Báo cáo y học: "Histopathological cutaneous alterations in systemic sclerosis: a clinicopathological study" ppsx

... 13:R35 http://arthritis-research.com/content/13/1/R35 Page 6 of 7 The histopathology of SSc skin has recently regained interest because it may be integrated as an outcome measure in clinical trials on skin disease, whereby skin biopsies are obtained ... Access Histopathological cutaneous alterations in systemic sclerosis: a clinicopathological study Jens T Van Praet 1*† , Vane...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... deter- mined by passive immunodiffusion against calf thymus extract (Inova Diagnostics, San Diego, CA, USA). ARAs were deter- mined by enzyme-linked immunoassay (MBL Co. Ltd, Nagoya, Japan) using a ... disease duration, with a mean duration of 9.3 years. ATA-positive patients had a mean disease duration of 8.0 years, and ARA-positive patients and Ab-Neg patients had disease durations of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... total leak, and second, to com- pare the total leak with that obtained when the inspiratory component was eliminated, leaving only the expiratory leak. The inspiratory leak was eliminated by deflating ... breaths with a satisfactory plateau were analyzed and the mean values were reported. Respiratory system static inflation Critical Care February 2005 Vol 9 No 1 Prinianakis et al. R31 Compe...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... hematological malignancy) that may lead to an adverse outcome. Introduction An adverse reaction has been reported in rare cases with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor treatment and in patients ... 1997, 109:238-239. doi:10.1186/1752-1947-5-88 Cite this article as: El Husseiny and Mattar: Aggressive cutaneous vasculitis in a patient with chronic lymphatic leukemia following granu...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... an influence analysis in which the meta- analysis is re-estimated omitting each study in turn. Rerunning the analysis without the study by Mathias and Kent [32] increased the standardised mean ... Open Access Estimated intelligence quotient in anorexia nervosa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature Carolina Lopez 1,2 , Daniel Stahl 1 , Kate Tchanturia 1* Abstract Bac...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... subchondral bone, and joint destruction that was more severe in females. Although the synovitis was typical of RA with a predominant lymphocytic infiltrate, a systemic inflam- matory disease was also ... developing in their inbred Balb/c colony (named SKG mice hereafter). The disease had many features of human RA, including a peripheral symmetrical arthritis leading to pannus erod...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... HLA -A1 , HLA-B8, HLA-DR3 haplotype, in at least one healthy Caucasian population [11]. Furthermore, using a large UK Caucasian sample, Ahmad and coworkers [12] recently reported that TPSN polymorphisms ... and microcytotoxicity assays. Preliminary association analysis was conducted by χ 2 test- ing on contingency tables comparing the three genotypic frequencies between cases and control...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... serum amyloid A (SAA) [16]. Since SAA is a known biomarker of active SJIA [17], we compared the intensity of the 11.6-kDa peak with SAA levels in the sera, as determined by latex agglu- tination. As ... Medicine, Yokohama, Japan. All the patients were Asian and their mean age at the start of the study was 7.25 ± 0.92 years. Eight of them had obtained a clinical response to conventiona...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... destruction and inflammation on ultrasonography and MRI in second metacarpophalangeal joint: established RASigns of destruction and inflammation on ultrasonography and MRI in second metacarpophalangeal ... 2 Research article Ultrasonography of the metacarpophalangeal and proximal interphalangeal joints in rheumatoid arthritis: a comparison with magnetic resonance imaging, conventio...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... with respect to inflammatory processes and articular damage. Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) has received less research scrutiny than rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in many areas, including imaging [1], but ... Reißhauer H, Backhaus M, Hamm B, Braun J: Quantitative analyses of sacroiliac biopsies in spondy- loarthropathies: T cells and macrophages predominate in early and active sacroiliitis – cel...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20