The peritoneum has an area approximately that of the glomerular capillaries or of the twin-coil artificial kidney. Its behavior as an inert, semipermeable membrane and the use of "idealized ...

The risk of S. aureus exit-site infections can be reduced by implementing a protocol to diminish colonization of the nares or the peritoneal catheter exit site. 6,7,8 In a randomized, controlled ...

The Wistar Institute's Nan Zhang, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center's Molecular and ...

2). Through the translucent stretched abdominal wall, we saw a large volume of reddish-brown peritoneal fluid. Before entering the abdominal cavity, we withdrew 35 ml of fluid by syringe.

Wistar Institute scientists have discovered a new approach to treating ovarian cancer that, in preclinical laboratory testing, shrinks tumors and improves survival rates while simultaneously making ...