Protective effect of multimicronutrient supplementation against anemia among children, women, and adolescent girls in lower-income areas of Chiclayo, Peru.

Background: The Integrated Food Security Program (Programa Integrado de Seguridad Alimentaria [PISA]) implemented a campaign to promote weekly multimicronutrient supplementation among women and adolescent girls of childbearing age and children under 5 years of age.

Objectives: To assess the impact of the campaign on the growth of children and on anemia among children and among women and adolescent girls of childbearing age.

Methods: Weekly multimicronutrient supplementation was provided for 8 weeks.

Abdominal heart transplantation: description of a new allograft extrathoracic pump.

This study describes a new kind of abdominal heart transplantation for left ventricular assistance carried out in a series of 12 experiments in pigs weighing 15-25 kg. This was achieved making three connections between the donor's left atrium, aorta and pulmonary artery with the recipient's aorta, still aorta and inferior vena cava, respectively. The hemodynamic data were satisfactory, the best survival rate with a transplanted working heart was 1 month.

The image intensifier in oral and maxillofacial surgery.

The mobile image intensifier has been found useful in the removal of foreign bodies from both intraoral and extraoral sites. The safety of the machine has been verified, and a technique for its application is described. Additional uses for the machine are stated.