Báo cáo y học: "Pro/con debate: Octreotide has an important role in the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding of unknown origin" pptx

... UGB = upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Pro: Yes, octreotide does have an important role in the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding of unknown origin Yaseen Arabi and Bandar Al Knawy There is ... expensive. Review Pro/con debate: Octreotide has an important role in the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding of unknown origin? Yaseen Ar...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:24

... realistic for the individual institution. Ongoing monitoring of outcomes, including both the success rate for achieving the glycemic target and the frequency of hypoglycemia, should guide continuing education ... the institutional level (reflected by consistent improvement in glycemic control) may be more important than having the best protocol in safely achieving the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... [10] and the minimal repair systems [11] in the mitochondria (as compared to the nucleus) increase the likelihood of oxidative damage occurring and being maintained in the mitochondrial genome. The ... along the length of the 1000 lm. The smallest (minimum CSA) value of the fiber CSA in the ETS abnormal region was divided by the average value of the fiber...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20

... as outcomes of such calculations may be spoiled by inaccurate positioning of the interacting groups. The contact area of the distamycin amidinium end was investigated by evaluating the hydrogen positions ... contacts between the terminal distamycin atoms and guanine amino groups are inevitable. The detailed nature of several of these inter- actions was further investigat...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:21

... nature of oxygen binding with heme, and in turn, can change the affinity of Hb for oxygen. The majority of mutations affecting oxygen affinity result in high affinity Hb variants which result in ... expectancy and do not require phlebotomy. The therapies used for polycythemia vera such as phlebotomy and chemotherapy should not be used in patients who have polycythemia...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 16:23

... The CCR5 ligands, CCL4 and CCL5, increase in the thymic parenchyma as revealed by the age-associated increases in the staining of thymocytes and microenvironmental cells, including the multilocular ... active role in thymic tissue loss rather than simply increasing as a consequence of thymic loss by some other as -of- yet undescribed mechanism. Based on these find...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:20

... gelatinases (MMP-2 and -9) have also been found in chondrocytes or the articular cartilage surface in OA [29,31]. The activity of many MMPs increases in OA by either an increase in their own synthesis, an increased ... IL-1 and TNF-α [29–31,36]. NO may be involved in cartilage catabolism by inhibiting the synthesis of colla- gen and PG, enhancing MMP activity, reducing...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... reductions in the degree of swelling and erythema of the joints compared with isotype- treated animals. As can be seen in Fig. 3a, within 24 hours of the onset of therapy, the mean joint histological ... participated in the statistical analysis and writing of the clinical results section and in the editing of the manuscript. IMS assessed the potential tox...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... changes and increased inflammation in the small joints of the hand in the first years of the disease has been suggested partly to explain this finding [25]. As DXA-BMD measures both trabecular and cortical ... significantly lower in the group with high disease activity in both the DXR-BMD and the DXA-BMD (Table 2). Table 2 Comparison of the baseline and the c...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... Despite these advances, most surgical inter- ventions only result in improvement in clinical symptoms, such as pain relief, and the regeneration of long-lasting hyaline cartilage repair tissue remains ... developing three-dimensional constructs using native and synthetic biomaterials. Clinically significant and satisfactory results from applying autologous chondrocytes seeded in fib...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21