Mortality in patients with chronic and cleared hepatitis Cviral infection: A nationwide cohort study

... coinfection is associated with increased mortality [13]) and (e) alive on the index date, defined as year after the date of the HCV RNA test The study included all DANVIR participants fulfilling ... 2) Alcohol abuse and HIV infection Information on alcohol abuse and HIV infection was obtained from DNPR (see Appendix for details) Injection drug use To be characterized as having IDU...

Ngày tải lên: 23/05/2016, 10:05

... with oral beta-blockers at the time of acute respiratory failure had consistently lower in- hospital and one-year overall mortality Accordingly, the impact of beta-blocker therapy on inhospital and ... cohort of consecutive ICU patients with acute respiratory failure indifferent of underlying etiology We specifically determined the independent predicto...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... resolutive HBV infection, HBV/HCV co-infected with overt HBV infection (HBsAg positives) and < /b> HBV/HCV co-infected with occult HBV infection (HBsAg negatives) The 30 patients with uncertain HBV status ... E, Coppola N, Scolastico C, Filippini P, Santantonio T, Stroffolini T, Piccinino F: Virologic and < /b> clinical expressions of < /b> reciprocal inhibitory effect of <...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... biopsy for the first line assessment of liver injury in patients with chronic hepatitis C In clinical practice, liver biopsy should be recommended only as a second line test, i.e., in case of high ... carried out biochemical analyses RP, DT, VR, and YB participated in the coordination of the study, and drafted the manuscript AM participated in the d...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... article as: Cappuzzello et al.: Increase of plasma IL-9 and decrease of plasma IL-5, IL-7, and IFN-g in patients with chronic heart failure Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:28 ... increase was observed (data not shown) In conclusion, the novelty in our study results is the increase of IL-9 and decrease of IL-5, IL-7, and IFN-g p...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... 0.5.[23] Using the regression equation and the minimal important difference of the anchors (0.5 points for the CRQ[15] and points for the FT[23]) we estimated the minimal important difference of the ... sizes of trials and to make treatment decisions without the understanding that the point estimate of 1.5 is the best estimate of the minimal...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... article as: Cappuzzello et al.: Increase of plasma IL-9 and decrease of plasma IL-5, IL-7, and IFN-g in patients with chronic heart failure Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:28 ... increase was observed (data not shown) In conclusion, the novelty in our study results is the increase of IL-9 and decrease of IL-5, IL-7, and IFN...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... and having a limited number of patients, overall it marks the importance of rapid initiation of HAART in TB/ HIV patients with advanced HIV infection (CD4 count of

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... the aim of comparing their performance in evaluating pain exacerbations in terms of reproducibility and of discriminatory capability to distinguish pain exacerbations over a background of less ... between VRS and NRS scores (as for example: corresponding to "None", 1-4 to "Mild pain" , 5-6 to "Moderate pain" , and 7-10 to severe pain1 [14,27-29]), shou...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... monoarthritis The knee joint was the most frequently involved single joint (39.1%), followed by the ankle (32.3%) and wrist (30.2%) joints Small joints in hands and feet were involved in 43.8% of patients ... Benefit of very early referral and very early therapy with disease- modifying anti-rheumatic drugs in patients with early rheumatoid arthr...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... performed in all patients In most of the cases a retroauricular incision with a tympanomeatal flap was made In cholesteatoma cases canal wall up and canal wall down procedures were performed according ... were included Ninety patients (44 males and 46 females, response rate 74.4%) with a median age of 52 years (range 18 to 75 years) participated in all questionin...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... doi:10.1186/1743-422X-7-311 Cite this article as: Scagnolari et al.: Differential expression of interferoninduced microRNAs in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection treated with pegylated interferon ... http://www.virologyj.com/content/7/1/311 Page of Table Baseline expression of microRNAs and MxA-mRNA in healthy controls and in patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:20

... Favours control Figure The Effects of Inhaled Corticosteroid /Long-Acting Beta-2 Agonist Combination on Total Mortality Abbreviations: BUD/F, budesonide/formoterol combination; CI, confidence interval; ... anti-inflammatory effects, combination therapy results in greater bronchodilation than that achieved by the individual mono-components [13] However, the combined bronchodilato...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:21

... strengths To date, this is the first study to demonstrate the impact of compliance with an adaptation of the SSC 6-hour and 24-hour sepsis bundles on hospital mortality in patients with severe sepsis ... information about compliance of sepsis bundles and its impact on outcomes In this study, therefore, we determined the rate of compliance...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... course Laboratory variables were analysed by routine methods and data were stored in the countywide database of the laboratory Sepsis and systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) were classified ... multiple organ dysfunction or failure, which also appear early Among the dysfunctioning organs, cardiovascular dysfunction (SOFA) together with AKI was associated with a...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23