UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Most of the patients awaiting liver transplantation already have osteopenia or even osteoporosis by end-stage liver disease.In a retrospective study, we investigated the effect of pre-treatment with oral monthly ibandronate (150 mg), vitamin D3 (800 IU/day) and calcium (1 g/day) for osteopenia and osteoporosis caused by end-stage liver disease in patients before and aft...

AIM To evaluate pre-treatment serum C-reactive protein (CRP) level as a prognostic parameter in patients with adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix. MATERIALS AND METHODS Pre-treatment CRP levels were analyzed to determine potential associations with clinicopathological parameters and to assess prognostic value in 46 patients with sole adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix. RESULTS The mean (...

BACKGROUND Neuron-specific enolase (NSE) is the most sensitive tumor marker for small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) at the time of diagnosis. The main purpose of this study was to review the usefulness of serum NSE level as a prognostic factor in patients with SCLC and to determine the correlation between the NSE level and the stage of disease and response to chemotherapy. METHODS In this prospe...

OBJECTIVE C-reactive protein (CRP) has previously been shown to serve as a prognostic parameter in women with gynecologic malignancies. Due to the lack of valid prognostic markers for uterine leiomyosarcoma (ULMS) this study set out to investigate the value of pre-treatment CRP serum levels as prognostic parameter. METHODS Data of women with ULMS were extracted from databases of three Austria...

in order to study the effects of mechanical and chemical methods of weed control and their interaction on cotton (cv. varamin) an experiment was conducted in agricultural research field, the university of birjand during 2008 growing season using a randomize complete block design with 12 treatments and 4 replications. treatments were: trefelan (trifluralin 48% ec) 960cc ai ha-1 (pre-plant), sona...

Worldwide water shortage increase and water quality depletion from microbial and chemical compounds, pose significant challenges for today's water treatment industry. Both the development of new advanced oxidation technologies, but also the enhancement of existing conventional technologies is of high interest. This study tested improvements to conventional ozonation that reduce the formation of...