Maternal Supplementation with Herbal Antioxidants during Pregnancy in Swine.

The effects of a combined supplementation with herbal antioxidants during pregnancy on reproductive traits and piglet performance (number of live, dead, and mummified newborns and litter weight at birth and individual body weight at both birth and weaning) were assessed in a total of 1027 sows (504 treated and 523 control females) kept under commercial breeding conditions. The supplementation increased the number of live-born piglets (13.64 ± 0.

High-flow nasal cannula for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) due to COVID-19.

Introduction: High-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy (HFNC) has been shown to be a useful therapy in the treatment of patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), but its efficacy is still unknown in patients with COVID-19. Our objective is to describe its utility as therapy for the treatment of ARDS caused by SARS-CoV-2.

Methods: A retrospective, observational study was performed at a single centre, evaluating patients with ARDS secondary to COVID-19 treated with HFNC.

Glomerulopathy in spontaneously obese rhesus monkeys with type 2 diabetes: a stereological study.

Background: Animal models could provide insights into the diabetic nephropathy pathogenesis; however, available rodent models do not mirror the heterogeneity of lesions in type 2 diabetic patients, and do not progress to end-stage renal disease. Previous studies showed that spontaneously obese type 2 diabetic rhesus monkeys develop many of the features of human diabetic glomerulopathy, and may progress to end-stage renal disease. Here, in order to further characterize diabetic glomerulopathy in this model, we used electron microscopic stereology.

Clinical significance of primary vesicoureteral reflux and urinary antibiotic prophylaxis after acute pyelonephritis: a multicenter, randomized, controlled study.

Objectives: To evaluate the role of primary vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) in increasing the frequency and severity of urinary tract infections (UTIs) and renal parenchymal damage among patients with acute pyelonephritis and to determine whether urinary antibiotic prophylaxis reduces the frequency and/or severity of UTIs and/or prevents renal parenchymal damage among patients with mild/moderate VUR.

Methods: Patients 3 months to 18 years of age with acute pyelonephritis, with or without VUR, were assigned randomly to receive urinary antibiotic prophylaxis or not. Patients were monitored every 3 months for 1 year.