abstract objective: to determine the effects of glycemic level on outcome patients with traumatic brain injury . m e t h od s :   from september 2010 to december 2012, all medical records of adult patients with tbi admitted to the emergency room of laura daniela clinic in valledupar city, colombia, south america were enrolled. both genders between 18 and 85 years who referred during the first 4...

asparaginase is one of the most important agents in the treatment of all. however, it has some side effects including dislipidemia, hyperglycemia, coagulopathy and hepatotoxicity. we studied its side ef-fects on our patients. the effects of l-asparaginase were assessed on 25 new all patients (case group) and 25 patients with known all who had completed their treatment before. sixty two percent ...

hyperglycemia, in trauma patient, is commonly associated with a hyper metabolic stress response. our objective is to determine the effects of hyperglycemia on the overall outcome of head trauma patients. in this descriptive study data were collected from head trauma patients' admitted to intensive care unit (icu) of poursina university hospital in a one-year period (jan 2004-jan 2005), retrospe...

objective: social belief and experimental evidences indicate that opium and its alkaloids, morphine, produced hypoglycemic effects in animal models. this study was conducted in order to determine the role of morphine on blood glucose and insulin. material and methods: this is an empirical analysis investigating the laboratory albino male rats weighing 200-250 g. rats in the control group receiv...

AIM The present study was undertaken to ascertain the incidence and clinical vital parameters in cases of primary ketosis in Murrah buffaloes brought to teaching veterinary clinical complex, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar and from adjoining villages of the district Hisar, Haryana, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS The investigation was conducted on 24 clinical ...

The objective of this study was to examine the association between β-hydroxybutyrate (BHBA) and glucose, calcium (Ca), phosphorus (P), and vitamin C concentrations in dairy healthy and with subclinical ketosis cows during an early lactation period. The blood from 99 healthy cows and 26 sub-clinically ketotic cows within the first two months of lactation was sampled. Serum concentration of BHBA ...

Epilepsia partialis continua is a rare epileptic syndrome observed in patients with brain structural lesions and metabolic disorders. We report a patient with non-ketotic hyperglycaemia presenting as epilepsia partialis continua with reversible focal brain lesions. An 83-year-old woman visited our hospital due to sudden and repetitive left facial twitching lasting for two days. Initial laborato...