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The Bard Recovery and Bard G2 filters had high prevalences of fracture and embolization, with potentially life-threatening sequelae.

clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00091637.

In streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats, activities of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase and the Na pump have been shown to be altered. Cellular mechanisms underlying such changes remain unclear. The present studies examined by immunoblotting the levels of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase subunit isoforms in heart, skeletal muscle, and kidney of diabetic rats. Effects of insulin treatment on these levels were also studied. In cardiac muscle, STZ-induced diabetes caused a marked decrease in alpha 2-levels, a moderate decrease in beta 1-levels, and no significant change in alpha 1-levels. Corresponding to these changes, Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase activity, estimated by K(+)-dependent p-nitrophenylphosphatase activity, also decreased. By contrast, there were significant increases in alpha 1- and alpha 2-levels in skeletal muscle and in alpha 1- and beta 1-levels in kidneys of diabetic rats. There was also a detectable, but not significant, increase in beta 1-levels in diabetic skeletal muscle. In kidney, the increase in subunit levels was associated with significantly increased Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase activity, whereas, in skeletal muscle, no increase in enzyme activity was observed. In diabetic rats, 7 days of insulin treatment (10 U/kg sc) partially reversed the decreased alpha 2- and beta 1-levels in diabetic cardiac muscle, without significant effect on alpha 1-levels. In skeletal muscle, insulin treatment also partially reversed the elevated alpha 1- and alpha 2-levels but was without significant effect on beta 1-levels. It is concluded that STZ-induced diabetes exerted isoform- and tissue-specific regulation of the Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase subunit isoforms.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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this time, we have performed approximately 225 diagnostic catheterizations via the radial artery and we have had no subsequent inflammatory reactions reported. Interestingly, despite the absence of the hydrophilic coating on the Cordis sheath, the operators at this institution have found the Cordis sheath to be similar in performance to the hydrophiliccoated Cook sheath and have had little difficulty with sheath removal [3].

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Among patients undergoing SVG PCI in a "real world" registry analyzed using propensity score stratification, treatment with DES compared with BMS was associated with reduced MACE at 1 year following PCI.