Báo cáo y học: "Renal dysfunction in chronic liver disease" potx

... underestimating the degree of change in GFR [17, 18]. Acute kidney injury network criteria for staging acute kidney injury In 2005 the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) was formed, comprising a ... for detecting AKI, including two serum and three urine biomarkers: Serum neutrophil gelatinase lipocalin (sNGAL) and cystatin C, and urinary kidney injury molecule 1 (KIM-1), interleuki...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... composition is altered, with a de- crease in the fractional content of phosphatidylglycerol and an increase in that of phosphatidylinositol and sphingomy- elin. In addition, the concentration of large ... the extracellular surfactant. In the setting of either chronic or acute asthma, products of inflammatory cells (including proteases and reactive oxy- gen and nitrogen species) and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... RA-induced and RA therapy-induced hyperhomocysteinemia to CHF risk in RA has yet to be completely elucidated. Inflammatory cytokines In patients with overt CHF, levels of inflammatory cytokines (TNF-α, ... an endocrine (originating in the synovium) or paracrine (produced in the local environment of the progressively failing myocardium) fashion, contributing to subclinical and eventual...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... sub- jects. The origin of systemic inflammation in COPD is not completely clear. The hypothesis that systemic inflammation is originated by spill over from the pulmo- nary compartment has not yet been proven ... alternative methods, especially in the elderly, it still continues to be the criterion established in the GOLD guidelines and is certainly the most widely used in clinical pra...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... the effect of inflammatory mediators on the brain. Investigations addressing SAD will remain difficult due to the problem of correctly identifying and quantifying this entity. The value of monitoring cerebral ... one could speculate that, in analogy to traumatic brain injury, severe brain dysfunction is necessary to disturb CO 2 reactivity. The action of inflammatory mediators on the endo...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... gastrointestinal dys- function, using as descriptors, feeding intolerance and intra- abdominal hypertension. They demonstrate convincingly that their Gastrointestinal Failure Score correlates in a graded manner ... online http://ccforum.com/content/12/5/180 Abstract Gastrointestinal dysfunction is an intuitively important, yet descriptively elusive component of the multiple organ dysfunc...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... admitted to ICUs in 19 hospitals in the UK and three hospitals in Germany between 1989 to 1999, and we compared ESRF patients and patients with advanced AKI (defined by serum creatinine ≥354 μmol/l, ... RRT or a rise in serum creatinine by >300% from baseline). A total of 797 patients had pre- existing ESRF and 2,782 patients had advanced AKI, of Letter Renal failure in the inten...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... intra-muscular insertion techniques for tibialis posterior electromyography. Current electromyography literature indicates tibialis posterior intensity and timing during walking is variable in ... planning interventions and evaluating outcomes. Recent advances in technology, including imaging, represent an opportunity to employ this tech- nique more frequently and advance our understandin...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... signaling complex, interferon (IFN)-α (IFNA5) which is a type I IFN involved in early cytokine responses to viral infection, inducible nitric oxide synthase (NOS2A), and the high affinity IgE ... disease in infancy, and perhaps asthma inception, include those that are involved in cytokine production (IFNA13, IL15, IL10, and IL17) and cytokine receptor sig- naling (IL4R,IL9R, and STAT1)....

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... complica- tions in 242 liver transplants [20]. Interestingly, the MELD scores in that study were similar to our findings (22.8 vs. 22.3 in our study in the high morbidity group and 17.6 vs. 18.8 in the ... stay in the ICU longer than 10 days (morbidity) was univariately and multivariately ana- lyzed in 128 electively listed and transplanted patients. High urgent listed patient...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22