Báo cáo y học: "Cerebral involvement in a patient with Goodpasture''''''''s disease due to shortened induction therapy: a case report" pdf

... daily, and continuously reducing it over the fol- lowing 6 months. Case presentation A 21-year-old Caucasian man with histologically proven (renal biopsy) Goodpasture's disease since spring ... switched to continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialy- sis. Four months later, the patient was readmitted because of a pulmonary complication with anemia due to tracheal suffusion...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... generally agreed that advancing age and family history of dementia are the major risk factors in typical, late-onset AD [2]. Genetic factors can also be a contributing risk in early-onset disease. ... Daily Living in- ventory [ADCS/ADL], an assessment developed to meas- ure the daily activities of patients with AD [53]) and in behavioral symptoms (according to the Neuropsychi...

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... Kaarela K, Helin H, Isomaki H: Secondary amyloidosis has decreased in patients with inflammatory joint disease in Finland. Clin Rheumatol 1999, 18:122-123. 4. Singh G, Kumari N, Aggarwal A, ... inflammatory mediators caused by the amyloidosis. Introduction Reactive systemic AA amyloidosis, with a sustained acute phase response (APR), can complicate chronic inflamma- tory disord...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... isolated cases associated with primary biliary cirrhosis and hepatic granulomas are reported. Shah et al. [10], reported a case of Wegener’sgranulo- matosis with perivascular and periportal granuloma ... possibility of ischemic hepatitis in a patient without previous heart condition history was nil, and that our patient had hemodynamic stability and a perfectly normal echoca...

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... granulocyte and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factors, oncostatin M, and macrophage migration inhibitory factor, also induce synovial angiogenesis [16,31]. In contrast, other cytokines, ... associated with age, disease duration, and anti-CCP, CRP, and IL-6 production [44]. In SLE, primary APS (PAPS) and secondary APS associated with SLE, traditional, and autoimmune-infla...

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... Boulay G: The radiological evidence of raised intracranial pressure in children. Br J Radiol 1957, 30:375-377. 9. Tajima M, Yamada H, Kageyama N: Craniolacunia in newborn with myelomeningocele. ... severe intracranial hypertension. Meanwhile in the occipital area, where the cranium and brain are closely associated, high ICP can result in a bone defect and dura associated with...

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... probably asthma patients with fixed airway obstruction. The sensi- tivity analyses showed that the cut-off point of FENO remained the same when actually non-smoking patients initially labelled as ... reversibility testing or bronchial provocation, namely untreated hyper- thyreosis, unstable coronary artery disease, and cardiac arrhythmia. Pregnancy also led to exclusion. The study was ap...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... Central Page 1 of 3 (page number not for citation purposes) Respiratory Research Open Access Correction 'Diagnosing Asthma in General Practice with Portable Exhaled Nitric Oxide Measurement ... correctly excluded asthma by FENO measure- ment increases at FENO £ 16 ppb; and the range of the con- fidence interval narrows. Thus three patients need to be diagnosed for excluding asthma...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... to be excluded from the analysis. One patient developed an acute intracranial pathology manifesting with a unilaterally dilated pupil, coma, and death. In six patients, con- tinuous deep sedation ... reference range for diurnal variation given by the manufacturer is 138 to 690 nmol/L. A non-parametric approach was used for analysis as data are clearly not normally distributed. C...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... brain and regulates brain capillary blood fl ow [1]. In sepsis, cerebral endothelial cells are activated by lipopoly- saccharide (LPS) and pro -in ammatory cytokines, including bradykinin, ... counteractive anti -in ammatory reaction. Pro- and anti -in ammatory cytokines are initially up- regu lated. Despite its anatomical sequestration from the immune system by the blood-brain barrier,...

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