Báo cáo y học: " Cough in adult cystic fibrosis: diagnosis and response to fundoplication" ppt

... features in the clinical history which point to reflux as a cause of cough. [8] Associations such as cough on eating, and post-prandially, cough pre- cipitated by a change of posture or on rising in ... clinical pointers to reflux as a cause of coughing. Cough is one of the characteristic symptoms of CF, ini- tially presenting as pulmonary exacerbations. In a study of objec...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... Prussin C: Cytokine flow cytometry: understanding cytokine biology at the single-cell level. J Clin Immunol 1997, 17:195-204. 32. Elson LH, Nutman TB, Metcalfe DD and Prussin C: Flow cytomet- ric ... intracytoplasmic cytokine-producing αβ T cells (top) and γδ T cells (bottom) within total T lymphocytes after 10 days of culture with cytosolic extract from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, followed b...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... reported by males might be partly explained by the high frequency of body searching to which Kashmiri men are subjected. Whether the body searching is perceived as inappropriate touching (part ... asked permission to interview a person over the age of 18 years. The purpose of study, guarantees of anonymity and confidentiality, the use of data (includ- ing public dissemination and scie...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:21

... presenting in adult life. Its relationship to syringomyelia. Brain 1974, 97:157-168. 16. Krayenbuhl H: Evaluation of the different surgical approaches in the treatment of syringomyelia. Clin Neurol ... Guarin M, Lyon RM, Splaingard ML: Syringomyelia and chiari malformation presenting as scoliosis in cystic fibrosis. Pediatr Pulmonol 1995, 19:317-318. 7. Mulberg AE, Weyler RT, Al...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:22

... non-epithelial cells and cells of the immune system implies a variety of functions, including a possible regulatory role in the secretion of cytokines and antibodies by lymphocytes and regulation of lipopolysaccharide ... aeruginosa strain used was the laboratory strain PAK (kindly provided by A. Prince, Columbia University, NY). Bacteria were grown from frozen stocks in tryptic soy...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... receptor-associ- ated factor 1; CTLA4 = cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4; HLA = human leucocyte antigen; IL = interleukin; IRF5 = interferon regulatory factor 5; MMP = matrix metalloproteinase; ... receptor-associated factor 1 (C5-TRAF1) TNFα-induced protein 3-oligodendrocyte lineage transcription factor 3 (TNFAIP3-OLIG3) Suggestive Cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA4) Interferon regulato...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... ide/formoterol inhaler, terbutaline inhaler, pancreatic enzymes, insulin glargine/lispro and naproxen. She was relatively immobile due to her RA and so did not complain of significant breathlessness. Inten- sive ... auto somal, recessively inherited disease caused by mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembran e conductan ce regulator ( CFTR) gene. It is common in Caucasian popu...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:20

... The intervention program consisted pri- marily of dietary counseling, physical activity counseling and behavioral interventions in order to aid patients’ adherence to a healthy life plan during ... the study (774 women and 215 men) and gave written informed consent. Patients were recommended to parti- cipate in the study by psychiatrists working either pri- vately or in hosp...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... pul- monary artery. He was haemodynamically unstable, and due to respiratory insufficiency, invasive mechanical ven- tilation had to be carried out. Three weeks later, he died due to heart and lung ... characterized by symptoms of weight loss, fever and severe fatigue, as commonly seen in malignancy [8]. The symptoms observed in our patient were related to the infiltration o...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... PCT may be induced by endotoxin translocation and proinflammatory cytokines in these situations [21,22]. Even dramatic PCT increases in OKT3/ATG-treated patients could have been induced by increased ... the study and helped to perform laboratory analyses. MLT helped to conceive and carry out the study and performed statistical analyses. JMS helped to conceive and carry out...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22