Measuring chick quality has been a difficult issue since the beginning of the poultry industry. There have been many attempts over the decades to evaluate chick quality in the hatchery to predict future performance in the broiler house. One can examine chicks in the hatchery and enumerate conditions such as the incidences of red hocks, open navels, string navels, and other abnormalities. In mos...

Condition on admission.?Temperature, 102?F.; pulse rate, 112; respirations, 26 per minute. The pulse was of fairly good volume and did not give any indication of internal haemorrhage at the time. Tongue, coated and moist. Abdomen, slightly tympanitic, resonant all over, and not rigid. No enlargement of spleen and liver. Bowels constipated for about four days after the last two hemorrhagic stool...

As reviewed recently in these pages, 1 the vasoconstrictor angiotensin II (Ang II) is one of the circulating peptide growth factors, and clinically the most relevant, that fulfill many of Koch’s postulates for having additional effects locally in the myocardium. These criteria include local production of Ang II within the heart, its upregulation there by hypertrophic signals, its release from c...

La intervención coronaria percutánea (ICP), en sus distintas modalidades, es el procedimiento intervencionista que se realiza más frecuentemente en los paı́ses desarrollados. Determinados avances técnicos, que minimizan el perfil de los catéteres utilizados manteniendo al mismo tiempo altos grados de eficacia, han convertido la ICP en una práctica altamente segura, tanto a corto como a medio pla...

The results of a series of 40 cataract extractions with lens implantation performed on day-case patients under local anaesthesia are reported. The ways in which modern surgical techniques have rendered this a safe procedure are described, and the potential benefits of day-case intraocular surgery are discussed.

Very limited information on the post-implantatory effects of vitrification has been published till now. We observed in a previous study that the vitrification procedure for the cryopreservation of embryos introduced transcriptomic and proteomic modifications in the rabbit foetal placenta at the middle of gestation. Now, we have conducted a proteomic study to determine whether protein alteration...

A 13 day old baby was admitted to hospital with multiple abnormalities, increasing cyanosis, and cardiac failure. Cardiac catheterisation was performed on the day of admission and he died shortly after the procedure. A rare variant of common arterial trunk, in which the pulmonary arteries arose directly from the underside of the aortic arch, was found at necropsy.