Báo cáo y học: "In-hospital percentage BNP reduction is highly predictive for adverse events in patients admitted for acute heart failure: the Italian RED Study" potx

... 10.1186/cc9067 Cite this article as: Di Somma et al., In- hospital percentage BNP reduction is highly predictive for adverse events in patients admitted for acute heart fail- ure: the Italian RED Study Critical ... (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the or...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... hypothesis." However, given the fact that this is a secondary finding, and the controversies surrounding the "hygiene hypothesis," further investigation is clearly needed. Surprisingly, ... Finally, two logistic regressions were conducted to assess the impact of SES on the risk of emergency health service use in the last year (defined as a binary variable), us...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... for the therapeutic management of haemoptysis in this clinical setting. To summarize, a multidisciplinary approach remains the cornerstone for the management of severe haemoptysis. Bedside clinical ... rebleed- ing. Patients with recurrent haemoptysis were included at the first episode only. Definitions 1. Severity of haemoptysis The severity of haemoptysis on admission was...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... the statistical analysis of the data. This study is endorsed by the European Society for Intensive Care Medicine. References 1. Ympa YP, Sakr Y, Reinhart K, Vincent JL: Has mortality from acute ... outcome. Results Of the 3,147 patients included in the SOAP study, 1,120 (36%) had ARF at some point during their ICU stay. Sixty- day mortality rates were 36% in patients...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... not shown). The same results were obtained for invasive routine monitoring in all 43 patients (data not shown). Circulating Ang-2 predicts mortality in critically ill patients To determine the relation ... affinity to the extracellular domain of the Tie2 receptor, which is almost exclusively expressed by endothelial cells. Binding of the agonist Ang-1 to the Tie2 recep...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

... we usually amputate the cervix at the level of the uterine artery, which corresponds to approximately 10 mm below the isthmus. In this procedure, we usually ligate and cut the descending branches ... blood supply to the uterus in two patients who experienced pregnancy and delivery were studied by using 3-D CT scanning. Effects of changes of blood supply to the uterus...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:48

... antibody response against PG in some of the patients with deep infection might be due to impaired immunity of advancing age, poor expression of virulence determinants by the infecting strain ... Kim for statistical analysis, David Griffith for photography and Dr. Fu-Shin Yu (Kresge Eye Institute) for his valuable critiques. Conflict of interest None declared. References...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:08

... G-protein-coupled receptor/PtdIns 3-kinase p athway in mediating duoden- ase-stimulated DNA synthesis. Effect of in ammatory cytokines on duodenase-induced DNA synthesis Pretreatment of pulmonary artery fibroblasts with the cytokines ... two structurally distinct and selective inhibitors of PtdIns 3-kinase, completely blocked duodenase-induced [ 3 H]thymidine incorporation, suggesting a k...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... If the same tools are used in the inpatient setting, they may help to identify which patients are ready for discharge. As experi- ence is gained using symptom and functioning instru- ments, their ... measured in the study and therefore could not be included in the predic- tive model. As with many forms of health care utilization, the threshold for admission and dischar...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... association study in patients with primary knee OA (n = 151) and healthy individuals (n = 397) in the Korean population. Haplotyping analysis was used to determine the relationship between three polymorphisms ... (PvuII for intron 1 T/C, XbaI for intron 1 A/G, and BtgI for exon 8 G/A polymorphism). There was no significant difference between primary knee OA patients and heal...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23