Neonatal bacterial infection is diagnosed when the acute phase reactants score (APR-Sc) positive for 3 items of CRP, α1-acid glycoprotein (AGP), and haptoglobin (Hp), 2 points are items, CRP AGP. However, mechanism by which presence or absence an increase in Hp, difference between points, not known.

Epileptiformic activity could result in apoptotic neuronal death, in which oxidative stress could play an important role. In case of decreased antioxidant brain status cellular death could be facilitated. Kainic acid is often used in a model of epilepsy in rats. Up to now there is not enough data evaluating levels of glutathione and nitric oxide in kainic acid-induced epilepsy acutely and sever...

OBJECTIVES To determine the efficacy and safety of periarticular hyaluronic acid injections in acute lateral ankle sprain during 9 months at a sports injuries center. DESIGN Randomized controlled prospective trial. SETTING Primary sport medicine and emergency practice. PATIENTS One hundred fifty-eight consecutive competitive athletes who suffered acute grade 1 or 2 lateral ankle sprains w...

being those referred to above) and three were from wards in which neomycin-resistant infections already existed or subsequently occurred. Treatment of nasal carriers of these organisms presents a problem. Almost all are resistant also to penicillin, streptomycin, tetracycline, and erythromycin, there are obvious objections to the use of methicillin or chloramphenicol, fucidin is irritant as a n...

Acid-base balance has been studied in 21 patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding. A low plasma bicarbonate concentration was found in nine patients, accompanied in each case by a base deficit of more than 3 mEq/litre, indicating a metabolic acidosis. Three patients had a low blood pH. Hyperlactataemia appeared to be a major cause of the acidosis. This was not accompanied by a raised...