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BACKGROUND
Many pregnant women use dietary supplements during pregnancy; however, relatively scant information is available on the safety of these products. Consumers of dietary supplements often rely on employees of health food stores to provide recommendations.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate
This discussion is based on the experience of the Phoenix Surgicenter, where over 60,000 patients have been anaesthetized since 1970. Patients accepted for out-patient surgery are ASA Status I or II, although status III patients may be included if their co-existing disability is under excellent
Weeksella virosa is an atypical Gram-negative bacterium that does not grow on MacConkey agar. In this report, we present a 4-year-old female patient with Addison's disease and end-stage renal failure secondary to focal sclerosing glomerulosclerosis. Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
Chryseobacterium indologenes is a non-fermentative Gram-negative bacillus formerly belonging to the Flavobacterium genus. It is widely found in water and soil, also on wet surfaces of the hospital environment. It rarely causes infections and is usually associated with altered immune status or
Massive bee envenomation can produce both immediate and delayed toxic reaction. Signs and symptoms of immediate toxic reaction are fatigue, nausea, vomiting, hemolysis, kidney failure, and disseminated intravascular coagulation. The label "delayed toxic reaction" refers to a patient who is
Despite the use of recombinant erythropoietin, anemia remains a significant problem for patients with end-stage renal disease, in part related to chronic dialysis-related blood loss and resultant iron deficiency. Because oral iron preparations have been relatively ineffective and poorly tolerated in
BACKGROUND
Barriers to developing treatments for human status epilepticus include the inadequacy of experimental animal models. In contrast, naturally occurring canine epilepsy is similar to the human condition and can serve as a platform to translate research from rodents to humans. The objectives