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Complications of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in dogs and cats receiving corticosteroid treatment
BACKGROUND: Corticosteroid treatment is commonly required in veterinary patients for treatment of inflammatory, immune‐mediated, neurologic, and neoplastic diseases, which also may require assisted enteral nutrition via percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG). OBJECTIVE: To evaluate complications associated with PEG use in dogs and cats receiving corticosteroid treatment. ANIMALS: Forty‐two animals were included in the study: 12 dogs and 2 cats in the steroid group and 26 dogs and 2 cats in the control group. METHODS: Medical records, between January 2006 and March 2015, were reviewed. Patients were included if the PEG tube was in use for at least 24 hours and if complete medical records were available. Patients were assigned to the control group if they were not treated with corticosteroids during PEG use or to the steroid group if they had received corticosteroids during PEG tube use. Complications were classified as minor, moderate, and major in severity. Maximum severity complication rate was compared between groups. RESULTS: The general prevalence of complications was found to be similar between groups (P = .306), but in the steroid group, 43% of the cases developed a major severity complication compared with 18% of the control group (P = .054). CONCLUSION AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE: Owners of dogs and cats receiving corticosteroids, in which PEG is planned, should be counseled about possible complications beyond those associated with PEG tube usage alone
Universal quantum criticality at the Mott-Anderson transition
We present a large N solution of a microscopic model describing the
Mott-Anderson transition on a finite-coordination Bethe lattice. Our results
demonstrate that strong spatial fluctuations, due to Anderson localization
effects, dramatically modify the quantum critical behavior near disordered Mott
transitions. The leading critical behavior of quasiparticle wavefunctions is
shown to assume a universal form in the full range from weak to strong
disorder, in contrast to disorder-driven non-Fermi liquid ("electronic
Griffiths phase") behavior, which is found only in the strongly correlated
regime.Comment: 4 pages + references, 4 figures; v2: minor changes, accepted for
publication in Phys. Rev. Let
NeXSPheRIO results on elliptic flow at RHIC and connection with thermalization
Elliptic flow at RHIC is computed event-by-event with NeXSPheRIO. Reasonable
agreement with experimental results on is obtained. Various effects
are studied as well: reconstruction of impact parameter direction, freeze out
temperature, equation of state (with or without crossover), emission mecanism.Comment: Contribution to the Proceedings of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Thermalization workshop. Content slightly increase
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