The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficiency of the water test to evaluate the functional membrane integrity of ejaculated canine sperm after collecting, cooling, and freezing-thawing. Twenty-five ejaculates were obtained from 12 stud dogs by digital manipulation. Sperm-rich fractions were evaluated, diluted, cooled at 5oC and frozen-thawed. A conventional hypo-osmotic swelling t...

Protein S deficiency patient is characterized by recurrent thrombosis, and its risk is higher intraoperatively, especially in cardiac surgery involving cardiopulmonary bypass. Two heparin cessation periods are defined in cardiac surgery. One is the period between the cessation of heparin 4 to 5 h before surgery and the heparinization prior to cardiopulmonary bypass. The other is the period betw...

Prevention of intraventricular haemorrhage in preterm infants in Britain and Ireland EDITOR,-Intraventricular or periventricular haemorrhage is a potential cause of morbidity and mortality in preterm infants. Many potential treatments have been studied but three in particular have influenced practice in the British Isles: vitamin El; ethamsylate2; and fresh frozen plasma.3 Meta-analysis has sho...

Bovine Leukemia ProVirus: Evidence of Presence of Part of Gag Gene in Seminal Plasma of Naturally Infected Bulls It is of critical importance to understand the modalities of BLV presence in semen, especially with regard to artificial insemination (AI). Presence of bovine leukemia provirus was demonstrated in fresh and frozen semen samples by researchers. In this study paired blood and semen sam...

Massive hemoperitoneum secondary to ruptured corpus luteum is a rare but serious and life-threatening complication for women with congenital bleeding disorders and may lead to surgical interventions and even oophorectomy. Congenital afibrinogenemia is a rare inherited coagulation disorder. As it can be asymptomatic, its clinical manifestations vary from minimal tendency of bleeding to life-thre...

The assessment of wildlife health has been enhanced by the ability of point-of-care (POC) blood analysers to provide biochemical analyses of non-domesticated animals in the field. However, environmental limitations (e.g. temperature, atmospheric humidity and rain) and lack of reference values may inhibit researchers from using such a device with certain wildlife species. Evaluating the use of a...

A favourable outcome of fulminant liver failure by replacement treatment with antithrombin III, prothrombin concentrate, fresh frozen plasma, and plasminogen is reported. Haemostatic balance was maintained and no severe bleeding complications occurred during the 15 days of disturbed liver function.

Artificial insemination via cooled or frozen-shipped semen allows more mares to be bred to a single stallion, but not all stallions produce semen capable of withstanding the cooling and freezing procedures. Aurich et al. (1996) estimated that cooled or frozen-shipped semen achieves < 75% of the pregnancy rates achieved with fresh semen. Some factors affecting the fertility rates of thawed semen...

Background: Currently, frozen embryo transfers contribute an increasing rate of births from assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). However, very few studies evaluated the neonatal outcomes from frozen embryo transfer. This study aimed to investigate and compare the neonatal outcomes from frozen embryo transfer versus fresh embryo transfers. Materials and Method...