Are allergic airway diseases in a tropical urban environment driven by dominant mono-specific sensitization against house dust mites?
In a tropical urban environment, the allergic response is dominated by a single allergen class. The mono-specific IgE sensitization against HDM translates into increased prevalence of allergic airway diseases, which now impact a large proportion of the population in Singapore.
Retrograde continuous normothermic blood cardioplegic perfusion does not provide better protection to ischemic areas of the ventricles than does antegrade continuous normothermic blood cardioplegic perfusion under our experimental conditions.