The results show that increasing risk scores were associated with longer postoperative hospital lengths of stay (POS and LOS) and with increased total costs. An age over 74 years appears to be an independent risk factor in increased POS, LOS and total cost. These results may help to estimate the impact of the preoperative risk profile on the resource requirement in CABG surgery.

Excellent long-term graft survival and good graft function can be achieved with triple immunosuppression, even in young CAD kidney recipients.

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We studied the ultrastructural findings in biopsies from the main carina of seven school-aged children who had had chronic cough for at least 3 months and who all had a history of early lower respiratory illness (LRI). They had their first LRI between birth and 7 yr of age (range, 5 to 11 yr). The cross-sectional area of the epithelium was quantified by point counting for the percentage area of intercellular spaces (ICS) denoting edema, and the numbers of both inflammatory cells (leukocytes, including eosinophils, and mast cells) and ciliated cells. The children (excluding the one using inhaled steroids) demonstrated nearly 17- and more than sevenfold increases in the mean area of ICS and number of inflammatory cells per epithelial area, respectively, and a nearly three-fold decrease in the mean number of ciliated cells per epithelial area compared with the biopsy specimens from the orifice of the right upper lobe bronchus of two healthy adults. In the children, the increase in inflammatory cells (greater than 91% were lymphocytes) was more prominent in the children with two LRI before the age of 1 yr. Our findings imply a close association of early LRI and later epithelial inflammation during chronic cough. Allergic mechanisms in the epithelial inflammation cannot be ruled out as six of the patients had, either alone or in combination, signs of atopia, positive family history of allergic rhinitis or asthma, and eosinophils or mast cells in the epithelium.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)