致命败血性休克新疗法或拯救百万生命
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2015年(十月)
New Deadly Septic Shock Treatment Could Save Millions 致命败血性休克新疗法或拯救百万生命
Sepsis is a leading cause of death worldwide. But many people have never heard of it. In the United States, one million people develop sepsis annually 1, and up to half of them die from it. And in the developing world, it is responsible for up to 80 percent of deaths each year, with women and children hit especially hard.
Sepsis can be triggered by pneumonia 2, surgery, even childbirth. Symptoms include fever, increased breathing, and confusion. The body’s defense 3 system goes out of control, causing widespread inflammation, organ failure and septic shock, where blood pressure drops to a dangerously low level.
But now a new, innovative 4 treatment for sepsis may save many lives.
Scientists at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute are working on a new dialysis system that cleans the blood of poisonous pathogens before they trigger that deadly inflammatory response.
"The current standard of therapy is to give antibiotics 5 and fluids,” said senior scientist, Mike Super. “But what we are talking about here is treatment for sepsis.”
The researchers are filtering blood through a tube with tiny mesh 6 fibers 7 coated with an engineered protein called fcMBL. "They bind 8 to the cell wall of bacteria, of fungi 9, of many viruses and many parasites 10 and they bind to toxins 11 as well,” Super explained.
He further described the procedure saying: "We’re coating the inside of the tubes with that protein and we are running the infected blood from the patient through that, through the filter and binding 12, absorbing, capturing the pathogens that are in that blood, so that the blood that is going back to the patient after the dialysis is cleansed 13.”
In a trial phase using rats, the dialysis treatment was more than 99 percent effective in filtering out deadly bacteria. The research team anticipates beginning human trials soon, in hopes of saving millions of lives around the world.
- Many migratory birds visit this lake annually.许多候鸟每年到这个湖上作短期逗留。
- They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。
- Cage was struck with pneumonia in her youth.凯奇年轻时得过肺炎。
- Pneumonia carried him off last week.肺炎上星期夺去了他的生命。
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- Discover an innovative way of marketing.发现一个创新的营销方式。
- He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。
- the discovery of antibiotics in the 20th century 20世纪抗生素的发现
- The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics. 医生给我开了抗生素。
- Their characters just don't mesh.他们的性格就是合不来。
- This is the net having half inch mesh.这是有半英寸网眼的网。
- Thesolution of collagen-PVA was wet spined with the sodium sulfate as coagulant and collagen-PVA composite fibers were prepared. 在此基础上，以硫酸钠为凝固剂，对胶原-PVA共混溶液进行湿法纺丝，制备了胶原-PVA复合纤维。
- Sympathetic fibers are distributed to all regions of the heart. 交感神经纤维分布于心脏的所有部分。
- I will let the waiter bind up the parcel for you.我让服务生帮你把包裹包起来。
- He wants a shirt that does not bind him.他要一件不使他觉得过紧的衬衫。
- Students practice to apply the study of genetics to multicellular plants and fungi.学生们练习把基因学应用到多细胞植物和真菌中。
- The lawn was covered with fungi.草地上到处都是蘑菇。
- These symptoms may be referable to virus infection rather than parasites. 这些症状也许是由病毒感染引起的，而与寄生虫无关。
- Kangaroos harbor a vast range of parasites. 袋鼠身上有各种各样的寄生虫。
- The seas have been used as a receptacle for a range of industrial toxins. 海洋成了各种有毒工业废料的大容器。
- Most toxins are naturally excreted from the body. 大部分毒素被自然排出体外。 来自《简明英汉词典》