Báo cáo y học: "Decreased levels of dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate in severe critical illness: a sign of exhausted adrenal reserve" pdf

... a large group of critically ill patients and also found markedly decreased DHEAS levels in both males and females, mainly in those patients with a prolonged clinical course. These data indicate ... are regarded as high in control individuals may be inappropriately Table 1 Clinical and laboratory data on admission in patients with septic shock or multiple trauma, and age- and s...

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... factor for complications and admission to the ICU [2,5,6]. Laboratory findings in the same group of patients include lymphocytopenia and elevation in levels of ala- nine aminotransferase, aspartate ... One-Step Quantitative RT-PCR T aqman; Invitro- gen Corporation, Carlsbad, California, USA) at The National Influenza Centre of Cantacuzino Institute, Bucharest, Romania. Cytokine an...

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... SLE and age-matched controls were evaluated clinically, with magnetic resonance imaging of the brain and CSF analyses. Levels of tau, amyloid precursor protein (APP), β-amyloid protein (A 42), and transforming ... amino acids of APP, was used as a detection antibody. The concentration of APP in samples of CSF was calculated from the linear part of a standard curve. In co...

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... of albumin in plasma and synovial fluid Albumin was measured by use of a kit (QuantiChrom™ BCG Albumin Assay Kit; BioAssay Systems, Hayward, CA, USA) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Immunoblotting ... metacarpophalangeal, carpal, interphalan- geal, and metatarsophalangeal joints was documented: a sin- gle erosion was defined as erosive disease. The presence of r...

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... Kimura Y, Sakata M, Naganawa M, Oda K, Miyatake R, Fujisaki M, Shimizu E, Shirayama Y, Iyo M, Hashimoto K: High occupancy of sigma-1 receptors in the human brain after single oral administration of ... human brain at therapeutic doses, * Correspondence: furuse@asahikawa-rch.gr.jp 1 Department of Psychiatry, Asahikawa Red Cross Hospital, Asah ikawa, Japan Furuse and Hashimoto Annals...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... laboratory of King Faisal Hospital in Kigali, Rwanda using standard labora- tory methods. For 112 women lipid values were not available because of a lack of reagents at the time of their study ... provided historical information including socio-demographics, medical and psychosocial history and symptoms, and experience of trauma during the 1994 Rwandan geno- cide. A physical e...

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... the myocardial inflammatory process associated to arterial hypertension. This anti-inflammatory effect of captopril has been previously proved in other diseases characterized by an increase in ... the vascular, renal and cardiac inflammatory processes in different models of arterial hypertension through its ability to activate a variety of inflammation-mediating genes. In expe...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:20

... trustworthiness of our findings. Quantitative data analysis Numeric data analysis was managed in SPSS, Version 15. Analysis of each survey instrument was conducted sepa- rately and followed the analysis ... patient and myself and, again, that vis- ibility and someone who is approachable every day and not that the people that are in place aren't helpful, it's again, probably...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... part of the study. The IR in car- Table 1 Part 1. Patient characteristics and associations with inflammatory response after cardiopulmonary bypass Variables Inflammatory response (n = 34) No inflammatory ... Cuesta, La Laguna, 38320, Spain 2 Hematology Department, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Ofra s/n La Cuesta, La Laguna, 38320, Spain 3 Research Unit, Hospital Universitario de Can...

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... prosthesis £48 Spiegelhalter (2003)** 55-64 years £739/QALY 55-64 years £683/QALY 65-74 years £6,604/QALY 65-74 years £5,993/QALY 75-84 years £16,823/QALY 75-84 years £153,090/ QALY greater than 84 years £27,780/QALY greater ... The Cochrane Data- base of Systematic Reviews; Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) database; Health Econ...

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