In summary, although the most efficacious route for volume expansion in CI-AKI prophylaxis remains debatable, the intravenous route is more reliable for fluid delivery to the patients.
Colloidal agents are more efficacious at restoring plasma volume compared with crystalloids, per unit of fluid given [ 1, 17].
For example, a mAb that is efficacious in low tumor-volume settings may have an important role in clearing the bone marrow of residual malignant cells.
Recently, Olarte-Sánchez et al. (2013) compared the values of a for corn oil and sucrose reinforcers; their findings were consistent with extant evidence that sucrose is less efficacious than corn oil on a volume-for-volume basis, but more efficacious on a calorie-for-calorie basis (Naleid et al., 2008).
Olarte-Sánchez et al. (2013) noted that although corn oil was evidently more efficacious than 0.6 M sucrose on a volume-for-volume basis, sucrose was the more efficacious reinforcer on a calorie-for-calorie basis.
CONCLUSION: In the diagnosis of amnestic mild cognitive impairment, use of left hippocampal volume may be more efficacious than use of right hippocampal volume and may add to the value of routine screening MMSE.
There is conflicting evidence on whether epidural steroid injections are efficacious, 61 62 63 and if so, what volume, composition, or concentration of injection is best.
UMP is technically feasible, safe, and efficacious and an alternative for small volume renal calculous disease with an advantage of high immediate and final stone-free and lower complication rates.
31 However, a one year randomized trial comparing α blockade with terazosin to finasteride and placebo showed that although finasteride reduced prostate volume by 20%, it was not as efficacious as terazosin and no more efficacious than placebo in improving urinary symptoms and flow rates.
KD025 appeared even more efficacious in females (42% reduction in infarct volume).
