Objective To assess the budget impact of using ulipristal acetate (UPA) 5 mg to treat women with uterine fibroids (UF) causing moderate to severe symptoms. Design We modelled trends in the number of surgical procedures for symptomatic UF, with and without the use of UPA for preoperative or intermittent treatment and assessed the budget impact of UPA use from the French national healthcare insur...

Ultrafiltration (UF) is a low-pressure membrane filtration process primarily used to remove turbidity and suspended solids during the production of safe drinking water. As reported by Furukawa (2008), research, coupled with advancements in membrane technology and increasingly stringent regulations, has led to further adoption of low-pressure membranes for treatment of surface water. In many cas...

Membrane fouling is a major obstacle for ultrafiltration (UF) in water treatment. Here, strategy mitigation, by applying an ultra-low concentration of moderately-hydrophobic chitosan (MHC) and using mildly elevated backwash temperature was proposed. The effects MHC type, concentration, were investigated continuous-flow tests PVDF hollow fiber membranes model raw water. Compared to the process w...

In this field trial, a new combination product containing florfenicol and flunixin meglumine (FLOR-FM) was compared with commercially available products that contained only tulathromycin (TULA) or ceftiofur crystalline free acid (CCFA) for the treatment of undifferentiated fever (UF; rectal temperature >/=105.0 degrees F) in beef calves that received long-acting oxytetracycline at feedlot arriv...

A number of mineralocorticoids have been proposed as etiologic factors in low-renin hypertension. In this study, urinary free 19-nor-deoxycorticosterone (UF 19-nor-DOC) was compared to other mineralocorticoids--aldosterone, deoxycorticosterone (DOC), and 18-OH-DOC, in 11 low-renin hypertensive patients on a controlled diet in a metabolic unit. Results demonstrated that both UF 19-nor-DOC and te...

We assessed the Sysmex UF-50 for reproducibility of results and carryover rate by performing between- and within-run precision analyses on 315 urine samples, evaluated the feasibility of using the UF-50 to measure urinary cellular and noncellular components by comparing results from the UF-50 with results of manual urinalysis using the Kova system, and performed side-by-side comparison of the w...

Variation in the serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) has been associated with heightened neural activity in limbic and prefrontal regions in response to emotional stimuli. The current study examined whether the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism is also associated with alterations in microstructure of frontal-limbic white matter (WM) tracts. Thirty-seven (mean age, 20.51 years; r...

A membrane filtration system was used to remove organic compounds, suspended solids, colour and turbidity from anaerobically treated dairy wastewater. Direct microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF), MF-UF and a combination of UF with coagulation using two conventional coagulants were investigated. The installation with ceramic membranes was operated at a pressure of 0.15 MPa (MF) and 0.3 MPa...

Background Recent randomized controlled trials suggest that sufficiently high convection post-dilutional haemodiafiltration (HC-HDF) improves survival in dialysis patients, consequently this technique is increasingly being adopted. However, when performing HC-HDF, rigorous control systems of the ultrafiltration setting are required. Assessing the global ultrafiltration coefficient of the dialys...