Biomedical subjects

M Resano

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PubMed2002

Determination of platinum and rhodium in environmental matrixes by solid sampling-electrothermal vaporization-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.

Electrothermal vaporization from a graphite furnace was used in combination with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS) for the determination of Pt and Rh in environmental matrixes. Solid samples of tunnel dust, grass, and atmospheric aerosol collected on a cellulose filter could be analyzed directly, such that sample dissolution-which is not self-evident for the determination of platinum group metals-could be avoided. By heating the graphite furnace according to a multistep temperature program, spectral interferences were avoided, since a "dry" plasma was obtained, while "parent" ions such as Cu, Zn, and Pb, giving origin to interfering molecular ions, were vaporized during the thermal pretreatment step. For tunnel dust, the most demanding sample matrix, a mixture of HCl and HF was used as a modifier to stimulate the vaporization of matrix components during the thermal pretreatment step and, hence, to alleviate matrix-induced analyte signal suppression during the actual vaporization step. Calibration was accomplished by means of single standard addition with an aqueous standard solution. The results obtained agreed within the experimental uncertainty with the corresponding reference values (certified values or results obtained using pneumatic nebulization ICPMS), while relative standard deviations of < or = 15% were typical for both Pt and Rh. In all samples, a Pt/Rh ratio of approximately 6-8 was established. For a typical sample mass of 2 mg, limits of detection were 0.35 ng/g for Pt and 0.05 ng/g for Rh.

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PubMed2002

Direct determination of methylmercury and inorganic mercury in biological materials by solid sampling-electrothermal vaporization-inductively coupled plasma-isotope dilution-mass spectrometry.

This paper reports on the use of solid sampling-electrothermal vaporization-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (SS-EIV-ICPMS) for the direct and simultaneous determination of methylmercury and inorganic mercury in biological materials. The main advantage of this fast and sensitive method is that no sample preparation is required. In this way, the sample throughput can be considerably increased, problems of contamination and analyte losses are kept to a minimum and, even more important, the original chemical form of the different analyte species in the solid samples is preserved. To achieve this goal, a solid sample is inserted into a graphite furnace of the boat-in-tube type and is subsequently submitted to an appropriate temperature program, leading to the separate vaporization of methylmercury and inorganic mercury, which are transported into the ICP by means of an argon carrier gas. The separation was accomplished within 75 s. For the quantification of the two peaks, species-unspecific isotope dilution was used. For this purpose, a stable flow of argon loaded with gaseous Hg isotopically enriched in 200Hg was generated using a permeation tube that was constructed in-house. Its emission rate was determined by collecting the mercury released during a given time interval on a gold-coated silica absorber, after which the amount collected was released by heating of the absorber and determined by cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry (CVAAS) and cold vapor atomic fluorescence spectrometry (CVAFS). A reference material from the Canadian National Research Council (NRC) (TORT-2) was used to assess the accuracy of the method. For the application of the method to samples with diverse mercury contents, the spike/sample ratio can be optimized by varying the emission rate of the permeation tube simply by adapting its temperature. To prove the feasibility of this approach, two reference materials (BCR 463 and DORM-2) with a methylmercury content more than 10 times higher than that of TORT-2 were also analyzed. The detection limits obtained for 1 mg of sample (2 ng g(-1) and 6 ng g(-1) for methylmercury and inorganic mercury, respectively) were found to be sufficiently low for this kind of application and are competitive when compared to other techniques.

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PubMed2000

Multielement analysis of polyethylene using solid sampling electrothermal vaporization ICP mass spectrometry

Next to laser ablation (LA) also electrothermal vaporization (ETV) from a graphite furnace as a means of sample introduction opens possibilities for direct analysis of solid samples using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS). In this paper, it is demonstrated that solid sampling ETV-ICPMS is very well suited for the determination of metal traces in polyethylene. A limited multielement capability is often cited as an important drawback of ETV-ICPMS. However, by studying the effect of monitoring an increasing number of mass-to-charge ratios on the signal profile (integrated signal intensity and repeatability) of selected analyte elements, the multielement capability of (solid sampling) ETV-ICPMS was systematically evaluated, and the results obtained suggest that, with a quadrupole-based ICPMS instrument, at least 11 elements can be determined "simultaneously" (from the same vaporization step), in essence without compromising the sensitivity or the precision of the results obtained. In this work, the "simultaneous" determination of Al, Ba, Cd, Cu, Mn, Pb, and Ti in a polyethylene candidate reference material has been accomplished, despite the large variation in analyte concentration (from 5 ng/g for Mn to 500 microg/g for Ti) and in furnace behavior (volatility) they exhibit. To avoid premature losses of Cd during thermal pretreatment of the samples, Pd was used as a chemical modifier. Two different calibration methods--external calibration using an aqueous standard solution and single standard addition--were studied and the results obtained were compared with those obtained using neutron activation analysis (NAA) and/or with the corresponding (candidate) certified values (if available). Single standard addition was shown to be preferable (average deviation between ICPMS result and reference value < 3%), although--except for Ba--acceptable results could also be obtained with external calibration.

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PubMed1983

Severe renovascular hypertension in a recipient of renal transplant: an indication for nephrectomy?

A 28-year-old patient receiving a kidney transplant from a 2-year-old cadaver kidney donor is described. The patient developed hypertension in the posttransplant period due to renal arterial stenosis. The hypertension was unresponsive to oral therapy after several unsuccessful attempts to correct the stenosis, nephrectomy of the transplanted kidney was performed resulting in the control of the hypertension.

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PubMed1983

Leucopenia, hypoxia and complement activation in haemodialysis. Three unrelated phenomena.

Acute, transient leucopenia occurs in uraemic patients during the first minutes of haemodialysis, haemofiltration and ultrafiltration, and this leucopenia depends on the membrane used: maximal with cuprophan, less marked using cellulose acetate in haemofiltration and minimal with polyacrylonitrile. Complement activation was noted in all dialysis procedures except ultrafiltration. However, no correlation was found between the intensity of the complement activation and the degree of leucopenia. Significant hypoxia only appeared in haemodialysis using an acetate bath even with the polyacrylonitrile membrane. Sequential ultrafiltration-dialysis studies clearly demonstrate that leucopenia and hypoxia are unrelated effects of haemodialysis. Leucopenia depends on the membrane used and hypoxia may be related to the use of an acetate dialysate. In addition, the presence of dialysis fluid was necessary for membrane-induced complement activation suggesting an important influence of the dialysate on membrane biocompatibility.

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PubMed1982