PLVI did not predict AFS after intervention for peripheral arterial occlusive disease. This is contrary to the ability of PLVI to predict perioperative and midterm survival after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair and other major abdominal surgery.

Amphiphilic diacetylenes (DAs) can self-assemble into photopolymerizable liposomes that can be used to construct effective pathogen sensors. Here, modified commercial inkjet printers are used to disperse DAs into water, facilitating self-assembly. The liposomes are of similar size, but are significantly less polydisperse than liposomes formed using conventional sonication methods. The process is efficient, readily scalable and tolerant of structural modification. The derivitization of approximately 5% of the DA head groups and the incorporation of fluorophores into the hydrophobic bilayer allows for the preparation of novel multifluorophore PDA sensing systems that can provide enhanced bacterial discrimination in a single experiment by way of a fluorescent fingerprint.

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Capnocytophaga species are fastidious, slowgrowing microorganisms. It is important, therefore, to maintain a high degree of suspicion and alert the microbiology laboratory to increase the likelihood of isolation.• Patients should be cautioned regarding the need for prophylactic antibiotics in the event of an animal bite; asplenic patients are at particular risk for infection.• In patients with severe purpura fulminans and a gangrenous limb, it is important to allow adequate time for demarcation of gangrene and not rush to amputation.