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Comparative study of efficacy and safety of parenteral iron sucrose versus ferric carboxymaltose in treatment of postpartum iron deficiency anaemia
Background: Postpartum anaemia often leads to multiple clinical complications in mother as well as infant and iron supplementation with parenteral iron is the preferred treatment modality. The present study was planned to compare the efficacy and tolerability of IV iron sucrose and IV ferric carboxymaltose in treatment of postpartum iron deficiency anaemia.Methods: This randomized, parallel, open label, prospective 4-weeks study was conducted from June 2019 to December 2020 in women with postpartum anaemia admitted to obstetrics and gynaecology inpatient department of a tertiary care hospital. Women with postpartum iron deficiency anaemia (N=60) were randomly divided into two groups; receiving Injection iron sucrose (N=30, maximum dose 500 mg) or Injection ferric carboxymaltose (N=30, maximum dose 500 mg). Change in haemoglobin and serum ferritin levels from baseline to the end of 2 and 4 weeks of treatment were evaluated.Results: The results showed early, sustained and significant increase in the haemoglobin levels in both the groups. However, the difference was not significant between groups (p=0.2). Evaluation of replenishment of iron stores (serum ferritin) showed improvement in both the groups, however in FCM group the rise was found to be significant (p<0.05).Conclusions: FCM in a lower dose of 500mg was found to be safe and effective in significantly improving haemoglobin concentration as well as in replenishing iron stores in patients with postpartum anaemia
New Samarium and Neodymium based admixed ferromagnets with near zero net magnetization and tunable exchange bias field
Rare earth based intermetallics, SmScGe and NdScGe, are shown to exhibit near
zero net magnetization with substitutions of 6 to 9 atomic percent of Nd and 25
atomic percent of Gd, respectively. The notion of magnetic compensation in them
is also elucidated by the crossover of zero magnetization axis at low magnetic
fields (less than 103 Oe) and field-induced reversal in the orientation of the
magnetic moments of the dissimilar rare earth ions at higher magnetic fields.
These magnetically ordered materials with no net magnetization and appreciable
conduction electron polarization display an attribute of an exchange bias
field, which can be tuned. The attractively high magnetic ordering temperatures
of about 270 K, underscore the importance of these materials for potential
applications in spintronics.Comment: 6 page text + 5 figure
Search for Cosmic-Ray Antideuterons
We performed a search for cosmic-ray antideuterons using data collected
during four BESS balloon flights from 1997 to 2000. No candidate was found. We
derived, for the first time, an upper limit of 1.9E-4 (m^2 s sr
GeV/nucleon)^(-1) for the differential flux of cosmic-ray antideuterons, at the
95% confidence level, between 0.17 and 1.15 GeV/nucleon at the top of the
atmosphere.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Status of cosmic-ray antideuteron searches
The precise measurement of cosmic-ray antiparticles serves as important means
for identifying the nature of dark matter. Recent years showed that identifying
the nature of dark matter with cosmic-ray positrons and higher energy
antiprotons is difficult, and has lead to a significantly increased interest in
cosmic-ray antideuteron searches. Antideuterons may also be generated in dark
matter annihilations or decays, offering a potential breakthrough in unexplored
phase space for dark matter. Low-energy antideuterons are an important approach
because the flux from dark matter interactions exceeds the background flux by
more than two orders of magnitude in the low-energy range for a wide variety of
models. This review is based on the "dbar14 - dedicated cosmic-ray antideuteron
workshop", which brought together theorists and experimentalists in the field
to discuss the current status, perspectives, and challenges for cosmic-ray
antideuteron searches and discusses the motivation for antideuteron searches,
the theoretical and experimental uncertainties of antideuteron production and
propagation in our Galaxy, as well as give an experimental cosmic-ray
antideuteron search status update. This report is a condensed summary of the
article "Review of the theoretical and experimental status of dark matter
identification with cosmic-ray antideuteron" (arXiv:1505.07785).Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, ICRC 2015 proceeding
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