Báo cáo y học: " Free cortisol levels should not be used to determine adrenal responsiveness" pptx

... Journal Club Section Editor: Eric B. Milbrandt, MD, MPH Journal club critique Free cortisol levels should not be used to determine adrenal responsiveness Aditya Dubey 1 and Arthur J. Boujoukos 2 ... unnecessary use of glucocorticoid therapy. Commentary The incidence of adrenal insufficiency” in sepsis and septic shock is believed to be between 30 to 70%...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:21

... thrombosis/stress ulcer prophylaxis ALI/ARDS = Acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome Recommendation We concur with the ADDRESS authors. DrotAA should not be used in patients with ... subset of ADDRESS subjects. Specifically, DrotAA treated subjects were older and more likely to have multiorgan dysfunction and respiratory failure, making any conclusions about...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... they had to be on sodium valproate monotherapy. This was done to examine Bipolar Type I patients in more detail, and to remove a possible confounding variable. All patients had to be euthymic ... Alberta. Healthy controls were examined using a detailed, but non-standardized, psychiatric interview. They were excluded if there was any personal history, or immediate family history, o...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... to be 60–75% and 30–50%, respec- tively [6–9], while the specificity of particularly anti-La autoantibodies is generally considered to be reasonably high. Anti-La autoantibodies are mostly found ... La-antigen; h LFS, lymphocytic focus score ≥ 1.0 in sublabial minor salivary glands biopsy. DM, dermatomyositis; Pt, patient; SSc, systemic sclerosis; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus....

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... from cytoplasm into nucleus. ChCypA expression was not significantly up- regulated by avian influenza virus infection. The present study indicated that chCypA was an inhibitory protein to influenza ... relevance between inhibitory activity of chCypA or CypA on influenza virus replica- tion and the regulation potential in cytokines induction remains to be known. The findings described...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:21

... were generally weakly related to the occurrence of arrhythmia and should not be used as the sole criteria for risk assessment in tricyclic antidepressant overdose. The frequently recommended ... respect to age, gender, and the amount ingested. To investigate the strength of the association between a variety of study factors and arrhythmia, the odds ratio (OR) of exposure to th...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... the way people treat you, even your family. It [heroin overdose] would be a good way to go, better than cancer. Peter's narrative points to many factors related to poverty and urban deprivation, ... speed, usually hammer first, then speed. Dropping is really an occupational hazard. When your number's up, your number's up. Why worry about it. It's just as likely tha...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... intrinsic physical characteristics of cartilage, as reported in this study, should be interpreted more carefully as they can be affected by many experimental and physical factors. In this editorial, ... early diagnosis of degeneration. Since quantitative ultrasound probes are normally designed to use with arthroscopy, it is able to access any location of a joint with a cost of being...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... immunoregulatory and proinflammatory cytokine, has been shown to play an important pathogenic role in Th1-driven autoimmune disorders. In this study, we evaluated the circulating levels and salivary-gland ... expressed on mature Th1 but not Th2 lym- phocytes [11]. Furthermore, IL-18 has more recently been shown to be capable of directly inducing expression of proinflammatory cytokin...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... computer-assisted imaging system (Autoimmun Diagnostika GmbH, Strassberg, Germany), which has been shown to be valid and precise [16]. Flow cytometric determination of lymphocyte and monocyte subpopulations ... performed by using an enzyme- linked probe hybridization assay (ELPHA; Biotest, Dreieich, Germany). Sequence-specific oligonucleotide probes were used to determine polymorphi...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20