BACKGROUND Mother's own milk is the first choice for feeding preterm infants, but when not available, pasteurized human donor milk (PDM) is often used. Infants fed PDM have difficulties maintaining appropriate growth velocities. To assess the most basic elements of nutrition, we tested the hypotheses that fatty acid and amino acid composition of PDM is highly variable and standard pooling pract...

Recovery of kidney function following an episode of acute kidney injury (AKI) is now acknowledged as a vital patientcentered outcome with clear health economic implications. In approximately 5–8% of critically ill patients with more severe forms of AKI, support with renal replacement therapy (RRT) is provided. Recent data have suggested that rates of RRT utilization in AKI are increasing. Despi...

BACKGROUND We have recently demonstrated that simple ratios of the expression levels of selected genes in tumor samples can be used to distinguish among types of thoracic malignancies. We examined whether this technique could predict treatment-related outcome for patients with mesothelioma. METHODS We used gene expression profiling data previously collected from 17 mesothelioma patients with ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE During surgery of symptomatic aneurysms, additional small angiographic occult aneurysms are commonly found. With 3D rotational angiography (3DRA) small aneurysms are more easily depicted than with digital subtraction angiography (DSA). In this study we compare 3DRA with DSA in the depiction of small additional aneurysms. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three hundred fifty 3D data...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to characterize changes in hemoglobin (HGB) levels after the initiation of androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) in patients with previously untreated, metastatic prostate cancer who were enrolled in a large clinical trial. METHODS The multivariate associations between 3-month change in HGB and baseline characteristics were evaluated with a linear regre...

Background: People who inject drugs (PWID) are disproportionately affected by both HIV and hepatitis C infection (HCV). Awareness of infection status is essential to ensure linkage to appropriate healthcare for those infected, who need treatment and regular follow-up, as well as for uninfected individuals, who need access to targeted testing and counselling services. In this paper we compare se...

This paper is a report on ongoing work in developing automated systems for the partitioning, placement, and routing of data that is necessary for the e cient parallel solution of large problems in scienti c computing, speci cally the numerical solution of partial di erential equations. Many of these problems have as an iterated inner loop the formation of the product of a large sparse matrix an...

BACKGROUND Immune-mediated polyarthopathy (IMPA) is common in dogs, and is monitored by serial arthrocenteses. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES Plasma C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and CXCL8 (interleukin-8) would serve as noninvasive markers of joint inflammation in IMPA. ANIMALS Nine client-owned dogs with idiopathic IMPA; 6 healthy controls. METHODS Prospective study. Plasma CRP,...