Urine cytology often is used to identify BK virus in kidney transplant recipients in the cytology laboratory. To assess the usefulness of the shell vial cell culture assay to identify BK virus, urine samples from 42 kidney transplant recipients were tested by the urine cytology and shell vial cell culture assays. The shell vial cell culture assay is just as sensitive and specific as urine cytol...

BACKGROUND Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) measurements in serum by immunoassay are widely used in the screening, diagnosis, and monitoring of patients with prostate cancer although the lack of common reference reagents has led in the past to wide differences in estimates. We report here the results of a WHO international collaborative study in which two preparations of PSA representative of th...

Our aim was to establish an easy and convenient procedure for the preparation of fluorine-18-sodium fluoride ((18)F-NaF) for bone positron emission tomography (PET) during routine (18)F-FDG production using the Explora FDG4 radiochemistry module (EFRM) by single run of Cyclotron with negligible radiation exposure. We compared three techniques for (18)F-NaF production during routine PET radioche...

People with cancer often report that they experience personal growth as a result of the disease, but such reports have unclear validity. Some suggest such growth results from Rogers's (1951) hypothesized organismic valuing process (OVP), an innate tendency for people to gravitate toward well-being; others suggest this growth may be a positive illusion resulting from temporal self-comparisons. T...

In this work, a multi-independent-output, multi-string, high-efficiency, boost-converter-based white LED (WLED) driver architecture is proposed. It utilizes single inductor main switch with common maximum duty cycle controller (MDCC) in the feedback loop. A simple pulse skipping (PSC) utilized each high-side of multiple independent outputs. Despite presence outputs, over-voltage protection (OVP...

This article discusses the syntax of coordinate structures, in particular the status of initial coordinators, multiple coordination, and the asymmetries between conjuncts with respect to c-command relations. The idea of coordinators as heads – hence the CoP – is endorsed, but not for initial coordinators; rather they figure in a separate ‘distributive phrase’, which is transparently correlated ...

-----------------DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION---------------For intravenous use only  Initiate administration as soon as possible after snake bite in patients who develop signs of envenomation (e.g. local injury, coagulation abnormality or systemic signs of envenomation)  Dose: (2.1) o Recommended initial dose is between 4 and 6 vials o Observe patient for up to one hour after the initial dose a...

ULTRAVIST 240 ULTRAVIST 300 ULTRAVIST 370 Iodine concentration (mg/ml) 240 300 370 Iodine content (g) per Vial of 10 ml 2,4 Vial of 20 ml 6,0 Bottle of 50 ml 12,0 15,0 18,5 Bottle of 75 ml 22,5 Bottle of 100 ml 30,0 37,0 Bottle of 125 ml 37,5 46,25 Bottle of 200 ml 60,0 74,0 Bottle of 500 ml 150,0 185,0 Contrast medium concentration (mg/ml) 499 623 769 Contrast medium content (g) per Vial of 10...