Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Medicine and Health Sciences Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 3 of 3

Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences

Circulating Endothelial Cells After Transplantation, A. B. Salazar, Vivian C. Mcalister, R. Gupta, A. S. Macdonald May 2001

Circulating Endothelial Cells After Transplantation, A. B. Salazar, Vivian C. Mcalister, R. Gupta, A. S. Macdonald

Vivian C. McAlister

Fate of renal allografts that survive vascular rejection To measure the outcome for grafts that survive early vascular rejection, we reassessed 411 biopsy samples taken from 260 patients in the first month after transplantation. Patients were separated into four classifications, according to Banff 1997 criteria: vascular rejection (36 patients); acute cellular rejection ([ACR] 30); no rejection (194); and 974 recipients from the same era who did not undergo biopsy. Other than graft histology, the groups did not differ for known adverse prognostic factors. The mean follow-up period was 6·03 years (SD 4·7). Graft survival is presented in the table. The …


Myopia Of Health-Care Reform Using Business Models, Macinnes Kenneth, Vivian C. Mcalister Jan 2001

Myopia Of Health-Care Reform Using Business Models, Macinnes Kenneth, Vivian C. Mcalister

Vivian C. McAlister

Background: Health-care institutions have looked to business for models to respond to the requirement for reform. This has changed the perspective of institutions that were founded on charitable principles, and managed with liberal employment policies and deficit budgeting. Using lesions from supply-side management, hospitals are fragmenting into independent programs with demands to balance budgets regardless of the source of cost.

Methods: Costs from the institution’s perspective are compared with those of the payer (province) using an example of a proposal to reduce costs in the surgical program by buying disposable drapes.

Results: The actual cost of disposable drapes bought from …


Pentoxifyiiine Reduces Acute Lung Injury In Chronic Endotoxemia, Christopher Michetti, R Coimbra, D Hoyt, P Wolf, W Junger, W Loomis Dec 2000

Pentoxifyiiine Reduces Acute Lung Injury In Chronic Endotoxemia, Christopher Michetti, R Coimbra, D Hoyt, P Wolf, W Junger, W Loomis

Christopher P. Michetti, M.D., F.A.C.S.

No abstract provided.