Effect of three different insect larvae on growth performance and antioxidant activity of thigh, breast, and liver tissues of chickens reared under mild heat stress.

This study investigated the potential of insect-based diets to mitigate heat stress impact on broiler chickens, focusing on growth performance and antioxidant stability. Four dietary groups were examined, including a control and three treated groups with Tenebrio molitor (TM), Hermetia illucens (HI), and Zophobas morio (ZM) larvae, respectively, at a 5% replacement ratio. Temperature and relative humidity of the poultry house were monitored.

A meta-analysis of vascular access outcomes in hemodialysis patients aged 75 years or older.

Background: Several existing guidelines advocate the access creation without any specific recommendations for those patients over 75 years of age. The aim of this meta-analysis is to compare the outcomes of different vascular access procedures in the sub-group of elderly ESRD patients ⩾75 years of age.

Methods: A literature search was performed using the MEDLINE and SCOPUS electronic databases.

Adjustment Mechanisms in the Acute Phase of Myocardial Infarction in Men.

Aim: Stress and Coping Model and Post-Traumatic Growth Theory indicate adjustment procedures concepts after a crisis. The objective of this study was to assess the relationships between causal attributions, coping strategies and post-traumatic growth in male patients with acute myocardial infarction and variable cardiac function severity.

Methods: Seventy-eight male patients surviving a myocardial infarction, were divided into two sub-groups based on left ventricular ejection fraction measurements [Group A (left ventricular ejection fraction: <45%, n = 34), Group B (left ventricular ejection fraction: ≥45%, n = 44)] and were interviewed after the acute phase of myocardial infarction, on the last day of their coronary unit stay.

A unique hypofractionated radiotherapy schedule with 51.3 Gy in 18 fractions three times per week for early breast cancer: outcomes including local control, acute and late skin toxicity.

Aim: Evaluation of local control and acute and late toxicity regarding a hypofractionated RT schedule for breast cancer patients.

Methods And Materials: Between October 2007 and October 2009, 80 women with early breast cancer were treated by 42.75 Gy in 15 fractions over 5 weeks.

Suggestion for a new grading scale for radiation induced pneumonitis based on radiological findings of computerized tomography: correlation with clinical and radiotherapeutic parameters in lung cancer patients.

Background: The objective of this research is the computed axial tomography (CT) imaging grading of radiation induced pneumonitis (RP) and its correlation with clinical and radiotherapeutic parameters.

Materials And Methods: The chest CT films of 20 patients with non-small cell lung cancer who have undergone three- dimensional conformal radiation therapy were reviewed. The proposed CT grading of RP is supported on solely radiological diagnosis criteria and distinguishes five grades.