Báo cáo y học: " Unique relationship between osteophyte and femoral-tibia component size mismatch in determining polyethylene wear in primary total knee arthroplasty: a case report" pdf

... report Unique relationship between osteophyte and femoral-tibia component size mismatch in determining polyethylene wear in primary total knee arthroplasty: a case report Manjunath Ramappa* and Andrew ... of a non-articulating polyethylene surface. Asymmetrical wear of a polyethylene bearing can alter the mechanical axis of the knee and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... Finally, the clinical relevance of these data regarding RA and malignancy is unclear. Should clinicians screen RA patients differently than typical patients? Competing interests The authors declare ... polyps as well as the risk of advanced adenomas at one and three years after randomization [5]. Use of immune modulating therapies in RA may also underlie the observed reduction in brea...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... cervical and the lum- bar spinal segments were analysed for spinal inflammation, similar to the available x-rays. To be even more precise in the relationship of inflammatory activity in MRI and ... only. For analysis of the relationship between spinal inflammation at BL and radiographic progression after 2 years, all individual VEs were examined by MRI for signs of inflammatio...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:21

... Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant database contains information on patient demographics and hospitaliza- tions, outpatient service utilization, and outpatient phar- macy data from over ... affect patient outcomes, without artificially compelling a linear relationship between MPR and outcomes, or arbitrarily determining that any particular MPR threshold is ap...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... bred in a barrier facility (John P Robarts Barrier Facility, London, Ontario, Canada) and maintained at a conventional animal housing facility (Animal Care and Veterinary Services, Uni- versity ... thymidine (ICN Biomed- icals, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) was added to each well. Cells were harvested onto glass fiber filters (Wallac, Turku, Finland) and radioactivity was determined u...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... anti-inflammatory therapy, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients continue to rate pain as a priority. The etiology of RA pain is likely multifactorial, including both inflammatory and non-inflammatory components. In ... versa [57]. However, RA pain differs from fibromyalgia pain because RA pain frequently has an inflammatory component. Localized, inflammatory pain may cause sleep disturba...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... each day's main sleep period was inferred from urinary 6-sulphatoxymelatonin (aMT6s) excretion rates. All urine passed during a main sleep period was collected in a plastic bottle. At the ... during each day's main sleep period. The samples were subsequently assayed for the metabolite of melatonin in urine, 6- sulphatoxymelatonin (aMT6s), and the rate of excretion during m...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... rates in Norway increased by approximately 70%, where as they decreased slightly in Sweden. The reduction in the inci- dence of suicides caused by intoxication in Norway can explain about half ... data and GD wrote the first draft. PHZ performed the statistical analyses. All authors have contributed to writing and revising the manuscript, and all authors read and approved the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... suggestions that clot location and size may be important determinants in defining the embolic risk [10]. As suggested by Manten et al. [10], these initial clot parameters may be influenced by different ... prevalence was higher in cases that were associated with a fatal PE. Using autopsy material, Vandenbroucke et al. [13] divided autopsied individuals into two groups. The first con...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... meal were evaluated using two-way ANOVA with post hoc analyses. The relationships between GE with baseline plasma CCK and PYY, changes in plasma CCK and PYY (from baseline to t = 60 minutes and ... IL, USA). Statistical analysis Data are presented as mean ± standard error of the mean. The integrated changes in plasma concentrations of CCK and PYY were calculated and expressed...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21