Acoustic diagnosis of aortic stenosis

... duration xi List of Abbreviations LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS A2 Aortic Component of the Second Heart Sound AMPG The Mean Transaortic Pressure Gradient AS Aortic Stenosis AV Aortic Valve AVAC The Aortic Valve ... Indicator of the Severity of the AS – The Integration of the Normalized Continuous Wavelet Transform of the Systolic Murmurs 41 3.7 The Fourth Indicator of the Se...

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... Impact of concomitant aortic regurgitation on long-term outcome after surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2011 6:51 Page of ... gender, number of aortic valve cusps, concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting, and magnitude of left ventricular systemic arterial peak systoli...

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... Colour Doppler ultrasound: a new index improves the diagnosis of renal artery stenosis Ultrasound Med Biol 2000, 26:41-47 Strandness D E., Jr.: Duplex imaging for the detection of renal artery stenosis ... predict the outcome of therapy for renal- artery stenosis N Engl J Med 2001, 344:410-417 Simoni C, Balestra G, Bandini A, Rusticali F: [Doppler ultraso...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:20

... as: Licker et al., Preoperative diastolic function predicts the onset of left ventricular dysfunction following aortic valve replacement in high-risk patients with aortic stenosis Critical Care ... severity of diastolic dysfunction, particularly in patients with a restrictive filling pattern and those with Vp less than 40 cm/s (Figure 3) Notewo...

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... presumptive diagnosis of brucellosis which were sent to Central Microbiology Laboratory of Selcuk University Meram Faculty of Medicine from various clinics were included in the study and kept at ... tests and makes it possible to determine the type of antibody (3) Obtaining negative results in agglutination tests is a common phenomenon One of the reasons for this is bloc...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:56

... Unfortunately again the AUC values were below the 0.70 for Bc1 in all groups The relevance of this finding is that it was the result of the first subgroup analysis for these biomarkers Bc1 should therefore ... periods of time might have resulted in changes in the protein content, affecting especially the results of Bc1 The present study and the study by Mathe...

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... conclusion, MALDI-TOF MS combined with magnetic beads is one useful tool for integrating separation and analysis of complex mixtures of proteins With the panel of four selected biomarkers, we achieved ... a by serum protein profiling of patients with chronic liver diseases Hepatology 2005; 41:40-47 28 Cho WC, Yip TT, Ngan RK, Yip TT, Podust VN ProteinChip array...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... of HCV virological tools in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C, according to the HCV genotype: genotype (A), genotypes and (B), and genotypes 4, and (C) Int J Med Sci 2006, HCV genotypes and ... result, the exact prevalence of which is unknown Int J Med Sci 2006, Chronic hepatitis C In patients with clinical or biological signs of chronic liver disease, chronic hepa...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 09:56

... in the HBV genomic sequence in the course of treatment In addition, indirect measures of lamivudine resistance including determination of ALT values, and especially HBV DNA (viral load) assays ... within a broadening and evolving clinical context Moreover, it is increasingly apparent that clinically relevant prediction and monitoring of viral resistance may not only re...

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... Sebastiani A., Picot S Evaluation of a Real-time PCR-based assay using the lightcycler system for detection of Toxoplasma gondii bradyzoite genes in blood specimens from patients with toxoplasmic ... antibodies may only provide indirect evidence of ocular infection [4] Moreover, it’s important to highlight that FRET PCR is able to detect the presence of T gondii DNA on a small a...

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... satisfactory in the evaluation of nodal status in this patient group Since the highly cellular tissue in reactive lymph nodes may also show increased intensity, the role of DWI and ADC in distinguishing ... parallel imaging technique (SENSE factor of 2) Imaging time of DWI was 90 s for 20 slices Detection of uterine malignancy The ADC values of uterine cancer...

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... identified tuberculosis (including previously undiagnosed disease) as a cause of death in 14–54% of deaths of adults or adolescents with HIV infection or AIDS. 24–26 Similarly, a postmortem study in Zambia ... with acid-fast bacilli.32 In many settings with high rates of HIV infection, staff spend less than the recommended time examining smears because of the...

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... were available 4-8 weeks later As no single gold standard was available for comparison of the performance of the individual tests, an analysis of results was done using a variety of standards ... culture and PCR KAVITA MODI – PAREKH ET AL weeks Characterization of Mycobacteria was done at the Corporation laboratory by primary differential tests for atypical Mycobacteria...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... iz., reading variation or defects in preparation and staining of smears The part played by reading variation in both under and over -diagnosis emphasizes the need for a better appreciation of the ... reexamination of centre smears and duplicate smears, indicated that both reading variations and ‘defective smear preparation and staining’ could have influenced under -diagnosis...

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