Purpose: No consensus is made for preoperative skin antisepsis upper extremity surgery. We aimed to determine if the use of povidone-iodine only (single regimen) instead and alcohol-chlorhexidine (triple resulted in an increased rate surgical site infection (SSI), detect any associated factors that risk.Methods: A cross-sectional, retrospective review medical records was patients who underwent ...

Objective. This study compared the eradication rates of of Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection by a 7-day and 14-day anti-HP regimen. Materials and Methods. An open, randomized, prospective study was performed to evaluate the response to anti-HP treatment in adult HP-positive patients following a 7-day course (Regimen A) of a proton pump inhibitor in association with clarithromycin and amoxicill...

The overall objective was to compare reproductive performance through 4 parities of gilts developed with ad libitum access to feed or with restriction of energy to 75% of ad libitum intake. Effects on growth and pubertal development are reported. The experiment was a 2 × 2 factorial with 661 gilts. One-half of the gilts (n = 330) were allowed ad libitum access to feed from weaning to breeding a...

pleuropulmonary blastoma (ppb) is a rare, malignant intrathoracic tumor that occurs mostly in children before 5 years old. it consists about 15% of all primary pediatric pulmonary tumors and shows various mesenchymal components. its presentations are nonspecific and common symptoms include fever, cough, chest pain, respiratory distress, and pulmonary infection. ppb should be considered in the d...

intestinal amebiasis has a worldwide distribution and is common in tropical and subtropical areas. [n this prospective 7-month study, we studied the main clinical findings in patients with acute amebic proctocolitis and the efficacy of saccharomyces boulardii (sb) treatment of these patients.initially, 57 cases with acute amebic proctocolitis were selected. the maximum occurrence of infection w...

background: our study aimed to determine if alteration of metabolic parameters is associated with the severity of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection, progress to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids), or with the type of antiretroviral treatment (art).materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study among 114 hiv infected patients, we measured hematological and biochemical parame...