Abstract: The present invention includes methods of treating acute myocardial infarction in a subject, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a non-proteolytically activated thrombin receptor agonist.

Abstract: A patient interface device provides a single coil having two generally opposed flange regions which generate a large area, uniform magnetic field. The coil includes a magnetic field sensor for determining the magnetic field intensity between the flanges. The wire windings in the flanges may be distributed in various cross-sectional profiles.

Abstract: The use of a pulsatile flow blood pump in a hemodialysis system is disclosed. In comparison to the customary steady flow blood pump of the prior art, the pulsatile flow blood pump clears urea, a low molecular weight molecule, from the bood approximately three times as fast as does the steady flow roller pump commonly used on a worldwide basis for hemodialysis. Large molecules, such as vitamin B.sub.12 are also cleared more rapidly by the pulsatile flow pump, but less rapidly than the smaller molecules. Total time of dialysis is reduced and the results obtained by using the pulsatile flow blood pump are more physiologic, in that the more harmful molecules, urea, are selectively cleared more rapidly while the larger more desirable molecules, vitamin B.sub.12, are retained.