Bóa cáo y học: "Ventilator-associated pneumonia: monotherapy is optimal if chosen wisely" ppt
... synergy. Antibiotic combinations may be indifferent or antagonistic and synergy is uncommon. Synergy should be demonstrated by testing. Possible synergy is not a reason for combination therapy, ... may result in increased side effects/interactions. Currently, antibiotics for VAP have potent P. aeruginosa activity, and synergy is unnecessary [5,8]. Presently, prevention of resistance is...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23
... coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. Results were encouraging and will be submitted shortly for publication. Authors’ response Mohsen Nematy, Jacqui E O’Flynn, Liesl Wandrag, Audrey E Brynes, ... al.: Gut hormone PYY(3-36) physiologically inhibits food intake. Nature 2002, 418:650-654. 5. Le Roux CW, Ghatei MA, Gibbs JSR, Bloom SR: The putative satiety hormone PYY is raised in cardiac c...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23
... seropositivity and gastric bleeding [13,14]. H. pylori infection is difficult to detect in ICU patients. Direct isolation by ulcer biopsy is rarely possible because of the bleeding risk. Serologic ... 93.8% sen- sitivity and 96.0% specificity [16,17]; the method is noninvasive and a positive result is indicative of active infec- tion. A rectal swab may appear to be an easy way to coll...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23
Bóa cáo y học: "Kinetic bed therapy to prevent nosocomial pneumonia in mechanically ventilated patients: a systematic review and meta-analysi" pps
... [18] 1990 Yes Yes No No Nil Fink [21] 1990 Yes No Yes Yes C, F, SA, SC Demarest [20] 1989 Yes No No Yes C, F, SA Summer [26] 1989 No Yes No Yes C, F, L, SA Gentilello [22] 1988 Yes No No Yes C, ... No Nil Traver [27] 1995 No Yes No Yes C, F, L Whiteman [28] 1995 Yes Yes No Yes C, F, L, SA, SC deBloisbanc [19] 1993 Yes Yes No Yes C, F, SA Nelson [24] 1992 No No No Yes C, F, L, SA Shapiro [25]...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23
Bóa cáo y học: " Empiric broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy of nosocomial pneumonia in the intensive care unit: a prospective observational study" docx
... study therapy for ≥7 days for cured cases and for ≥3 days for failures. Chi-square tests were used for effectiveness and mortality contingency analyses. Forward stepwise logistic regression analysis ... follow the isolation of microorganisms not covered by initial empiric antibiotics [4]. Yet the benefit of adequate antibiotic therapy may vanish if the onset of effective treatment is dela...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23
Bóa cáo y học: " Early apoptosis of blood monocytes in the septic host: is it a mechanism of protection in the event of septic shock" ppt
... patients with sepsis and monocyte apoptosis ≤50% on the first day died (mortality 15%), but no patient with sepsis and monocyte apoptosis >50% died (mortality 0%, P = not signif- icant between ... severe sepsis and monocyte apoptosis ≤50% on the first day died (mortality 38.9%), while two patients with severe sepsis and monocyte apoptosis >50% died (mortality 22.2%, P = not significant...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23
Bóa cáo y học: "Clinical review: Thyroid hormone replacement in children after cardiac surgery – is it worth a try" docx
... especially after cardiac surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass (CBP), abnormalities in the circulating thyroid hormone levels are found in the absence of primary thyroid disease; this is collectively ... cardiopulmonary bypass; IL = interleukin; SES = sick euthyroid syndrome; SIRS = systemic inflam- matory response syndrome; T3 = triiodothyronin; T4 = thyroxin; TRH = thyroid releasing hormon...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23
Bóa cáo y học: "Is the value of a life or life-year saved context specific? Further evidence from a discrete choice experiment" ppt
... covariance; DALY: disability-adjusted life year; HlthCard: health card; ICC: intra-cluster correlation coefficient; LY: life-year; QALY: quality-adjusted life year; SD: standard deviation; SEIFA: socio-economic ... estimates of life-expectancy in a sample of 2037 Americans aged 18–95. Specifically, males typically evaluated their life-expectancy at approximately 3 years longer than was predic...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22
Báo cáo y học: "Elevated plasma homocysteine is positively associated with age independent of C677T mutation of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene in selected Egyptian subjects"
... synthase, which uses 5-methyltetrahydrofolate as a carbon donor [6] . This donor is synthesized by the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene from 5,10-methylene-tetrahydrofolate [9,10]. Reduction ... presence of any form of cancer, liver disease, primary renal disease or any collagenic diseases. All subjects gave informed consent before the study began. Patients who had his...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:49
Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: Ornithine decarboxylase-antizyme is rapidly degraded through a mechanism that requires functional ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic activity pot
... llular polyamines c omes from t heir synthesis from amino acid precursors. In this biosynthesis pathway ornithine is decarboxylated to form putrescine by the action of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC, ... ubiquitin system for its degradation. DISCUSSION Antizyme is a unique cellular regulatory protein that is both regulated by polyamines and regulates polyamine metabo- lism in a feedback l...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20