Báo cáo y học: " Impact of nosocomial pneumonia on the outcome of mechanically-ventilated patient pps

... (0/1). At the time of suspicion of pneumonia 33 of the 82 patients (40%) were on antibiotics. The duration of prior antibiotic therapy (within 10 days before the diagnosis of pneumonia) was 12.1 ... Spain. Background: Nosocomial pneumonia (NP) is a common complication in mechanically-ventilated patients and is considered to be one of the most common causes o...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... consumption, favourably modifying the balance of oxygen demand/supply. Consequently, it is an ideal application in post- cardiotomy cardiac dysfunction, especially in suspected coronary hypo ... JY, Bondy R, Cattran C, Nathan HJ, Wynands JE: Amrinone and dobutamine as primary treatment of low cardiac output syndrome following coronary artery surgery: a comparison of their e ects...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... Available online http://ccforum.com/content/13/6/429 Page 1 of 2 (page number not for citation purposes) In the consensus RIFLE criteria [1] of acute kidney injury (AKI) the thresholds given ... Cockroft-Gault equation or the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) formula. In addition, there is controversy in the literature whether eGFR provides more clinical information r...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... in the prevention of spacers’ dislocations regarding the femoral part. In the literature, the dislocation rates after hip spacer implantation may strongly vary depending on the art of the ... Interestingly, the majority of the cases had no symptoms at all and only in 2 cases the spacer had to be exchanged in an additional surgery. For prevention of a spacer fr...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:53

... natural sources, nor are there any reports on their chemical synthesis. On the other hand, a number of trehalose-containing oligosaccharides have been synthesized chemically, some of which are related ... FEBS 2002 Cytoplasmic trehalose oligosaccharides (Eur. J. Biochem. 269) 3143 The origin of these cytosolic oligosaccharides is not known. They could be synthesized in the cyt...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20

... was then eluted with 400 m M KPB (pH 7.4). The dissociation of the subunits was confirmed by SDS/ PAGE analysis. Assay of enzyme activity ACL activity was assayed by the coupled malate dehydrog- enase ... mutations were confirmed by DNA sequencing. The expression and purification of the mutant enzyme was performed by the same procedure as that of the wild-type enzyme as des...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... risk. 2 The Z-score compares the patient s measured BMD with that of a pop- ulation of healthy persons of the same age and sex as the patient, that is, it “controls” for the poten- tially confounding ... Study Group. Effect of inhaled triamcinolone on the decline in pulmonary function in chronic obstructive pulmonary dis- ease. N Engl J Med 2000;343:1902–9. Figure 2 Co...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... neurosurgery, brain trauma, patients suffering from chronic medical condi- tions of any sort, history of current hypertension, history of seizure or heart convulsion, history of epilepsy or seizure ... [22]. Limitations The limitations of our study are the small number of patients, lack of a sham c ontrol group, the rater not being blind and the heterogeneity of treatm...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... total score during the rating by each examiner may provide an impression of the stability of results. Additionally, the means and the standard deviations of the differences concerning each SCCT ... Greece. 3 School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. 4 424 General Military Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. 5 Psychologist...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and is one of its major causes of death, an observation first made more than 20 years ago by Urowitz [1]. Coronary artery disease develops in 6–9% of SLE patients ... duplex ultrasound, electron-beam computed tomography, and thal- lium perfusion scanning, and one autopsy study, suggest that symptomatic disease might be the tip of the iceberg. Th...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22