Báo cáo khoa học: "Liver dysfunction associated with artificial nutrition in critically ill patients" pdf

... parameters in patients with and without liver dysfunction With liver dysfunction Without liver dysfunction Total p 166 559 725 Weight in kilograms 75 (65–80) 70 (65–80) 72 (65–80) 0.3 Nutritional ... in patients with and without liver dysfunction With liver dysfunction Without liver dysfunction Total p Number of patients 166 (23%) 559 (77%) 725 Women 54 (33%) 183 (33...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... unexpected findings, leading to a falsely high incidence of missed diagnoses. However, there is evidence that clinical diagnostic certainty does not predict postmortem findings, indicating that the inci- dence ... The finding of undiagnosed carcinoma and pulmonary embolism is consistent with previous studies emphasizing the impor- tance of maintaining a high index of suspicion for these dia...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... stimulates lactoferrin synthesis. Lactoferrin is a circulating protein that binds iron with greater affinity than transferrin [6,7,9]. In the presence of inflammation, iron bound to lactoferrin is captured ... metabolism in ICU patients Inflammation is implicated in many critically ill disorders. Indeed, clinical evidence of systemic inflammation is present Figure 1 Decrease in...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... com- bined with serial electrophysiological studies may also be val- uable in determining the ultimate prognosis of patients with CRIMYNE and in gauging the rate of recovery, as well as in assessing ... discharge, diagnoses in the 15 survivors were critical illness myopathy (CIM) in six cases, critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP) in four, combined CIP and CIM in three, and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Pain in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) is common. However, pain assessment in critically ... 4-hour training session (conducted by a trained ICU nurse), during which the BPS and RS were explained with examples of patients who were in the ICU at the time of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... was associated with significant weight loss in three of our patients. Interest- ingly, only patients with OBL dyskinesias experienced weight loss. Additional difficulties included pain during eating, ... Tetrabenazine in combination with other antidystonic medication and/or botulinum toxin injections provided substantial benefit to the patients with dysphagia caused by OMD. Conc...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:22

... diametrically to the pole carrying the amino acids involved in substrate binding. As far as we know, there has been no report about structure activity relationships in this area of the cytochrome ... After autoradiography of the thin layer chromatography plates, the metabolites were quantified by scraping the radioactive areas and counting with a Wallac 1410 counter. Substrate-induced bi...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... improvement in nutritional status in the critically ill. However, only patients receiving total energy intakes within ± 10% of 120% MEE achieved positive nitrogen balance by the end of the study. In addition, ... The creatinine height index was calculated from 24-hour urinary creatinine excretion [15]. The nitrogen balance was derived from the daily volume of infusate minus the dail...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... can assist clinicians by providing greater certainty in the effects of interventions provided in the ED; improving the understanding of existing physiologic measurements and their influence on ... SARS screening scores SARS screening scores are potential screening symptom and six-item clinical) screening scores in (n = 70) were examined in 239 patients with fever. methods for SARS...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21

... in critically ill trauma patients. The review is constructed to evaluate the effects of timing of tracheostomy on the following endpoints: patho-physiological endpoints, including laryngeal injury, ... clinical endpoints, including duration of mechanical ventilation, patient comfort, ICU length of stay and the incidence of ventilator -associated pneumonia. In addition, we will examin...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20