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Hockey EK, McLane N, Martí C, Duckett L, Osborn DL, Dodson LG. Direct Observation of Gas-Phase Hydroxymethylene: Photoionization and Kinetics Resulting from Methanol Photodissociation. J Am Chem Soc 2024. [PMID: 38744681 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c03090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
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Carbene species play an integral role in high-energy chemistry, transition-metal-carbene chemistry, catalysis, photolytic formation of carbohydrates, and possibly even the formation of interstellar sugars. In 1921, "reactive formaldehyde"─now known as hydroxymethylene (HCOH)─was first implicated as an intermediate in photocatalytic processes. However, due to its transient nature, direct observation of HCOH has predominantly been attained using cryogenic isolation methods. As a result, HCOH gas-phase reactivity measurements have been limited. We directly observed HCOH using photoionization spectroscopy following UV photodissociation of methanol. Our measurements show it reacts slowly with O2 at room temperature. This work provides evidence for the formation mechanism of HCOH from CH3OH and its subsequent reactivity under gas-phase reaction conditions.
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- Emily K Hockey
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550, United States
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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Martí C, Devereux C, Najm HN, Zádor J. Evaluation of Rate Coefficients in the Gas Phase Using Machine-Learned Potentials. J Phys Chem A 2024. [PMID: 38427974 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c07872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/03/2024]
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We assess the capability of machine-learned potentials to compute rate coefficients by training a neural network (NN) model and applying it to describe the chemical landscape on the C5H5 potential energy surface, which is relevant to molecular weight growth in combustion and interstellar media. We coupled the resulting NN with an automated kinetics workflow code, KinBot, to perform all necessary calculations to compute the rate coefficients. The NN is benchmarked exhaustively by evaluating its performance at the various stages of the kinetics calculations: from the electronic energy through the computation of zero point energy, barrier heights, entropic contributions, the portion of the PES explored, and finally the overall rate coefficients as formulated by transition state theory.
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- Carles Martí
- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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Vidal-Sicart S, Goñi E, Cebrecos I, Rioja ME, Perissinotti A, Sampol C, Vidal O, Saavedra-Pérez D, Ferrer A, Martí C, Ferrer Rebolleda J, García Velloso MJ, Orozco-Cortés J, Díaz-Feijóo B, Niñerola-Baizán A, Valdés Olmos RA. Continuous innovation in precision radio-guided surgery. Rev Esp Med Nucl Imagen Mol 2024; 43:39-54. [PMID: 37963516 DOI: 10.1016/j.remnie.2023.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/26/2023] [Indexed: 11/16/2023]
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Since its origins, nuclear medicine has faced technological changes that led to modifying operating modes and adapting protocols. In the field of radioguided surgery, the incorporation of preoperative scintigraphic imaging and intraoperative detection with the gamma probe provided a definitive boost to sentinel lymph node biopsy to become a standard procedure for melanoma and breast cancer. The various technological innovations and consequent adaptation of protocols come together in the coexistence of the disruptive and the gradual. As obvious examples we have the introduction of SPECT/CT in the preoperative field and Drop-in probes in the intraoperative field. Other innovative aspects with possible application in radio-guided surgery are based on the application of artificial intelligence, navigation and telecare.
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- Sergi Vidal-Sicart
- Servicio de Medicina Nuclear, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.
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- Servicio de Medicina Nuclear, Hospital Universitario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- Instituto Clínic de Ginecología, Obstetricia y Neonatología (ICGON), Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servicio de Medicina Nuclear, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain
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- Servicio de Medicina Nuclear, Hospital Universitario Son Espases, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain; Cirugía General y Digestiva, ICMDiM, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Departamento de Cirugía, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cirugía General y Digestiva, ICMDiM, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servicio de Cirugía Maxilofacial, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servicio de Cirugía Maxilofacial, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servicio Medicina Nuclear Ascires, Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Servicio de Medicina Nuclear, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain; Instituto Clínic de Ginecología, Obstetricia y Neonatología (ICGON), Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Departamento de Cirugía, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servicio de Medicina Nuclear, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain; Departamento de Biomedicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Radiology, Section of Nuclear Medicine & Interventional Molecular Imaging Laboratory, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Jaka O, Iturria I, Martí C, Hurtado de Mendoza J, Mazón-Moya MJ, Rummel C, Amj W, Muriana A. Screening for chemicals with thyroid hormone-disrupting effects using zebrafish embryo. Reprod Toxicol 2023; 121:108463. [PMID: 37619763 DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2023.108463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2023] [Revised: 08/17/2023] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
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Thyroid disruption is an increasingly recognized issue in the use and development of chemicals and new drugs, especially to help toxicologist to complement the reproductive and developmental toxicology information of chemicals. Still, adequate assessment methods are scarce and often suffer a trade-off between physiological relevance and labor- and cost-intensive assays. Here, we present a tiered approach for a medium-throughput screening of chemicals to identify their thyroid disrupting potential in zebrafish embryos as a New Approach Methodology (NAM). After identifying the maximum tolerated concentrations, we exposed zebrafish larvae to sub-adverse effect levels of the reference compounds benzophenone-2, bisphenol A, phenylthiourea, potassium perchlorate, propylthiouracil, and phloroglucinol to exclude any systemic toxicity. Applying the transgenic zebrafish line that carries a gene for the red fluorescence protein (Tg(tg:mCherry)) under the thyroglobulin promoter, we could identify the thyroid disrupting effects of the chemicals by a time and cost-effective image analysis measuring the fluorescence levels in the thyroid glands. Our observations could be confirmed by altered expression patterns of genes involved in the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis. Finally, to anchor the observed thyroid disruption, we determined some changes in the Thyroid hormone levels of triiodothyronine (T3) and Thyroxine (T4) using a newly developed liquid chromatography mass spectrometric (LCMS) method. The presented approach carries the potential to extend the toolbox for legislative authorities and chemical producers for the assessment of thyroid-specific endocrine disruption and to overcome current challenges in the evaluation of endocrine disruptors.
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- O Jaka
- BBD BioPhenix S.L.U.- Biobide, Paseo Mikeletegui 56, 20009 Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain
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- BBD BioPhenix S.L.U.- Biobide, Paseo Mikeletegui 56, 20009 Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain
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- BBD BioPhenix S.L.U.- Biobide, Paseo Mikeletegui 56, 20009 Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain
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- BBD BioPhenix S.L.U.- Biobide, Paseo Mikeletegui 56, 20009 Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain
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- BBD BioPhenix S.L.U.- Biobide, Paseo Mikeletegui 56, 20009 Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain
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- BBD BioPhenix S.L.U.- Biobide, Paseo Mikeletegui 56, 20009 Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain
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- BBD BioPhenix S.L.U.- Biobide, Paseo Mikeletegui 56, 20009 Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain.
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Rundel JA, Martí C, Zádor J, Schrader PE, Johansson KO, Bambha RP, Buckingham GT, Porterfield JP, Kostko O, Michelsen HA. The Identity and Chemistry of C 7H 7 Radicals Observed during Soot Formation. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:3000-3019. [PMID: 36897578 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c08949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/11/2023]
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We used aerosol mass spectrometry coupled with tunable synchrotron photoionization to measure radical and closed-shell species associated with particle formation in premixed flames and during pyrolysis of butane, ethylene, and methane. We analyzed photoionization (PI) spectra for the C7H7 radical to identify the isomers present during particle formation. For the combustion and pyrolysis of all three fuels, the PI spectra can be fit reasonably well with contributions from four radical isomers: benzyl, tropyl, vinylcyclopentadienyl, and o-tolyl. Although there are significant experimental uncertainties in the isomeric speciation of C7H7, the results clearly demonstrate that the isomeric composition of C7H7 strongly depends on the combustion or pyrolysis conditions and the fuel or precursors. Fits to the PI spectra using reference curves for these isomers suggest that all of these isomers may contribute to m/z 91 in butane and methane flames, but only benzyl and vinylcyclopentadienyl contribute to the C7H7 isomer signal in the ethylene flame. Only tropyl and benzyl appear to play a role during pyrolytic particle formation from ethylene, and only tropyl, vinylcyclopentadienyl, and o-tolyl appear to participate during particle formation from butane pyrolysis. There also seems to be a contribution from an isomer with an ionization energy below 7.5 eV for the flames but not for the pyrolysis conditions. Kinetic models with updated and new reactions and rate coefficients for the C7H7 reaction network predict benzyl, tropyl, vinylcyclopentadienyl, and o-tolyl to be the primary C7H7 isomers and predict negligible contributions from other C7H7 isomers. These updated models provide better agreement with the measurements than the original versions of the models but, nonetheless, underpredict the relative concentrations of tropyl, vinylcyclopentadienyl, and o-tolyl in both flames and pyrolysis and overpredict benzyl in pyrolysis. Our results suggest that there are additional important formation pathways for the vinylcyclopentadienyl, tropyl, and o-tolyl radicals and/or loss pathways for the benzyl radical that are currently unaccounted for in the present models.
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- James A Rundel
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States.,Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States.,Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550, United States.,Environmental Engineering Program, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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Martí C, Michelsen HA, Najm HN, Zádor J. Comprehensive Kinetics on the C 7H 7 Potential Energy Surface under Combustion Conditions. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:1941-1959. [PMID: 36802584 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c08035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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The automated kinetics workflow code, KinBot, was used to explore and characterize the regions of the C7H7 potential energy surface that are relevant to combustion environments and especially soot inception. We first explored the lowest-energy region, which includes the benzyl, fulvenallene + H, and cyclopentadienyl + acetylene entry points. We then expanded the model to include two higher-energy entry points, vinylpropargyl + acetylene and vinylacetylene + propargyl. The automated search was able to uncover the pathways from the literature. In addition, three important new routes were discovered: a lower-energy pathway connecting benzyl with vinylcyclopentadienyl, a decomposition mechanism from benzyl that results in side-chain hydrogen atom loss to produce fulvenallene + H, and shorter and lower energy routes to the dimethylene-cyclopentenyl intermediates. We systematically reduced the extended model to a chemically relevant domain composed of 63 wells, 10 bimolecular products, 87 barriers, and 1 barrierless channel and constructed a master equation using the CCSD(T)-F12a/cc-pVTZ//ωB97X-D/6-311++G(d,p) level of theory to provide rate coefficients for chemical modeling. Our calculated rate coefficients show excellent agreement with measured ones. We also simulated concentration profiles and calculated branching fractions from the important entry points to provide an interpretation of this important chemical landscape.
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- Carles Martí
- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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Zádor J, Martí C, Van de Vijver R, Johansen SL, Yang Y, Michelsen HA, Najm HN. Automated Reaction Kinetics of Gas-Phase Organic Species over Multiwell Potential Energy Surfaces. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:565-588. [PMID: 36607817 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c06558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Automation of rate-coefficient calculations for gas-phase organic species became possible in recent years and has transformed how we explore these complicated systems computationally. Kinetics workflow tools bring rigor and speed and eliminate a large fraction of manual labor and related error sources. In this paper we give an overview of this quickly evolving field and illustrate, through five detailed examples, the capabilities of our own automated tool, KinBot. We bring examples from combustion and atmospheric chemistry of C-, H-, O-, and N-atom-containing species that are relevant to molecular weight growth and autoxidation processes. The examples shed light on the capabilities of automation and also highlight particular challenges associated with the various chemical systems that need to be addressed in future work.
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- Judit Zádor
- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore94550, California, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore94550, California, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore94550, California, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore94550, California, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder80309, Colorado, United States
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- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore94550, California, United States
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Babikov D, Burke MP, Casavecchia P, Green WH, Grinberg Dana A, Guo H, Heard DE, Heathcote D, Hochlaf M, Jasper AW, Klippenstein SJ, Lester MI, Martí C, Mebel AM, Mullin AS, Nguyen TL, Olzmann M, Orr-Ewing AJ, Osborn DL, Robertson PA, Robinson MS, Shannon RJ, Shiels OJ, Suits AG, Taatjes CA, Troe J, Xu X, You X, Zhang F, Zhang RM, Zádor J. Collisional energy transfer: general discussion. Faraday Discuss 2022; 238:121-143. [PMID: 36200457 DOI: 10.1039/d2fd90048c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Isla D, Arriola E, Garcia Campelo M, Martí C, Diz Tain P, Moreno Vega A, Piqueras MB, León L, Gutierrez Calderon V, Oramas Rodriguez J, Majem M, Sanchez-Hernandez A, Aguado de la Rosa C, Alvarez Cabellos R, Marti-Ciriquian J, Moreno Paul A, Gonzalez Cordero M, Callejo Mellén Á, Baez L, Zugazagoitia J. 142P Phase IIIb study of durvalumab plus platinum–etoposide in first-line treatment of extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (CANTABRICO): Treatment patterns of chemotherapy combination phase with durvalumab. Ann Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2022.02.173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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Martí C, Blanck S, Staub R, Loehlé S, Michel C, Steinmann SN. DockOnSurf: A Python Code for the High-Throughput Screening of Flexible Molecules Adsorbed on Surfaces. J Chem Inf Model 2021; 61:3386-3396. [PMID: 34160214 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.1c00256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
We present the open-source python package DockOnSurf which automates the generation and optimization of low-energy adsorption configurations of molecules on extended surfaces and nanoparticles. DockOnSurf is especially geared toward handling polyfunctional flexible adsorbates. The use of this high-throughput workflow allows us to carry out the screening of adsorbate-surface configurations in a systematic, customizable, and traceable way, while keeping the focus on the chemically relevant structures. The screening strategy consists in splitting the exploration of the adsorbate-surface configurational space into chemically meaningful domains, that is, by choosing among different conformers to adsorb, surface adsorption sites, adsorbate anchoring points, and orientations and allowing dissociation of (acidic) protons. We demonstrate the performance of the main features based on varying examples, ranging from CO adsorption on a gold nanoparticle to sorbitol adsorption on hematite. Through the use of the presented program, we aim to foster efficiency, traceability, and ease of use in research within tribology, catalysis, nanoscience, and surface science in general.
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- Carles Martí
- Univ Lyon, Ens de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Laboratoire de Chimie, F69342 Lyon, France
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- Total Marketing & Services, Chemin du Canal-BP 22, 69360 Solaize, France
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- Univ Lyon, Ens de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Laboratoire de Chimie, F69342 Lyon, France
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- Total Marketing & Services, Chemin du Canal-BP 22, 69360 Solaize, France
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- Univ Lyon, Ens de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Laboratoire de Chimie, F69342 Lyon, France
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- Univ Lyon, Ens de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Laboratoire de Chimie, F69342 Lyon, France
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Oliver-Goldaracena J, Sanchez Mendez J, Martí C, York E, Zamora P, Cordoba Chicote V, Roca Navarro M, Garrido Alonso D, Navarro Monforte Y. Ultrasound-guided cryoablation as substitute for surgery in elderly patients with non resected breast cancer: pilot study with medium-term outcomes. Breast 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9776(21)00258-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Blanck S, Martí C, Loehlé S, Steinmann SN, Michel C. (Dis)Similarities of adsorption of diverse functional groups over alumina and hematite depending on the surface state. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:084701. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0038412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Sarah Blanck
- University Lyon, Ens de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Laboratoire de Chimie, F69342 Lyon, France
- Total Marketing and Services, Chemin du Canal–BP 22, 69360 Solaize, France
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- University Lyon, Ens de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Laboratoire de Chimie, F69342 Lyon, France
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- Total Marketing and Services, Chemin du Canal–BP 22, 69360 Solaize, France
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- University Lyon, Ens de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Laboratoire de Chimie, F69342 Lyon, France
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- University Lyon, Ens de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Laboratoire de Chimie, F69342 Lyon, France
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Sieira-Gil R, Yuste-Colom M, Martí C, García E, Fontdevila J, Ferrer A. Custom designed radial forearm free flap for reconstruction of nasomaxillary defects: Report of two cases. Microsurgery 2020; 40:906-910. [PMID: 33045116 DOI: 10.1002/micr.30664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2020] [Revised: 09/21/2020] [Accepted: 09/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
Abstract
Nasal amputation and nasomaxillary defects, need to reconstruct the internal lining, osteochondral structure, and external coating of the nose. Authors report a 70-year-old male and a 65-year-old female treated for nasomaxillary defects (Brown JS, Shaw RJ. The Lancet Oncology 2010;11:1001-1008) due to squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) where the tip of the nose was preserved. A new custom design of the radial forearm free flap (RFFF) consisting on a subcutaneous tissue (SCT) component, a skin paddle for the internal nasal vault lining, and a skin paddle for the external nasal skin coating was raised to treat both total thickness nasal defects. The dimension of each skin paddle corresponds to the defect measurements. The skin incisions of the custom design correspond to those of a conventional RFFF. The SCT component was harvested in a subcutaneous plane continuously with the skin island for the internal nasal lining which is drawn on the ulnar skin of the forearm. The component for the external nasal coating was drawn on the radial skin area of the flap. No postoperative complications and a satisfactory outcome was reported after 1 year of follow-up. This new custom design of the RFFF is described for reconstruction of nasomaxillary defects when the tip of the nose is preserved.
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- Ramon Sieira-Gil
- Department Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.,Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Universiat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Plastic Surgery, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Plastic Surgery, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
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Spiegelman F, Tarrat N, Cuny J, Dontot L, Posenitskiy E, Martí C, Simon A, Rapacioli M. Density-functional tight-binding: basic concepts and applications to molecules and clusters. Adv Phys X 2020; 5:1710252. [PMID: 33154977 PMCID: PMC7116320 DOI: 10.1080/23746149.2019.1710252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2019] [Accepted: 12/19/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023] Open
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The scope of this article is to present an overview of the Density Functional based Tight Binding (DFTB) method and its applications. The paper introduces the basics of DFTB and its standard formulation up to second order. It also addresses methodological developments such as third order expansion, inclusion of non-covalent interactions, schemes to solve the self-interaction error, implementation of long-range short-range separation, treatment of excited states via the time-dependent DFTB scheme, inclusion of DFTB in hybrid high-level/low level schemes (DFT/DFTB or DFTB/MM), fragment decomposition of large systems, large scale potential energy landscape exploration with molecular dynamics in ground or excited states, non-adiabatic dynamics. A number of applications are reviewed, focusing on -(i)- the variety of systems that have been studied such as small molecules, large molecules and biomolecules, bare orfunctionalized clusters, supported or embedded systems, and -(ii)- properties and processes, such as vibrational spectroscopy, collisions, fragmentation, thermodynamics or non-adiabatic dynamics. Finally outlines and perspectives are given.
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- Fernand Spiegelman
- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques LCPQ/IRSAMC, UMR5626, Université de Toulouse (UPS)and CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- CEMES, Université de Toulouse (UPS), CNRS, UPR8011, Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques LCPQ/IRSAMC, UMR5626, Université de Toulouse (UPS)and CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques LCPQ/IRSAMC, UMR5626, Université de Toulouse (UPS)and CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire Collisions Agrégats et Réactivité LCAR/IRSAMC, UMR5589, Université de Toulouse (UPS) and CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques LCPQ/IRSAMC, UMR5626, Université de Toulouse (UPS)and CNRS, Toulouse, France
- Laboratoire de Chimie, UMR5182, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Université de Lyon and CNRS, Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques LCPQ/IRSAMC, UMR5626, Université de Toulouse (UPS)and CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques LCPQ/IRSAMC, UMR5626, Université de Toulouse (UPS)and CNRS, Toulouse, France
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Ciruela P, Broner S, Izquierdo C, Pallarés R, Muñoz-Almagro C, Hernández S, Grau I, Domínguez A, Jané M, Ciruela P, Izquierdo C, Broner S, Hernández S, Jané M, Muñoz-Almagro C, Esteva C, de Sevilla M, Henares D, Pallarés R, Ardanuy C, Grau I, Marco F, Margall N, González-Cuevas A, Díaz A, Martin M, Llaberia J, Curriu M, Gallés C, Capdevila E, Gassiot P, Martínez-Zurita M, Martí C, Morta M, Sauca G, Gassós A, Sanfeliu E, Ballester F, Pujol I, Olsina M, Raga X, Gómez-Bertomeu F, Pérez-Moreno M, Vilamala A, Navarro M, Ribelles M, Garcia M, Padilla E, Prim N, Fontanals D, Sanfeliu I, Benitez M, Jou E, Sanjosé C, Giménez M, Quesada M, de la Fuente J, Calderon A, Ayala P, Vega L, Pérez-Jové J, Blanco A, Balado C, Valle I, Bastida M, Gonzalez-Moreno O, Ubanell A, Fenoll A, Yuste J. Indirect effects of paediatric conjugate vaccines on invasive pneumococcal disease in older adults. Int J Infect Dis 2019; 86:122-130. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2019.06.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2019] [Revised: 06/28/2019] [Accepted: 06/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Iranzo A, Borrego S, Vilaseca I, Martí C, Serradell M, Sánchez-Valle R, Kovacs GG, Valldeoriola F, Gaig C, Santamaria J, Tolosa E, Gelpi E. α-Synuclein aggregates in labial salivary glands of idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder. Sleep 2019; 41:5001306. [PMID: 29790977 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsy101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Study Objectives To assess whether biopsy of the labial minor salivary glands safely detects phosphorylated α-synuclein (pAS) deposits in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (IRBD), a condition that precedes the cardinal manifestations of synuclein disorders associated with Lewy-type pathology, namely, Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Methods In a prospective study, labial biopsy of the minor salivary glands was performed in 62 patients with IRBD, 13 patients with PD, and 10 patients with DLB who were initially diagnosed with IRBD, and in 33 controls. Aggregates of pAS were assessed by immunohistochemistry using antiserine 129-pAS antibody and the conformation-specific 5G4 antibody. Results Sufficient biopsy material containing glandular parenchyma was obtained in all participants. Deposits of pAS were found in 31 of 62 (50%) participants with IRBD, 7 of 13 (54%) with PD, 5 of 10 (50%) with DLB, and in one of the 33 (3%) controls. Participants with IRBD, PD, and DLB with and without pAS immunoreactivity did not differ in demographic and clinical features. Adverse events were lip bruising (9.2%), swelling (6.6%), pain (2.4%), and numbness (1.7%) which were mild and transitory and did not require treatment. Conclusions Labial minor salivary glands biopsy proved to be a safe and useful procedure to identify pAS in participants with IRBD, and in participants with PD and DLB initially diagnosed with IRBD. The biopsy provides direct histopathological evidence that IRBD represents a synucleinopathy and that could be useful for histological confirmation of synuclein pathology in PD and DLB.
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- Alex Iranzo
- Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas, Barcelona, Spain
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- Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas, Barcelona, Spain
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- Otorhinolaryngology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Respiratorias, Bunyola, Spain
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- Maxillofacial Surgery Service Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas, Barcelona, Spain
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- Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas, Barcelona, Spain
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- Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas, Barcelona, Spain
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- Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas, Barcelona, Spain
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- Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.,Neurological Tissue Bank, Biobanc-Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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Kurnosov A, Cacciatore M, Pirani F, Laganà A, Martí C, Garcia E. Closer versus Long Range Interaction Effects on the Non-Arrhenius Behavior of Quasi-Resonant O 2 + N 2 Collisions. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:5088-5099. [PMID: 28598167 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b04204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We report in this paper an investigation on energy transfer processes from vibration to vibration and/or translation in thermal and subthermal regimes for the O2 + N2 system performed using quantum-classical calculations on different empirical, semiempirical, and ab initio potential energy surfaces. In particular, the paper focuses on the rationalization of the non-Arrhenius behavior (inversion of the temperature dependence) of the quasi-resonant vibration-to-vibration energy transfer transition rate coefficients at threshold. To better understand the microscopic nature of the involved processes, we pushed the calculations to the detail of the related cross sections and analyzed the impact of the medium and long-range components of the interaction on them. Furthermore, the variation with temperature of the dependence of the quasi-resonant rate coefficient on the vibrational energy gap between initial and final vibrational states and the effectiveness of quantum-classical calculations to overcome the limitations of the purely classical treatments were also investigated. These treatments, handled in an open molecular science fashion by chaining data and competencies of the various laboratories using a grid empowered molecular simulator, have allowed a rationalization of the dependence of the computed rate coefficients in terms of the distortion of the O2-N2 configuration during the diatom-diatom collisions. A way of relating such distortions to a smooth and continuous progress variable, allowing a proper evolution from both long to closer range formulation of the interaction and from its entrance to exit channel (through the strong interaction region) relaxed graphical representations, is also discussed in the paper.
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- A Kurnosov
- Troitsk Institute of Innovation and Fusion Research , 142092 Troitsk, Moscow, Russia
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- Nanotec-Institute for Nanotechnology, CNR , Via Amendola 122/D, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Nanotec-Institute for Nanotechnology, CNR , Via Amendola 122/D, 70126 Bari, Italy.,Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia , 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia , 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia , 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Departamento de Quimica Fisica, Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU) , 01006 Vitoria, Spain
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Garcia E, Pirani F, Laganà A, Martí C. The role of the long-range tail of the potential in O 2 + N 2 collisional inelastic vibrational energy transfers. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:11206-11211. [PMID: 28405660 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp01340j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In the study of non-reactive energy transfer between O2 and N2 molecules bearing different vibrationally excited states we have faced the problem of selecting a proper formulation of the interaction. To this end we have compared the values of the related observables computed either on a potential energy surface globally fitted to very large ab initio potential energy values [Varga et al., J. Chem. Phys., 2016, 144, 024310] or on two more traditional ones formulated as a combination of an intra- and inter-molecular model component of the interaction (and based on a different combined use of experimental and ab initio information) [Garcia et al., J. Phys. Chem. A, 2016, 120, 5208] in order to enforce an appropriate modelling of the long-range tail of the potential, crucial for the description of inelastic vibrational energy transfer. A detailed graphical analysis of the potential plus a quantitative analysis of the computed opacity functions, of the state-to-state rate coefficients, of the second virial coefficient and of the integral non-reactive cross section allowed us to conclude that the model formulation of the interaction has to be preferred for non-reactive studies of the O2 + N2 energy transfer processes in thermal and subthermal regimes.
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- Ernesto Garcia
- Departamento de Quimica Fisica, Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU), 01006 Vitoria, Spain.
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Sánchez-Méndez J, Yébenes L, Zamora P, Martí C, Peláez-García A, Alonso P, Berjón A, Díaz de la Noval B, Espinosa E, Hardisson D. EndoPredict molecular-clinicopathological hybrid score (EPclin) provides superior prognostic information compared to molecular scores alone: a report of two cases. Breast 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9776(17)30332-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Vilas D, Iranzo A, Tolosa E, Aldecoa I, Berenguer J, Vilaseca I, Martí C, Serradell M, Lomeña F, Alós L, Gaig C, Santamaria J, Gelpi E. Assessment of α-synuclein in submandibular glands of patients with idiopathic rapid-eye-movement sleep behaviour disorder: a case-control study. Lancet Neurol 2016; 15:708-718. [PMID: 27039162 DOI: 10.1016/s1474-4422(16)00080-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2015] [Revised: 02/16/2016] [Accepted: 02/19/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND The histological feature of Parkinson's disease is the presence of intraneuronal aggregates of phosphorylated α-synuclein (αSyn). In patients with Parkinson's disease, deposits of αSyn are found in the autonomic nerve fibres of the submandibular gland. Since patients with idiopathic rapid-eye-movement sleep behaviour disorder (IRBD) can develop Parkinson's disease and other synucleinopathies, we investigated whether αSyn deposits could also be detected in their submandibular gland nerve fibres. METHODS We did a case-control study at the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) in patients with polysomnographic-confirmed IRBD, patients with clinically diagnosed Parkinson's disease, and controls matched by age with the IRBD group. The controls were either healthy, had had elective neck surgery in the clinic, or were patients who had died in the clinic and had an autopsy. We did a transcutaneous core needle biopsy of the submandibular gland with ultrasound guidance in patients with IRBD or Parkinson's disease, and healthy controls, and without ultrasound guidance in the other controls. We assessed the presence of αSyn with immunohistochemistry using 129-phosphorylated antiserine monoclonal antibody, and analysed quantitative variables with Kruskall-Wallis tests and qualitative variables with Fisher's exact tests. FINDINGS We did our study between July 16, 2014, and May 16, 2015, and recruited 21 patients with IRBD, 24 patients with Parkinson's disease, and 26 controls (seven healthy, 11 patients undergoing neck surgery, and eight autopsies). We obtained submandibular biopsy material containing glandular parenchyma in nine (43%) of 21 patients with IRBD, 12 (50%) of 24 patients with Parkinson's disease, and all (100%) of the 26 controls. αSyn aggregates were detected in nerve fibres of the glandular parenchyma in eight (89%) of nine patients with IRBD and eight (67%) of 12 with Parkinson's disease, but none of the controls. Of the individuals whose biopsy samples did not contain glandular parenchyma, deposits of αSyn were found in extraglandular tissues in an additional three (25%) of 12 patients with IRBD and five (42%) of 12 patients with Parkinson's disease. None of the controls showed αSyn immunoreactivity in extraglandular tissues. Of the 52 participants who had ultrasonography-guided biopsy, 11 (21%) reported mild-to-moderate local pain, and nine (17%) developed a subcutaneous haematoma; however, these adverse events were transient and did not need treatment. INTERPRETATION Our findings suggest that, in patients with IRBD, submandibular gland biopsy is a safe procedure for the detection of αSyn aggregates. αSyn detection could be useful for histological confirmation in individuals clinically diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. FUNDING Centre for Networked Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Disorders (CIBERNED), Barcelona, Spain.
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- Dolores Vilas
- Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Barcelona, Spain
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- Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Barcelona, Spain
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- Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Barcelona, Spain.
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- Pathology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Radiology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Otorhinolaryngology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, Bunyola, Spain
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- Maxillofacial Surgery Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Nuclear Medicine Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Pathology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Neurological Tissue Bank, Biobanc-Hospital Clinic, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
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Escudero A, Mejia M, Martínez L, Martí C, Marcos G, Barreda D. PS-059 Serious medicines errors related to antineoplasic and supportive treatment in cancer patients. Eur J Hosp Pharm 2014. [DOI: 10.1136/ejhpharm-2013-000436.410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Mejía M, Martí C, Marcos G, Recuero L, Escudero A, Barreda D. PS-058 Initiative to contact patients: social media in a hospital pharmacy department. Eur J Hosp Pharm 2014. [DOI: 10.1136/ejhpharm-2013-000436.409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Sieira R, Martí C, García E, Ferrer A, Rubio J. Iliac crest inner table free flap vs free fibula flap for mandibular reconstruction. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2013.07.424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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León J, Echeverría M, Badía D, Martí C, Álvarez C. Effectiveness of wood chips cover at reducing erosion in two contrasted burnt soils. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.1127/0372-8854/2012/s-00086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Diestra K, Miró E, Martí C, Navarro D, Cuquet J, Coll P, Navarro F. Multiclonal epidemic of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates producing DHA-1 in a Spanish hospital. Clin Microbiol Infect 2011; 17:1032-6. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03319.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Giménez N, Barahona M, Casasa A, Domingo A, Gavagnach M, Martí C. [Introduction of Aedes albopictus in Spain: a new challenge for public health]. Gac Sanit 2007; 21:25-8. [PMID: 17306183 DOI: 10.1157/13099117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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INTRODUCTION A spectacular increase was noticed in the number of consultations for insect bites at the Sant Cugat Primary Care Center (Barcelona, Spain). Subsequent study of the species in the area identified Aedes albopictus. OBJECTIVE To analyze consultations for insect bites in this center (1998-2004). METHODS A descriptive, cross sectional study with a 7-year retrospective review was performed. A total of 2,760 patients consulted. RESULTS A continual increase in the number of consultations for insect bites was detected, reaching 16 consultations per 1,000 inhabitants. The mean age of the patients was 32 years and 62% were women. Seventy-one percent of the bites were located on the extremities and 19% were infected. Sixty-seven percent of the patients received systemic treatment. CONCLUSIONS Primary care alerted the town council of the significant increase in consultations for insect bites. Patients consulting for this reason were predominantly young women who frequently received systemic treatment and showed a high percentage of local complications.
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- Unidad de investigación. Fundación de Investigación Mútua de Terrassa, Terrassa, Barcelona, España.
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Mair D, Gumbao V, García-Díez E, Martí C. O.455 Minimal invasive harvesting of tibial bone graft en bloc. J Craniomaxillofac Surg 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/s1010-5182(06)60475-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Miró O, Salgado E, Tomás S, Espinosa G, Estrada C, Martí C, Camp J, Asenjo MA, Salmerón JM, Sánchez M. Derivación sin visita desde los servicios de urgencias hospitalarios: cuantificación, riesgos y grado de satisfacción. Med Clin (Barc) 2006; 126:88-93. [PMID: 16472481 DOI: 10.1157/13083876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE After triage assessment, some hospitals refer emergency department (ED) patients with minor chief complaints to off-site clinics. The potential for 2 different referral models introduced in 2 urban hospitals was assessed, as well as the suitability of this measure. PATIENTS AND METHOD After triage assessment, patients with minor complaints were identified. ED from Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (HCB) proposed that these patients should be referred to a hospital affiliated off-site clinic, whereas ED from Hospital Mútua de Terrassa (HMT) tried to refer such patients to their primary care setting. Within a year, we assessed on both ED the following items: number of arrivals, percentage of proposed referrals (PR), percentage of accepted referrals (AR), percentage of carried-out referrals (CR: patients who, once discharged, really attended the other setting), and percentage of returned referrals (RR) to the ED, as well as return reasons, and the percentage of returned patients finally admitted. The degree of patient satisfaction was evaluated by means of a telephone survey. RESULTS From both ED, 44,764 arrivals and 7,297 (16.3%) PR were registered. The percentage of AR and CR was 94.3% and 75.3%, respectively. The percentage of PR from HMT was higher (18.7% vs 13.1%; p < 0.001), yet HCB obtained a greater percentage of AR (98.9% vs 92%, p < 0.001) and CR (93.7% vs 65%; p < 0.001). The percentage of RR from both ED was 1.5% (2.8% vs 0.4%; p < 0.001). Among returned patients, 12 of them (0.17% respect to AR) were finally admitted. Only 41% of patients who were found to be eligible for direct discharge would have agreed with being referred to another clinical setting, but after the experience, up to 93% of them said they would go through it again. HMT gave referral information to patients faster than HCB (p < 0.05), but HCB got a better model evaluation (p < 0.01), a greater medical complaint solution (p < 0.05), and generated a smaller number of subsequent consultations (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS After a rapid triage assessment, a percentage of patients arriving on EDs may be directly and safely discharged and referred to other clinical settings. This is achieved by both proposed models without additional risks for patients. However, patients feel more satisfied with an hospital-affiliated off-site clinic instead of their primary care setting.
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- Unidad de Urgencias de Medicina, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain.
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Alcázar MT, Ornaque I, Delgado MA, Martí C, Gil A, Montero A. [Abdominal aortic injury as a complication of laparoscopic cholecystectomy]. Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 2004; 51:452-5. [PMID: 15586539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/01/2023]
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A 58-year-old woman with a history of high blood pressure and cesarean section by median laparotomy underwent elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy under general anesthesia. After initiation of pneumoperitoneum, hemodynamic instability developed (blood pressure 75/40 mm Hg, heart rate 47 beats/min) and resolved after volume replacement and administration of vasoactive drugs. The rest of the procedure was completed without further adverse events. After extubation, the patient was transferred to the anesthetic recovery ward, where she tended to hypotension that was unresponsive to volume replacement, with a hematocrit of 18% and hemoglobin concentration of 6.9 g/dL. Hemoperitoneum was suspected, and an emergency median laparotomy revealed 300 cc of blood in the peritoneal cavity, a large hematoma putting pressure on retroperitoneal structures, and 2 infrarenal aortic lesions (anterior and posterolateral). During the reoperation the patient required multiple transfusions and vasoactive drugs to maintain hemodynamic stability. Recovery in the postanesthetic care unit was uneventful. After transfer to the ward, on the 20th day after surgery she developed septic shock with intraabdominal fluid requiring surgical drainage and admission to the intensive care unit. Abdominal aortic injury during laparoscopic surgery usually occurs upon introduction of trocars for initiating pneumoperitoneum. The technique must be performed correctly and monitored properly to assure early detection of adverse events associated with high mortality.
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- M T Alcázar
- Servicio de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. Barcelona.
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Martí C, Nonell S, Nicolau M, Torres T. Photophysical properties of neutral and cationic tetrapyridinoporphyrazines. Photochem Photobiol 2000; 71:53-9. [PMID: 10649889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023]
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We describe the synthesis and photophysical properties of a series of neutral and cationic 3,4-tetrapyridinoporphyrazines, potential lead photosensitizers for photodynamic inactivation of bacteria. Tetracationic TPyPzs exist essentially as monomers in aqueous systems, but the presence of trialkylated compounds due to incomplete quaternization of the outer nitrogen atoms induces severe aggregation. The absorption, fluorescence, triplet, and singlet oxygen quantum yields for both the neutral and cationic compounds are comparable to those of the related phthalocyanines.
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- C Martí
- Institut Químic de Sarrià, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain
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del Rey B, Keller U, Torres T, Rojo G, Agulló-López F, Nonell S, Martí C, Brasselet S, Ledoux I, Zyss J. Synthesis and Nonlinear Optical, Photophysical, and Electrochemical Properties of Subphthalocyanines. J Am Chem Soc 1998. [DOI: 10.1021/ja980508q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 239] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Aranda M, Martí C, Bernet M, Gudiol F, Pujol R. Diagnostic utility of postmortem fine-needle aspiration cultures. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1998; 122:650-5. [PMID: 9674548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Microbiological cultures at autopsy have not proved to be very useful. In life, transthoracic and fine-needle aspirations of other tissues have provided better results. The aim of this prospective study was to assess the diagnostic utility of postmortem cultures obtained by fine-needle aspiration puncture (FNAP) of several tissues when punctures were performed in the immediate postmortem period. METHODS Comparative analysis was performed between FNAP cultures and those obtained in life and by conventional autopsy. All adult autopsied patients who died at a general teaching hospital in a 3-year period were included. Clinical data, microbiological cultures before death, and pathologic data from autopsies of all patients were recorded, as were results of FNAP performed after death from the heart, right lower lung, liver, spleen, and other areas suspicious for infection. Cultures from the same sites were made at autopsy. Microorganisms were isolated and defined as infectious agents, colonizers, or contaminants according to standard criteria. RESULTS Ninety-two patients (59 men, 33 women) were included in the study; patients had a mean age of 67.7 years. There were five main diagnostic groups: neoplastic (n = 25), digestive (n = 15), respiratory (n = 14), circulatory (n = 10), and infectious diseases (n = 10). Infection was suspected in 47 patients (51.3%). Autopsy was performed 12 hours after death or later in 61% of patients. No significant differences were found in terms of contamination or colonization in relation to time between death and FNAP, time between death and autopsy, or microorganisms isolated. The sensitivity of FNAP and autopsy with respect to the isolation of infective microorganisms was similar (80.9% vs 87%), but FNAP was more specific (66.7% vs 44.4%). Age, sex, time between death and FNAP, clinical diagnosis, cause of death, and antimicrobial therapy did not influence the results significantly. Blood cultures gave the best results (specificity 84.4%) [corrected]. CONCLUSIONS Fine-needle aspiration puncture performed in the immediate postmortem period adds relevant microbiological information to the clinicopathologic picture and provides higher specificity than autopsy cultures. Blood cultures are especially useful. When difficulties are associated with autopsy examination or in cases of selected clinical conditions, FNAP can be an effective tool for the postmortem diagnosis of infection.
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- M Aranda
- Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital de Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of functional status on the outcome in older patients with bacteremia. DESIGN Prospective study of all episodes of bacteremia that occurred in adults during a 27-month period (January 1991 to March 1993). SETTING A 280-bed community hospital. PARTICIPANTS During the study period, bacteremia was diagnosed in 242 consecutive patients (incidence of 11.2 bacteremic episodes per 1000 hospital admissions). One hundred twenty-seven of these patients were 65 years of age or older, and 115 were less than age 65. MEASUREMENTS On identification of a positive blood culture, data on demographics, clinical findings, and a series of factors frequently cited as predisposing to infection were collected. The patient's functional status was assessed using the Barthel index (a score of < 60 identifies moderately and highly dependent patients). RESULTS The overall mortality rate was 14.9% (36 of 242). In the univariate analysis, mortality was associated significantly with age greater than 65 years, nosocomial infection, absence of fever, shock, leukocytosis or leukopenia, inappropriate therapy, more than one underlying disease, immuno-compromised state, and limited functional status. Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that shock (OR = 27.6, 95% CI 5.7-133), a Barthel score less than 60 (OR = 11.7, 95% CI 3.2-43), nosocomial infection (OR = 6.7, 95% CI 1.8-25.5), absence of fever (OR = 5.2, 95% CI 1.05-26), and immunocompromised state (OR = 15.6, 95% CI 2.4-101.5) were significantly associated with death attributable to bacteremia. CONCLUSION The main prognostic factors in a patient with bacteremia were the presence of shock, impaired functional status, immunodeficiency state, acquisition of infection in the hospital, and absence of fever on admission. Age alone did not influence outcome.
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- F Deulofeu
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Hospital General de Granollers, Barcelona, Spain
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Matas L, Martí C, Morera MA, Sierra M, Vilamala A, Corcoy F. [Bacteremia in 13 general hospitals of the province of Barcelona. Prospective study of 1,674 episodes. Group of Microbiologists of the County Hospitals of Catalonia]. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin 1995; 13:345-55. [PMID: 7654835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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BACKGROUND Clinical and microbiological description of bacteremias seen in 13 regional hospitals of Barcelona. METHODS From January to December of 1991 a multicenter prospective study of bacteremia in regional hospitals was performed. The filiation, clinical findings and microbiological results were registered according to a common protocol. RESULTS We studied 1674 episodes of bacteremia (13.8 per 1000 admissions). Patients were distributed into 3 groups according to age: under 14: 204 patients, between 14 to 65: 759 and over 65: 711 patients. Men account for 55% and women for 45% of episodes. The bacteremia was hospital-acquired in 24.4% of cases. The most common foci of infection were: urinary tract (32%), respiratory tract (14%), intestinal tract (8%), intravascular catheter (7%), biliary tract (7%) and unknown (10%). The most commonly isolated strains were: Escherichia coli 544 cases, Streptococcus pneumoniae 212, Staphylococcus aureus 139, coagulase negative staphylococi 85, Non-typhoid Salmonella 66, Neisseria meningitidis 63, Pseudomonas sp. 59, Enterococcus sp. 59 and Bacteroides sp. 58. Polimicrobial bacteremia was detected in 83 episodes (5%). Related mortality rate was 9.6% (161 patients).
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Nava JM, Bella F, Garau J, Lite J, Morera MA, Martí C, Fontanals D, Font B, Pineda V, Uriz S. Predictive factors for invasive disease due to penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae: a population-based study. Clin Infect Dis 1994; 19:884-90. [PMID: 7893874 DOI: 10.1093/clinids/19.5.884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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A prospective population-based study was carried out to determine predictive factors associated with penicillin-resistant pneumococcal invasive disease. A total of 374 patients (250 males and 124 females; mean age, 50.3 +/- 27 years) with invasive pneumococcal infection were admitted to one of the five hospitals in El Vallés County (an industrial area with 800,000 inhabitants in the province of Barcelona, Spain) over a period of 5 years. Of the 374 episodes, 21 (5.6%) were due to highly penicillin-resistant pneumococci and 67 (17.9%) to intermediately penicillin-resistant pneumococci. Multivariate analysis showed a statistically significant association between infection with intermediately penicillin-resistant pneumococci and an age of 0-4 years (odds ratio [OR] = 5.3; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.2-12.6), the presence of an immunosuppressive underlying disease (OR = 3.0; 95% CI = 1.5-6.0), and the previous use of beta-lactam antibiotics (OR = 2.1; 95% CI = 1.0-4.5). Infection with highly penicillin-resistant pneumococci was associated only with the previous use of beta-lactam antibiotics (OR = 5.9; 95% 95% CI = 2.2-15.8). Highly resistant strains were of serotypes 6, 9, 14, 15, 19, and 23, of which all but serotypes 9 and 15 are included in the newly formulated conjugated vaccine.
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- J M Nava
- Hospital Mútua de Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
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Coll MT, Uriz MS, Pineda V, Fontanals D, Bella F, Nava JM, Deulofeu F, Morera MA, Martí C, Lite J. Meningococcal meningitis with 'normal' cerebrospinal fluid. J Infect 1994; 29:289-94. [PMID: 7884222 DOI: 10.1016/s0163-4453(94)91197-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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A prospective study was made of all patients with normal CSF counts and positive cultures for Neisseria meningitidis diagnosed in "El Vallés" County, Barcelona between January 1987 and December 1990. Meningococcal meningitis was documented in 82 patients, eight of whom (seven children, five boys and two girls with a mean age of 5.6 +/- 3.3 years, and a 69-year-old male patient) had no apparent CSF abnormalities in the initial lumbar puncture. At the time of admission all patients had fever (mean 39.1 degrees C) of 10.8 +/- 5.6 hour duration and petechial rash which had been present for a mean of 3.6 +/- 3.3 hours. Signs of meningeal irritation were not found. A 4-month-old infant with symptoms of circulatory collapse, intracranial hypertension and impairment of consciousness subsequently died of septicemia in 48 hours. Group B N. meningitidis was isolated in six cases (reduced penicillin-susceptibility in two cases) and group C N. meningitidis in the remaining two (reduced penicillin-susceptibility in one case). Patients without pleocytosis did not differ in a statistically significant fashion from the patients with high pleocytosis in the duration of temperature, and petechial rash, leukopenia, positive blood culture and fatal outcome.
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- M T Coll
- Hospital General de Granollers, Barcelona, Spain
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Deulofeu F, Nava JM, Bella F, Martí C, Morera MA, Font B, Fontanals D, Lite J, Garau J, Calderón A. Prospective epidemiological study of invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease in adults. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 1994; 13:633-8. [PMID: 7813492 DOI: 10.1007/bf01973988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The incidence and characteristics of invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease were studied in 43 adult patients admitted to the acute care hospitals in El Vallés County (Barcelona, Spain) between January 1987 and June 1992. The annual incidence of Haemophilus influenzae disease was 1.2 per 100,000 inhabitants. Pneumonia occurred in 24 patients, meningitis in five, intraabdominal infections in three, obstetric infections in two, epiglottitis in two and cellulitis in one. In six patients the source of infection was unknown. Ten (23%) of the infections were hospital acquired. Underlying conditions were diagnosed in 30 (70%) patients. Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae strains predominated in all adult age groups. Sixty-one percent of type b and 34% of nontypeable strains were ampicillin resistant (p = 0.08). Multiple antibiotic resistance was also high among type b (53%) and nontypeable (18%) strains. The mortality rate was significantly higher in patients with pneumonia, bacteremia from an unidentified focus or shock at presentation.
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- F Deulofeu
- Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital General de Granollers, Barcelona, Spain
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Reig R, Hermida M, Fontanals D, Lite J, Martí C, Morera MA, Roy C. [Characterization of Haemophilus influenzae's resistance to ampicillin]. Med Clin (Barc) 1991; 96:727-9. [PMID: 1875749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND The resistance of Haemophilus influenzae to ampicillin is nearly always dependent on plasmid-mediated betalactamase production. The betalactamase type most frequently identified was TEM-1; type ROB has occasionally been identified. The presence of plasmid-mediated betalactamase has been studied in H. influenzae strains moderately susceptible or resistant to ampicillin. METHODS The test used in the detection of the presence of betalactamase was nitrocefin hydrolysis; the enzyme type was identified by analytic isoelectric focusing; the codifying gene of this betalactamase was identified by hybridisation with a TEM-1 probe labeled with digoxigenine. Strains studied were 110, obtained during the period 1987 to 1989 and isolated from four Hospitals of the Vallés area of Barcelona. RESULTS Enzyme production was detected in 105 of 110 strains studied; TEM-1 type betalactamase was identified in 108 and positive hybridisation was obtained in these strains with the TEM-1 probe. CONCLUSIONS Nitrocefin hydrolysis is a reliable test for the detection of betalactamase production, although it may be unable to detect it (falses negatives) when the production is low. The only betalactamase type identified was TEM-1. The frequency of the strains with non-enzymatic resistance was 1.8%.
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- R Reig
- Microbiología-Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
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Mozota J, Ochoa FJ, Martí C, García Martínez T, Rodríguez García JF. [Analysis of admission to a hospital emergency service by means of a P-10 form]. Aten Primaria 1991; 8:161. [PMID: 1893044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Uriz S, Pineda V, Grau M, Nava JM, Bella F, Morera MA, Fontanals D, Font B, Martí C, Deulofeu F. Neisseria meningitidis with reduced sensitivity to penicillin: observations in 10 children. Scand J Infect Dis 1991; 23:171-4. [PMID: 1906633 DOI: 10.3109/00365549109023396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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10/84 strains (11.9%) of Neisseria meningitidis isolated from blood and/or cerebrospinal fluid in children 1986-1987 had reduced sensitivity to benzylpenicillin (MICs 0.1-0.4 mg/l). Group C meningococci predominated among these strains. The clinical course was satisfactory in all cases regardless of the antibiotic treatment used, although the time to abatement of fever was prolonged compared to that of children infected with susceptible strains.
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- S Uriz
- Hospital de Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
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Sarsa A, Martí C, Ochoa J, Salcedo J, Peña JL, Elena A, Gila L. [Girdle muscular dystrophy: a sporadic case with late onset]. Neurologia 1990; 5:69-70. [PMID: 2361039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Pujol R, Martí C. [Salmonella infection of the biliary tract]. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin 1989; 7:64-6. [PMID: 2490669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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de Caralt E, Tortras J, Martí C, Urgellés J, Miró D, o D. [Obstructive icterus caused by a submucosal angioma of Vater's ampulla]. Rev Esp Enferm Apar Dig 1986; 70:172-4. [PMID: 3749570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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