BACKGROUND Despite the use of low-osmolar contrast media that have significantly reduced the occurrence of severe adverse reactions, contrast-induced (CI) acute kidney injury (AKI) remains the third cause of AKI in hospitals. We sought to estimate the frequency of CI-AKI among hospitalized patients undergoing image-guided cardiovascular procedures, to quantify the effect of risk factors on the ...

Abstract STUDY QUESTION Is there an evolution in the risk of operated cryptorchidism France and does local geographical environment appear as important trigger for this defect? SUMMARY ANSWER We observed increase boys under age 7 years during period 2002–2014 a strong spatial heterogeneity, with detection clusters suggesting environmental factors. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY Epidemiologic data on are...

Introduction: Ureilitic meteorites are ultramafic rocks with highly depleted REE abundance, while showing primitive signatures, such as abundant noble gases and oxygen isotopic heterogeneities. A lack of basaltic components among ureilitic meteorites is the major cause of our poor understanding of their evolution. Especially, chronological studies of ureilites are limited because of depletion o...

Most of developed countries have kept on maintaining, updating and modifying their own coding systems for procedures, as well as national adaptations of ICD, in order to manage and to fund their health care delivery. The most significant efforts were done in Australia with ACHI (Australian Classification of Health Interventions) or ICD10 AM, in Canada with the Canadian Classification of Health ...

We measured O-isotopic compositions of equilibrated ordinary chondrites (EOCs) using the CO 2 laser-BrF 5 fluorination technique at Korea Polar Research Institute. Fifty one EOC falls from UCLA collections were selected for this study. About 30-50 mg from each chondrite was gently crushed using agate mortar and pestle. About 2 mm-size fragment each was used to make polished thick sections. We o...

Climate change (CC) is likely to affect the thousands of bar-built or barrier estuaries (here referred to as Small tidal inlets - STIs) around the world. Any such CC impacts on the stability of STIs, which governs the dynamics of STIs as well as that of the inlet-adjacent coastline, can result in significant socio-economic consequences due to the heavy human utilisation of these systems and the...

Ureilites are ultramafic achondrites that exhibit heterogeneity in mg# and oxygen isotope ratios between different meteorites. Polymict ureilites represent near-surface material of the ureilite parent asteroid(s). Electron microprobe analyses of >500 olivine and pyroxene clasts in several polymict ureilites reveal a statistically identical range of compositions to that shown by unbrecciated ure...

Advances in medical imaging have led to an improvement in prenatal diagnosis of congenital anomalies. This has been made possible through the incorporation of new ultrasound technologies, use of doppler and real time imaging. These have resulted in improvement in resolution and quality of ultrasound images. Concurrent use l Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in fetal imaging has resulted in bette...

Forty two strains of Trichoderma sp. were isolated from cultivated lands around Bangalore and analyzed for their antagonistic potential against Sclerotium rolfsii and Fusarium ciceri. The potential of biocontrol agents ultimately lies in their capacity to control pathogens in vivo. Bioefficacy studies were hence conducted using chickpea (Cicer argentums c.v. Annigeri) as an experimental plant b...