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The biflow pressure filter system installed at a residential campus was investigated for its performance under different operating conditions. The investigation was carried out to evaluate raw water quality, chemical dosing systems, filter media and overall filtration performance. Treatability studies were carried out to decide optimum doses of chemicals sused in potable water treatment system. It was found that the biflow pressure system could not deliver filtrate of desired quality and therefore its use in potable water treatment may cause ill effects in human-beings.
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Evaluation Studies as Topic , Filtration/instrumentation , Water Purification/instrumentationSubject(s)
Adult , Animals , Female , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Hypopituitarism/diagnosis , Male , Risk Assessment , Snake Bites/complications , Thyroid Function Tests , Thyroxine/administration & dosage , ViperidaeSubject(s)
Adult , Disorders of Excessive Somnolence/diagnosis , Female , Humans , India , Periodicity , RecurrenceABSTRACT
Twenty children (mean age 3.25 years) with congenital cyanotic heart disease undergoing modified left Blalock-Taussig (BT) shunt were studied. The mean follow-up period was 9.5 months (range 6 months to 1 year). The shunt was performed for cyanotic spells in 15 (75%) and hypoplastic pulmonary arteries in 5 (25%) patients. There were no immediate or late complications. None had cyanotic spell after the shunt. The mean arterial oxygen saturation improved from 66.47 +/- 11.9 to 76.97 +/- 8.16% (p = 0.0003) and mean hematocrit decreased from 51.55 +/- 9.5 to 46.5 +/- 9.7 (p = 0.002) after the shunt. The left atrial systolic volume and left ventricular diastolic volume also increased significantly following the shunt (from 15.82 +/- 6.37 to 20.83 +/- 8.91 ml p = 0.006 and from 36.13 +/- 16.08 to 41.08 +/- 20.07 ml (p = 0.01) respectively. There was significant growth of main, right and left pulmonary arteries and pulmonary valve annulus after the procedure.
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Blood Flow Velocity , Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation/methods , Child , Child, Preschool , Echocardiography , Female , Heart Defects, Congenital/physiopathology , Humans , Infant , Male , Oxygen Consumption , Polytetrafluoroethylene , Pulmonary Artery/surgery , Pulmonary Atresia/surgery , Subclavian Artery/surgery , Treatment Outcome , Ultrasonography, Doppler , Ventricular Function, LeftABSTRACT
Tuberculous rheumatism is not generally accepted as a specific disease entity in Great Britain or the U.S.A. We are reporting a adult male whom we believe suffered from this disease, to open the controversy surrounding its existence with a review of the literature.
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Adult , Diagnosis, Differential , Humans , Male , Rheumatic Diseases/complications , Tuberculosis/complicationsABSTRACT
Rhinocerebral mucormycosis with hemiparesis occurred in a young woman who was not a known diabetic. Rhyzopus species grew from the initial nasal biopsy. The patient was treated with amphotericin B, in addition to control of diabetic ketoacidosis. Surgical intervention was not done. The patient died on the fourth day of hospitalisation.