Influence of saltwater intake on the health of dairy cattle

Water is an element extremely important, essential for life, and necessary to maintain some factors such as intracellular pressure, assist digestive processes, carry nutrients, eliminate toxins through urine and allow the thermal balance of living things. However, it is a scarce element as the national water resources policy in Brazil advocates. In recent years water has become one of the biggest global problems due to lack and quality. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of saline intake on the health of dairy cattle. The actions consisted of periodic visits to a rural property located in the city of Pesqueira, Agreste Pernambucano - Brazil, whose main economic activity is milk production and cheese making. The herd has milk aptitude and consists of 182 animals. Samples of desalination tailings water that were supplied for quench the animals were collected. Blood samples from the cattle were collected and sent for hematological exams. The results showed alterations of some physicochemical parameters of water and high serum levels of chloride and sodium in cattle. The continuous intake of wastewater from the desalination process for the quench of dairy cattle alters the serological and physiological patterns of these animals. Further studies must be conducted on dairy products regarding their quality and health impact

Cirurgia de revascularização completa do miocárdio sem circulação extracorpórea: uma realidade

No período de janeiro de 1995 a dezembro de 1996, nossa equipe cirúrgica procurou sintematizar a cirurgia de revascularização completa do miocárdio sem circulação extracorpórea. Foram realizadas 385 operações de revascularização do miocárdio, das quais 333 (86%) sem o uso de circulação extracorpórea. O objetivo do presente estudo é analisar os resultados imediatos destes 333 pacientes, no que concerne ao tempo de permanência hospitalar, idade, sexo, número de enxertos e morbimortalidade. Todos os pacientes foram submetidos a cineangiocoronariografia prévia. Realizaram-se pontes para todas as coronárias, inclusive para as marginais da circunflexa. A idade variou de 35 a 86 anos, com média de 61 anos. O sexo masculino foi predominante com 214 (64%) pacientes. O tempo médio de permanência hospitalar foi de 7 dias. O número total de pontes implantadas foi 625, variando de 1 a 4, com média de 1,9 pontes por paciente. Houve 7 casos de complicações sem óbitos, perfazendo um total de 2% de morbidade. Registraram-se 10 óbitos no pós-operatório imediato, equivalentes a 3% de mortalidade. Em face dos dados obtidos, concluímos que este método pode ser utilizado para a grande maioria dos pacientes a serem submetidos à cirurgia de revascularização do miocárdio, com baixa morbimortalidade.<br>From January/95 to December/96 our surgical team (ICORP - Fortaleza - Ceará), has performed coronary artery surgery without cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) as a routine. During this period, 385 operations were sequencially performed, 86 per cent of them (333) without CPB. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the results of these 333 patients regarding hospitalization time, age, gender, number of grafts, functional status and morbimortality. All patients were submitted to previous coronary arteriography. All coronaies were by-passed, including the circumflex marginal artery. The age of these patients ranged from 35 to 86 years with a mean age of 61. The average time of hospitalization was 7 days; 625 grafts were placed varying from 1 to 4 with an average of 1.9 by patient. The incidence of procedure related with complications was 2 per cent (7 patients). Ten patients died in the early postoperative course. Considering the data obtained herein we conclude that this procedure can be used in the great majority of patients that undergo coronary artery surgery

NEOTROPICAL ALIEN MAMMALS: a data set of occurrence and abundance of alien mammals in the Neotropics

Biological invasion is one of the main threats to native biodiversity. For a species to become invasive, it must be voluntarily or involuntarily introduced by humans into a nonnative habitat. Mammals were among first taxa to be introduced worldwide for game, meat, and labor, yet the number of species introduced in the Neotropics remains unknown. In this data set, we make available occurrence and abundance data on mammal species that (1) transposed a geographical barrier and (2) were voluntarily or involuntarily introduced by humans into the Neotropics. Our data set is composed of 73,738 historical and current georeferenced records on alien mammal species of which around 96% correspond to occurrence data on 77 species belonging to eight orders and 26 families. Data cover 26 continental countries in the Neotropics, ranging from Mexico and its frontier regions (southern Florida and coastal-central Florida in the southeast United States) to Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and Uruguay, and the 13 countries of Caribbean islands. Our data set also includes neotropical species (e.g., Callithrix sp., Myocastor coypus, Nasua nasua) considered alien in particular areas of Neotropics. The most numerous species in terms of records are from Bos sp. (n = 37,782), Sus scrofa (n = 6,730), and Canis familiaris (n = 10,084); 17 species were represented by only one record (e.g., Syncerus caffer, Cervus timorensis, Cervus unicolor, Canis latrans). Primates have the highest number of species in the data set (n = 20 species), partly because of uncertainties regarding taxonomic identification of the genera Callithrix, which includes the species Callithrix aurita, Callithrix flaviceps, Callithrix geoffroyi, Callithrix jacchus, Callithrix kuhlii, Callithrix penicillata, and their hybrids. This unique data set will be a valuable source of information on invasion risk assessments, biodiversity redistribution and conservation-related research. There are no copyright restrictions. Please cite this data paper when using the data in publications. We also request that researchers and teachers inform us on how they are using the data