Báo cáo y học: "Rheumatologists, take heart! We may be doing something right" docx

... RA. Editorial Rheumatologists, take heart! We may be doing something right Ronald F van Vollenhoven Rheumatology Unit, the Karolinska Institute, Department of Rheumatology, The Karolinska University Hospital, Reumatologen ... clearly increased the risk of cardiovascular events, confirming a previous publication by Turesson and colleagues [2]. The real importance of this study, h...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:22

... Have We Learned? Timothy K. Vander Leek, MD, FRCPC Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Correspondence to: Timothy K. ... inhaled therapy for those whose asthma was not totally controlled as defined by the study. This challenges the thought that there is no benefit to escalating inhaled corticos- teroid doses beyond...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... indepen- dently. In summary, this case illustrates the typical clinical manifestations of hyper-IgM syndrome due to AID deficiency, which differ significantly from those of hyper-IgM syndrome due ... AID deficiency. The R112C mutation has never been reported in France, the country of the Quebec founders. This is not sur- prising because the mutation may have a low fre- quency in France, and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... in number, but the individual still man- ifests the classical clinical symptoms with varying behav- ioral phenotypes. To date, many vulnerability genes have been identified but none have been ... and which promotes brain asymmetry, a noted characteristic among many schizophrenic patients. Similar to Weinberger's theory on susceptibility to schizo- phrenia, Benes et al. examined the ... m...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... modulators might be acting in both capacities. Statins are particularly topical in this regard. Statins (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A [HMG- CoA] reductase inhibitors) are widely prescribed for ... 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A; IFN = interferon; i.p. = intraperitoneally; LPS = lipopolysaccharide; Th = T helper cell; TNF = tumour necrosis factor. Arthritis Research & The...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... during the last 4-year period by analyzing the reasons that led to the postponement of cardiac operations. Although organisatory reasons have also been taken into account, we have mainly focused on ... procedure postponed. The reasons were mainly organisatory (in 49 cases, 52.12%), which in order of significance were: unavailability in operating rooms, shortage in matching erythrocyte units...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... Petersberg, FL). One layer of foam or two rolls of gauze were placed between the sternal edges. A second layer of foam or two rolls of gauze were placed over the first la yer, between the soft tissue wound ... Gauze may provide an alternative to foam for the treatment of sternotomy wounds using NPWT. Acknowledgements This study was funded by Åke-Wieberg Foundation, the Magn Bergvall Foundat...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:23

... recent study reported by Yap and coworkers [7]. They retrospectively studied more than 1000 patients over an 18-month period, their hypothesis being that serum hypoalbuminaemia may be predictive ... the study shows that the transpyloric tube is as useful as a nasogastric tube for early nutrition in the critically ill. One may argue that this implies a lot more effort for little or no be...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... based primarily on the important yet limited Rivers study [3]? Why aren’t we all practising homogenized medicine? What does it take to standardize our approach to care of the critically ill? Uncertainty ... based, namely the use of corticosteroids, activated protein C and early goal-directed therapy are currently being questioned via, respectively, the CORTICUS study findings, the Europea...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... acute respiratory syndrome) epidemic, many health care profes- sionals will wonder whether we are well prepared to cope with the anticipated influenza pandemic [2,3]. Worldwide, health authorities and many ... to patients, physicians - at least in developed countries - are suddenly facing the possibility that occupational risk will increase substantially. If they are not confronted before t...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22