screening interval urinalysis has long been considered essential to pediatric health care. a urinalysis is recommended at four times: in infancy, early childhood, late childhood, and in adolescence. several chemical parameters can be measured as commercially available in dipstick test. this test is relatively inexpensive and it takes less than 5 minutes to be completed. in a 3 month follow up p...

the aim of the present studyis radiographic evaluation of urinary system and the effect of urografin on clinical parameters, urinalysis and renal function tests in sheep. six clinically healthy female sheep were selected for this study.before experiment, vital signs were recorded. blood and urine samples were collected prior to the trials and paraclinical examinations were performed. urine samp...

BACKGROUND Rutin, a polyphenolic flavonoid, was investigated for its protective effects against the KBrO(3) induced renal injuries in rat. METHODS Group I was control (untreated), group II was given saline 0.5 ml/kg bw (0.9% NaCl), group III was administered KBrO(3) (20 mg/kg bw) intragastric twice a week for four weeks. Rutin was administered to group VI (50 mg/kg bw) and Group V (70 mg/kg b...

Stercobilin was first isolated from feces in 1932 (l), and it was soon observed to differ from the crystalline urobilin prepared from mesobilirubinogen (2, 3). This urobilin is optically inactive, hence designated as i-urobilin, in contrast to stercobilin, which was shown by Fischer, Halbach, and Stern, (4, 5) to be levorotatory. Fischer and Halbach also demonstrated a formal relationship of I-...

Considerations regarding the etiology of hemolytic jaundice are inextricably bound up with the presence of spherocytosis and the associated increase in hypotonic saline fragility, and the effect of splenectomy in the amelioration of this disorder. Although many different opinions are advanced regarding the etiology of the disease, the outstanding ones are those postulating a faulty bone marrow ...

The work presented in this paper has been prompted by the dearth of material on the subject. In a preliminary report of 18 cases by Hurst, Maier and ‘Lough’ the following observations have been made: That in a study of far advanced pulmonary tuberculosis using Hanger’s cephalin cholesterol flocculation test, the Hippuric acid synthesis and the 5 mg. serial Bromsulphaleln test as tests of hepati...

A girl aged 14 years was first seen at a local hospital on August 5, 1961. She had been ill for about 4 days with pyrexia, pallor, jaundice, and pain in the splenic region. She had had recurrent attacks of a similar nature since the age of 6 years. The spleen was enlarged reaching about two fingers below the costal margin, and there was a number of palpable shotty glands in the neck and groins....

AIM To study the cholestatic forms of viral hepatitis A that are described as unusual and very rare, but that are of great significance because of their severe course and high morbidity rate. MATERIAL AND METHODS We describe herein 17 cases of hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection with pronounced cholestasis treated in the Clinic of Infectious Diseases at St. George University Hospital between 20...

Point of Care Testing (POCT) improves clinical process outcome. It has the potential to reduce errors and the wastage of resources. There is a significant amount of information obtained through the examination of urine. The routine urinalysis consists of two major components: physiochemical determination and microscopic examination of urine sediment. The physiochemical determination includes th...

Jaundice, varying from a slight icteric tinting of the sclerae to a pronounced generalized pigmentation of the skin and mucous membranes is not infrequently encountered during the course of lobar pneumonia. Further, if examined for carefully, the presence of urobilin and urobilinogen in the urine is found to be practically constant during the acute febrile period of the disease. Both jaundice a...