BACKGROUND High tidal volumes in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute lung injury lead to ventilator-induced lung injury and increased mortality. We evaluated the impact of tidal volumes on cardiac surgery outcomes. METHODS We examined prospectively recorded data from 3,434 consecutive adult patients who underwent cardiac surgery. Three groups of patients were defined b...

Effect of exposure to constant light (CL), blinding and olfactory bulbectomy (OBX) on reproduction of adult and weanling female Tatera indica cuvieri was investigated. In adult females, CL induced changes in estrus cyclicity. Weanlings subjected to CL showed reduced ovarian weight. Blinding did not bring about changes in estrus cyclicity and reproductive organ weight (ovary and uterus) of eithe...

solving the dilemma of the organ shortage in malaysia requires educating malaysians about organ donation and transplantation. this paper aims at exploring the average malaysian households ' preferred channels of campaigns and the preferred campaigners in a family setting, targeting at the dialysis family members.we analyzed the responses of 350 respondents regarding organ donation campaigns. th...

Abstract Background and Aims Obesity is an epidemic that complicates global health economies. Surgery for obesity (OS) one effective treatment results in significant weight loss. Patients with chronic organ failure who are obese undergo OS but it unknown whether they achieve similar loss response as patients do not have failure. Method Patient records of cases between May 2016 June 2022 from a ...

In vivo effects of graded dietary levels of arginine on the body and lymphoid organs were investigated using Cornell K strain chickens of the B15/B15 haplotype. Two-week-old birds were fed an arginine-deficient basal diet (0.53% arginine) supplemented with additional arginine (up to 1.0% L-arginine to the diet). At four weeks of age, body weight, lymphoid organ weight, and concentrations of ami...

Seventy-two castrated male four-way composite (Chester White x Landrace x Large White x Yorkshire) weanling pigs (17 kg initial BW) were used to determine the compensatory response of specific organs and whole body following a 3-wk period of restricted energy intake imposed by ad libitum-feeding an 80% alfalfa meal diet or pair-feeding an adequate com-soybean meal diet to attain equal weight lo...