Báo cáo y học: "Midregional pro-Adrenomedullin in addition to b-type natriuretic peptides in the risk stratification of patients with acute dyspnea: an observational study" ppt

... 4 Research Midregional pro-Adrenomedullin in addition to b-type natriuretic peptides in the risk stratification of patients with acute dyspnea: an observational study Mihael Potocki 1 , Tobias Breidthardt 1 , Tobias ... stratification of patients with dyspnea admitted to the ED is of paramount importance. An unmet clinical need is to risk...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... growing meticil- lin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) susceptible to vancomycin, teicoplanin, and clindamycin; no anaerobe was isolated. Subsequently, the antibiotics were changed to vancomy- cin, ... throat and fever. A few days later, the patient developed pain and swelling around the right eye accompanied by diplopia. She also had dry cough of 1 day duration. There was no...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 19:21

... participated in the designing and planning of the study. JH and PPT designed and conceived the study, helped to analyse the data, and helped to draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final ... we hypothesise CD97 expression to result in accumulation of inflammatory cells in the synovial tissue of RA patients. To determine the therapeutic...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... to our clinic complaining of numbness of the little finger and the ulnar aspect of the ring finger. Ten days prior to presentation, the patient sus- tained a 1 cm laceration at the level of the ... ligament, and the hook of the hamate [1]. There are four levels in which the ulnar nerve may be com- pressed at the wrist and hand: 1) The main trunk of the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... considered to have an aberrant brain connectivity and impairments in WM capacity. The aim of this study was to determine the dependency of the P300 component on WM load in a sample of SZ subjects. Methods: ... Thus, the study of WM mechanisms and their impairments in SZ might contri- bute to unveil some of the underlying affected mechan- isms in this diseas...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... display increased synthetic activity [4]. Histo- logic examination of human asthmatic airways has revealed the presence of myofibroblasts in the proximity of both the smooth muscle layer and the ... factor in concert with the lymphoid enhancing factor 1 (LEF1) and induces EMT in epithelial cell lines [47-49]. Myofibroblasts release a variety of ECM proteins contrib-...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... signaling-2 and suppressors of cytokine signaling-3PCR measurements for cytokine-inducible SH 2 -containing protein, sup- pressors of cytokine signaling-2 and suppressors of cytokine signaling- 3. ... GH. The induction of SOCS proteins by hormones and/or cytokines has been hypothesized to inhibit GH signaling by a negative feedback loop involving the janus kinase and signal tran...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... are given simultaneously to a patient in the ICU and interact with each other. The nature of these interactions is likely to vary from patient to patient, and perhaps even within the same patient ... minimum period of six hours during their first 24 hours in the ICU and whose total fluid intake and output were recorded. The distribution of the total fluid intake...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... Thus, efforts to counteract the pre-existing inflammatory cytokines in RA patients by inducing anti-inflammatory cytokines or neutralizing pro-inflammatory cytokines should be critically evaluated ... neutralizing these effector cytokines has proven successful in the treatment of RA. Like RA, the inflammatory response in the arthritic mouse joint is predominantly mediated...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... T-cell tolerance, and we therefore need to determine the major T-cell epitopes. Again, since there were no changes in anti-CII antibody titers and anti-CII antibodies are T cell-dependent, the T-cell ... deficiency in mice subjected to CIA did not affect either incidence or anti-CII antibody titers but caused a signif- icant early onset and increase in the severity of the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22