PURPOSE This study investigated the predictors of poor outcomes, including limb loss and death, in patients with femoral artery injuries. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study included 158 patients aged 2-82 (mean age 28.4 ± 16.5) with femoral arterial injury (common, deep, and superficial femoral artery) that were treated surgically between 2000 and 2010. Isolated venous injuries were excluded. Dem...

this study was conducted to compare susceptibility of six different strains of male broilers to ascites syndrome. in this experiment, 612 one-day-old male broiler chicks from five international hybrids (e.g, arbor acres, cobb 500, hubbard, lohmann, and ross 508) and an iranian hybrid (arian) were used. growth performance, ascites mortality ratio, the ratio of right ventricle to total ventricles...

Purpose. The gravimetric method of weighing surgical sponges is used to quantify intraoperative blood loss. The dry mass minus the wet mass of the gauze equals the volume of blood lost. This method assumes that the density of blood is equivalent to water (1 gm/mL). This study's purpose was to validate the assumption that the density of blood is equivalent to water and to correlate density with ...

Cerebral blood flow (CBF) is tightly regulated to meet metabolic demands, and it increases during hemodilution as arterial oxygen content (CaO2) falls. Oxygent® is a perfluorocarbon (PFC) emulsion that has a high capacity to dissolve oxygen and can thus increase CaO2 in patients breathing supplemental oxygen. PFCs have shown excellent oxygen therapeutic value in both phase II and phase III clin...

OBJECTIVE Cyanotic patients have potentially decreased tissue oxygen tension. Cytochrome oxidase catalyzes the reduction of oxygen and is integral to adenosine triphosphate production. Cytochrome oxidase subunit I, the active site, is encoded by mitochondrial DNA. Using a newborn swine model of chronic hypoxemia, we evaluated ventricular cytochrome oxidase subunit I mRNA and protein expression ...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to describe and analyze clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients with sickle cell anemia treated at the Hemominas Foundation, in Divinópolis, Brazil. Furthermore, this study aimed to compare the clinical and laboratory outcomes of the group of patients treated with hydroxyurea with those patients that were not treated with hydroxyurea. METHODS Clinical an...

Blood volume was determined with both T-1824 (Evans blue) and carbon monoxide (CO) for 2 young women, 2 young men, and 2 men ages 70 and 75. In the CO method a precise volume of CO was administered from a closed system, and the CO concentrations in blood were determined on the Van Slyke-Neill apparatus before and at the end of a 10-mm. rebreathing period. The manometric technic is presented in ...

Platelet transport towards the vessel wall is influenced by the hematocrit, red blood cell (RBC) size, and shape. Recent in vitro studies have indicated that RBC deformability may also influence platelet transport. The observation that isoxsuprine, a known vasodilating drug, caused increased RBC deformability in vitro and decreased platelet transport in vitro prompted us to study the effects of...

purpose: in this study the effect of iron supplmentation on hemoglobin and hematocrit in pregnant women with hb>13.2 g/dl was investigated. material and methods: in this experimental clincal study, the effect of iron supplementation on hemoglobin and hematocrit in pregnant women with hb>13.2 g/dl and ferritin> 14.3 μg/l during the 13th- 18th pregnancy week was studied. eighty seven women havin...