Báo cáo y học: " Plasma soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-1 levels predict outcomes of pneumonia-related septic shock patients: a prospective observational study" pot

... this article as: Yang et al.: Plasma soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-1 levels predict outcomes of pneumonia-related septic shock patients: a prospective observational study. ... MN, USA). Plasma uPA activity was evaluated with a uPA Activity Assay kit (Chemicon International, Temecula, CA, USA). Statistical analysis Statistical analy...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... control of the cells and extra- cellular matrix by anabolic morphogens and catabolic cyto- kines [1]. The aim of this commentary is to place in context a recent article in this journal of anabolic growth ... confronts the generally inevitable pain in the joints that limits mobility as a result of osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is characterized by articular cartilage damage and t...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... pulmonary artery and 3 patients with a cardiac transplantation. Results: Excluding the cardiac transplantation patients, mean age at operation was 16 years (sd 15 years, range 1 week - 49 years). ... dextrocardia and a long history of cardiac failure before transplanta- tion. The second patient also had a dextrocardia, with additionally mitral and aorta regurgitation, resulting in car...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... inflammation is at the heart of the pathobiology of COPD and that the inflammatory process involves both the lung (airways and parenchyma) and the systemic circulation [32-34]. The intensity of ... review and meta-analysis Wen Qi Gan 1,2 , SF Paul Man 1,2 , Dirkje S Postma 3 , Patricia Camp 1 and Don D Sin* 1,2 Address: 1 James Hogg iCAPTURE Center for Cardiovascular and Respiratory...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... respectively; P < 0.001). ALI/ARDS timelines and outcomes A diagnosis of ALI/ARDS was made after a median of 1 day (interquartile range 0 to 4 days) from the day of clinical insult in all patients ... syndrome (ARDS) is an inflammatory lung injury involving both endothelial and epi- thelial layers of the alveolar-capillary membrane, with subse- quent alveolar flooding and f...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... respiratory or cardiovascular failure, and 29 patients with respiratory failure and/or cardiovascular fail- ure. Serum samples from all participants were analysed for BG and c-peptide levels (ARUP ... aetiological cause of CIH in younger and middle-aged adults. Many factors in acute illness may cause beta-cell dysfunction, including elevations in pro-inflammatory cytokines, cata- cholamin...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:22

... H: Age and sex analyses of out -of- hospital cardiac arrest in Osaka, Japan. Resuscitation 2003, 57:145-152. 30. Kajino K, Iwami T, Daya M, Nishiuchi T, Hayashi Y, Kitamura T, Irisawa T, Sakai ... resuscitation interval and outcomes of out -of- hospital cardiopulmonary arrest: a nationwide observational study Soichi Koike 1* , Toshio Ogawa 2 , Senzan Tanabe 3 , Shinya Matsumoto 1 ,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... aim of this study was to inves- tigate the Gas6 and sAxl concentrations in plasma in a large cohort of patients with sepsis and related inflam- matory syndromes. We can report that the plasma ... that the plasma Gas6 was increased approximately two-fold in all patient groups. Material and methods Gas6 and sAxl ELISAs Blood samples for the analyses of plasma proteins and lactat...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... ELISA work. DLM conceived and oversaw the study, carried out statistical analyses and interpretation of data, and finalized the manu- script. The final manuscript was read and approved by all authors. Acknowledgements This ... receptor genotypes and sTNFR levels (corrected for age, sex and disease duration). Where neces- sary the data were normalized by logarithmic transformation before a...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... extracellular actin filaments [2]. Hypogelsolinemia ensues after a wide spectrum of seemingly unrelated types of insults and precedes a second wave of injury that typically involves organs distant ... expanded to now accommodate the convincing observations that plasma gelsolin can bind a variety of potentially inflammatory moieties, and can thereby modulate the exuberance of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22