for rarer species because it slowed the rate at which the multidiversity of rare species declined with increasing LUI. In more intensively managed grasslands, the diversity of rarer species was, on average, 18% of the maximum diversity across all grasslands when LUI was static over time but increased to 31% of the maximum when LUI changed maximally over time. In addition to decreasing overall LUI, we suggest varying LUI across years as a complementary strategy to promote biodiversity conservation.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0027-8424 , 1091-6490
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    Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    Publication Date: 2014
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 209104-5
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 1461794-8
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    SSG: 12
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    Elsevier BV ; 2004
    In:  The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation Vol. 23, No. 9 ( 2004-9), p. 1093-1102
    In: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Elsevier BV, Vol. 23, No. 9 ( 2004-9), p. 1093-1102
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1053-2498
    Language: English
    Publisher: Elsevier BV
    Publication Date: 2004
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