Báo cáo y học: "Qualitative cultures in ventilator-associated pneumonia – can they be used with confidence" doc

... qualitative cultures is better than not to do cultures, and if they are negative then this finding can safely be used to justify discontinuing antimicrobial therapy. However, quantitative cultures ... prospective study in which they compared quantitative versus qualitative cultures of tracheal aspirate in patients with VAP. They conducted weekly surveillance in seve...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... in scores, these scoring methods – with appropriate statistical analysis – may accurately reflect repair in serial films. However, in reality the majority of healing phenomena do not result in ... with high disease activity, and in such cases it is difficult to define repair clearly. Third, there is an interval between clinical findings and corre- sponding radiographic p...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... Japanese in Tokyo, Japan (JPT), Yoruba in Ibadan, Nigeria (YRI), Chinese in Metropolitan Denver, CO, USA (CHD), Gujarati Indians in Houston, TX, USA (GIH), Luhya in Webuye, Kenya (LWK), and Toscani in ... haplotype diversity in each group by averaging the haplotype het- erozygosity in ten 10-kb non-overlapping windows and Figure 1 SNP discovery in Indian populations. (a) Pop...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... complicating factor in military-related, chronic PTSD. More recently, the efficacy of aripipra- zole in the treatment of PTSD has been demonstrated in three preliminary open-label studies in veteran populations, ... review to examine the bene fits of adding aripiprazole in veterans with military-related PTSD and comorbid depression, who had been minimally or partially responsi ve...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... during pregnancy requires a degree of clinical suspicion and should be confirmed by imaging diagnostic methods. Plain radiography may give normal images in early disease. There may be blurring ... of joint margins, a widened joint space or periarticular erosion. Radioisotopic bone scans have high specificity and sensibility for localizing bone inflammation but should not be used dur...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... Laminin γ2 can be found in the cytoplasm of carcinoma cells invading into interstitial stroma while laminin α3 and β3 chains are only found in the basement membrane [48]. Conclusion In summary, ... 4% paraformaldehyde in PBS, dehydrated in graded ethanols, embedded in paraffin, sectioned, and stained with hematoxylin and eosin for light microscopy. For staining with β-tubu...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... vaccine provides only limited protection in humans, eliciting longer lived immu- nity by linking interleukin-12-inducing strategies with immunogenic mycobacterial proteins in a vaccine may be efficacious. ... been shown during the past several years to be a key effector cytokine in the host response against tuberculosis. Th2 cells primarily secrete the cytokines interleukin-4, int...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... study is also limited by a number of factors. Firstly, clinical repeatabil- ity or agreement of cough sounds was assessed by doctors in a tertiary setting. Whether or not these findings can be extrapolated ... may be present in children with dry cough, clinicians should be cognisant that a dry cough may eventually become wet if airway secretions increase. Thus it should not be...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... Biotrack Activity Assay System revealed significantly higher MMP- 2 activity levels in the supernatants of cultures of A549 cells with recombinant epimorphin compared with those for cultures with BL or Type ... of epimorphin in mesenchymal cells situated within active intra-alveolar fibrotic lesions and the presence of epimor- phin in the ECM in the vicinity of these cells....

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21