KOH: potassium hydroxide INTRODUCTION Aspergillus sp, Candida sp, and zygomycoses can disseminate rapidly in an immunocompromised host, causing significant morbidity and mortality. Serum testing, tissue biopsy, and culture are used to confirm a suspected diagnosis, but waiting for results may delay initiation of life-saving treatment. We report a case of disseminated aspergillosis presenting wi...

Three patients presented to our clinic with erythrasma. The results of the clinical examination of each patient showed bilateral patches of erythema in the plicae inguinalis with minimal fine scaling and no central clearing. One patient also had a small superficial erosion in the right plica inguinalis. The results of an examination using Wood light showed coral red fluorescence in each patient...

Sir, We read with great interest the article on “Comparison of potassium hydroxide mount and mycological culture with histopathological examination using periodic acid-Schiff staining of nail clippings” in a recent issue of IJDVL.[1] The authors’ findings about high sensitivity of periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) staining in the diagnosis of onychomycosis is consistent with previous studies on the su...

Abstract The high use of aluminium foil in food and beverage packaging has caused solid waste to increase rapidly, so treatment is required. This study investigates the best concentration reactant recovery from as potash alum coagulant. Potassium hydroxide used for dissolved aluminium, sulphuric acid added form crystals. experimental result got a maximum point synthesis foil: potassium 3 M dan ...

BACKGROUND Desflurane is known to produce high concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO) in desiccated sodalime or Baralyme (Allied Healthcare Products, St. Louis, MO). Desiccated absorbents without strong bases like potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide are reported to produce less or no CO at all. The purpose of this study is to compare the concentration of CO in an anesthesia circuit for desf...

BACKGROUND Potent inhaled anesthetics degrade in the presence of the strong bases (sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide) in carbon dioxide (CO2) absorbents. A new absorbent, Amsorb (Armstrong Medical Ltd., Coleraine, Northern Ireland), does not employ these strong bases. This study compared the scavenging efficacy and compound A production of two commercially available absorbents (soda lime ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects potassium extraction on pozzolanicity sugar cane bagasse ash (SCBA), with aim producing reactive for use in cementitious composites. ashes were produced at 600 °C 60 min, a heating rate 4 °C/min. then ground and washed extraction. In order assess behaviour before after extraction, following procedures performed: energy-dispersive spectrosc...

Potassium borates, which are widely used in welding and metal refining industry, as a lubricating oil additive, cement additive, fiberglass additive and insulation compound, are one of the important groups of borate minerals. In this study the production of a potassium borate mineral via hydrothermal method is aimed. The potassium source of potassium nitrate (KNO3) was used along with a sodium ...