Báo cáo y học: "Prolonged high-dose intravenous magnesium therapy for severe tetanus in the intensive care unit: a case series" pot

... data on the safety and efficacy of magnesium therapy are available, its use should be limited to carefully selected tetanus cases. Introduction Tetanus is a rare and potentially fatal disease ... 10.1186/1752-1947-4-100 Cite this article as: Karanikolas et al., Prolonged high-dose intravenous mag- nesium therapy for severe tetanus in the intensive care unit:...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... in Cases Database Any patient, any case, can teach us something www.casesnetwork.com Case report Open Access Prolonged extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy for severe acute respiratory ... GF made a substantial contribution in analysing and interpreting the patient’s data during the ICU admission and has been involved in drafting the manuscript for the part c...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... Connolly SJ: Long-term amiodarone therapy and the risk of complications after cardiac surgery: results from the Canadian Amiodarone Myocardial Infarction Arrhythmia Trial (CAMIAT). J Thorac Cardiovasc ... placebo [91,94-97]. A meta-analysis showed that class IA, class IC and class III antiarrhythmic agents are equally effective in obtaining SR [98]. Meta-analyses comparing amiodaron...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... hypoplastic suprarenal segment causing abdominal subcutaneous veins as collaterals. With this anomaly, the external and internal iliac veins join to form enlarged ascending abdominal wall and lumbar veins, ... abdominal wall veins and absence of the inferior vena cava. AA, abdominal aorta Figure 2 Gadolinium-enhanced MRI showing multiple paraumbilical and abdominal wall veins. AV HV Liver...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 06:23

... con- comitant metabolic alkalosis, which was essentially secondary to hypoalbuminemia. Hypoalbuminemia lowered the anion gap and masked the presence of acidifying anions to those clinicians using conventional ... [Ca 2+ ] – [Cl – ] – [lactate] The calculation then takes into account the role of weak acids (carbon dioxide, albumin, and phosphate) in the balance of electrical charge...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... by a pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase that may be activated by sepsis [62], leading to pyruvate accumulation and subsequently an increase in lactate. Dichloroacetate stimulates pyruvate kinase, increasing ... THAM is an interesting agent that deserves further study, including as a potential therapy for patients with lactic acidosis. Alternative agents for lactic acidosis Dichloroacet...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... glucose, fasting lipid panel, haematology, serum chemistry (sodium, potassium, creatinine, calcium, alanin e transaminase, alkaline phosphatase, and international normalized ratio). An abnormal value ... laboratory tests: fasting blood glucose, fast- ing lipid panel, hematology, and serum chemistry (sodium, potassium, creatinine,calcium,alanine transaminase, alkaline phosphatase, and internat...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... Hematoxylin and eosin staining of the zygapophy- seal joint, revealing numerous mononuclear cells in the bone marrow (yellow arrow) and a relatively small amount of edema (20%) in the bone marrow ... marrow infiltation in the histopathological assessment. Some of the patients had inflammatory lesions in other parts of the spine, as indicated in Table 1. Interestingly,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... Charlie K Wang - cwang47@stanford.edu; Alpana Gowda - agowda@stanford.edu; Meredith Barad - mbarad@stanford.edu; Sean C Mackey - smackey@pain.stanford.edu; Ian R Carroll* - irc39@pain.stanford.edu * ... intercostal pain, and his notalgia paresthetica scapular pain was located several inches medial to the posterior margin of the thoracotomy scar. He began elec- trical stimulation of the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... abdominal wall veins and absence of the inferior vena cava. AA, abdominal aorta Figure 2 Gadolinium-enhanced MRI showing multiple paraumbilical and abdominal wall veins. AV HV Liver Stomach PVC AA Figure ... congenitally absent infrarenal IVC with preservation of a hypoplastic suprarenal segment causing abdominal subcutaneous veins as collaterals. With this anomaly, the external and int...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:20