Báo cáo y học: " Acute bronchodilator responsiveness and health outcomes in COPD patients in the UPLIFT trial" pot

... received study medication in the UPLIFT ® study. Of these patients, 5783 patients had bronchodilator responsiveness data at baseline, allowing them to be included in the present analysis. The mean ... for defining responsiveness. These findings indicate that acute bronchodilator responsiveness testing as measured in this study should not be used in predicting lon...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... Douvdevani A, Amichay D, Almog Y: The effects of statin therapy on inflammatory cytokines in patients with bacterial infections: a randomized double- blind placebo controlled clinical trial. Intensive ... AL, ET and HTS conceived the study idea. SC and HTS designed the study. RJ and KML collected the data. SC, HTS, MBJ and LP analysed the data. All authors interpreted...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... work' (for the physical functioning domain) and in the 'number of days with outside help' for the bodily pain and mental health domains. Responsiveness and reliability WPS-RA changes ... 24 on the overall mITT population and was tested against two meaningful clinical changes in patients: the ACR20 and the physical functioning (HAQ-DI) response. Ac...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:21

... surgery. Thus, understanding the changes in the CMAP during this type of injury will be useful in the detection and prevention using intra-operative neurophysiologic monitoring. The model involved ... continuously during the entire period Statistical analysis The term latency always refers to the time delay between the stimulus and the onset of the CMAP and the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... primaril y in regar d to the sub- acute injury caused b y limb lengthening [7-10] rather than the acute injury that may occur during a surgical procedure. In particular, the electrophysiologic ... collection, data analysis, and writing of the paper. KB and MS participated in data collection, data analysis and in writing of the paper. JW participated in the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... revealed that the induction of multiple inflammatory cytokines and chemokines is involved in the pulmonary inflammatory reaction induced by ATP. Exogenous ATP increase significantly the expression ... ATPFigure 3 Induction of expression of inflammatory cytokines by instillation of ATP. A. Inflammatory cytokine expression in early phase. The instillation of ATP increased signifi...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... encountered in the ICU. The first one is represented by the management of patients in the early phase of sepsis. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign [17] recom- mends that fluid be administered until the central ... continuing such a strategy. The second situation is represented by the management of patients with lung injury after the early stage has passed. A conservative...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... containing the Fmoc- peptidyl(resin)-OAl using an Ar flushed gas-tight syringe and gently agitated for 2.5 h at room temperature. The resin was then washed sequentially with fresh catalyst dissolving mixture, ... rate, using only the angle and distance restraints deduced from 3 J NH-Na coupling constant and NOE cross peak, respectively. Analysis of the (F, C) angles, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:21

... characterized by interindividual and intraindividual variability in symptom expression over time. Flexible therapy options are needed. Methods: We describe and report on the outcomes of the highly individualized ... mucous membranes, the gastrointestinal tract, and the throat, the latter leading to potentially life-threat ening laryngeal edema. Manifestation of acute ede...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... details includ- ing the medication prescribed, of patients presenting to the psychiatry clinics at the AKUH for the first time. All patients have their height recorded on the first visit and weight ... gain of 1.88 kg from baseline in 3 months and 3.29 kg in 6 months. Both of these values were statistically significant. The increase in mean BMI from baseline was 0.74...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20