"AIR EMBOLISM DURING FONTAN OPERATION"

"Air embolism during fontan operation"

In patients with a right to left intracardiac shunt, air embolism results in an obligatory systemic read more embolization.Nonembolization of entrained air is described in a child with a single ventricle physiology who had earlier undergone bidirectional Glenn shunt construction and Damus-Kaye-Stansel anastomosis.The air entrainment was detected by

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Relatedness, conflict, and the evolution of eusociality.

The evolution of sterile worker castes in eusocial insects was a major problem in evolutionary theory until Hamilton developed a method called inclusive fitness.He used it to show that sterile castes could evolve via kin selection, in which a gene for altruistic sterility is favored when the altruism sufficiently benefits relatives carrying the gen

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