165 research outputs found
Cardiac arrest and COVID-19: inflammation, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, and the destabilization of non-significant coronary artery disease-a case report.
The new β-coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) appears to exhibit cardiovascular pathogenicity through use of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) for cell entry and the development of a major systemic inflammation. Furthermore, cardiovascular comorbidities increase susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection and the development of a severe form of COronaVIrus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
We describe the case of a COVID-19 patient whose inaugural presentation was a refractory cardiac arrest secondary to the destabilization of known, non-significant coronary artery disease. Patient was supported by venoarterial extracorporeal life support. After 12 h of support, cardiac function remained stable on low vasopressor support but the patient remained in a coma and brainstem death was diagnosed.
Myocardial injury is frequently seen among critically unwell COVID-19 patients and increases the risk of mortality. This case illustrates several potential mechanisms that are thought to drive the cardiac complications seen in COVID-19. We present the potential role of inflammation and ACE2 in the pathophysiology of COVID-19
Electronic Raman scattering and photoluminescence from LaSrMnO exhibiting giant magnetoresistance
Raman and Photoluminescence (PL) experiments on correlated metallic
LaSrMnO have been carried out using different excitation
wavelengths as a function of temperature from 15 K to 300 K. Our data suggest a
Raman mode centered at 1800 cm and a PL band at 2.2 eV. The intensities
of the two peaks decrease with increasing temperature. The Raman mode can be
attributed to a plasmon excitation whose frequency and linewidths are
consistent with the measured resistivities. The PL involves intersite
electronic transitions of the manganese ions.Comment: 10 pages + 4 eps figures, Revtex 3.0, figures available on reques
Instability of metal-insulator transition against thermal cycling in phase separated Cr-doped manganites
We show that metal-insulator transition in Pr0.5Ca0.5Mn1-xCrxO3 (x =
0.015-0.025) is unstable against thermal cycling. Insulator-metal transition
shifts down and low temperature resistivity increases each time when the sample
is cycled between a starting temperature TS and a final temperature TF. The
effect is dramatic lower is x. Insulator-metal transition in x = 0.015 can be
completely destroyed by thermal cycling in absence of magnetic field as well as
under H = 2 T. Magnetic measurements suggest that ferromagnetic phase fraction
decreases with thermal cycling. We suggest that increase in strains in
ferromagnetic- charge ordered interface could be a possible origin of the
observed effect.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures and 2 tables (revised
Spin-State Transition and Metal-Insulator Transition in LaEuCoO}
We present a study of the structure, the electric resistivity, the magnetic
susceptibility, and the thermal expansion of LaEuCoO. LaCoO
shows a temperature-induced spin-state transition around 100 K and a
metal-insulator transition around 500 K. Partial substitution of La by
the smaller Eu causes chemical pressure and leads to a drastic increase
of the spin gap from about 190 K in LaCoO to about 2000 K in EuCoO, so
that the spin-state transition is shifted to much higher temperatures. A
combined analysis of thermal expansion and susceptibility gives evidence that
the spin-state transition has to be attributed to a population of an
intermediate-spin state with orbital order for and without orbital
order for larger . In contrast to the spin-state transition, the
metal-insulator transition is shifted only moderately to higher temperatures
with increasing Eu content, showing that the metal-insulator transition occurs
independently from the spin-state distribution of the Co ions. Around
the metal-insulator transition the magnetic susceptibility shows a similar
increase for all and approaches a doping-independent value around 1000 K
indicating that well above the metal-insulator transition the same spin state
is approached for all .Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
Ferromagnetic to spin glass cross over in (La,Tb)_{2/3}Ca_{1/3}MnO_{3}
In the series La_{2/3-x}Tb_{x}Ca_{1/3}MnO_{3}, it is known that the
compositions are ferromagnetic for smaller values of x and show spin glass
characteristics at larger values of x. Our studies on the magnetic properties
of various compositions in the La_{2/3-x}Tb_{x}Ca_{1/3}MnO_{3} series show that
the cross over from ferromagnetic to spin glass region takes place above x ~
1/8. Also, a low temperature anomaly at 30 K, observed in the ac susceptibility
curves, disappears for compositions above this critical value of x. A mixed
phase region coexists in the narrow compositional range 0.1 <= x <= 0.125,
indicating that the ferromagnetic to spin glass cross over is not abrupt.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Estimation of the charge carrier localization length from Gaussian fluctuations in the magneto-thermopower of La_{0.6}Y_{0.1}Ca_{0.3}MnO_3
The magneto-thermoelectric power (TEP) of perovskite type
manganise oxide is found to exhibit a sharp peak
at some temperature . By approximating the true shape of the
measured magneto-TEP in the vicinity of by a linear triangle of the
form , we observe that . We adopt the electron localization scenario and
introduce a Ginzburg-Landau (GL) type theory which incorporates the two
concurrent phase transitions, viz., the paramagnetic-ferromagnetic transition
at the Curie point and the "metal-insulator" (M-I) transition at
. The latter is characterized by the divergence of the field-dependent
charge carrier localization length at some characteristic field
. Calculating the average and fluctuation contributions to the total
magnetization and the transport entropy related magneto-TEP
within the GL theory, we obtain a simple relationship between and the
above two critical temperatures ( and ). The observed slope
ratio is found to be governed by the competition between
the electron-spin exchange and the induced magnetic energy . The
comparison of our data with the model predictions produce ,
, , , and for the estimates of
the Curie temperature, the exchange coupling constant, the critical
magnetization, the localization length, and the free-to-localized carrier
number density ratio, respectively.Comment: 6 pages (REVTEX), 2 PS figures (epsf.sty); submitted to Phys.Rev.
Pre-K-Edge Structure on Anomalous X-Ray Scattering in LaMnO3
We study the pre-K-edge structure of the resonant X-ray scattering for
forbidden reflections (anomalous scattering) in LaMnO3, using the band
calculation based on the local density approximation. We find a two-peak
structure with an intensity approximately 1/100 of that of the main peak. This
originates from a mixing of 4p states of Mn to 3d states of neighboring Mn
sites. The effect is enhanced by an interference with the tail of the main
peak. The effect of the quadrupole transition is found to be one order of
magnitude smaller than that of the dipole transition, modifying slightly the
azimuthal-angle dependence.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jp
A-site Randomness Effect on Structural and Physical Properties of Ba-based Perovskite Manganites
The discovery of novel structural and physical properties in the -site
ordered manganite BaMnO ( = Y and rare earth elements) has
demanded new comprehension about perovskite manganese oxides. In the present
study, the -site disordered form, BaMnO, has been
investigated and compared with both BaMnO and
MnO (: Sr, Ca) in the structures and electromagnetic
properties. BaMnO has a primitive cubic perovskite cell
in the structure and magnetic glassy states are dominant as its ground state,
in contrast to the ordinary disordered MnO (: Sr, Ca).
In Pr-compounds with various degrees of Pr/Ba randomness at the -sites, the
-site disorder gradually suppresses both ferromagnetic and A-type
antiferromagnetic transitions and finally leads to a magnetic glassy state in
PrBaMnO. A peculiar behavior, multi-step magnetization
and resistivity change, has been observed in PrBaMnO.
These properties could be closely related to any spatial heterogeneity caused
by the random distribution of Ba and with much different
ionic radius.Comment: 9 pages, to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 73 Aug. (2004
Re-entrant spin glass and magnetoresistance in Co_{0.2}Zn_{0.8}Fe_{1.6}Ti_{0.4}O_4 spinel oxide
We have investigated the static and dynamic response of magnetic clusters in
Co_{0.2}Zn_{0.8}Fe_{1.6}Ti_{0.4}O_4 spinel oxide, where a sequence of magnetic
phase transitions, i.e., paramagnetic (PM) to ferromagnetic at T_{C}
270K and ferromagnetic to canted spin glass state at T_f\leq$ 125K is
observed
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