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A 64 years male farmer presented with history of painless gross hematuria for 1 month and severe loss of weight and appetite for 2 months. There was a history of single episode of fever for 1 day without chills and rigors, about 1 month ago. There was no history of tuberculosis. On examination patient had severe pallor, no raised temperature and no tenderness at renal angle. His hemoglobin on admission was 5.7gm%. Enhanced CT scan showed right kidney having irregular low density lesion at the lower pole with perirenal fluid collection. Urine for culture sensitivity showed growth of Escherichia coli sensitive to norfloxacin and so patient was put on oral norfloxacin for 14 days. A CT guided fine needle aspiration biopsy was planned for the patient for a definite diagnosis. But a repeat ultasonography before the procedure, showed both kidneys to be normal. The lesion had vanished!
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A 26-year-old male presented with jaundice and recurrent cholangitis. Ultrasonography revealed dilated intra- and extrahepatic biliary tree packed with multiple calculi. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and computerised tomography scan confirmed the findings and a diagnosis of recurrent pyogenic cholangitis was made. Cholecystectomy, choledocholithotomy with removal of stones and Roux-en-Y choledochojejunostomy were performed.
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Adult , Cholangitis/diagnosis , Cholelithiasis/complications , Humans , Male , RecurrenceABSTRACT
Maternal care is very important for infant development, mainly for altricial species such as rodents. This study was carried out in order to analyze the differences between the maternal behavior and infant development in two species of rodents regarded as gregarious and solitary. Thus, the behavior of 40 lactating females (20 golden hamster and 20 albino rat mother, or GH and AR) and their litters was recorded from the 1st to the 35th day after partirition. On the 4th day, litters were culled to 4 pups (all males or all females) and animals were grouped as follows: Groups I and II (litters consisting of all-male or all-female GH pups) and Groups III and IV (litters consisting of all-male or all-female AR pups). It was noted that GH mother spent a higher mean time in bodily interactions with pups and nest-building activity. All mothers axhibited higher pup retrievals and licked their pups more frequnatly around the 15th day, but GH mother exhibited a higher mean number of pup retrievals and licked their pups less frequantly. The emergence of pup self-licking around the 15th day coincided with the abrupt decrease in the maternal licking in both GH and mother. GH gained body mass more rapidly and their mothers lost a significant amount of body weight during the lactation, in contrast to the body weight gain by AR mother during the same period: On the 20th day, GH and AR mother exhibited 88.6 percent and 110.8 percent of their body mass, respectively, suggesting that the rearing costs are higher for GH mothers. We concluded that the behavior of animals may be explained in accordance with the differences in their habitats (desert or savanna), level of gregariousness, and also the characteristics of pup development.
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Animals , Male , Female , Rats , Cricetinae , Behavior, Animal/physiology , Maternal Behavior/physiology , Mesocricetus/growth & development , Rats, Inbred Strains/growth & development , Postpartum PeriodABSTRACT
En la presente publicación se describe una nueva especie, Uranotaenia iriartei, encontrada por el técnico entomólogo Juan Pulido F, y el inspector José Domingo Mora R; en los municipios El Yagual y Mantecal del estado Apure, en criadero clasificado como "hoyo viejo", con agua permanente y clara, con plantas flotantes y adheridas, pertenecientes a los géneros Eichornia, Cyperus y Urticularia, y material vegetal en descomposición. Esta especie ha sido dedicada al doctor David Iriarte, preocupado divulgador de la entomología médica en Venezuela. Esta especie es totalmente diferente en larva, pupa, adulto e hipopigio a las especies de Uranotaenia hasta ahora descritas
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Animals , Culex , Culex/classification , DipteraABSTRACT
En la presente publicación se describe una nueva especie, Uranotaenia briceñoi, encontrada por el técnico entomólogo Juan Pulido F. y los inspectores sanitarios Jesús R. Amarista M. y Jose D. Mora R, en el municipio Ocumare de la Costa, en una pequeña cienaga en la playa de Cata pública, vegetación descompuesta, con cujíes, helechos y repollitos. Esta especie ha sido dedicada al doctor leopoldo Briceño Iragorry, distinguido médico venezolano, por sus excelentes trabajos de investigación en el campo de la entomología médica. Esta especie es totalmente diferente an larva, pupa, adulto e hipopigio a las especies de Uranotaenia hasta ahora descritas
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Animals , Culex , Culex/classification , DipteraABSTRACT
En la presente publicación se describe una nueva especie de Uranotaenia gabaldoni, encontrada por el técnico entomólogo Juan Pulido F. y el inspector sanitario José Domingo Mora R; en Capital (río Caicara), municipio Mantecal, estado Apure, en un criadero permanente tipo río o arroyo, sin corriente, con agua turbia y vegetación descompuesta, con plantas flotantes y adheridas del tipo Eichornia, Cyperus, Pistia, Salvinia y Limnobium. Esta especie ha sido dedicada al doctor Arnoldo Gabaldon, distinguido médico venezolano, a quien debe el país su efectiva y brillante lucha contra la malaria y quien siempre ha demostrado gran interés por los estudios entomológicos. Esta especie es totalmente diferente en larva, pupa, adulto e hipopigio a las especies de Uranotaenia hasta ahora descritas