Accuracy of urinary dipstick for glucose and protein determination in canine cerebrospinal fluid.

Objective: To evaluate the precision of urinary dipstick (UD) to assess protein and glucose concentrations in canine CSF samples compared to the standard methods.

Methods: Cerebrospinal fluid protein and glucose were measured in 22 samples from dogs with neurological diseases affecting the CNS using UD and biochemistry (pyrogallol red and glucose oxidase reaction, respectively). Results were converted into scores to allow comparison between methods.

Acquired Pediatric Right Diaphragmatic Hernia Following Automatic Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillator Placement.

Diaphragmatic hernias are an uncommon occurrence in the pediatric population; however, they can cause significant morbidity and mortality if the diagnosis is missed or delayed. This case discusses the radiographic and clinical exam findings of a one-year-old patient with this pathology.

Ocular risk management in patients undergoing general anesthesia: an analysis of 39,431 surgeries.

Objective: This study sought to describe and analyze ocular findings associated with nonocular surgery in patients who underwent general anesthesia.

Methods: The authors retrospectively collected a series of 39,431 surgeries using standardized data forms.

Results: Ocular findings were reported in 9 cases (2.

Articular surface approximation in equivalent spatial parallel mechanism models of the human knee joint: an experiment-based assessment.

In-depth comprehension of human joint function requires complex mathematical models, which are particularly necessary in applications of prosthesis design and surgical planning. Kinematic models of the knee joint, based on one-degree-of-freedom equivalent mechanisms, have been proposed to replicate the passive relative motion between the femur and tibia, i.e.

Effects of DDT on reproduction in multiple generations of beagle dogs.

The effects of chronic oral exposure to 1, 5, and 10 mg of technical DDT/kg/day on: 1) age at puberty, length of gestation, fertility, success of pregnancy, litter size, and lactational ability of dams; 2) viability, survival to weaning, sex distribution and growth of pups; and 3) morbidity, mortality, organ/body weight ratios, gross and histologic abnormalities in all animals were studied through three generations of Beagle dogs. There were a total of 135 adult female and 63 adult male dogs in the project which produced 650 pups. There were no statistically significant differences among control and DDT-treated dogs in any of the reproductive variables, with the exception of age at puberty of the females.