1—determine short term and long term goals of therapy

... ejection fraction of 16%, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure of 30 mmHg and cardiac index of 1.81 L/min/m2 TnI and B-type Natri- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Translational ... confound the milrinone effects In terms of TnI levels, there is no reason to believe that standard therapy would obscure detection of increased myocardial necrosis While standard care with higher diuretic ... in the short- term Placebo-controlled, randomized studies in patients with low cardiac output are needed to further establish the potential benefits and adverse consequences of the use of positive...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... height of 13 m, and a quadratic mean diameter (QMD) of 18.7 cm The unburned fraction of the Bolsón stand was 81.4 years old (± 6.2) and had 864 cypress ha–1, with a dominant height of 18 m, and ... (SM-20 and SM-40) was measured in April and October 2001, and in January and April 2002, each time in a different location along the edge of the sample unit SM-0 was determined between 10:00 and ... fall and winter in the Southern Hemisphere) Spring and summer are generally warm and dry [10] Mean annual temperature and precipitation are 8.2 ºC and 684 mm in Trevelin [3] and 9.9 ºC and 921...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... to the design of the study VJ performed conception and design of the study and substantially contributed to interpretation of data, drafting and critical revision of the manuscript and final approval ... apoptosis in tumor cells and their ability to increase cytotoxic efficacy of chemotherapy and radiotherapy in preclinical investigations [10-12] Induction of apoptosis by ErPC3 and related drugs occurs ... amount of Mcl-1, whereas expression levels of Bcl-2 were intermediate (LNCaP-cells) or low (PC3-cells) (Figure 3C and 3D) Treatment with ErPC3 did not affect the protein levels of Bcl-xL and Bcl-2...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... outcome measures and settings make it difficult to compare studies of short- term prediction of violence The weaknesses in most designs are underreporting of incidents, lack of correction for ... “frequency of testing out and pushing limits”, “intensity of testing out and pushing limits”, and “need to set limits” was used as a possible predictor after an initial, short observation of the ... isolation and calmness by staying in the patient room/wing of the PICU or move to the main part of the ward ensuing exposure to other patients, more staff-members and increased amounts of sensory and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... structure and mineralization of dentin and bone In addition, some of them may promote pulp healing We have previously investigated the bioactivity of two amelogenin gene splice products A+4 and A-4, ... understanding of the mechanisms involved, the in vitro effects of A+4 and A-4 on clones of odontoblast progenitors were analyzed [26] When A+4 or A-4 were added to the culture medium, Page of (page ... [27] and in a few non-mineralizing tissues such as kidney, salivary glands and tumor cells [25] Although the specificity of each marker remains a matter of discussion, at least the three of them...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:20

... safety and tolerability of a single inhalation of hyaluronic acid (HA), using a Pari Boy compressor and LC nebuliser [13] Patients were randomised for a single inhalation of a solution of HA (0.003 ... for each of the biomarkers in each of the three treatment blocks showed no statistically significant difference Mean values and standard deviations of desmosines, JM 403 and PMN-FDP of all available ... estimates of elastin turnover, at least in a shortterm [21] The high cross-sectional correlation between baseline CO diffusion capacity and both urine and plasma desmosines and the absence of such...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... ð11Þ where vGLNDEM1 and vGLNDEM2 represent the rates of production and consumption of METGLN, respectively, and vGLUDEM1 and vGLUDEM2 the rates of production and consumption of METGLU, respectively ... about a short- term (metabolic regulation) redistribution of the flux over GS and GDH caused by (de-)adenylylation of GS (c) The degree of adenylylation of GS is the most important regulator of GS ... dynamics of the network in terms of a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations concentration of PII and KG, while Eqn (6) gives the PIIUMP3KG3 concentration as a function of PIIUMP3 and KG...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... neurologist and/ or confirmed by a brain CT scan Statistical analysis Data were collected in all patients using standardized protocols of the German Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and ... protective factor against occlusion of vein grafts Loss of long term benefit of bilateral mammary can always be statistically demonstrated if only few patients survive long enough to reach the time ... postoperative stroke Limitations An important limitation of our study is the lack of longer follow up However, the long term advantages of bilateral internal mammary artery grafting in comparison...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... insulin therapy, consisting of preprandial short- acting insulin three times a day and NPH insulin at night The blood glucose levels were evaluated four times a day and two times at night (2 and a.m.) ... conventional therapy and in those who underwent a one-year period of intensive therapy None of the patients developed microalbuminuria during the follow140 up Normalization of blood pressure and the ... risk of the development of microalbuminuria and clinical albuminuria (17-19) The expected beneficial effect of the intensive therapy is to prevent the onset or at least delay the progression of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:59

... the one hand, this is because in our study we focused on short- term rather than on long -term effects From a theoretical point of view, the shortterm responses seen here might simply be offset by ... Integration of respiratory responses to changes in alveolar partial pressures of CO2 and O2 and in arterial pH In Handbook of Physiology, Section 3: the Respiratory System, Control of Breathing, ... over time or whether they are offset by slowly adapting reflexes or behavioural responses over a longer period of observation On the other hand, the PEEP-related short- term effect is sufficiently...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... outcomes and risk factors of patients with severe sepsis vary considerably with the number of episodes and with the time and place (community, hospital or ICU) of acquisition The objective of this ... Epidemiology and economic evaluation of severe sepsis in France: age, severity, infection site, and place of acquisition (community, hospital, or intensive care unit) as determinants of workload and cost ... before the diagnosis of each episode of sepsis Quality of the database The data-capture software automatically conducted multiple checks for internal consistency of most of the variables at entry...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... rate and one-year survival rate were better than in the reports by Meyer and colleagues and Baz and colleagues, the long -term survival status still needs further observation tive short- term survival ... to analysis and interpretation of data HHH has been involved in drafting the manuscript and also made substantial contributions to conception and design of the study, and acquisition of data YCL ... time for the first and second implanted lungs were 197 ± 53 and 330 ± 68 minutes Eight of our ten patients were weaned off ECMO immediately after LTx and their mean duration of ECMO support was...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... absence of primary tissue damage, but were thought to contribute secondarily to immunemediated periventricular damage via potentiation of cytokine release and bystander effect Of note, both HIVE and ... alternate mechanism Histological examination of sections at d revealed loss of the ependyma and the presence of RHO+ SVMs (Fig 2d, left panels) Control injection of PBS vehicle alone resulted in no ependymal ... in HIVE and MS often extend deep into the parenchyma suggesting long- distance infiltration of reactive cells Microglia have been shown to migrate in vitro in response to many chemokines and growth...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... depends on the ability and reliability of the credit officers, on the existence of at least two levels of control and, more generally, on the analysis and standardization of processes, which even ... can offer to MFIs may have great importance: the use of Sustainability and Outreach: the Goals of Microfinance 67 risk measurement and management models used by banks and the outsourcing of some ... standardization of procedures, without transforming the universally acknowledged strong points of microfinance, such as close Sustainability and Outreach: the Goals of Microfinance 69 contact and...

Ngày tải lên: 01/03/2015, 15:20

... (Asquith and Meulbroek 1996; Dechow et al 2001), I find that the distribution of the RSIratio is right-skewed, with mean and median shares sold short of 1.9% and 0.7% of shares outstanding, respectively ... emergence of hedge funds and to the deregulation of short- sale constraints (Dechow et al 2001) FIGURE Mean and Median Relative Short Interest Ratios over Time Figure reports the mean and median ... sample of noninformation based short- selling The authors investigate 30 trading days of returns centered on the short interest publication date and, consistent with the prediction of Diamond and...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 16:58

... pre-tax profit of at least S$7.5 million for the preceding three years and a minimum pre-tax profit of S$1 million for each of those three years, or b) Cumulative consolidated pre-tax profit of at ... influence of issue managers in a market that differs substantially from the U.S both in terms of market size and level of sophistication Given our findings of plausible signaling effects of the ... of some of the previous papers that have been done on the Singapore IPO market and a brief overview of the sample used: i) Reber and Fong (2006) use a sample of 100 IPOs listed between 1998 and...

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Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:14

... study of polymers III Technique of mechanical tests of vulcanizates of rubber and plastics Rubber Chem Tech., 13, 904–917 Haward, R.N (1942) Extension and rupture of cellulose acetate and celluloid ... in the range of temperatures and strain rates of interest A linear dependence of yield stress as a function of log strain rate can be observed over a large interval of strain rates and temperatures, ... behaviour of the material This type of behaviour is termed 1.3 M OLECULAR BACKGROUND thermorheological complex, and the magnitude of the effect is mainly determined by the relative position of the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20

... shortterm timescale (in the range of seconds to minutes) and a long -term timescale (in the range of hours, days and seasons) Important abiotic determinants include the geographical latitude of ... compilation ª 2008 FEBS 1083 Long -term light quality acclimation L Dietzel et al Possible functional relationships of state transitions and LTR Both short- term and long -term acclimation responses ... in the surroundings of Jena) The range of photosynthetically active radiation (400–700 nm) and the absorption maxima of PSII and PSI (680 and 700 nm) are marked along the top of the figure Condition...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20