Báo cáo khoa học: "Hydrocortisone infusion may improve survival in patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia" pps

... Hydrocortisone infusion may improve survival in patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia Murugan Raghavan 1 and John A. Kellum 2 1 Clinical Fellow, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University ... Hydrocortisone infusion for severe community-acquired pneumonia: a preliminary randomized study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2005, 171:242-248 [1]. Hypothe...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... pneumocytes in BAL can be found in patients with severe pneumonia, either hospital-acquired or community- acquired. These findings occur much more frequently in patients with pneumonia than in those with ... observed much more frequently in patients with pneumonia (6 out of 15 (40%) in patients with CAP and 18 out of 39 (46.2%) in those with VAP) compared...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... leucocyte counts in peripheral blood. Before we modify our daily practice in accordance with these interesting findings, we must consider whether the data were rigorously obtained, are generalizable and ... septic shock in patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia? Dylan W de Lange 1 and Marc JM Bonten 2 1 Department of Intensive Care Medicine, and Department of Internal Medicine...

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... (most of whom were treated with antidepressants) among patients having suicidal ideation at baseline, the decline in suicidal ideation was predicted by preceding declines in the levels of both depressive ... present. In addi- tion to serotonin, behavioural inhibition may be regu- lated by noradrenalin and dopamine, which play a role in the regulation of serotonin release [35]. R...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... appendix from routine interval appendectomy in 210 patients with intraabdominal malignancy; accounting for 0.95%. One case was secondary to a sigmoid cancer with limited peri- toneal carcinomatosis ... to evaluate the incidence of synchro- nous appendiceal neoplasm in patients with resectable CRC in a university hospital, and to determine the clinical significance of these fin...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... presence of injured but potentially salvageable brain tissue. However, paradoxical findings have also been obtained with this technique in patients presumably with radiation induced brain necrosis. ... carcinoma: incidence and determinants. Br J Radiol 1992, 65:710-714. 6. Rubenstein LJ: Radiation changes in intracranial neoplasms and the adjacent brain. In Book Radiation cha...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:21

... disease in older people, which gives rise to arthralgia and is mainly treated with corticosteroids. Patients in this age group also have a higher incidence of other co-morbidities including colonic ... rare in peop le under 50 and prevalence increases with age. The incidence of the disease in patients over 50 is between 50 and 100 per 100,000 [1,2]. Symptoms can be non- speci...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 02:21

... although within normal limits (Figure 1). Individual measurements showed levels above normal for dopamine in 11 patients, epinephrine in three patients, and norepinephrine in one patient during autonomic instability. TNF- α ... variations, suggesting that pressure instability contributed to eleva- tion of troponin T in these patients. Similarly, findings of increased troponins i...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:20

... mouth openin g and a higher se nse of illness than patients with T1/2 tumours. In a multi-centre study of 357 patients with head and neck tumours in Sweden and Norway, differences in quality ... associated with an improvement in the QOL [3]. In previous stu- dies, the complaints associated with disease and treat- ment were assessed worse by patients themselves than by...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Intensive Care Med 1998, 24:1221-1225. 11. Winchell RJ, Hoyt DB: Endotracheal intubation in the field improves survival in patients with severe head injury. Trauma ... Vieveen J, Brinkman ACM, Christiaans HMT, Toor EJ, Jukema GN, Loer SA, Boer C, investigators A-T: Prehospital endotracheal intubation in patients with severe traumatic bra...

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