Báo cáo y học: "N-GAL: Diagnosing AKI as soon as possib" docx
Báo cáo y học: "NGAL: an emerging tool for predicting severity of AKI is easily detected by a clinical assay" potx
... previously shown that urine neutrophil
gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), measured by a
research ELISA, is an early predictive biomarker of acute
kidney injury (AKI) after cardiopulmonary bypass ... NGAL measurements by research
ELISA and by the ARCHITECT assay were highly corre-
lated (r = 0.99). In a subsequent study, serial urine NGAL
measurements were obtained by ARCHITECT assay...
Báo cáo y học: "A folate-rich diet is as effective as folic acid from supplements in decreasing plasma homocysteine concentrations"
... supplements on
plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) concentrations, which was the aim of this
study. Methods: Twenty male patients with hyperhomocysteinemia and
coronary artery disease were included ... serum triglyceride, glucose, and plasma fibrinogen concentrations. A small, but not clinically-significant
decrease in body mass index was seen with both therapies.
Daily energy intake was si...
Báo cáo y học: "Interferon-induced versus chemokine transcripts as lupus biomarkers" doc
... significantly associated with
lupus disease activity, as assessed by the SLEDAI-2K
(Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index 2000)
or C3 levels. The chemokine score showed a slightly greater
degree ... expression is increasingly
recognized as a feature of a number of systemic autoimmune
diseases, including systemic sclerosis, polymyositis, dermato-
myositis, Sjögren syndrome, a...
Báo cáo y học: "Interferon-induced versus chemokine transcripts as lupus biomarkers" ppt
... utility of measuring chemokine
transcripts in peripheral blood as an indicator of disease
activity. Their study builds on a growing literature that has
used microarray, real-time polymerase chain ... or
functional assays of IFN-α activity to quantify activation of the
IFN pathway [5-7]. The measurement of serum chemokine
protein has been proposed as an additional approach to
define biolog...
Báo cáo y học: "Response to comments on "Capnography as an aid in localizing the phrenic nerve in brachial plexus surgery. Technical note"" docx
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Báo cáo y học: " Sitagliptin is effective and safe as add-on to insulin in patients with absolute insulin deficiency: a case series" potx
... insulin deficiency is elusive.
This may be an atypical case. Her post-meal glucagon
level was 130 pg/ml (normal range, 23 to 197 pg/ml).
Her body mass index (BMI) was 21.5 (body weight/body
height = ... levels) or liver (assessed by glutamate oxaloa-
cetate transaminase, glutamate pyruvate transaminase,
alkaline phosphatase and g-glutamyl traspeptidase func-
tion). No weight gain or gastroint...
Báo cáo y học: " Cardiac tamponade mimicking tuberculous pericarditis as the initial presentation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia in a 58-year-old woman: a case report" pptx
... history, the bloody fluid,
the mediastinal adenopathy, and the lymphocytosis in
the pericardial fluid. An adenosine deaminase assay,
which has been used to identify tuberculosis, was unin-
terpretable ... stains were negative for acid-fast bacteria.
Assessment of blood by flow cytometry and pericardial biopsy by immunohistochemistry revealed CD5 (+) and
CD20 (+) lymphocytes in both tissues, d...
Báo cáo y học: "EXACKTE2: Exploiting the clinical consultation as a knowledge transfer and exchange environment: a study protocol" pptx
... medical encounters. Patient Educ Couns 2006,
60:301-312.
15. Kenny DA, Kashy DA, Cook WL: Dyadic data analysis Edited by:
Kenny DA. New York: The Guilford Press; 2006.
16. Vohs K, Finkel E: Introduction. ... from which
physician-patient pairs will be assessed by computing an
intra-class correlation coefficient for each measured out-
come.
Second, construct validity will also be assessed by c...
Báo cáo y học: "Cardiac tamponade mimicking tuberculous pericarditis as the initial presentation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia in a 58-year-old woman: a case report" pptx
... history, the bloody fluid,
the mediastinal adenopathy, and the lymphocytosis in
the pericardial fluid. An adenosine deaminase assay,
which has been used to identify tuberculosis, was unin-
terpretable ... stains were negative for acid-fast bacteria.
Assessment of blood by flow cytometry and pericardial biopsy by immunohistochemistry revealed CD5 (+) and
CD20 (+) lymphocytes in both tissues, d...
Báo cáo y học: "ranulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor as an immune-based therapy in HIV infection" pptx
... Merigan TCJ, Glesby MJ: Granu-
locyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor induces
modest increases in plasma human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV) type 1 RNA levels and CD4+ lymphocyte counts in
patients ... attributable to GM-CSF in any study.
The large phase III trial by Angel et al. has been the only
study to use clinical events as endpoints, using the Centers
for Diseases Control and Prev...