Báo cáo y học: " C-reactive protein in critically ill cancer patients with sepsis: influence of neutropenia" doc

... defect, their risk of particular infections and therefore the best treatment for them. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Authors' contributions TSC ... X-ray will show an absent thymus. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is the definitive treatment; trials of gene therapy are ongoing, with mixed results. Supportive treatment should be i...

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... rheumatoid factor; SE = HLA DRB1 shared epitope. Available online http:/ /arthritis- research.com/4/4/R1 Research article B lymphocytopenia in rheumatoid arthritis is associated with the DRB1 shared ... lymphocytes is plotted on the x axis, and the number of patients in each frequency range is plotted on the y axis. The overlays represent the Ga...

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... etiology of psychiatric symp- toms in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Scand J Rheumatol 1994, 23:277-282. 7. Iverson GL: Screening for depression in systemic lupus ery- thematosus with ... N-methyl-D-aspartate; non-NPSLE = systemic lupus erythematosus with inactive disease and without overt neuropsychiatric disorders; NPSLE = systemic lupus erythema...

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... the pathogenesis of RA and other inflammatory diseases, a great deal of interest exists in understanding the molecular basis of the signalling pathways induced by these receptors, with the hope of identifying ... adaptive immune systems in the pathology of the disease. The success of anti-tumour necrosis factor-α indicates the importance of pro-inflammato...

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... glutathione S-transferase (GST) superfamily and risk of arsenic-induced urothelial carcinoma in residents of southwestern Taiwan. Journal of Biomedical Science 2011 18:51. Hsu et al. Journal of Biomedical ... CJ, Pu YS, Su CT, Huang YK, Chen YT, Hsueh YM: Urinary 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine and urothelial carcinoma risk in low arsenic exposure area. Tox...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... origin and lacto-vegetarians: a 31-year-old Indian man and a 34-year-old Indian woman. In both cases, their clinical symptoms fully resolved following vitamin D and calcium replacement therapy. These ... Access Proximal myopathy in lacto-vegetarian Asian patients responding to Vitamin D and calcium supplement therapy - two case reports and...

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... much of a good thing be a bad thing? Daren K Heyland Clinical Evaluation Research Unit, Angada 4 Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, ON K7L 2V7, Canada Corresponding author: Daren K Heyland, dkh2@post.queensu.ca Published: ... apoptosis of cells causing a maladaptive inflammatory reaction by means of a pro-oxidative mechanism may be beneficial. However, no evidenc...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... studies directly comparing processed EEG devices to PSG in critically ill patients, and research is needed to determine the validity of these devices in measuring sleep. Though decidedly the most accurate ... seen in critically ill patients, may result in the intrusion of delta frequency waves into the wake state, leading to an overestimation of sleep time. Thus, f...

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... iron overload: (a) classical pathway; (b) alternate pathway (rarely observed)Figure 10 Pathways leading to HCC in iron overload: (a) classical pathway; (b) alternate pathway (rarely observed). ... highly suggestive of a hepatocellular carcinoma. Case presentation: A 55 year old man with idiopathic refractory anaemia was addressed for the cure of a recently appeared 3.3 cm hyper...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... immunocompetent patients are largely lacking [17,18]. Employment of potent antiviral therapy in all critically ill patients may be impractical, logistically infea- sible, and potentially harmful given a large ... monitoring and antiviral therapy targeted towards patients with viral replication are routinely employed at many transplant centers. APACHE: Acute Physiology and Chronic Heal...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... that may explain the higher incidence of VTE in critically ill patients, such as full immobilisation or withholding anticoagulant prophylaxis because of a high bleeding risk, it was hypothesized ... and safety of LMW heparin for thromboprophylaxis in orthopaedic and abdominal surgery was achieved with dosages of heparin resulting in peak plasma anti-factor Xa activities rangi...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Research Survival trends in critically ill HIV-infected patients in the highly active antiretroviral therapy era Isaline Coquet 1 , Juliette ... for many years [1]. A major turning point was the introduction of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the mid-1990s. ART has increased the life expectancy of pat...

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... and may enable easier recognition of iron defi ciency in the presence of in ammation in critically ill patients.  is opens new areas of research exploring the role of iron treatment for these ... 7 of 7 Because ferritin synthesis is induced by in ammation (through IL-1) independently of the level of iron stores, elevated ferritin levels are no longe...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... response indepen- dently of the treatment of infection [29-33]. In the present study, we clearly demonstrate that CRP, a major acute phase reactant protein, increases markedly in profoundly immunosuppressed ... antibio- tic therapy was similar in neutropenic and non-neutro- penic septic critically ill cancer patients. Since inadequately treated infections can be rapidly fat...

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