Histopathological aspects described in patients with chronic hepatitis c

... 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

... 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

... 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

... is of little utility as a diagnostic tool because a high percentage of patients with chronic HCV infection display serum RF reactivity, and the frequency of RF increases in patients with articular ... Available online http:/ /arthritis- research.com/content/6/2/R137 Table Table Clinical and demographic characteristics of patients with RA Clinical and demographic charac...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... 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

... CVD, malnutrion and inflammation in ESRD patients (25, 26) Hypoalbuminemia, a marker of malnutrition and underlying inflammation has come up as a powerful predictor of mortality in patients with ... C Inflammation enhances cardiovascular risk and mortality in hemodialysis patients Kidney Int 1999; 55: 64 8-6 58 27 Foley RN, Parfrey PS, Harnett JD, et al Hypoalbum...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:52

... 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

... this article as: Ido et al.: Safety and pharmacokinetics of recombinant human hepatocyte growth factor (rh-HGF) in patients with fulminant hepatitis: a phase I/II clinical trial, following preclinical ... Sakiyama O, Takahashi K, Kimoto M, Kawasaki S, Setoguchi M, Tachikawa T, Shin S, Arima T, Daikuhara Y: Levels of the human hepatocyte growt...

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

... and subjective health status [3] An important issue in understanding the complexity of COPD as an illness and thereby its management, is what determines the subjective health status of these patients ... knowledge about what determines subjective health status in this group of patients is relevant for the treatment of COPD, and for the care and reh...

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

... arms in terms of the HRQOL scores at base line (data not shown) Table 2: Baseline SF-36 norm based Domain scores in refractory HCV patients undergoing re-treatment with peg interferon alpha 2b and ... HRQOL domain scores when re-treated with a combination of interferon alpha- 2b and ribavirin Compared to the baseline, the responders sustained a significant decre...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... used patients with "average disease severity" as the reference group For continuous variables, such as age in years or scale scores, the odds ratio for a particular category, as well as for between-category ... the patient's and the physician's views of disease severity as part of a longitudinal study of HRQoL in a large cohort of patients with chronic cardiac or...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... 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