Báo cáo y học: " Risks associated with magnetic resonance imaging and cervical collar in comatose, blunt trauma patients with negative comprehensive cervical spine computed tomography and no apparent spinal deficit" pdf
... tomography; LI, ligamentous injury; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging. Table 3 Cervical spine instability rates in obtunded/comatose blunt trauma patients with no apparent spinal deficit and negative comprehensive ... 2.5% (25 in 1,000). Table 1 Cervical spine instability studies in obtunded/comatose blunt trauma patients with no apparent sp...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22
... severity of negative symptoms and the increased GM volume in the right thalamus. The findings of a GM volume reduction and CSF increase in individuals with EOS in this study are compatible with previous ... were mapped into the standard space of Talairach and Tournoux [38] by minimising the sum of the square intensity differences between each proton density image and a tem...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21
... Silverstone PH, Ravindran A: Once-daily venlafaxine extended release (XR) compared with fluoxetine in outpatients with depression and anxiety. Venlafaxine XR 360 Study Group. J Clin Psychiatry 1999, 60:22-28. 22. ... reuptake inhibitors, and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhib- itors [5,6]. The trials in this analysis all included patients with MDD. However, the diagnosti...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21
Báo cáo y học: "Differential expression of RANK, RANK-L, and osteoprotegerin by synovial fluid neutrophils from patients with rheumatoid arthritis and by healthy human blood neutrophils" doc
... RANK-L. Interestingly, TRAF6 is expressed by both inflammatory and healthy neu- trophils and its expression is not modulated by any stimulus. These findings may have important pathophysiological ... section) could originate only from lining fibroblast-like synoviocytes [41]. The findings that inflammatory neutrophils spontaneously express RANK (Figures 1 and 2d) and that healthy blood...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo y học: " Pro/con clinical debate: The use of prone positioning in the management of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome" potx
... ocular injury, jugular vein compression, and skin ulceration at points of increased pressure (for instance, the nose, chin, or knees). Maintaining a supine position may also be mandated by the underlying ... persuaded by survival data. Finally, intensivists are strongly motivated by the ‘rule of rescue’. Intensivists feel obliged to offer some therapy, any therapy, to a patient in imminen...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21
Báo cáo y học: "Clinical review: Post-extubation laryngeal edema and extubation failure in critically ill adult patients" pps
... requiring medical intervention Kriner and colleagues [8] 2005 462 20 4.3 Inspiratory grunting, whistling or wheezing requiring medical intervention within 24 hours after extubation Ding and colleagues ... downregulate the inflammatory response by inhibit- ing the recruitment and action of inflammatory cells [49]. Together with a decrease in capillary vessel dilatation and permea...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo Y học: NMR structure of the HIV-1 regulatory protein Vpr in H2O/trifluoroethanol Comparison with the Vpr N-terminal (1–51) and C-terminal (52–96) domains pot
... were obtained from 2D HSQC, HSQC-TOCSY and HSQC-NOESY at 313 and 323 K (Figs 3 and 4). Clean TOCSY and E-COSY experiments allowed for spin system identification and NOESY cross peaks, connecting HN, ... HIV-1 replication, binding of NCp7 to the C-terminal domain (80–96)Vpr [8] may expose the N-terminal (1–39) portion of the protein and allow its tight binding to Lys-tRNA synthetase...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo y học: "Virally associated arthritis 2008: clinical, epidemiologic, and pathophysiologic considerations" doc
... days), most patients have persistent joint complaints in the form of tenosynovitis involving wrists and fingers and/ or arthritis involving the proximal finger joints. At this stage, there is no ... scenario is an inflammatory arthritis occurring in the setting of HCV -associated mixed cryoglobulinemia [16]. Cryoglobulins can be detected in approximately half of chronically HCV-...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23
Báo cáo y học: " Detection of HIV-1 RNA/DNA and CD4 mRNA in feces and urine from chronic HIV-1 infected subjects with and without anti-retroviral therapy" pptx
... direct kill- ing of CD4-expressing primarily infected cells, HIV indi- rect killing of bystander cells through HIV proteins and/ or by the proinflammatory state that is associated to ongoing viral ... diag- nosis of infection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) by detection of antibody IgGs to pol and gag proteins of HIV-1 and p24 antigen of HIV-1 in urine, saliva, an...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21
Báo cáo y học: " Spontaneous coronary artery dissection presenting as an ischaemic stroke in a middle-aged man with anti-cardiolipin antibodies: a case report" ppsx
... embolized causing a stroke, which was his presenting complaint. The patient was anticoagulated with warfarin and secondary prevention instituted with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, statin and ... revas- cularization in acutely unwell patients, in the form of percutaneous coronary intervention [12] and coronary artery bypass grafting [13] have been described in...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20