Báo cáo y học: "ICU admission and severity assessment in community-acquired pneumonia" ppt

... severity scores such as the Pneumonia Severity Index and the CURB65 score are designed to predict 30-day mortality. As a result, they are heavily weighted by age and co-morbidity. They perform ... no universally accepted definition. Since the development of the Pneumonia Severity Index in 1997 [2], severe CAP has been considered in terms of a patient’s risk of 30-day mortality –...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... 1 Murphy et al. particularly important for improving the quality of medical care for patients in all types of ICUs. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Acknowledgements DJM ... SG, Winters JL, Hubmayr RD, Moore SB, Gajic O; Transfusion in the ICU Interest Group: Evidence-based red cell transfusion in the critically ill: quality improvement usin...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... enzyme studied by this group is aromatic amine dehydrogenase. This enzyme is especially interesting because it is fairly nonspecific in the substrates it will bind and catalyze. In particular, in ... particular, in the series benzylamine, dopamine, and tryptamine, primary kinetic isotope effects range from a low of 4.8 in benzylamine to a high of 54.7 in tryptamine [58]. In a...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 23:20

... Scale (GDS), and information was obtained on age, ethnicity, level of education, living arrangement, and psychiatric history. Two days post -admission, a clinical staff member caring for each ... hospitalized elderly adults will continue to in- crease in the coming decades. The National Health Inter- view Survey reports that in the United States in 1994, 8.3 million individuals ov...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... They play distinct physiological tasks from fine tuning membrane excitability in response to sensory input, modulating locomotion and emotional behavior to the induction of synaptic plasticity ... channels in aged mice may represent a mechanism that contributes to age-dependent decline in learning and memory and synaptic plasticity. In the hippocampus, SK3 was found predominantl...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... Bland RC, Danyluk L: Self-inflicted eye injuries and self-inflicted blindness. J Nerv Ment Dis 1979, 167:311-314. 8. Finkenbine R: Assaultive eye injury and enucleation. J Am Acad Psychiatry ... his home and finding no reason to con- tinue living. According to his description, the injury to his right eye was performed during one of these days in order to "change things" and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... tolerance in the thymus. Competing interests None declared. References 1. Delon J, Stoll S, Germain RN: Imaging of T-cell interactions with antigen presenting cells in culture and in intact lymphoid tissue. ... CD4 + T cells directly, IL-1β has been shown by several groups to act on the DC to enhance the production of proinflammatory cytokines, including TNFα and more significantly...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... blood or synovial fluid lymphocytes induced TNF production by monocytic cells within 24 hours, an effect that was mainly mediated by NK cells. In turn, monocytic cells induced CD69 expression and IFN-γ ... 2:364-371. 8. Choy EH, Panayi GS: Cytokine pathways and joint inflamma- tion in rheumatoid arthritis. N Engl J Med 2001, 344:907-916. 9. Isler P, Vey E, Zhang JH, Dayer JM: Cell sur...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... many factors that are also released by macrophages, lymphocytes and fibroblasts indicates that they can play similar roles in chronic inflammation. Many of these factors are pivotal in causing tissue ... RANK, by these cells could provide a large, transient increase in RANKL levels in the joint, supplementing that normally provided by the chronic inflammatory cells in synovial tis...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20