In the present study the feed and water consumption and pharmacokinetic parameters of orally administered oxytetracycline were compared in clinically healthy pigs and in the same pigs following a challenge with Actinobacillus (Haemophilus) pleuropneumoniae toxins. Endobronchial challenge with A. pleuropneumniae toxins was accompanied by anorexia, increased lassitude, labored breathing, fever, a...

Modern therapeutic management of patients with cancer is associated with many adverse side effects, including fatigue defined as weariness, burnout, lassitude, malaise, apathy, impatience, and/or inability to perform daily activities. It occurs frequently before the diagnosis of cancer and may persist for a long time after the end of cancer therapy. It is a common problem that occurs regardless...

When the body temperature of a small neonate falls below 35 degrees C, lassitude can be noted; severe derangements of cardiovascular, renal, hepatic, immunological, and hematological systems may also occur depending in part on the duration and severity of hypothermia. Diagnosis requires a low-reading thermometer, lacking which the diagnosis can be suspected, but most often is missed. Fatal case...

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A 74-year-old woman has visited to our hospital with general lassitude and appetite loss in October 2010. The patient had experienced abdominal pain for the past 2 months and had become aware of insidious weight loss of 5 kg in the last few months. The abdomen was fl at and soft, and bowel sounds were slightly hyperactive. There was no history of serious illnesses, operations...

Severe hypokalemia is a life threatening event, which triggers a number of therapeutic and diagnostic attitudes. In this paper we present a case of 63 years old man, who presented with progressive lassitude, edema, weight loss. The mild hypertension and hyperglycaemia were treated with spironolactone and diet. Initial evaluation showed severe hypokalemia (1.7 mmol/l), hepatomegalia, hyperplasic...

H CONSTRUCTION WORK can be demanding and exhausting. It requires intense focus and physical exertion, the use of heavy mobile equipment and repetitive work tasks, and it is performed adjacent to traffic (NIOSH, 2001). These factors all contribute to the relatively high injury rate in the construction sector (BLS, 2007). Traditionally, roadway construction has been performed during normal, dayti...

Beagle. He certainly was bitten by the vector of Chagas's disease, but there is no certainty that they were infected. The infection can cause myocardial damage and heart failure, megacolon and megaoesophagus, but it is often asymptomatic. Evidence from Darwin's writings and those of some of his relatives indicates that his symptoms were of palpitations, lassitude, headaches, tremulousness, slee...

OBJECTIVE Our purpose is to conduct an epidemiological study of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and its syndrome types and symptoms of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) among adults (20-50 years old) in Hong Kong, and to discuss the TCM pathogenesis. METHODS DESIGN Cross-sectional questionnaire survey. MEASURES Demographic data, CDC (1994) CFS diagnostic criteria, Trudie Chalder fatigue ...

Objective: A 33-year-old man, after substances overdose developed acute respiratory failure. Consequences of this are delirium and bilateral hypoxic damage to globus pallidus in MRI. Forty days after remission, his mental status worsened quickly. Patient showed grossly disorganized thinking and behaviour, severe memory impairment. Neurological examination revealed diffuse hypertonia and brisky ...

OBJECTIVE Etiological evaluation of the patients who were hospitalized with the diagnosis of severe anemia (Hb<7 gr/dl) in the emergency internal medicine clinic between January and July, 2013. METHODS In this study, 112 patients who were hospitalized in Dr. Lutfi Kirdar Kartal Education and Research Hospital emergency internal medicine clinic with severe anemia between January and July 2013 ...