BACKGROUND Although associated with severe clinical complications, phosphate remains a neglected ion. Additionally, phosphate balance during continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is complex and multifunctional. The present retrospective study investigated the effects of phosphate-containing CRRT fluid on phosphate homeostasis. METHODS We retrospectively analysed 112 patients treated wit...

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effect of two simultaneous protocols in reducing recovery time and assessment of adverse effects of different fluid replacement therapy in management of diabetic ketoacidosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this randomized clinical trial study, two standard protocols were chosen to evaluate recovery time and incidence of DKA complications. RESULTS: 18 subjects who had ...

Paland and Lynch (Reports, 17 February 2006, p. 990) showed that in Daphnia pulex, the ratio of amino acid replacement to silent substitution in mitochondrial genes is higher in asexual lineages than in sexual lineages. If this base-composition bias is maintained by selection, it too should alter following transitions in reproductive mode. Analysis reveals no such change in the genomes of D. pu...

The repair of oxidative base lesions in DNA is a coordinated chain of reactions that includes removal of the damaged base, incision of the phosphodiester backbone at the abasic sugar residue, incorporation of an undamaged nucleotide and sealing of the DNA strand break. Although removal of a damaged base in mammalian cells is initiated primarily by a damage-specific DNA glycosylase, several lyas...

concomitant coronary artery bypass surgery (cabg) in patients undergoing mitral valve replacement (mvr) has been shown to be an important risk factor for hospital mortality. we evaluated preoperative characteristics, postoperative complications, in-hospital mortality rate, and length of stay in hospital for patients undergoing concurrent cabg with mvr. preoperative and postoperative clinical da...

BACKGROUND In the past, several studies have compared different colloidal replacement solutions, whereby the focus was usually on the respective colloid. We therefore systematically studied the influence of the carrier solution's composition of five approved colloidal volume replacement solutions (Gelafundin, Gelafusal, Geloplasma, Voluven and Volulyte) on acid-base as well as electrolyte statu...

The title cocrystal, 0.796C(19)H(16)N(4)·0.204C(18)H(14)N(4), is a disordered mixture of two potentially bidentate Schiff base ligands. The difference in the two components of the cocrystal is the replacement of the methyl group in the linkage between the imine N atoms in the major component of the Schiff base ligand by an H atom. The imino (C=N) functional groups are coplanar with the benzene ...

This study describes and compares the growth and maturation of idiopathic growth hormone deficiency (IGHD) and evaluates the potential effects of growth hormone therapy. The sample includes 40 idiopathic growth-hormone-deficient children grouped according to duration of growth hormone replacement therapy. Somatic and craniofacial development, skeletal maturation and dental maturation were evalu...

Query segmentation is to split a query into a sequence of non-overlapping segments that completely cover all tokens in the query. The majority of methods are unsupervised, however, they are usually not as accurate as supervised methods due to the lack of guidance from labeled data. In this paper, we propose a new paradigm of learning a replacement model with consistency (LRMC), to enable unsupe...