Báo cáo y học: "Combination of lung ultrasound (a comet-tail sign) and N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in differentiating acute heart failure from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma as cause of acute dyspnea in prehospital emergency

... N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in differentiating acute heart failure from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma as cause of acute dyspnea in prehospital emergency setting. Critical ... Combination of quantitative capnometry, N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide, and clinical assessment in differentiating...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... repair. Employing NMR spectroscopy we found this part of Vpr to be almost completely a helical in the presence of micelles, as well as in trifluoroethanol containing and methanol/ chloroform solvent. ... annealing protocol including floating assignment of prochiral groups and a conformational database potential during all but the last 200 cooling steps. Of the 60–97 structur...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:21

... generations (A, black line), away from regions of branching; (Analysis 2), narrowing in the parent bronchus was measured at the midpoint of branching, where the parent bronchus was seen to open into ... in pig bronchi in vitro in which airway narrowing was measured endoscopically in separate large and small diameter airways [7]. The present study extends these findings by...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... polysomnography to objectively measure many standard sleep quality and quantity parameters as well as daily activity of healthy individuals [11-15]. Care has been taken to fully specify the instrumentation ... squares’’ of a best-fitting strai ght line to a data set when searching for a linear increasing or decreasing trend and subsequently determining the probability that the s l...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... ventilometry and spirometry in pre and post operatory are described. The u se of incentive spi- rometer was well tolerated and of easy comprehension by the patients. Analyzing the obtained data, ... incentive spirometers as a method of assessment VC in patients in pre and post coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. Methods Studied population This study was accom...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... site of HA0 of most avian and mam- malian influen za viruses is monobasic and carries a sin- glearginine,rarelyasinglelysineaminoacid.Cleavage has been reported to occur extracellularly by trypsin [5,6], ... activity and expression of serine proteases in lungs from mice infected with influenza and evaluated the effect of serine protease inhibitors on virus replication both...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:21

... characterize Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) include an increase in airway resistance due to small airw ay remodeling and obliteration, and a decrease in elastic recoil secondary to the parenchymal ... unit lung volume, SA/V), its accuracy was significantly improved by combining it with CT cluster analysis of lower attenuation areas. Basing an estimate of em...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:23

... -6 in bleomycin 6 in bleomycin6 in bleomycin 6 in bleomycin- -induced lung induced lung induced lung induced lung inflammatory changes in mice inflammatory changes in miceinflammatory changes ... bleomycin bleomycinbleomycin bleomycin- -induced pulmonary inflammation in the rat induced pulmonary inflammation in the ratinduced pulmonary inflammation in...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... TH2 inflammatory cytokines IL-4, IL-5 and IL-13 Generation of pathogenic Th2 cells is the main cause of asthma. We measured a panel of proinflammatory cytokines in lung homogenates by using ... demon- strating involvement of the atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) signaling pathway in immunity in the heart and lung [6]. The natriuretic peptide prohormone is a...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... acquired and analyzed using Becton Dickinson BD LYSYS II and Cyto- metric Bead Array (CBA) software (San Jose, CA). Levels of cytokine and chemokine in BAL fluid The levels of cytokines and chemokines ... antibody measured by ELISA. Nine non-smoking healthy volunteers (5 women and 4 men, aged 18 to 40 years) without evident current or past history of pulmonary diseases bas...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21