In their invited narrative review article, Gionchetti et al (April-June issue) [1] report 6 studies in which probiotics were used for maintenance of remission in pouchitis or induction of remission in acute pouchitis. In all but one studies VSL#3 probiotic was used. In 4 studies treatment group (VSL#3 regimen was used in 3 studies) was compared to a control group [2-5]. [Q1. references are miss...

A 71-year-old woman was referred to the endocrinology clinic after several years of unresolved hypomagnesemia that required numerous hospital admissions to receive intravenous magnesium. She previously presented with palpitations on 3 occasions, and once with diarrhea and vomiting. The blood tests on all 4 presentations demonstrated severe hypomagnesemia (Table 1). Her medical history included ...

this experiment was conducted to evaluate reproductive indices and provide appropriate solutions to improve the reproductive efficiency of dairy cattle in kermanshah province. with reference to forty-eight dairy industrial herds available at different cities of the province, a questionnaire containing quantitative measures were completed to assessing the reproductive parameters of 5397 dairy co...

A 77-year-old man was admitted to another hospital because of increasing dyspnea and edema of the lower limbs. The patient reported a loss of appetite and a flu-like illness 4 weeks previously. He was on various medications for heart failure, including metoprolol, ramipril, spironolactone, torasemide, metformin, and digoxin. For chronic atrial fibrillation, the patient had received dabigatran (...

The 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee indicated that magnesium was a shortfall nutrient that was underconsumed relative to the Estimated Average Requirement (EAR) for many Americans. Approximately 50% of Americans consume less than the EAR for magnesium, and some age groups consume substantially less. A growing body of literature from animal, epidemiologic, and clinical studies has dem...

High-performance ion chromatography (HPIC) has been widely used for oxalate analysis and, more recently, for glycolate analysis. We describe a procedure for sample preparation in which the plasma ultrafiltrate is acidified during harvesting with a cation-exchange resin, and the chloride is removed before the ion chromatography, which is performed with a newly developed AS10 column. The same ult...

We determined the reference interval for the carboxyterminal propeptide of type I procollagen (PICP), an indicator of the synthesis of type I collagen, in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) by studying 32 infants and children, ages less than or equal to 15 years. The concentration of PICP is age dependent, with particularly high concentrations occurring in children younger than 1.5 years. In older child...

The 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee indicated that magnesium was a shortfall nutrient that was underconsumed relative to the Estimated Average Requirement (EAR) for many Americans. Approximately 50% of Americans consume less than the EAR for magnesium, and some age groups consume substantially less. A growing body of literature from animal, epidemiologic, and clinical studies has dem...

Reference interval of all haematological and biological analytes should be measured for every population because of the huge diversity in genetic make-up, dietary habits. The coverage interval of antioxidant vitamins (vitamin C and α -tocopherol) in the plasma and serum of reference Bengali population was determined and compared with the reference intervals of antioxidant vitamins in the establ...