AIMS To evaluate factors predictive of individual response to dexamethasone in preterm infants. METHODS A cohort of 74 preterm infants born between January 1993 and February 1996 was studied retrospectively. All of them had received dexamethasone to facilitate weaning from artificial ventilation. Demographic factors, ventilation parameters, and details of dexamethasone administration were rec...

OBJECTIVES To predict when delivery will occur, within 48 h and 7 days of presentation and before 35 weeks' gestation in women presenting with threatened preterm labor. METHODS Sonographic measurement of cervical length was carried out in 510 women with singleton pregnancies presenting with threatened preterm labor and intact membranes at 24 to 33 + 6 weeks of gestation. The measurement was n...

Tolerance to respiratory effects of O3 has been demonstrated for anatomic and functional changes, but information about tolerance to O3-induced airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) is scarce. In guinea pigs exposed to air or O3 (0.3 parts/million, 4 h/day, for 1, 3, 6, 12, 24, or 48 days, studied 16-18 h later), pulmonary insufflation pressure changes induced by intravenous substance P (SP, 0.032-3...

abstract: aims: depression and anxiety are the factors that increase death risk in the patients with heart disease. this study was done with the purpose of studying depression and anxiety rates in the patients with acute coronary artery disease. methods: this cross-sectional study which is descriptive was conducted on 366patients in the ccu of heart and cardiology wards of kerman university aff...

Enteritis is the major cause of mortality in neonatal calves. Diagnostic work to detect pathogens involved and identification risk factors for such infections are imperative improve calf health. Bovine norovirus (BNoV) nebovirus prevalence was investigated using RT-PCR 50 dairy herds five geographic regions Sweden. BNoV were found be common young detected 20% 250 calves 48% herds. Nebovirus 5% ...

The study aimed to determine whether serum C-reactive protein (CRP) levels can be used to identify when antibiotics can safely be discontinued in cases of suspected neonatal septicaemia. Neonates with suspected neonatal septicaemia treated at a hospital in Al Ramadi city, Iraq, in 2005 had serum CRP and blood cultures (the gold standard) done at admission and at 48 hours, 4 days and 6 days afte...