background: acute renal failure describes as a syndrome by rapid decline in the ability of the kidney to eliminate waste products, regulate acid–base balance, and manage water homeostasis. when this impairment is prolonged and entered chronic phase, erythropoietin secretion by this organ is decreasing and toxic metabolic accumulates and causes hematological changes include decrease of hct, mcv ...

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THE MODERN management of acute oliguric renal failure includes careful control of fluid, electrolyte, vitamin and calorie intake. Such treatment is designed to maintain the constancy of the 'milieu interieure' and prevent excess catabolism. With the advent of treatment using extracorporeal haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis techniques the survival rate of such patients has been considerably ...

The k-set agreement problem is a coordination problem where each process is assumed to propose a value and each process that does not crash has to decide a value such that each decided value is a proposed value and at most k different values are decided. While it can always be solved in synchronous systems, k-set agreement has no solution in asynchronous send/receive message-passing systems whe...

Blockade of AngII (angiotensin II) and ET (endothelin)-1, established and potential therapeutic strategies respectively, for heart failure, may have an adverse effect on the cardiac secretion of the natriuretic peptides, hormones with actions beneficial in this disease. The present study investigates the roles of AngII and ET-1 in regulating the stretch-induced release of the natriuretic peptid...

diffuse hepatic inltration is an unusual form of hodgkin's disease (hd). its manifestation as progressive hepatitis or with hepatic failure is even rarer and can be difcult to diagnose. we aim to describe an unusual case of liver failure due to hd. a middle-aged woman with a 10 month history of daily febrile episodes, constitutional symptoms and strikingly high levels of serum ferritin was admi...

The fuzzy sets possess natural capability to capture measurement uncertainty as a part of experimental data. Therefore the uncertainties of various kinds involved in system failure analysis may be adequately addressed using the concept of fuzzy sets. Fonseca et al developed and implemented fuzzy reasoning algorithm via an expert system to assess the likelihood of equipment failure mode. The alg...

We genuinely appreciate Erek et al. (1) for their study. Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) has become a widely used procedure in cardiac arrest situations. The authors should definitely admit this procedure if they use cardiac arrest after pediatric cardiac surgery, a highly catastrophic condition. We believe that their results are very successful considering that the rate of ...

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2 Executive Summary Failure to thrive (FTT) is a descriptive condition of a child who falls to the bottom 3 to 5% or lower on established growth charts (Wooster, 1999). Generally, failure to thrive is classified into three categories: non-organic or environmental, organic (attributable to organic disease), or mixed (interaction of organic and non-organic influences) (Drotar, 1991). In order to ...