Esophageal varices ruptured in three patients and one patient died from liver failure within one year of RFA therapy, so they were also excluded.
Among the new threats that were cited in the assessment, dated March 26, are the mounting stresses placed on the containment structures as they fill with radioactive cooling water, making them more vulnerable to rupture in one of the aftershocks rattling the site after the earthquake and tsunami of March 11.
WASHINGTON — The natural gas pipeline that ruptured in September, killing eight people and burning dozens of houses in a suburb south of San Francisco, may have had a badly welded seam in a stretch of pipe that was supposed to be seamless, federal investigators said Tuesday.
Doctors ask families to bring their own fuel to run generators during surgeries, or simply turn patients away, as they did to Jackson Jada Patrick, who brought his pregnant wife, Lorna Poni, for an emergency C-section after her uterus ruptured in their home village, three hours' drive away.
Those who want Enbridge to repair, replace or remove the pipeline have a powerful example of what could go wrong: A newer Enbridge pipeline ruptured in 2010, spilling 1 million gallons of heavy crude oil into the Kalamazoo River -- the largest and most expensive onshore oil spill in U.S. history.
Relations between Communist China and the Soviet Union ruptured in the 1960s, and the two giants fought a brief border conflict in 1969.
Thus, the stability of the H-bond network would be less influenced if one H-bond ruptured in ABT538 bound complex in comparison with the cyclic urea inhibitor bound complexes.
Secondary conversions were performed for rupture in six and for a persistent endoleak, with or without aneurysmal growth, in five patients.
A search of PubMed using the keywords "thoracoscopy," "laparoscopy," and "Boerhaave's syndrome" revealed that camera-assisted operations have been performed for spontaneous esophageal rupture in seven cases [14 20], and simple suture closure of the perforated site under thoracoscopy or laparoscopy was carried out in six of these cases [14 18, 20].
Just 10 days before the accident, Enbridge Inc., which operates the Michigan pipeline, told federal regulators it could remotely detect and shut down a rupture in eight minutes.
