Sickle cell disease and stroke

LA Verduzco, DG Nathan - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2009 - ashpublications.org
Twenty-four percent of sickle cell disease (SCD) patients have a stroke by the age of 45
years. Blood transfusions decrease stroke risk in patients deemed high risk by transcranial …

MRI-based selection for intra-arterial stroke therapy: value of pretreatment diffusion-weighted imaging lesion volume in selecting patients with acute stroke who will …

AJ Yoo, LA Verduzco, PW Schaefer, JA Hirsch… - Stroke, 2009 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—Recent studies demonstrate that an acute diffusion-weighted
imaging lesion volume> 70 cm3 predicts poor outcome in patients with stroke. We sought to …

Case volumes of intra-arterial and intravenous treatment of ischemic stroke in the USA

JA Hirsch, AJ Yoo, RG Nogueira… - Journal of …, 2009 - jnis.bmj.com
Background and purpose Ischemic stroke is a major cause of disability and death in the
USA. Intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) remains underutilized. With the …

Institution of same-day total joint replacement at an urban safety net hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic

EM Hammerberg, NJ Tucker, SC Stacey… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Increasingly, total hip and total knee replacements are being performed at
outpatient ambulatory surgery centers. The purpose of this study was to investigate the …

[HTML][HTML] Structural changes upon membrane insertion of the insecticidal pore-forming toxins produced by Bacillus thuringiensis

S Pacheco, I Gómez, AE Peláez-Aguilar… - Frontiers in Insect …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Different Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) strains produce a broad variety of pore-forming toxins
(PFTs) that show toxicity against insects and other invertebrates. Some of these insecticidal …

Subdural hematoma after an epidural blood patch

LA Verduzco, SW Atlas, ET Riley - International journal of obstetric …, 2012 - Elsevier
We report the case of a 37-year-old postpartum patient who developed a contained
subacute spinal subdural hematoma causing mass effect on the cauda equina and severe …

Bacillus thuringiensis: a natural endophytic bacterium found in wild plants

G Espinoza-Vergara, R García-Suárez… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Despite the fact that Bacillus thuringiensis is the most widely used bacterium in biological
pest control, its ecology has been notoriously neglected. Its role in nature is uncertain, and a …

Isolation and characterization of two highly insecticidal, endophytic strains of Bacillus thuringiensis

R García-Suárez, LA Verduzco-Rosas… - FEMS microbiology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Recent discovery of endophytic strains of Bacillus thuringiensis significantly improves the
knowledge on its ecology. It also may be a new source for the isolation of insecticidal strains …

Selection and characterization of two Bacillus thuringiensis strains showing nematicidal activity against Caenorhabditis elegans and Meloidogyne incognita

LA Verduzco-Rosas, R García-Suárez… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Bacillus thuringiensis has been widely used as a biological control agent against insect
pests. Additionally, nematicidal strains have been under investigation. In this report, 310 …

Translocation of Bacillus thuringiensis in Phaseolus vulgaris tissues and vertical transmission in Arabidopsis thaliana

R García‐Suárez, LA Verduzco‐Rosas… - Journal of applied …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Aims To demonstrate the ability of Bacillus thuringiensis to penetrate as spore‐crystal
complex to the internal tissues of bean plants, and keep its insecticidal activity. To test the …