PURPOSE To compare the in vivo precision of two commercially available point-of-care osmometers among normal subjects with no dry eye disease. METHODS Twenty healthy adults with healthy ocular surfaces were evaluated by licensed eye care practitioners. All subjects had low Ocular Surface Disease Index score (<5), normal tear breakup time (>10 seconds), and no evidence of corneal fluorescein s...

Intravenous glucose infusions into peripheral veins are often needed, in addition to oral feedings, to elevate blood glucose levels in the management of neonatal hypoglycemia. Central venous catheters are rarely inserted, when the duration of such treatment is less than a few days. More than half of peripheral venous cannulations extravasate by 36 h, or even faster, if medication is administere...

PURPOSE To evaluate changes in choroidal thickness in and outside the macula as a result of hemodialysis (HD) in patients with end-stage renal disease. METHODS Patients with end-stage renal disease treated with maintenance HD in the Dialysis Unit of Sanggye Paik Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, were included in this study. The choroidal thickness was measured in and outside the macula before and...

Massive transfusion with packed blood cells (PRBCs) or fresh frozen plasma (FFP) can result in dangerous complications including stroke, kidney failure, and cardiac arrest. A simple, bench top technique using a hemoconcentrator and dialysate solution is described to correct critical values of sodium, glucose, potassium, and osmolarity in PRBCs and FFP. Sodium, glucose, and osmolarity were corre...

Vibrio fischeri isolates from Euprymna scolopes are dim in culture but bright in the host. We found the luminescence of V. fischeri to be correlated with external osmolarity both in culture and in this symbiosis. Luminescence enhancement by osmolarity was independent of the lux promoter and unaffected by autoinducers or the level of lux expression, but the addition of an aldehyde substrate for ...

Abstract&#x0D; Diabetes insipidus is a poluuria polydipsia syndrome with hyperexcretion of hypotonic urine. It still rare in the world. Generally, diagnosed by dehydration and vasopressin test. was reported that woman experienced recurrent hypokalemia, cause unknown. After examination collected urine plasma osmolarity, it found diabetes waspresent. A test performed using intranasal desmopressin...

Abstract Mud crab ( Scylla serrata ) is a species that makes up biodiversity in mangrove areas spread across the coast of archipelago, one which Tugu District, Semarang City has area still relatively good. There need for research to determine viability based on environmental conditions, especially salinity affects osmoregulation and growth mud crabs individually populations. This aims patterns,...

abstract different factors such as the quality of ova and sperm are involved in propagation process. mobility percentage, ph, mobility duration, compaction and osmolarity of sperm which affect the quality of sperm were tested in this research. this study was carried out in april 2011 in shahid ansari bony fishes propagation and rearing center. according to the results, mean and standard deviati...