A group of 70 adults with end-stage liver disease received 87 homologous liver transplants from 7/11/81 and 7/11/83. The recipients fell into the following diagnostic categories: postnecrotic cirrhosis (PNC) in 22, primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) in 18, cancer or neoplasia (CA) in 11, sclerosing cholangitis (SC) in 8 and miscellaneous (MISC) in 11. Survival for six months or longer was 46%: sur...

It is known that paraconsistent logic programming, which is usually based upon a paraconsistent logic, is important in dealing with inconsistency-tolerant and non-monotonic reasoning appropriately. Firstly in this paper, a cut-free single succedent sequent system SN4 and a cut-free multiple succedent sequent system MN4 are introduced for Nelson’s paraconsistent 4-valued logic N4 [3], and the un...

Besides stimulating GH release, some GH secretagogues also release ACTH and adrenal steroids. Several novel classes of potent GH secretagogues have recently been described, and we have now tested their ability to release corticosterone in conscious normal rats. All analogs that released GH also stimulated corticosterone release to some degree, though the relative effects on GH and corticosteron...

Sixteen (mean age = 1.1 +/- 0.1 yr; mean BW = 478 +/- 34 kg) Brahman-influenced bulls were used to determine the influence of fescue type on sperm characteristics and serum concentrations of prolactin, cortisol, and testosterone. Bulls were blocked by BW, scrotal circumference (SC), and pregrazing sperm characteristics and randomly assigned to graze toxic endophyte-infected (EI; 4 bulls/pasture...

Background Tocilizumab (TCZ) has shown efficacy in large-vessel vasculitis, including Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) (1-3 ). Clinical trials with TCZ GCA was performed intravenous (iv) a phase 2 trial (3 ), and subcutaneous (sc) the 3 GiACTA (4 However, there are no studies comparing IV vs SC TCZ. Objectives To compare of patients according to route administration IV-TCZ SC-TCZ. Methods Multicentre...

adsorption of cyanogen molecule on the surface of pristine and sc-doped b12n12 nanocage is scrutinized using at dft calculations to investigating its potential as chemical nanosensors. the results show that cyanogen is weakly adsorbed on the pristine b12n12 and consequently its electrical properties are changed insignificantly. in order to improve the properties of the nanocage sensor, sc dopin...

OBJECTIVE To assess the quality of life among children and adolescents with thalassemia major. METHODS This cross-sectional study used the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL). Children and adolescents with beta-thalassemia major who attended the Day Care Unit at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from October 2012 to February 2013 were surveyed. The questions hi...