INTRODUCTION Urinary tract infection (UTI) occurs in 1.1% of girls and 1.4% of boys during the first year of life. Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) is usually detected incidentally in 0.9% of girls and 2.5% of boys at this age. The aim of the study was to assess the usefulness of measurement of pro-inflammatory urine interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-8 concentrations and anti-inflammatory transforming gr...

Missing data in time series is a pervasive problem that puts obstacles the way of advanced analysis. A popular solution imputation, where fundamental challenge to determine what values should be filled in. This paper proposes SAITS, novel method based on self-attention mechanism for missing value imputation multivariate series. Trained by joint-optimization approach, SAITS learns from weighted ...

Objective—To evaluate the role of vitamin A on renal scarring in recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs). Design—Twenty three children with UTIs and renal scarring (mean (SD) age 7.3 (3.9) years) and 91 children without renal scarring (6.4 (3.4) years) were studied. All the children had serum vitamin A and â-carotene measurements and nutritional evaluation. Renal scarring was assessed by tech...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of hydroalcoholic extract of A. muricata on biodistribution of two radiopharmaceuticals: sodium phytate and dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA), both labeled with 99mtechnetium. METHODS Twenty four Wistar rats were divided into two treated groups and two controls groups. The controls received water and the treated received 25mg/kg/day of A. muricata by gavage for ten...

Received 10/15/2007; revised 10/29/2007; accepted 10/30/2007. For correspondence and reprints contact: Jia-Huei Lin, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kuang Tien General Hospital. 117 Sha-Tien Road, Sha-Lu, Taichung 43303, Taiwan, ROC. Tel: (886)4-26625111 ext. 2056, Fax: (886)426629167, E-mail: [email protected] Background: Patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) are at increased ri...

INTRODUCTION Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections in children that can be associated with renal parenchymal injuries and late scars. Dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) renal scan is known as golden standard for detecting acute pyelonephritis (APN) that has a lot of difficulties and limitations. OBJECTIVES we designed this study the accuracy of one inflammat...

PURPOSE Renal size is an important indicator to determine adequate organ growth in children. The aim of this study was to estimate renal size with Technesium-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) scan and propose a simple formula for predicting renal length in normal Korean children. METHODS This study included 346 children (148 boys and 198 girls; age range, 1 month to 17 years) in whom renal l...

INTRODUCTION The role of vitamin A in re-epithelialization of the damaged mucosal surfaces has been documented. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of vitamin A in preventing renal scaring after acute pyelonephritis in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS This clinical trial study was conducted in children with acute pyelonephritis in Mofid Children Hospital (Tehran, Iran). Patients wer...

A cross-sectional study was performed to evaluate the influence of polymorphisms in the [delta]-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) and vitamin D receptor (VDR) genes on blood lead, tibia lead, and dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA)-chelatable lead levels in 798 lead workers and 135 controls without occupational lead exposure in the Republic of Korea. Tibia lead was assessed with a 30-min measur...