Báo cáo y học: "Impaired urge-to-cough in elderly patients with aspiration pneumonia" doc

... purposes) Background Morbidity and mortality from aspiration pneumonia con- tinues to be a major health problem in the elderly. A marked depression of cough reflex sensitivity is reported in elderly patients with aspiration ... subjects and the patients with aspiration pneumonia. Conclusion: The study suggests the involvement of supramedullary dysfunction in the etiolog...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... therapy aimed specifi cally at preventing and treating nicotine with- drawal, with no eff ect on other conditions with similar manifestations, may help to defi ne the clinical course of nicotine withdrawal ... mimicking nicotine withdrawal, describing its speci c manifestations may not be easy. A few case reports suggest that nicotine replacement therapy may ameliorate nicotine with...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... to examine patients using the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale. Hosp Comm Psychiatry 1998, 39(11):1172-1177. 15. Guy W: ECDEU Assessment Manual for Psychopharmacology, revised ed Washington ... experience according to DSM-IV criteria [8] and were reviewed on the day of discharge, taking into account all information col- lected during the inpatient period. Patients who presented with...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... concen- trated in the thyroid gland where it interferes with the release of thyroid hormone in several ways [5]: inhibition of adenylate cyclase stimulated by TSH in normal patients; decreased thyroid iodine ... use and thy- rotoxicosis caused by silent thyroiditis. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 2001, 55:501-508. 10. Thomsen AF, Kessing LV: Increased risk of hyperthyroidism among patients...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... severity of myo- cardial damage induced by ischemia [16,17]. Remote preconditioning influence in hemodynamics of normal (without cardiac hypertrophy) rats Preconditioning did not s ignificantly affect ... 1992, 20:527-529. 14. Yoshida K, Kim-Mitsuyama S, Wake R, Izumiya Y, Izumi Y, Yukimura T, Ueda M, Yoshiyama M, Iwao H: Excess aldosterone under normal salt diet induces cardiac hypertrop...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... or secondary to trauma or insidiously. We present a male patient with low back pain concomitant with pain in medial portion of left thigh in addition to pain and numbness in medial part of leg and inferior ... tendonopathy, osteochondritis dis- secans, nonspecific synovitis and reflex sympathetic dys- trophy [4]. We present a patient with low back pain that received recommendation...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... treating Parkinson's disease. Pergolide can produce a fibrotic process in heart valves, resulting in valve insufficiency in up to 25% of cases. Herein we describe the case of a 68-year-old ... valvu- lar regurgitation in patients taking cabergoline but not in those receiving pergolide. The reasons for the observed lower incidence of valve regurgitation in the Japanese study...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... details 1 Einhorn Clinical Research Center, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, NY, USA. 2 Departments of Ophthalmology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA. 3 New York University Medical ... vitrectomy within 14 days of the injury had a better final visual outcome than those that underwent later v itrectomy. In 1982, Burton [3] reported that of patients with macula-of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:21

... of inherited connective tissue disorders characterized by joint laxity, chronic joint pain, skin hyperextensibility, tissue fr agility and scoliosis [10]. EDS can be divided into 11 phenotypes, ... and dental doctors should be involved in main- taining oral health care of suc h patients, with early intervention and long-term follow-up. Consent Written informed consent was obtained from t...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:22

... customarily used on the basis of the type of surgery or for patients with acute medical ill- ness). In cancer patients with indwelling central venous catheters, the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) ... immediately in these patients with clinical suspicion of thrombosis to avoid further complications, even in cases with a differential diagnosis problem. Finally,...

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