Kidney stone disease has become more common in children, but it remains non diagnosed in a significant proportion of patients, due to a lack of notable signs and symptoms. All children with colicky abdominal pain or microscopic hematuria should be examined thoroughly for urolithiasis. Patients’ histories in terms of family, medical, and drug and a thorough physical examination are require...

AIM The main aim of the study was to describe the differences between some Northern countries regarding what foods, according to the patients, elicit hypersensitivity symptoms. METHODS At the participating clinics, patients with a history of food hypersensitivity (n = 1139) were asked to fill in a questionnaire in which 86 different foodstuffs were listed. Skin-prick tests (SPT) were performe...

IN CONJUNCTION with the current revision of the genus Pandanus (St. John, 1960; St. John and Stone, in sched.) it seems appropriate to mention the factors of dispersal operative in the genus. Since a number of species of Pandanus are littoral in habitat, and because at least one (if not several) species is found on nearly every tropical atoll in the Pacific, it has rightly been assumed that oce...

The research presented describes how a technology called Controlled Atmosphere Temperature Treatment System (CATTS), can be used as a quarantine treatment against insect pests of apples, pears and sweet cherries. High temperature forced air has not been useful for these temperate fruit because the heat dose required to kill the target insect pests (codling moth and western cherry fruit fly) cau...

BACKGROUND Patients with symptomatic kidney stones are characterized by older age, male gender, white race, hypertension, obesity, metabolic syndrome and chronic kidney disease. Whether these characteristics differ in patients with asymptomatic kidney stones is unknown. METHODS All potential kidney donors who underwent protocol computed tomography angiograms/urograms (2000-08) at the Mayo Cli...

Six Iranian accessions of Cucumis melo, including Inodorus, Cantalupensis, and Dudaim groups, were planted and then harvested at two harvesting stages including 21 and 28 days after anthesis for Dudaim group and 28 and 38 days after anthesis for Inodorus and Cantalupensis groups. At the time of harvest, we measured some quality parameters and appearance indices of fruits, such as the number of ...

predicting the sawability of the dimension stone is one of the most important factors involved in production planning. moreover, this factor can be used as an important criterion in the cost estimation and planning of the stone plants. the main purpose for carrying out this work was to rank the sawability of the dimension stone using the promethee method. in this research work, four important p...

Henna stone is a lesser-known commercially available material used to obtain black henna paste (1). In some countries, including Turkey, local herb sellers sell it as ‘natural stone’, a so-called natural source for black henna. The stone has to be crushed into powder first, and then mixed with water, hydrogen peroxide and, sometimes, natural henna to obtain black henna paste for the purpose of ...

Objective Kidney stone disease has high rates of recurrence. In order to avert a recurrent episode, metabolic risk factors should be evaluated during follow-up. The study is aimed to investigate the metabolic abnormalities in patients with kidney stone and to explore whether metabolic disorders are associated with types of the stone. Methods A total of 34 patients with renal stone were recruite...

BACKGROUND Although there is growing evidence of relationship between obesity and some specific stone compositions, results were inconsistent. Due to a greater relationship between metabolic syndrome and some specific stone type, obesity measured by body mass index (BMI) has limitation in determining relationship between obesity and stone compositions. The aim of this study was to determine the...