Hypoalbuminemia is common in the intensive care setting, and preoperative hypoalbuminemia is reported to be associated with an increased risk of post-operative complications in adult cancer patients. However, studies of hypoalbuminemia in childhood cancers are scarce. Objective: We conducted a study to look at the incidence of hypoalbuminemia at diagnosis of neuroblastoma, the most common extra...

OBJECTIVE To produce a fetal weight chart representative of a Tanzanian population, and compare it to weight charts from Sub-Saharan Africa and the developed world. METHODS A longitudinal observational study in Northeastern Tanzania. Pregnant women were followed throughout pregnancy with serial trans-abdominal ultrasound. All pregnancies with pathology were excluded and a chart representing t...

objective: to evaluate the efficacy and side effects of oxybutinin in comparison to tolterodine in treatment of overactive bladder (oab) with detrussor overactivity (doa) in iranian women. materials and methods: one hundred iranian old women with clinical symptoms of oab who show ido in the filling cystometry participated in this randomized double-blinded parallel-group by using two kinds of th...

Among the many statistical process control charts, modified exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) chart has been designed to swiftly detect a small shift in parameter. Herein, we propose two explicit formulas for run length (ARL) integrated (IMA) and fractional (FIMA) models combined with EWMA time series prediction. The application of suggested procedures depends on residuals IMA FIMA m...

study of a family with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney diseases (adpkd) in five generations, including 96 healthy and 47 affected individuals, has been carried out in tehran. investigation on individuals, including final diagnoses by clinical findings, sonography, radiography and laboratory results, have lead to the completion of genealogical chart of the family. the affected individuals h...

In this work, inulinase was produced by solid state fermentation by Streptomyces sp. using copra waste as carbon source. The nutrients were screened by Plackett-Burman design. From the pareto chart it was found that the nutrients, namely, soya bean cake, MgSO4·7H2O and (NH4)2SO4 were found to be most significant nutrient components. Hence, these three components were selected for further optimi...