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Lactate levels and risk of lactic acidosis with metformin in diabetic kidney disease patients.

Metformin as an oral antidiabetic drug (OAD) is not recommended in renal failure due to the presumed risk of lactic acidosis though it has advantages in cardiovascular protection with a low risk of hypoglycemia. Few studies have measured lactic acid blood levels in patients with diabetic kidney disease on metformin and demonstrated lactic acidosis. The aim of our study is to see if patients with d...

Jan 1 2017 29265047

Development of Tolerance to Chronic Intermittent Furosemide Therapy in Pediatric Patients.

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to describe whether tolerance develops in pediatric patients receiving chronic intermittent furosemide therapy, to characterize when it occurs and whether age-related variations exist. The effects of increasing total daily dose of furosemide and concurrent diuretics and vasopressors were assessed as secondary aims.

Jan 1 2017 29290738
Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Prolonged Infusion Aztreonam for Multi-Drug Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa: A Case Report.

Aztreonam, a broad-spectrum monobactam, is typically reserved for multidrug resistant (MDR) infections. Pharmacokinetic (PK) data to guide dosing in c...

Jan 1 2017 29290748
Threshold of Dopamine D2/3 Receptor Occupancy for Hyperprolactinemia in Older Patients With Schizophrenia.

OBJECTIVE: Although hyperprolactinemia carries a long-term risk of morbidity, the threshold of dopamine D2/3 receptor (D2/3R) occupancy for hyperprola...

Dec 1 2016 28086010
Rare Manifestation of Digoxin Toxicity: Right Bundle Branch Block.

A 76-year-old female, with medical history significant for systolic congestive heart failure, who presented to the emergency department with lethargy ...

Dec 1 2016 28104974
[Young women with HIV infection acquired by vertical transmission: Expectations of having uninfected children].

INTRODUCTION: Pediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART), changed the prognosis of the disease, allowing young women infected by vertical transmission (TV...

Dec 1 2016 28146189
[Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis].

AIM OF STUDY: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is the most frequent infectious complication of liver cirrhosis with serious consequences. Initi...

Dec 1 2016 28147426
Cell Free DNA and Procalcitonin as Early Markers of Complications in ICU Patients with Multiple Trauma and Major Surgery.

BACKGROUND: Cell free DNA (cfDNA) was recently suggested as a new marker of sepsis and poor outcome in ICU patients. Procalcitonin has also been the f...

Dec 1 2016 28164563
Microbiological contamination in digital radiography: evaluation at the radiology clinic of an educational institution.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the contamination rate of intra and extraoral digital X ray equipment in a dental radiology clinic at a public e...

Dec 1 2016 28383604
[Clinical analysis of Cervus and Cucumis Polypeptide injection based on real world hospital information system].

To analyze the clinical application of Cervus and Cucumis Polypeptide injection in the real world, in order to define the characteristics of clinical ...

Nov 1 2016 28929696
Association of ATP-Binding Cassette Transporter (ABC) Gene Polymorphisms with Viral Load in Patients with Genotype 1 Hepatitis C Virus Infection.

BACKGROUND: ATP-binding cassette transporters (ABC) gene polymorphisms are associated with various biological functions, including hepatitis C virus (...

Sep 1 2016 28164591
Level of adrenomedullin in cases with adrenal defficiency and its relation to mortality in patients with sepsis.

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to determine the prognostic value of adrenomedullin, after evaluation of adrenal function in sepsis patients. ...

Sep 1 2016 28393725
Fermentation, isolation, purification and characterization of an antitubercular antibiotic from Streptomyces luridus MTCC 4402.

Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, continues to be a serious public health problem around the world, and it urges the need for develo...

Sep 1 2016 28699723
Complementary sensors for rapid and sensitive detection of wound bacteria.

Dual sensors for timely wound bacterial infection detection through the measurement of pH and bacterial cell attachment were developed. A high sensiti...

Aug 1 2016 28268698
[Prediction of schistosomiasis infection rates of population based on ARIMA-NARNN model].

OBJECTIVE: To explore the effect of the autoregressive integrated moving average model-nonlinear auto-regressive neural network (ARIMA-NARNN) model on...

Jul 12 2016 29469251
Combining Dopaminergic Facilitation with Robot-Assisted Upper Limb Therapy in Stroke Survivors: A Focused Review.

Despite aggressive conventional therapy, lasting hemiplegia persists in a large percentage of stroke survivors. The aim of this article is to critical...

Jun 1 2016 26829074
Comparison of aglycon and glycosidic saponin extracts of tuber against spp.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Candidiasis, an important fungal infection, is considered the fourth most common nosocomial blood stream infection. Nowadays, ...

Jun 1 2016 28681019
Goal-Directed Decision Making with Spiking Neurons.

UNLABELLED: Behavioral and neuroscientific data on reward-based decision making point to a fundamental distinction between habitual and goal-directed ...

Feb 3 2016 26843636
Automated Transformation of openEHR Data Instances to OWL.

Standard-based integration and semantic enrichment of clinical data originating from electronic medical records has shown to be critical to enable sec...

Jan 1 2016 27139386
Interleukin-6 and interleukin-8 in diagnosing neonatal septicemia.

Neonatal septicemia (NS) is a common cause of death of newborn infants, hence early diagnosis and treatment are of the utmost importance. However, lac...

Jan 1 2016 28078861
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