Diabetes insipidus is a rare endocrine disorder in paediatric patients. Polyuria is a cardinal manifestation that is extremely difficult to recognize in diapered infants. Careful urine quantification is the key to diagnosis in appropriate clinical setting. We report a case of a 4 months old infant presenting with an acute life threatening event following an episode of vomiting and decreased ora...

Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) are quite common in aging males and these affect the quality of life an individual. Among various etiologies LUTS, benign hyperplasia (BPH) has a high prevalence. The term Mutraghata stands for low urine output due to obstruction passage urine. Mutraghata, disease Mutravaha Srotas (urinary system) described Ayurveda, closely resembles with prostatic modern me...

the present study was designed to investigate the diuretic activity of Musa sapientum l. (familyMusaceae) flowers. The dried powder of the flower was subjected to Soxhlet extraction with alcohol and this extract was used for diuretic activity in Wistar albino rats using lipschitz method. the diuretic activity was assessed in terms of urine output and, concentration of Sodium, Potassium and Chlo...

OBJECTIVES To describe current practice for the discontinuation of continuous renal replacement therapy in a multinational setting and to identify variables associated with successful discontinuation. The approach to discontinue continuous renal replacement therapy may affect patient outcomes. However, there is lack of information on how and under what conditions continuous renal replacement th...

The permeability to tritiated water (hourly exchange fraction = 0-164) and the rate of urine flow (0-47% body weight/day) are lower than recorded in other freshwater decapods. The calculated net osmotic water flux (2-71 % body weight/day) is 5 times the water output in the urine, indicating that there is extrarenal excretion of water. Water balance is maintained in the absence of urine producti...

One of the great advances in burn care, developing a strategy for treating burn shock resuscitation, occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. Before this period, most people with extensive burns (!30% TBSA) would simply die within hours or, if they survived, would suffer from renal failure. Currently, burn shock resuscitation has become an afterthought that is relegated to residents and nursing staff. ...

In this paper, we have proposed an optical sensor design for urine analysis for diabetic applications. The sensor design consists of two dimensional photonic crystal ring resonator structure. Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method has been used for the analysis. MEEP (MIT Electromagnetic Equation Propagation) simulation tool has been used for modeling and designing of photonic crystal ring...

betes mellitus means ‘honey sweet flow’ and stems from a time in which tasting a patient’s urine was still part of the physician’s diagnostic repertoire. By the sweet taste of the urine, diabetes mellitus could be distinguished from diabetes insipidus, another disease with increased urinary output. The term diabetes mellitus covers several disease states with underlying causes that are characte...

To determine the influence of biological variation on the reliability of data from different types of urine specimens, we measured nine analytes in first-morning, randomly collected, and 24-h samples of urine from 53 healthy individuals (14 men and 39 women). The urines were collected once a week for 10 weeks. The data obtained were used as a basis for specimen collection and to gain insight in...