Báo cáo y học: "In critically ill patients the procalcitonin level can be misleading" pdf

... 38:2229-2241. doi:10.1186/cc10132 Cite this article as: Koeze J, et al.: In critically ill patients the procalcitonin level can be misleading. Critical Care 2011, 15:422. Koeze et al. Critical Care ... 2 Laboratory of Microbiology, Twente Achterhoek, Postbus 377, 7500 AJ Enschede, The Netherlands. 3 Department of Clinical Chemistry, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Postbus 50.00...

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... inhibition of the caseinolytic activity in zymography by EDTA and lack of inhibition by the serine protease inhibitor phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride further confirmed the MMP character of the bands ... also analyzed by laser scanning microscopy using SFB fluorescence-labelled before co-cul- ture. Although the SFB layer on top of the cartilage only shows the fluorescence signal of...

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... whether the effect of other alleles had been masked by the relatively increased frequency of these alleles [21]. HLA-DRB1*03, DQA1*05 and DQB1*02 were therefore removed from the data, and the ... haplotype associations, and that genetic differences observed between PM and DM can be partly accounted for by their serological differences. Myositis disease subtypes appear to be defi...

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... of the airway wall are obtained by placing the tip of the miniprobe onto the airway wall surface. Another advantage of FCFM and its miniprobe is the ability to reach and therefore visualize the ... proteogly- cans, and glycoproteins are likely to contribute to this as well.EventhoughECMmaythickentheairwaywall and thereby promoting luminal narrowing, any accom- panying stiffening...

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... containing the therapeutic gene(s). It will likely be contained within a minority of these cells. Hence gene therapy provides a very different scenario to systemic antiretroviral therapy where every cell ... as they are likely to be critical for viral fit- ness. Further, the selection of highly conserved sites ensures the therapy matches the maximum number of viral variants. Mathe...

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... may enable mosquito speciation to be established by molecular entomology. Our work offers the first sup- port for the hypothesis that mosquito retroposons may be exploited for that purpose. Overall, ... It may be argued that the power of our findings is limited by the absence from the 201-eukaryote database of more mosquito spe- cies genomes for which horizontal transfer has p...

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... proto- col on the mortality of critically ill adult patients. Mayo Clin Proc 2004, 79:992-1000. 17. Krinsley JS, Jones RL: Cost analysis of intensive glycemic con- trol in critically ill adult patients. ... remainder of the period. Table 3 shows that 96% of SPRINT patients reached the 6.1 mmol/L band from the initial hyperglycaemic state compared with only 74% of the ret...

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... of the mean. a Differences are rated significant at the corresponding levels of significance using the t test or Mann-Whitney test, respectively. a, significant differences; HES, hydroxyethyl ... differentiated temporal profile in critically ill sTBI patients with a significantly reduced stimulation during the first week, followed by a sus- tained stimulatory effect during th...

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... not been validated in critically ill patients outside of the Mayo Clinic; so far the FOUR score has not been validated in sedated patients; and so far the FOUR score has only been validated by ... 9 lected critically ill patients in the medical ICU the predic- tive values of the FOUR-EM and of the motor component of the GCS for 28-day mortality does not differ fro...

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... into the study. Patients were excluded from the study if they met any of the following criteria: 1) if they were undergoing urgent cardiac surgery, 2) if they had chronic hepatic dys- function ... ction raise the question whether these results can be transposed to other groups of critically ill patients, we assert that acute physiological effects of hemodilution are likely...

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