Báo cáo y học: "A prospective assessment of the inter-laboratory variability of biochemical markers of fibrosis (FibroTest) and activity (ActiTest) in patients with chronic liver disease" ppt

... for the slope and the inter- cept and the number of pairs out of bounds; they were used to determine whether there was only a chance differ- ence between the slope and 1 and between the intercept and ... alanine aminotransferase (ALT) for ActiT- est. The aim of this study was to assess the inter-laboratory variability of FibroTest and ActiTest, including...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... pre-existing increased insulin resistance and dysfunction of beta cells. Insulin resistance is present in the acutely ill [13,15,18,28] in different intensity, but the factors determining the extent of insulin ... history of diabetes and higher body mass indexes. During the five years of follow-up, 102 (15.2%) patients in the normoglycaemia group and 66 (18.3%)...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... participated in the study design and interpretation of the data. JB participated in the study design and interpretation of the data. IDV partici- pated in the study design, interpretation of the data, and ... receptor polymorphisms in the NHS and the WHS Using a dominant model there was no association with RA for any of the six htSNPs in the NH...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... cohort inclusion if they: i) reported difficulty in the last three months with each of the fol- lowing: stair climbing, rising from a chair, standing and walking; ii) swelling, pain or stiffness in ... diagnostic code, and the specialty of the physician providing the service. We identified all office visits made by cohort members to a PCP or psychiatrist within two yea...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... differ- ence in the results obtained. In addition it was possible in most patients to correlate their reports of exacerbations with the medical notes relating to clinic attendances in the intervening year ... reduced fat free mass and declined further over the course of a year. The only parameter predicting decline in QMVC during follow up was QMVC at baseline....

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... complications. Tracheopulmonary injuries associated with these tubes can be serious, and are attributed to the small size of the tube and the stiffness of the inner stylet [6–9]. We prospectively monitored the placement of ... anoxic brain injury, and was obtunded. In eight patients the feeding tube entered the right mainstem bronchus, and in six cases it e...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... recorded. Finally, and possibly most importantly, surviving patients should be interviewed following discharge from the ICU to determine their recollection of their time in ICU and whether or not they ... undersedated. Measures other than a sedation score should be used to determine the quality of sedation in the ICU. They should include a record of the need for physic...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... separately in cases and controls or in the cohort in 89.7% of studies. Remarkably, three of these studies reported a positive finding for polymorphisms that nominally deviated from Hardy-Weinberg ... cohort with more than one polymorphism analyzed (definition of the control group not needed), or a maximum of 12 points for cohorts analyzing a single locus (definition of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... the coordination and data acquisition of patients and aided in the drafting of the manuscript. FXW participated in the coordina- tion and data acquisition of patients and aided in the drafting of the ... feasibility of performing this study by designing a pilot study of mechanically ventilated patients with brain injury intubated solely for airway...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... is likely to be crucial for harmonization of the gating strat- egy in multi-institutional analyses. We further investigated whether binding of pp65 and Melan-A MULTIMERs in the CD8 + versus the CD8 - compartment ... one with and one without the inclusion of dump channel markers. The study revealed a clear benefit for the use of a DUMP channel, extending the ob...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20