Background: Surgical mortality data are collected routinely in high-income countries, yet virtually no low-or middle-income countries have outcome surveillance in place. The aim was prospectively to collect worldwide mortality data following emergency abdominal surgery, comparing findings across countries with a low, middle or high Human Development Index (HDI).Methods: This was a prospective, multicentre, cohort study. Self-selected hospitals performing emergency surgery submitted prespecified data for consecutive patients from at least one 2-week interval during July to December 2014. Postoperative mortality was analysed by hierarchical multivariable logistic regression.

This study was conducted on 140 random samples of fresh beef and meat products viz: minced meat, luncheon and sausage (35 for each), collected from different shops at El-Kaliobia Governorate, to evaluate their bacteriological profile. The bacteriological examination of fresh beef and meat products minced meat, sausage and luncheon revealed that the mean values of APC, Enterobacteriaceae, coliform and Staphylococcus counts were 8.34×10 4 ±0. 10 ×10 4 ; 2.14×10 2 ±0.97×10 2 ; 1.25×10 2 ±0. 13 ×10 2 and 2.36×10 2 ±0.12 ×10 2 for fresh beef samples; 8.03×10 4 ±0.12×10 4 ; 2.02×10 2 ±0.76×10 2 ; 0. 89×10 2 ±0.06 ×10 2 and 2.67×10 2 ±0.11×10 2 for minced meat samples; 6.74×10 4 ±0. 28 ×10 4 ; 1.85×10 2 ±0.64×10 2 ; 0. 73×10 2 ±0.08 ×10 2 and 1.9×10 2 ±0.11 ×10 2 for sausage samples and 5.85×10 4 ±0.24×10 4 ;1.69×10 2 ±0.70×10 2 ;0.71×10 2 ±0.07×10 2 and 1.68×10 2 ±0.11×10 2 , for luncheon samples. Further, 21 isolates of E.coli were isolated from examined meat samples represented as 5(14.

invasion at. He underwent radical nephrectomy and the Case report pathological examination revealed a 4×4×5 cm left lower-pole renal tumour with no invasion of the renal A 52-year-old man was admitted with macroscopic haematuria; on CT he had a 4 cm mass at the lower capsule, vein and perinephric fat; the histological diagnosis was RCC. Five months later the patient presented pole of the left kidney and no evidence of extrarenal with a 6×5×2 cm pre-auricular and a 1×0.5×0.5 cm postauricular mass. Abdominal and thoracic CT, and a bone scan, showed no metastases. The right neck was dissected and the pre-and postauricular masses excised. The pre-auricular mass was a RCC metastasis to the parotid gland ( Fig. 1) and the postauricular mass a lymph node metastasis, with extra metastatic lymph nodes in the neck. At a recent follow-up, the patient had multiple metastases, i.e. para-aortic, inguinal and cervical.

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In this study, a new adsorbent derived from sunflower husk powder and coated in CuO nanoparticles (CSFH) was investigated to evaluate the simultaneous adsorption of Levofloxacin (LEV), Meropenem (MER), and Tetracycline (TEC) from an aqueous solution. Significant improvements in the adsorption capacity of the sunflower husk were identified after the powder particles had been coated in CuO nanoparticles. Kinetic data were correlated using a pseudo-second-order model, and was successful for the three antibiotics. Moreover, high compatibility was identified between the LEV, MER, and TEC, isotherm data, and the Langmuir model, which produced a better fit to suit the isotherm curves. In addition, the spontaneous and exothermic nature of the adsorption process was crucial for transforming the three antibiotics into CSFH. The greatest CSFH adsorption capacity was in MER (131.83 mg/g), followed by TEC (96.95 mg/g), and LEV (62.24 mg/g). These findings thus indicate that CSFH is one of the most effective and efficient adsorbents to use for eliminating wastewater contaminated with antibiotic residue.