Báo cáo y học: "The association between systemic glucocorticoid therapy and the risk of infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: systematic review and metaanalyses" pptx

... al.: The association between systemic glucocorticoid therapy and the risk of infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: systematic review and meta-analyses. Arthritis Research & Therapy ... a systematic litera- ture review and meta-analysis (where appropriate) of RCTs and observational studies to assess the association between...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:22

... vitamin B6 indices in these patients. The present study is the first one to systematically investigate the efficacy of vita- min B6 supplementation on static and functional vitamin B6 indices in patients ... vitamin B6 status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis regardless of the etiology of such inadequacy. In contrast, vitamin B6 supplementation was ineffec...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... prophylaxis. This prophylaxis may not only prevent infection of necrotic pancreatic tissue, but also delay the need for surgery. As early surgery within the first 2 weeks has been associated with ... there was no increased preponderance of fungal infection in patients in the treatment arms compared to placebo, this finding is not necessarily at odds with evidence of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... 3 Random- effects model, 95% CI and OR of each one of the studies with no heterogeneity and of the meta-analysis comprising the studies of the met allele of the val158met polymorphism of the ... statistical analysis and to draft the manuscript. VSM and PGS recruited participants, and helped with the integration of data and analysis. GA, LL and H...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... joint. Our findings are in agreement with the observation that CXCR3, a cell surface receptor for the proinflammatory chemokines inducible protein (IP)-10 and monokine induced by interferon-γ ... Proinflammatory cytokines that induce a high acute phase response also favour the recruitment of a diverse memory T cell reper- toire to the joint, independent of the antigen spec...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... the following day. At one-year follow-up with the Cystic Fibrosis C linic and the Neurosurgery Service, our pa tient was continuin g to do well with no signs or symptoms of increased intra- cranial ... interpretation and analysis of the data from our patient, and contributed to the design, writing, and editing of the manuscript. All authors read and approved t...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:22

... signifi- cant association between H. pylori infection and serum hsCRP levels, supporting that H . pylori infection may increase the serum CRP. The possible attribution of H. pylori infection to ... one of the candidate molecules, but there were limited reports on the association with H. pylori infection. A study on the effects of H. pylori eradication a...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 17:20

... body pain. These results may be explained by the associated high rates of psychological distress and somatisation. We address the hypothesis that the latter, rather than the pain, might explain ... body pain is the cardinal feature [1]. We have previ- ously shown in a community-based prospective cohort study, the Altrincham Pain Study, that psychosocial factors, including re...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:23

... students and a full review of all of these is out- side the scope of the current discussion. In the main, by demon strating that the results of OSCEs: relate to other examin ations; discriminate between ... difficulties of using long cases in the pre- vious MRCPsych system. Validity There are numerous studies that have investigated the validity of the use...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... replication of HIV-1 in T cells can be influenced by T cell activation and prolifera- tion. Due to the young age of the patients and severity of the disease, no more cells could be obtained from these patients ... Tardif MR, Tremblay MJ: Presence of host ICAM-1 in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 virions increases productive infection of CD4+ T lymphocytes by...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:20