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Strauss KA, DuBiner L, Simon M, Zaragoza M, Sengupta PP, Li P, Narula N, Dreike S, Platt J, Procaccio V, Ortiz-González XR, Puffenberger EG, Kelley RI, Morton DH, Narula J, Wallace DC. Severity of cardiomyopathy associated with adenine nucleotide translocator-1 deficiency correlates with mtDNA haplogroup. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013; 110:3453-8. [PMID: 23401503 PMCID: PMC3587196 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1300690110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Mutations of both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-encoded mitochondrial proteins can cause cardiomyopathy associated with mitochondrial dysfunction. Hence, the cardiac phenotype of nuclear DNA mitochondrial mutations might be modulated by mtDNA variation. We studied a 13-generation Mennonite pedigree with autosomal recessive myopathy and cardiomyopathy due to an SLC25A4 frameshift null mutation (c.523delC, p.Q175RfsX38), which codes for the heart-muscle isoform of the adenine nucleotide translocator-1. Ten homozygous null (adenine nucleotide translocator-1(-/-)) patients monitored over a median of 6 years had a phenotype of progressive myocardial thickening, hyperalaninemia, lactic acidosis, exercise intolerance, and persistent adrenergic activation. Electrocardiography and echocardiography with velocity vector imaging revealed abnormal contractile mechanics, myocardial repolarization abnormalities, and impaired left ventricular relaxation. End-stage heart disease was characterized by massive, symmetric, concentric cardiac hypertrophy; widespread cardiomyocyte degeneration; overabundant and structurally abnormal mitochondria; extensive subendocardial interstitial fibrosis; and marked hypertrophy of arteriolar smooth muscle. Substantial variability in the progression and severity of heart disease segregated with maternal lineage, and sequencing of mtDNA from five maternal lineages revealed two major European haplogroups, U and H. Patients with the haplogroup U mtDNAs had more rapid and severe cardiomyopathy than those with haplogroup H.
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- Kevin A. Strauss
- Clinic for Special Children, Strasburg, PA 17579
- Department of Biology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17603
- Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster, PA 17602
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- Department of Biology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17603
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Biological Chemistry and Center for Molecular and Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Biological Chemistry and Center for Molecular and Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
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- Department of Pathology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10019
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Biological Chemistry and Center for Molecular and Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
- Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, Honolulu, HI 96826
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Biological Chemistry and Center for Molecular and Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94305
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Biological Chemistry and Center for Molecular and Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
- Biochemistry and Genetics Department, National Center for Neurodegenerative and Mitochondrial Diseases, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d' Angers, 49933 Angers, France
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- Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; and
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- Clinic for Special Children, Strasburg, PA 17579
- Department of Biology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17603
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- Kennedy Krieger Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205
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- Clinic for Special Children, Strasburg, PA 17579
- Department of Biology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17603
- Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster, PA 17602
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Biological Chemistry and Center for Molecular and Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
- Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; and
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Ndolo T, Rheinhardt J, Zaragoza M, Smit-McBride Z, Dandekar S. Alterations in RANTES gene expression and T-cell prevalence in intestinal mucosa during pathogenic or nonpathogenic simian immunodeficiency virus infection. Virology 1999; 259:110-8. [PMID: 10364494 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1999.9709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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RANTES, a beta-chemokine, can suppress human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as well as simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infections in T-lymphocyte cultures in vitro. However, the association of RANTES levels in peripheral blood with viral loads and disease outcome in HIV infection has been inconclusive. SIV-infected rhesus macaques were evaluated to determine whether RANTES gene expression correlated with suppression of viral infection in intestinal lymphoid tissues. Intestinal tissues were obtained from rhesus macaques infected with either pathogenic or nonpathogenic SIVmac variants at various stages of infection (primary acute, asymptomatic, and terminal). We examined the level of SIV infection (in situ hybridization), RANTES expression (quantitative competitive RT-PCR), and T-cell counts (immunohistochemistry). The most pronounced increase in RANTES gene expression in intestinal tissues was observed in primary SIV infection, which correlated with the pathogenicity of the infecting virus and not the tissue viral loads. Our results demonstrated that in contrast to the occurrence of viral suppression by RANTES in vitro, there was no direct correlation between high RANTES gene expression and suppression of viral loads in intestinal lymphoid tissues. Thus RANTES expression in the gut lymphoid tissue may not be a correlate for viral suppression. However, RANTES gene expression in primary SIV infection may be part of early host immune response to viral infection.
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- T Ndolo
- Division of Infectious and Immunologic Diseases, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
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Zaragoza M, Sallés M, Gomez J, Bayas JM, Trilla A. Handwashing with soap or alcoholic solutions? A randomized clinical trial of its effectiveness. Am J Infect Control 1999; 27:258-61. [PMID: 10358229 DOI: 10.1053/ic.1999.v27.a97622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [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: 11/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND The effectiveness of an alcoholic solution compared with the standard hygienic handwashing procedure during regular work in clinical wards and intensive care units of a large public university hospital in Barcelona was assessed. METHODS A prospective, randomized clinical trial with crossover design, paired data, and blind evaluation was done. Eligible health care workers (HCWs) included permanent and temporary HCWs of wards and intensive care units. From each category, a random sample of persons was selected. HCWs were randomly assigned to regular handwashing (liquid soap and water) or handwashing with the alcoholic solution by using a crossover design. The number of colony-forming units on agar plates from hands printing in 3 different samples was counted. RESULTS A total of 47 HCWs were included. The average reduction in the number of colony-forming units from samples before handwashing to samples after handwashing was 49.6% for soap and water and 88.2% for the alcoholic solution. When both methods were compared, the average number of colony-forming units recovered after the procedure showed a statistically significant difference in favor of the alcoholic solution (P <.001). The alcoholic solution was well tolerated by HCWs. Overall acceptance rate was classified as "good" by 72% of HCWs after 2 weeks use. Of all HCWs included, 9.3% stated that the use of the alcoholic solution worsened minor pre-existing skin conditions. CONCLUSIONS Although the regular use of hygienic soap and water handwashing procedures is the gold standard, the use of alcoholic solutions is effective and safe and deserves more attention, especially in situations in which the handwashing compliance rate is hampered by architectural problems (lack of sinks) or nursing work overload.
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- M Zaragoza
- Hospital Hygiene and Central Sterilization Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Preventive Medicine Department, Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Spain
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Gavaldà J, Torres C, Tenorio C, López P, Zaragoza M, Capdevila JA, Almirante B, Ruiz F, Borrell N, Gomis X, Pigrau C, Baquero F, Pahissa A. Efficacy of ampicillin plus ceftriaxone in treatment of experimental endocarditis due to Enterococcus faecalis strains highly resistant to aminoglycosides. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1999; 43:639-46. [PMID: 10049280 PMCID: PMC89173 DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.3.639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [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: 02/17/1998] [Accepted: 12/30/1998] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The purpose of this work was to evaluate the in vitro possibilities of ampicillin-ceftriaxone combinations for 10 Enterococcus faecalis strains with high-level resistance to aminoglycosides (HLRAg) and to assess the efficacy of ampicillin plus ceftriaxone, both administered with humanlike pharmacokinetics, for the treatment of experimental endocarditis due to HLRAg E. faecalis. A reduction of 1 to 4 dilutions in MICs of ampicillin was obtained when ampicillin was combined with a fixed subinhibitory ceftriaxone concentration of 4 micrograms/ml. This potentiating effect was also observed by the double disk method with all 10 strains. Time-kill studies performed with 1 and 2 micrograms of ampicillin alone per ml or in combination with 5, 10, 20, 40, and 60 micrograms of ceftriaxone per ml showed a > or = 2 log10 reduction in CFU per milliliter with respect to ampicillin alone and to the initial inoculum for all 10 E. faecalis strains studied. This effect was obtained for seven strains with the combination of 2 micrograms of ampicillin per ml plus 10 micrograms of ceftriaxone per ml and for six strains with 5 micrograms of ceftriaxone per ml. Animals with catheter-induced endocarditis were infected intravenously with 10(8) CFU of E. faecalis V48 or 10(5) CFU of E. faecalis V45 and were treated for 3 days with humanlike pharmacokinetics of 2 g of ampicillin every 4 h, alone or combined with 2 g of ceftriaxone every 12 h. The levels in serum and the pharmacokinetic parameters of the humanlike pharmacokinetics of ampicillin or ceftriaxone in rabbits were similar to those found in humans treated with 2 g of ampicillin or ceftriaxone intravenously. Results of the therapy for experimental endocarditis caused by E. faecalis V48 or V45 showed that the residual bacterial titers in aortic valve vegetations were significantly lower in the animals treated with the combinations of ampicillin plus ceftriaxone than in those treated with ampicillin alone (P < 0.001). The combination of ampicillin and ceftriaxone showed in vitro and in vivo synergism against HLRAg E. faecalis.
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- J Gavaldà
- Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, Hospital General Vall d'Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
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Zaragoza M. A health information network for Delaware. Del Med J 1999; 71:147-8. [PMID: 10208063] [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: 02/11/2023]
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The management of patients with first-trimester spontaneous abortions is handicapped by two problems: difficulty in recognizing conceptions that abort because of abnormal karyotypes and an incomplete understanding of what causes abortions with normal karyotypes. Our goals in this study were to define features useful in distinguishing normal from abnormal karyotype and to identify pathological processes contributing to abortions with a normal karyotype. The study population consisted of 668 well-characterized first-trimester spontaneous abortions derived from a larger study of 1,054 consecutively karyotyped spontaneous abortions. Clinical factors increased in specimens with normal karyotype were maternal age younger than 20 years (P=.0003) and autoimmune markers (P=.0474). Developmental features associated with abnormal karyotype were developmental stage less than 6 weeks (P=.0017), hydropic villi greater than 1 mm (P=.0004), and villi with two or more dysmorphic features (P=.0001). Developmental stage greater than 11.5 weeks was increased with normal karyotype (P=.0001). Histological features increased in specimens with a normal karyotype were chronic intervillositis (P=.0003), increased perivillous fibrin deposition with intermediate trophoblast (P=.0006), decidual plasma cells (P=.0040), deciduitis without plasma cells (P=.0660), and chronic villitis (P=.1581). Overall, 19% of samples with a normal karyotype versus 8% with abnormal karyotype had one or more of these findings (P < .0001). Autoimmune markers, chronic intervillositis, and increased perivillous fibrin with intermediate trophoblast all had positive predictive values greater than 85% for normal karyotype, whereas dysmorphic villi had a positive predictive value of 90% for abnormal karyotype. Patients with recurrent spontaneous abortion and normal karyotype were more likely to have one or more of the histological features listed above (31%) than patients with normal karyotype and no prior abortions (13%) and patients with recurrent abortion and abnormal karyotype (11%).
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- R W Redline
- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Redline RW, Hassold T, Zaragoza M. Determinants of villous trophoblastic hyperplasia in spontaneous abortions. Mod Pathol 1998; 11:762-8. [PMID: 9720505] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The diagnosis of complete and partial mole with its subsequent risk of trophoblastic malignancy relies on histologic criteria that are sometimes seen in nonmolar conceptuses. We performed karyotypic analysis on 1054 spontaneous abortions during a 43-month period. Villous trophoblastic hyperplasia was graded from 0 to 3 in successfully karyotyped cases of complete mole, triploidy, tetraploidy, monosomy X, trisomy, normal 46,XY, and normal 46,XX without contaminating maternal tissues (n = 649). Parental origin of the extra chromosome was analyzed by polymerase chain reaction in 64 trisomic cases. We also evaluated for each case the developmental stage, presence of uniformly hydropic villi, amnion, villous nucleated red blood cells, and fetal tissue. Villous trophoblastic hyperplasia was increased in spontaneous abortions with abnormal karyotype as a group and in the subgroup with trisomy compared with those of a normal karyotype. Hyperplasia and particularly high-grade hyperplasia (Grades 2-3), equivalent in severity to that seen in proliferative partial and complete moles was most frequent in a subgroup of trisomies involving chromosomes 7 (60% hyperplasia, with 30% of high grade), 15 (50% hyperplasia, 15% high grade), 21 (22% hyperplasia, 11% high grade), and 22 (13% hyperplasia, 4% high grade). Frequency of paternal origin for the extra chromosome in these four trisomies was similar in cases with and without hyperplasia There was a nonsignificant increase in female sex chromosomes with hyperplasia in both trisomic and normal conceptuses. Hyperplasia was more common in trisomic abortions of late stage (> 8.5 wk, P = .013), in those that lacked uniformly hydropic villi (P < .001), and in those that lacked fetal tissue (P = .204). This latter phenotype was particularly common with trisomies 15, 21, and 22.
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- R W Redline
- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
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Hassold T, Abruzzo M, Adkins K, Griffin D, Merrill M, Millie E, Saker D, Shen J, Zaragoza M. Human aneuploidy: incidence, origin, and etiology. Environ Mol Mutagen 1996; 28:167-175. [PMID: 8908177 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2280(1996)28:3<167::aid-em2>3.0.co;2-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 262] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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- T Hassold
- Department of Human Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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Toro J, Nicolau R, Cervera M, Castro J, Blecua MJ, Zaragoza M, Toro A. A clinical and phenomenological study of 185 Spanish adolescents with anorexia nervosa. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1995; 4:165-74. [PMID: 8846205 DOI: 10.1007/bf01980455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [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] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The objectives of the present study were the following to determine the socio-familial, academic and interpersonal characteristics specific to anorexia nervosa (AN); to study comorbidity in patients with anorexia and morbidity in their parents; and to ascertain whether patients with anorexia nervosa in Spain are similar to those in other countries. The research team revised the clinical records of 185 Spanish adolescents with AN (aged 11-18 years). The results were compared with those obtained from a group of 185 psychiatric patients without AN matched by sex, age, time of consultation and centre. No significant differences were found with regard to broken home, birth order or parent-patient conflict. The parents of patients with anorexia have a higher standard of education and develop more affective disorders. When compared with other patients, the individuals with anorexia nervosa perform much better academically but are more socially withdrawn. Males with anorexia nervosa perform worse academically than females and have more anxiety diagnoses. Patients with anorexia have a high comorbidity for affective and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Sufferers from anorexia nervosa in Spain are clinically analogous to patients with anorexia in other countries. The two characteristics specific to these patients are a high standard of academic performance and an intense degree of social withdrawal, although there are certain factors common to other pathologies relating to adolescence.
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- J Toro
- Secció de Psiquiatría Infantil i Juvenil, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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Trilla A, Codina C, Salles M, Gatell JM, Zaragoza M, Marco F, Navasa M, Mulet J, Ribas J, Jimenez de Anta MT. A cluster of fever and hypotension on a surgical intensive care unit related to the contamination of plasma expanders by cell wall products of Bacillus stearothermophilus. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 1995; 16:335-9. [PMID: 7657985 DOI: 10.1086/647121] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate an outbreak of fever and hypotension after cardiac surgical procedures and the role of polygeline, a plasma expander. DESIGN Unmatched case-control study. SETTING A six-bed cardiac surgery intensive care unit (SICU) of the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (Spain), a 940-bed public teaching hospital. PATIENTS Eight cases and 25 control patients admitted to the SICU over a 4-week epidemic period. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Development of hypotension (systolic blood pressure < or = 90 mm Hg or a drop of 40 mm Hg from baseline systolic blood pressure) and fever (axillary temperature > 38.5 degrees C) within 24 hours of a cardiac surgical procedure. RESULTS The single risk factor significantly different between cases and controls was the total volume of polygeline used throughout the surgical procedure for extracorporeal circulation: a median of 1,250 mL (mean, 1,312.5 +/- 842.5 mL) in cases versus 500 mL (mean, 566.0 +/- 159.9 mL) in controls (P = .0029). By multiple logistic regression analysis, polygeline use was the single risk factor significantly related to the outcome (odds ratio, 8.75; CI95, 1.36 to 56.2; P = .01). Neither blood cultures from patients nor cultures of the polygeline used yielded growth of any microorganism. Stopping use of the implicated polygeline lot controlled the outbreak. CONCLUSIONS Use of polygeline was associated with an outbreak of fever and hypotension in a SICU. Information from the manufacturer indicated the likelihood of contamination of the product with Bacillus stearothermophilus components. The manufacturer has since changed the production and control processes, and no further adverse events have been seen.
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- A Trilla
- Infection Control Program, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
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Trilla A, Vila J, Zaragoza M, Salles M. Acinetobacter infections, intensive care units, and handwashing. Lancet 1995; 345:123. [PMID: 7880276] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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McCloskey M, Zaragoza M. Misleading postevent information and memory for events: arguments and evidence against memory impairment hypotheses. J Exp Psychol Gen 1985. [PMID: 3156942 DOI: 10.1037//0096-3445.114.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The claim that a person's memory for an event may be altered by information encountered after the event has been influential in shaping current conceptions of memory. The basis for the claim is a series of studies showing that subjects who are given false or misleading information about a previously witnessed event perform more poorly on tests of memory for the event than subjects who are not misled. In this article we argue that the available evidence does not imply that misleading postevent information impairs memory for the original event, because the procedure used in previous studies is inappropriate for assessing effects of misleading information on memory. We then introduce a more appropriate procedure and report six experiments using this procedure. We conclude from the results that misleading postevent information has no effect on memory for the original event. We then review several recent studies that seem to contradict this conclusion, showing that the studies do not pose problems for our position. Finally, we discuss the implications of our conclusions for broader issues concerning memory.
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McCloskey M, Zaragoza M. Misleading postevent information and memory for events: Arguments and evidence against memory impairment hypotheses. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1985; 114:1-16. [PMID: 3156942 DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.114.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 373] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The claim that a person's memory for an event may be altered by information encountered after the event has been influential in shaping current conceptions of memory. The basis for the claim is a series of studies showing that subjects who are given false or misleading information about a previously witnessed event perform more poorly on tests of memory for the event than subjects who are not misled. In this article we argue that the available evidence does not imply that misleading postevent information impairs memory for the original event, because the procedure used in previous studies is inappropriate for assessing effects of misleading information on memory. We then introduce a more appropriate procedure and report six experiments using this procedure. We conclude from the results that misleading postevent information has no effect on memory for the original event. We then review several recent studies that seem to contradict this conclusion, showing that the studies do not pose problems for our position. Finally, we discuss the implications of our conclusions for broader issues concerning memory.
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Del Bosque Ruiz M, Perez Redondo H, Zaragoza M, Zãrate Sandoval H, Del Bosque Santos JR, Tiscareno R, Monroy Izquierdo R. [Pregnancy, labor and puerperium in patients with Starr-Edwards mitral prosthesis]. Arch Inst Cardiol Mex 1972; 42:850-7. [PMID: 4653331] [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: 01/11/2023]
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