Báo cáo y học: "Procalcitonin in liver transplant patients - yet another stone turned" pps

... they have no other competing interests. References 1. Zazula R, Prucha M, Tyll T, Kieslichova E. Induction of procalci- tonin in liver transplant patients treated with anti-thymocyte globulin. ... expressed by this cell line is intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (CD54), which is involved in ischaemia- related inflammation, and treatment with polyclonal anti- thymocyte globulin can th...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... 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 ... NS Procalcitonin donor concentration 0.005 NS Pre -liver transplantation procalcitonin concentration 0.37 NS Severe portal hypertension 0.07 NS Epinephrine or norepinephrine doses in...

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... has figured in clinical descriptions of the 'core' def- icits of schizophrenia. Today, it is still commonly included by many authors [ 8-1 5] in the negative symp- tomatology of schizophrenic ... idea- tion and dexamethasone non-suppression in depressed patients. J Psychiatry Res 1990, 24:2 5-3 5. 36. Myerson A: The constitutional anhedonia personality. Am J Psy- chiatry...

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... used the ICSD-2 definition for insomnia, which consists of difficulty in falling asleep, waking up too early, frequent awakening with difficulty in falling asleep again and secondary daytime impairment ... knowledge, no similar study has inves- tigated the prevalence of insomnia in patients on mainte- nance dialysis in Saudi Arabia. The prevalence of insomnia in dialysis patients...

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... 3. Ely EW, Gautam S, Margolin R, Francis J, May L, Speroff T, Truman B, Dittus R, Bernard R, Inouye SK: The impact of delir- ium in the intensive care unit on hospital length of stay. Inten- sive ... change in a setting in which the incidence of delirium were lower [11]. Finally, reinclusion of patients with a history of psychosis or neurological disease (great ‘delirium mimickers’; e...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... may indicate translocation of endotoxin from the gastrointestinal tract. A reliable endotoxin activity assay (EAA) offers the potential to determine Gram-negative infections in critically ill patients. ... reasonably rapid endotoxin assay in the management of critically ill patients. The detection of circulating endotoxin in the blood of patients may signal the presence of a Gram-ne...

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... reinfarctions in patients with type 2 diabetes following AMI. In that study, only one out of five patients was treated with coronary artery bypass grafting or primary percutaneous coronary inter- vention. ... newly hyperglycaemic patients. Intensive care unit patients In one study conducted in medical ICU patients [6], admission BG was above 11.1 mmol/l in 23%. In anoth...

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... individual socio-economic functioning in relation to health during the past thirty days the H-section of the WHO-Disability Assessment Schedule-II (WHO- DAS-II) was used. This tool has good internal, ... Urdu speaking cultures such as in Pakistan. A meta- analysis of psychiatric rating scales in Urdu [38] con- cluded that only a small number of instruments (includ- ing SRQ) were suffici...

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... neurolabyrinthitis? Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2000, 126:102 4-1 029. 29. Melagrana A, Tarantino V, D'Agostino R, Taborelli G: Electronys- tagmography findings in child unilateral sensorineural ... screening tools for identifying hearing-impaired elderly in primary care. JAMA 1988, 259:287 5-2 878. 11. McBride WS, Mulrow CD, Aguilar C, Tuley MR: Methods for screening for hea...

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... purposes of analysis, were categorized by the investigators as containing arginine alone; arginine and glutamine; arginine and fish oil (FO); arginine, glutamine and FO; glutamine alone; and ... burn patients and 7 trauma patients. Four of the studies used formulas supplemented with arginine, two with arginine and glutamine, nine with arginine and fish oil (FO), two with arginine, ......

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