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OBJECTIVE: We examined an adult patient who lost one eye due to severe keratomalacia secondary to self-induced vitamin A deficiency. METHODS: This case report provides a clinical, ophthalmologic, and laboratory description in addition to a review of the medical literature. RESULTS: A 33-y-old woman with a 17-y history of an eating disorder presented with bilateral conjunctival xerosis, an infected corneal ulcer in the right eye and a large descemetocele in the left eye. Laboratory and clinical findings were consistent with vitamin A deficiency. Despite a tectonic penetrating keratoplasty, her left eye perforated and had to be eviscerated. In parallel, vitamin A replacement improved her clinical status and the ocular findings in her right eye. CONCLUSIONS: The present report indicates that vitamin A deficiency secondary to eating disorders should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients with severe dry eye and corneal ulceration.
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Blindness/etiology , Corneal Ulcer/etiology , Feeding and Eating Disorders/complications , Vitamin A Deficiency/complications , Vitamin A/therapeutic use , Adult , Conjunctival Diseases/diagnosis , Conjunctival Diseases/etiology , Corneal Ulcer/diagnosis , Diagnosis, Differential , Eye Evisceration , Female , Humans , Treatment Outcome , Vitamin A Deficiency/diagnosis , Vitamin A Deficiency/drug therapy , Xerophthalmia/diagnosis , Xerophthalmia/etiologyABSTRACT
1. A model for estimating egg production curves in layers was developed and tested against other existing models. The model uses a three segment polynomial (constant-cubic-linear) and is reparameterised to estimate variables of practical importance. 2. The model predicted future production based on partial data better and estimated egg production curves as well as the currently existing models.
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Chickens , Eggs , Models, Biological , Oviposition , Animals , Female , Housing, Animal , Mathematics , Reproducibility of ResultsABSTRACT
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of artificial insemination time (before or after ovulation) using either fresh or frozen-thawed boar semen on embryo viability and early pregnancy rate. Seventy-seven prepubertal crossbred (Landrace x Large White x Duroc) gilts were inseminated in 4 treatments. Artificial inseminations were performed 6 h either after (A) or before (B) ovulation using frozenthawed (A-frozen, n = 19; B-frozen, n = 19) or fresh semen (A-fresh, n = 21; B-fresh, n = 18). The gilts were induced to puberty by administration of 400 IU of eCG and 200 IU hCG (sc) followed by 500 IU of hCG (sc) 72 h later. Ovulation was predicted to occur 42 h after the second injection. All animals were slaughtered 96 h after AI. Embryos were collected and classified as viable (5- to 8-cells, morulae, compacted morulae and early blastocysts) and nonviable (fragmented, degenerated and 1- to 4-cell embryos). The total embryo viability rate was: 64.3% (A-frozen), 54.2% (A-fresh), 76.0% (B-frozen), 91.9% (B-fresh); (A-fresh vs B-fresh, P = 0.018; A-frozen vs B-frozen, P = 0.094). It was observed that AI before ovulation resulted in a higher percentage of total viable embryos than AI after ovulation (P = 0.041). The early pregnancy rate, defined as presence of at least one viable embryo, was 78.9, 80.9, 84.2 and 94.4% for A-frozen, A-fresh, B-frozen, B-fresh, respectively. There was no significant difference in the early pregnancy rate among groups. In conclusion, there was a detrimental effect upon total embryo viability rate when AI was performed after ovulation with either frozen-thawed or fresh semen. The total embryo viability rate and the early pregancy rate were not affected by AI with either frozen-thawed or fresh semen regardless of the time of AI.
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Comparou-se, em ovos embrionados, a virulência de quatro amostras brasileiras de Mycoplasma sinoviae (Ms) com a da amostra padräo MS WVU 1853. Um dos isolados e a amostra padräo tiveram o mesmo índice de mortalidade embrionária indicando alta virulência. Dois isolados tiveram virulência semelhante à do grupo controle, näo detectável pelo método utilizado, e o quinto isolado apresentou virulência intermediária
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Mycoplasma/isolation & purification , Mycoplasma/pathogenicityABSTRACT
Os autores demonstram conveniencia da apendicectomia profilatica, realizada durante as laparotomias, por outras condicoes cirurgicas que nao a apendicite aguda Comparam-se os resultados pos-operatorios e anatomopatologicos, dando enfase ao alto indice de apendices ileocecais com alteracoes patologicas, a nao dependencia dessa conduta a indicacao cirurgica primaria e o baixo percentual de complicacoes. O estudo finaliza concluindo que esse procedimento e recomendavel e devia ser adotado como rotina
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Humans , Appendectomy , LaparoscopyABSTRACT
Os autores praticaram a imunoterapia anti-cancer empregado infusao endovenosa de 5 mg de BCG da cepa Rio de Janeiro. Concluiram ser este um metodo aceitavel, considerando sua boa tolerancia. Os efeitos colaterais foram moderados e as complicacoes reversiveis.
