Two studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of increasing dietary lysine and energy density on performance of Genetiporc nursery pigs. Experiment 1 was organized as a combination of two simultaneous experiments with one set of diets consisting of five treatments with increasing true ileal digestible (TID) lysine (0.99, 1.07, 1.14, 1.22, and 1.30%) and the second set of diets consisting o...

The incidence of mechanical and infectious complications of totally implantable central venous access devices (TIDs) must be related to underlying disease, intensity of the chemotherapy, and frequency of manipulations. Records of the patients hospitalized from January 2002 to May 2005 were evaluated. Patients with TIDs were matched with patients without TIDs having the same malignancy and the s...

PURPOSE To investigate the efficacy of dorzolamide 1% (bid or tid) or brinzolamide 1% bid on 24-hour intraocular pressure (IOP) control as well as patients' preference for either drug when added in combination with latanoprost against glaucoma (IOP, >/=18 mmHg). METHODS In this randomized crossover study patients were assigned to receive latanoprost plus either dorzolamide or brinzolamide for...

Introduction: The main purpose of this study was to compare transient ischemic dilation (TID) ratios in SPECT-low dose CT and SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI) by application of different quantitative programs and quantify the possible shift in the upper normal limits of TID ratio in the SPECT-CT MPI. Methods: 149 Patients with low pre-test probability for coronary artery disease (CAD), ...

A total of 163 sows were used in a study to determine the requirement for total sulfur amino acids (TSAA), relative to lysine, during lactation. All experimental diets were cornsoybean meal-based and formulated to contain 0.88% true ileal digestible (TID) lysine (0.97% total lysine). The experimental diets contained 0.37% L-lysine HCl, with other crystalline amino acids added to ensure that TSA...

BACKGROUND Hyponatremia in the setting of cirrhosis is a common electrolyte disorder with few therapeutic options. The free water retention is due to non-osmotic vasopressin secretion resulting from the cirrhosis-associated splanchnic vasodilatation. Therefore, vasoconstrictive therapy may correct this electrolyte abnormality. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of midodrine and oc...

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease that results in high levels of glucose in the blood. Normally, glucose is transported into cells from the blood for energy, and this transport is initiated in response to the hormone, insulin. In diabetic patients, cellular glucose uptake is defective, in part due to the inability of cells to respond to insulin, or the inability of the body to pr...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To compare the efficacy of two sequential therapy regimens of IV cefuroxime followed by oral cefuroxime axetil for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). DESIGN Prospective, multicenter, randomized, open-label, parallel-group study. SETTING Sixty-six centers in 11 countries (Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Poland, Portugal, ...