Báo cáo y học: "Cold hands — strained heart? Advances in the management of Raynaud’s phenomenon and pulmonary hypertension" ppt

... at 1 year and 2 years of 96% and 89% compared with Viewpoint Cold hands — strained heart? Advances in the management of Raynaud’s phenomenon and pulmonary hypertension Frances C Hall University of ... processes underlying RP and PAH contribute to the familiar pattern of skin, renal and gastrointestinal pathology. The emergence of effective and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:23

... of a variety of inflammatory chemokines and their receptors [5,6]. In vitro studies have suggested that both so-called homeostatic chemokines and inflammatory chemokines, including CC chemokine ... selectively [20]. In that study a highly specific neutralizing antibody against IL-8 was administered in several types of acute inflammatory disease, including lipopolysaccharide/IL...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... correlation between MMP activity (evidenced by the 342 FFGVG-G2 and CTX biochemical markers) and the inability of cytokine-treated chondrocytes to initiate and/ or maintain anabolic activity. Switching to anabolic ... generated by an array of MMPs, of which MMP-2 and MMP-9 are only a subset. On other occasions, the presence of these gelatinases has been a valid indicatio...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... quality control program run by the Korean Society of Laboratory Medicine [3]. In 1999 and 2007, reports of antinuclear antibody test using the IT-1 cell line on 208 and 588 systemic lupus erythematosus ... commercialized and passed inspection by the Korea Food and Drug Administration in South Korea. Currently, IT-1 is being used under the name of the autoimmune tar...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:21

... systematic study is mandatory to compare the sensitivity and specificity of the AIT test for the detection of anti-Rib-P antibodies and other antibody specificities using a variety of contemporary diagnostic ... assay, and then used these sera to determine the positivity and staining patterns in the AIT test. This method raises concerns because it is generally known...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... secondary growth plate of the calcaneus. The calcaneal growth cen- tre or apophysis appears at approximately seven years of age [4] and fuses in girls of age approximately thirteen years and boys of ... for the first time. The outcomes of this trial are therefore likely t o strongly influence practice guidelines and clinical care in this area. This trial will be li...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... vascular injury [6]. While certain drugs are known to cause spe- cific types of injury, the type of injury in idiosyncratic drug reactions can be of variable morphology. A liver biopsy can be ... elucidate the mechanism of idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity. The main treatment of drug-induced liver toxicity is withdrawal of the offending agent. Most patients recover completely...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23

... judgment and insight, stereotyped thinking, and poor attention items of the scale Psychosis SCAP-HQ Bothered much by feeling that others are spying against you or plotting against you, hearing voices ... between them and their family, and the protection they have against being robbed or attacked Satisfaction with social life SCAP-HQ Combines the patient’s feeling about the w...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... exploring the clinical presentation, investigation and management of the disor- der. The incidence of dehiscent bone has been reported in cadaveric analysis to lie between 0.4 and 0.5%, with thin- ning ... thin- ning of the bone to <0.1 mm in a further 1.4% [2]. Symptoms include one or more of the following: sound induced vertigo, often in a vertical-torsional...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 19:21

... on CD36 in the lungs of Quantity of TGF-β1 and the percentage of active TGF-β1 in BALFFigure 2 Quantity of TGF-β1 and the percentage of active TGF-β1 in BALF. (A–a) The quantity of total and active ... could reduce hydroxyproline content in lung Hydroxyproline content is an important indicator of lung fibrosis. In this study, no significant differences i...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20