Báo cáo khoa học: "Diagnostic yield of quantitative endotracheal aspirates in patients with severe nursing home-acquired pneumonia" pot

... were to investigate, in patients with severe nursing home-acquired pneumonia, the diagnostic value of quantitative endotracheal aspirate (QEA) cultures using increasing interpretative cutoff points, ... found in 80% of patients with clinical pneumonia but also in 61% of patients without obvious pneumonia [11]. These findings stem from the fact that endotrachea...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... verify inter- and intra-operator's variability in patients with small and medium pneumothoraces. Determination of the size of pneumothorax and its clinical significance Determination of the ... of pneumothorax with a sensitivity of 79% [8]. Using this method, we found a good agreement between US and CT scans in determining the size of pneumothorax. Since 1990s, the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:24

... Accordingly, the present results should not be extrapolated to the clinical practice of intensivists without experience in cardiovascular ultrasound. Clinical field of use of HHE in ventilated patients Miniaturized ... extending the physical examination and potentially improving patient care [6,7,18,19]. The efficacy and safety of tailored ultrasound training to specific needs r...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... 5. Increased plasma membrane stain- ing of annexin II in G93A motor neurons. Immunofluorescent staining of annexin II and the neuronal marker neurofilament M (NF-M) in spinal cord motor neurons in 90-day-old ... undergoing increased remodeling in spinal cords of G93A mice. This remodeling could take place either in neurons, as an indication of neurodegenera- tion or of attem...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21

... less discriminating than those obtained with the cpSSRs. In fact, with the new test,the origin ofthe stands wasidenti- fied with no inconclusive results. In contrast, the terpene test was initially inconclusive ... that have been undertaken in most parts of the range of P. pinaster since the beginning of the twentieth century [5]. The use of seeds of different origins, t...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:20

... regarding the distribution of dose to organs at risk see table 3. Regular follow-up examinations took place in our institution or in the referring centers including at least clinical examination and ... patients with acceptable toxicity in patients with less advanced recurrences. However, the achievable outcome is limited in patients with involvement of intracranial st...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... or preventing T cell regulation, leading finally to exacerbation of the disease [16,17]. The main finding of our study is that there are increased levels of serum sCTLA-4 in patients with SpA, ... (<10 mg/day in our study vs 30 mg/day [28]). The impact of therapy on circulating sCTLA- 4 is an interesting question to address. The increase of sCTLA-4 in the serum of our...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... down-regulated in the patients with cGVHD. Medical literature in the area of proteomic profiling in GVHD is scarce [18,19,27]. One study has used an intact- protein-based quantitative analysis combined with ... time of initial diagnosis of cGVHD (before initiation of steroid based therapy) in the BMT clinic and then periodically during follow up visits in patients...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... activation of IFN-induced pathways in patients with CHC than in healthy controls [20-23]. As far as the influence of baseline expression of these miRNAs on the clinical outcome of IFN t herapy in patients ... performing selection of patients with CHC and analysing of clinical data; GT was responsible for analysis of the data and revising of the manuscript; ER w...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:20

... Because most patients with septic shock require endotracheal intubation, and the influence of etomidate administration on the incidence of relative adrenal insufficiency in patients with septic ... a single bolus. The influence of etomidate administration on the incidence of relative adrenal insufficiency in patients with septic shock has not been formally investigat...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20