OBJECTIVE To investigate whether use of preoperative misoprostol can reduce blood loss during total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH). METHODS In a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial at a tertiary care hospital in Kolkata, India, between March 2011 and April 2012, women (n=132) undergoing TAH with or without bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy for symptomatic myomas were randomly allocat...

Fungi have the ability to degrade vegetal cell wall carbohydrates, and their presence in the digestive tract of ruminants can minimize the effects of lignified forage on ruminal fermentation. Here, we evaluated enzyme production by Aspergillus spp. isolates from the digestive tracts of cattle grazed in tropical pastures during the dry season. Filamentous fungi were isolated from rumen and feces...

BACKGROUND Optimal myocardial protection for donated hearts is crucial to improve outcomes of heart transplantation and reduce morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of myocardial protection using single dose of Bretschneider's histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate (HTK) solution and repeated doses of cold blood cardioplegia (CBC) in donor heart preservation. METHODS S...

Background. Primaquine is used to eradicate latent Plasmodium vivax parasite from liver, with administration of standard dose daily up to 14 days. We studied efficacy, safety, and tolerability of sustained release (SR) formulation of primaquine in comparison with conventional primaquine in preventing relapse of P. vivax malaria. Methods. Microscopically confirmed cases of P. vivax malaria recei...

Most modern operating systems implement some sort of memory protection scheme for user processes. These schemes make it is possible to set access permissions that determine whether a region of memory allocated for a process can be read, written, or executed by this process. Mondrian memory protection is a technique that extends the traditional memory protection scheme and allows fine-grain perm...

OBJECTIVE To estimate dietary habits and other factors associated with inadequate blood pressure (BP) control in hypertensive patients adherent to antihypertensive drug treatment assisted by a Brazilian Family Doctor Program (FDP). DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING FDP units, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. SUBJECTS We included data from both male and female participants aged ≥20 y...

The national herd is important and diverse with an estimated ruminant population of 9 091 000 cattle, 9 278 000 sheep and 13 891 000 goats [2]. Livestock activities are carried out by more than 80% of households who derive all or part of their income [3]. Cattle are the savings account of the family business, while small ruminants constitute the current account that allows smallholder farmers t...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Over the years, there has been a continual shift toward more minimally invasive surgical techniques, such as the use of laparoscopy in colorectal surgery. Recently, there has been increasing adoption of robotic technology. Our study aims to compare and contrast robot-assisted and laparoscopic approaches to colorectal operations. METHODS Forty patients undergoing lapa...

Incomplete population counts indicate change in population sizes when constant proportionality holds, a condition that is rarely met. However, researchers have not explored whether constant proportionality holds for a segment of a population. I examined whether the female segment (juv, subadult M, subadult and ad F) of a Roosevelt elk (Cervus elaphus roosevelti) population displayed constant pr...

BACKGROUND Young children in low- and middle-income countries frequently have inadequate vitamin B-12 (cobalamin) status. Poor folate status is also common and is associated with increased diarrheal and respiratory morbidity. OBJECTIVE The objective was to measure the effect of folic acid and/or vitamin B-12 administration on the incidence of diarrhea and acute lower respiratory tract infecti...