Báo cáo y học: "UK pneumonectomy outcome study (UKPOS): a prospective observational study of pneumonectomy outcome" pot

... The American College of Car- diology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) practice guideline update on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation for noncardiac surgery 2002 indicates that patients ... Status This study has shown that an ASA Physical Status of more than or equal to P3 is associated with poor outcome. Despite its widespread clinical use, the value of the ASA Physica...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... number of per- patrators was, of course, too small to enable adequate sta- tistical analyses. Yet, it may be that the definition of an actual parental relationship having had to exist, affected the ... design, and acquisition of data, analyzed and interpreted data, and served as first author. SA contributed to conception, design, and acquisition of data, analyzed and interpreted dat...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... flux is measured in the skin using laser Doppler fluxmetry [12]. Finally, measurement of differential perfusion is impeded by the rather small signal and oscillatory pattern of basal cutaneous microcirculation ... is apparent that relatively large observed changes or large sample sizes are needed to detect statistically significant differences between groups. Statistical issues: power cal...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... progress of therapy. This study incorporated a secondary aim of exploring associa- tions between echocardiographic variables, particularly E/E', and mortality. It is unlikely that any isolated ... A, peak active transmitral velocity; E, peak early diastolic (passive) transmitral velocity; E', peak early diastolic mitral annular velocity; IVC, inferior vena cava; LA, left a...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... sagittal planes. For this study however, only data from the sagittal plane were analyzed. Eight dependent variables were compared using one way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The angular variables are the ... childhood and puberty. Indeed, it could reflect an adaptation process aimed at maintaining an adequate sagittal balance and appropriate configura- tion in terms of musculoskeletal l...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... antibodies) and radiographs. Peripheral and axial joints were evaluated with standard methods. All syn- ovial fluid samples were cultured and analysed for crystals. Pathogens that habitually cause arthritis ... this study, which included epidemiological and demographic data, medical history, clinical features, physical examination, laboratory data (including tests for rheumatoid factor and a...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... Homburg, Germany Email: Abdullah Nabhan* - dr _a_ nabhan@hotmail.com; Basem Ishak - basem-ishak@web.de; Jehad Al-Khayat - j.alkhayat@uks.eu; Wolf- Ingo Steudel - ncwste@uniklinik-saarland.de * Corresponding ... Steudel 1 Address: 1 Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Department, University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany and 2 Department of Anesthesia, Anesthesia Department, Univ...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... 01301 Vantaa, Finland Email: Nina Lindberg* - nina.lindberg@hus.fi; Taina Laajasalo - taina.laajasalo@helsinki.fi; Matti Holi - matti.holi@hus.fi; Hanna Putkonen - hanna.putkonen@vvs.fi; Ghitta Weizmann-Henelius ... the rate of the other Nordic countries [4]. Approximately 9% of homicides each year are committed by individuals aged less than 20 years [5]. As many as 92% of the young ho...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... University, 1-4-3, Asahi-machi, Abenoku, Osaka, 545- 8585, Japan Email: Hiroshi Kanazawa* - kanazawa-h@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp; Kazuhisa Asai - kazuhisa.asai@mcgill.ca; Saeko Nomura - Saeko6@aol.com * Corresponding ... chronic inflammation characterized by an influx of inflammatory cells, predominantly neutrophils, macrophages, and CD8+ T lymphocytes, into the airway walls and paren- chyma [5]....

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... study did not find any correlation with weight and age, proba- bly because our patients had reached approximately 60 years of age with the same normal body weight. For these reasons our study ... were analyzed by analysis of variance (ANOVA). The Pearson's test was performed to assess possible corre- lation between MIP and MEP values and anthropometric and functional parameters....

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21