I N RECENT YEARS, there has been much progress in the study of body water and its sub-divisions, and yet, little attention has been given to fluid within the lumen of the gut and its possible significance in body water measurements. The very facts that, a) flow of water across the gut-wall is bi-directional (I), b) that labeled water placed within the gut rapidly reaches equilibrium with other ...

background: emergence of antimicrobial resistance toward a number of conventional antibiotics has triggered the search for antimicrobial agents from a variety of sources including the marine environment. objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial potential of holothuria leucospilota from qeshm and kharg islands against some selected bacteria and fungi. materials and met...

The definitive diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis is made by a positive body fluid culture result. Conventional culture methods require centrifugation or filtration of body fluid (peritoneal, pleural, synovial, or pericardial fluid) in order to improve the sensitivity. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the feasibility of the direct inoculation, at the patient's bedside, of up t...

BACKGROUND/AIM Fluid volume overload occurs in chronic kidney disease (CKD), leading to the compensatory release of natriuretic peptides. However, the elevated cardiac peptides may also be associated with malnutrition as well as volume overload. METHODS Body fluid composition was measured in 147 patients with CKD between 2009 and 2015, and its relationship to brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) l...

BACKGROUND Technically assisted assessment of volume status before surgery may be useful to direct intraoperative fluid administration. We therefore tested a recently developed whole-body bioimpedance spectroscopy device to determine pre- to postoperative fluid distribution. METHODS Using a three-compartment physiologic tissue model, the body composition monitor (BCM, Fresenius Medical Care, ...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to test if intravenous (IV) fluids warmed to body temperature are associated with greater patient comfort than room temperature IV fluids in adult emergency department (ED) patients. METHODS This was a pilot double-blind, crossover, randomized controlled trial. Enrolled subjects sequentially received boluses of body temperature (36°C) and room temper...

Total body water (TBW) is consistently 70% of the lean body weight across age and sex ranges but varies as a percentage of actual bodyweight between groups and individuals owing to varied deposition of adipose tissue, which contains less water than muscle. TBW is 75% of total body weight in neonates, 70% in infants and 45% in the elderly. The average adult male (70 kg) has 60% of total body wei...

To investigate the possible role of body fluid volume or the renin-angiotensin system in the maintenance of high blood pressure in chronic one-kidney, one clip (1K1C) hypertension, we studied whether blood pressure remained high after removal of the clip while the body fluid volume was kept constant or when angiotensin II (Ang II) was infused in conscious 1K1C rats. Blood pressure fell 58 +/- 1...

This is a report of 3 cases of body fluid containing numerous cholesterol crystals that caused falsely elevated cell counts on an automated cell counter. Two of the cases were pleural effusion fluid from patients with long-standing rheumatoid arthritis. Fluid in the third case was from upper extremity cystic lesions of a patient with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Microscopic exa...