Báo cáo y học: " Acute lung injury outside the ICU: a significant proble" ppsx

... progression to ALI can be rapid. Acute lung injury (ALI) and its extreme manifestation, the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) complicate a wide variety of serious medical and surgical conditions, ... not all of which affect the lung directly [2]. ALI and ARDS are defined by varying degrees of refractory hypoxemia seen in association with bilateral lung infiltrates o...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... 136 ALI/ARDS = acute lung injury or acute respiratory distress syndrome; EVLW = extravascular lung water. Critical Care April 2005 Vol 9 No 2 Groeneveld and Polderman Abstract Acute lung injury ... assessed at the bedside by measuring the extravascular thermal volume by transpulmonary dilution, some ALI/ARDS patients with sepsis may have normal extravascular lung water (...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:21

... for early acute injury in a cohort of Australian intensive care units. Crit Care 2007, 11:R68. 2. Ympa YP, Sakr Y, Reinhart K, Vincent JL: Has mortality from acute renal failure decreased? A systematic ... crude mortality in AKI that required dialysis decreased over a 15 year period [3]. Another potential explanation is the availability of less nephrotoxic alternatives for vari...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... was treated with tamoxifen 20 mg daily and commenced on adjuvant radiotherapy to the left breast and axilla. The radiotherapy dose was 40 Gy in 15 fractions using medial and lateral tangential ... radiotherapy, with serial changes in the appearance over a period of 3 and a half years. Case presentation In October 2000, a 57-year-old Caucasian woman was diagnosed with breast carcin...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... pathogenesis of ventilator-induced lung injury. Background Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome are major causes of acute respiratory failure, and are char- acterized by ... of acute lung injury by mechani- cal ventilation is known as "VILI, and also as "ventilator- associated" lung injury. VILI is characterized by an increased alveol...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... the major cause of morbidity and mortality following lung resection. Acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory disease syndrome (ARDS) are responsible for the vast majority of respiratory-related ... infiltrates without a clearly identifiable cause, is a major cause of morbidity and mortality after pulmonary resection. The aim of the study was to determine the pre...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... Although several groups are working on developing and validating biomarkers of kidney injury and the glomerular filtration rate (GFR), the proposed diagnostic criteria from the Acute Kidney Injury Network ... kidney disease who were at steady state (age <70 years; average GFR, 40 ml/min/1.73 m 2 ) and had renal functional changes over several months and years [2]. In contrast t...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... Jorge 1 , Sara Gonçalves 1 , António Alvarez 2 , Zélia Costa e Silva 2 , Carlos Fran a 2 and Mateus Martins Prata 1 1 Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, Hospital de Santa Maria, Av. ... Silva S, de Almeida E, Abreu F, Martins C, do Carmo JA, Lacerda JF, Prata MM: An assessment of the RIFLE criteria for acute renal failure following myeloablative autolo- gous and alloge...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... continu- ous data and contingency tables with Pearson chi-square test for categorical variables. Analysis of covariance was used adjusting laboratory data for age and TBSA%. The Tukey une- qual N HSD ... urinary output, and the need for renal replacement therapy. The earli- est available plasma creatinine concentration measurement was used as the baseline. Plasma creatinine concentrat...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... evidence that AKI is a dynamic process, with many patients progressing through different stages of severity, and that early AKI appears to have a better prognosis than late AKI [7]. Numerous studies have ... incidence is variable), that AKI per se is associated with an increased risk of death, and that patients who need renal replacement therapy (RRT) have a higher risk of dying [2-4,7,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23