Methods and materials Since 1999, 110 patients were admitted for conservative treatment of Scheuermann juvenile kyphosis. The number of out-patient treatments were not accessible. Four patients (4% of hospitalized patients) underwent surgical treatment. The age of surgery was 16, 16, 17, and 18 years respectively. The sagittal thoracic T4-T12 Cobb angle was 80°, 85°, 80°, and 100° respectively....

background: in recent years, many studies have been conducted on finding a suitable replacement for fish meal to supply the needs of aquaculture feed industry. objectives: the present study was performed to examine the effect of replacing fish meal and fish oil with plant sources on bacterial counts in intestinal contents and mucus and bacterial composition in beluga sturgeon. methods: beluga s...

this study investigated the inhibitory effects of bacillus licheniformis on g1 and g2 aflatoxins in culture media and kilka fish meal. two concentrations of aflatoxins (8 and 12 ppb for g1 and g2) and (2 and 4 ml from aflatoxins standard per 50g of fish meal) were used in culture media and kilka fish meal respectively. the doses of bacillus were 3 and 4% for this experiment. changes of aflatoxi...

Introduction Central venous catheterization (CVC) is a commonly performed procedure in critically ill patients of emergency department. This study was designed to compare the diagnostic accuracy of saline flush with CXR in confirmation of above-the-diaphragm CVC placement. Methods This prospective cross sectional study was conducted on adult patients in need of CVC placement in emergency depa...

By using strong optical injection locking, we report resonance frequency enhancement in excess of 100 GHz in semiconductor lasers. We demonstrate this enhancement in both distributed feedback (DFB) lasers and vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), showing the broad applicability of the technique and that the coupling Q is the figure-of-merit for resonance frequency enhancement. We ha...

effect of different planting ratios of oat (avena sativa l.) and vetch (vicia sativa l.) was assessed on quality and quantity of forage and silage in an intercropping system as completely randomized block design (rcbd) with four replications. the treatments were different planting ratios of oat and vetch including 0:100, 20:80, 40:60, 50:50, 60:40, 80:20 and 100:0 (oat-vetch) formed as replacem...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the image quality and diagnostic accuracy of very low-dose, dual-source computed tomography (DSCT) angiography for the evaluation of coronary stents. BACKGROUND Iterative reconstruction (IR) leads to substantial reduction of image noise and hence permits the use of very low-dose data acquisition protocols in coronary computed tomography ang...

OBJECTIVES To examine the safety and efficacy of ombitasvir and ABT-450 with ritonavir (ABT-450/r) ± ribavirin (RBV) in treatment-naïve, non-cirrhotic adults with chronic HCV genotype 1-3 infection. METHODS Patients in this open-label, exploratory, phase 2, multicenter study received ombitasvir (25 mg QD) and ABT-450/r (200/100 mg QD) ± RBV for 12 weeks. Primary efficacy endpoint was HCV RNA ...