Báo cáo y học: "Acute phase reactants add little to composite disease activity indices for rheumatoid arthritis: validation of a clinical activity score" potx

... http://arthritis-research.com/content/7/4/R796 R796 Vol 7 No 4 Research article Acute phase reactants add little to composite disease activity indices for rheumatoid arthritis: validation of a clinical activity ... needed [10-12]. For the purpose of disease activity ACR = American College of Rheumatology; ANOVA = analysis of variance; APR = acute...

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... ligament and was resected totally. Histopathological diagnosis was Schwannoma. The patient maintained a healthy status for five years. Background Although peripheral nerve tumors are rare, the median nerve ... of Batman State Hospital, Batman, Turkey and 3 Department of Pathology, Medical Faculty, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey Email: Mehmet Dumlu Aydin* - nmda11@hotmail.com; D...

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... association between anti-TNF monoclonal antibody therapy in rheumatoid arthritis and risk of malignancy and serious infection? Commentary on the meta-analysis by Bongartz et al . Will Dixon and Alan ... factor (TNF) agents and their widespread use, particularly for treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA), is based on favourable results from large-scale randomized clinical trials (RCTs)....

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... apopain, and YAMA), plays a central role in the execution of apoptosis in mammalian cells, and activation of caspase 3 is therefore a hallmark of apoptotic cells [14]. To assess the contribution of caspases ... proteases called cas- pases. Caspases are synthesized as inactive proenzymes that are processed by proteolytic cleavage to form an active enzyme. A member of this f...

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... precursor by metalloproteinases. Nature 1994, 370:555-557. 38. Yoshihara Y, Nakamura H, Obata K, Yamada H, Hayakawa T, Fujikawa K, Okada Y: Matrix metalloproteinases and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases ... the synovium of chronic arthritis patients. J Immunol 2001, 166:650-655. 48. Tsubaki T, Takegawa S, Hanamoto H, Arita N, Kamogawa J, Yamamoto H, Takubo N, Nakata S, Yamada K,...

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... The laboratory actigraphic data was regarded as the most rele- vant sleep data to compare to baseline, because acti- graphic data allowed comparisons of objective home versus laboratory sleep. To assess ... respectively. Data Analysis Circadian Phase Assessment and Exclusion of Data An investigator (JAE) used a four-point ranking system to rate the visual "quality"...

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... averaging -1.06 h; that is, from 10 to 16 h after the aMT6s acrophase, there appeared to be a dead-zone Phase shifts of acrophase of aMT6s rhythmFigure 4 Phase shifts of acrophase of aMT6s rhythm. ... was not assayed for the final third of laboratory studies. Circadian Analyses Separate analyses were done for the last 24 h of baseline 90-min sleep-wake cycle, before...

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... Nagy Karoly Kalmar, Lajos Papp, Csaba Weninger, Tamas Tornoczky, Endre Kalman, Kalman Toth, Tamas Habon: Pulmonary embolization as primary manifestation of hepatocellular carcinoma with intracardiac ... Inferior Vena Cava: Surgical Strategies. Ann Vasc Surg 2005, 19:522-8. 8. Kojiro M, Nakahara H, Sugihara S, Murakami T, Nakashima T, Kawasaki H: Hepatocellular carcinoma with intra-atrial tu...

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... ventricular filling result, which is called serial ventricular interdependence. Our aim was to eval- uate hemodynamic status of a pulmonary artery to left atrium shunt which can have many advantages and comparison ... directly from each cardiac chamber at 10 and 20 minutes from the baseline. Statistical Analysis Data is expressed as mean ± standard deviation (S.D.) or median (in case...

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... underwent emergency coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for persistent post-infarction angina and acute heart failure. Case presentation A 28-year-o ld man smoker and substance abuser (cocaine and circumstantial ... CABG due to anterolateral myocardial infarction. Our presentation is one of the very rare cases reported in literature regarding acute thrombosis of left main coronar...

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