background: to investigate the effect of cana2-edta and experimental diabetes (iddm) on zinc and carbohydrate metabolism and the activities of got, gpt and alkaline phosphatase. methods: forty male normal albino (wistar) rats of 8 weeks of age were fed with a basal diet. twenty rats were then intraperitoneally injected with alloxan to induce diabetes. then after one week ten rats from each grou...

Sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors lower blood pressure by osmotic diuresis and can be considered in diabetic patients with resistant hypertension.

This study aimed to present the treatment of a case of delay presenting of traumatic aortocaval fistula (ACF) and its effect on hemodynamic problem. A 59-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with heart failure due to a 41-year-old traumatic ACF. ACF closure was performed by endovascular aortic stenting. His hospital course after procedure was complicated by severe bradycardia and torsades ...

Receptors believed responsible for the diuresis of negative pressure breathing have been located by observing the effect on urine flow of a stepwise engorgement of the intrathoracic vascular bed. Distension of the pulmonary arterial tree (injection of plastic beads) and of the entire pulmonary circulation (snares on the pulmonary veins) were without effect. A diuresis was however elicited by ex...

Hymenopterid stings and subsequent allergic reactions including fatal anaphylaxis are common indications for emergency department visits worldwide. Besides that, sting can cause death as a result of multi-system involvement ranging from intravascular hemolysis, rhabdomyolysis, acute renal failure, hepatic dysfunction and occasionally thrombocytopenia and coagulopathy. Eleven cases (all male, ag...

INTRODUCTION With more than one-third of the world's population living in areas at risk for transmission, dengue fever is a leading cause of illness and death in the tropics and subtropics. Despite the high incidence of dengue fever, rhabdomyolysis leading to acute renal failure is an extremely rare complication of dengue fever. Only a few such cases have been reported in the literature. CASE...