... Variables associatedwith QOL in family caregivers ofpatientswith schizophrenia The table shows the variables associatedwith QOL in family caregivers ofpatientswith schizophrenia found in the ... of their role, lack of social and working support, course of the disease, and disruptions in family life All these factors were associatedwith a considerable damage of QOL The feeling of being ... demands arising from taking care for a patient as well" Burden on relatives ofpatientswith schizophrenia has been found associatedwith an important reduction in their QOL, causing damage in caregiver's...
... surgical intervention and stoma formation inpatients presenting with malignant large bowel obstruction One of the concerns in managing patientswith surgically incurable CRC without resection of the ... cases with technical failure reported in 8% of cases and perforation in 4% [12] In this series the technique of stenting was introduced and developed in the unit during the study period and in the ... (9/17) in the emergency setting The operative mortality inpatients undergoing elective resection was 14% (4/28) patients and 18% (3/17) inpatients having an emergency resection No difference in...
... serum protein profiles of negative control women and patientsin different stages of EOCa Typical 2-DE serum protein profiles of negative control women and patientsin different stages of EOCa Unfractionated ... progression of EOCa LRG, whose function is unknown, was consistently elevated in sera ofpatientswith bacterial infections and often increased during viral infections [18] Patientswith severe ... degree of change in protein expression inpatients compared to that of negative controls This is measured by dividing the average spot intensity in the patients by average spot intensity in the...
... particle clearance in airways of PCD patients can explain the increased frequency of airway infections, finally resulting in bronchiectasis in many of the patients As a result of an impaired and ... µm of seven PCD patients within 1aweek post cles in the Retention Retention of µm diameter ferromagnetic iron-oxide particles in the airways of seven PCD patients within week post inhalation (in ... slow inhalation and breath holding In addition nowadays patients are under much better therapies, such as inhalation of saline and of mucolytics, and the application of physiotherapy, resulting in...
... Table Patientswith sequences showing evidence for multiple origins of L90M are shown in red, those with a single L90M origin in blue and those with an inconclusive number of L90M origins in black ... levels (i.e using direct PCR population sequencing) could therefore be of different origin than the earlier replicating minority L90M viruses In another subset ofpatients our analysis indicated ... presence of low frequency L90M variants was detected in fifteen of the forty-five patients For nine patients only a single time point showed the presence of low-frequency L90M mutants From these nine...
... pointes Unlikely Risk of liver injury in conjunction with lipid-lowering agents; risk of bleeding complications in conjunction with antiplatelet agents, warfarin, niacin Induction of CYP3A4 increases ... syndrome), including carbamazepine, phenytoin, phenobarbital, and lamotrigine The triad of hypersensitivity includes fever, rash and internal organ involvement with onset of symptoms within to weeks of ... aberrations Of note, lithium in combination with angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors may produce an increased risk of arrhythmia [42,51] Valproate has an increased risk of liver injury in conjunction...
... randomized, double- blind, controlled trial of two different intensities of warfarin treatment on the prevention of recurrent thrombotic events inpatientswith APS The high-intensity warfarin treatment ... function inpatientswith APS Although protein C is activated on endothelial cells [16], we found that serum obtained from patientswith positive IgG cardiolipin antibodies interfered with protein ... stroke inpatients without associated aPL The patientsin our study were selected according to the Sydney criteria [5] of APS and the average age was consistent with that in typical APS patients...
... lack of increase in LV dyssynchrony during dobutamine stress inpatientswith wide QRS duration (20) In contrast, Kurita et al reported on an increased mechanical dyssynchrony during pacing–induced ... or angiotensin receptor blocker, and 19 a diuretic Inpatientswith conduction disturbance, 13 of 17 patients were receiving a beta-blocking agent, 15 an angiotensinconverting enzyme inhibitor ... presented in Table Medical treatment was similar in both patient groups with IDCM In those with normal activation, 27 of 30 were receiving a beta-blocking agent, 30 an angiotensinconverting enzyme inhibitor...
... platelets from patients carrying diseases generally associatedwith changes in coagulation ⁄ homeostasis [13–15] More recently, there has been growing interest in the long-term effects of extracellular ... expression in platelet membranes indicated that the mechanisms involved in ATP and ADP hydrolysis vary with the cholesterol level In fact, up to 250 mgÆdL)1, there was no increase in CD39 expression in ... importance of such hydrolysis In line with this, literature data indicate that adenine nucleotides and adenosine are important modulators of atherosclerosis [18], and that upregulation of CD39 ⁄...
... the number of male patients was higher in the index cases, but the number of female patients was higher in contacts determined active disease In our opinion, the reason of this findings were that ... [7] Chee et al detected a rate of 0.9% TB patientsin investigation of 5699 close contacts of 1374 index case in Singapore [8] In their study which they detected TB in 36 children younger than years ... majority of them have a lot of time because of not working In this study the frequency of TB in household contacts of pulmonary TB cases was found as 5.6% It was detected that presence of cavity in...
... c.176_c.191del16, for minorities in Xinjiang, testing of Caucasian c.35delG mutation should be included Inpatientswith Maan ethnic background, sequencing of the GJB2 coding region should be offered, since the ... unique GJB2 mutation spectrum in Chinese patientswith nonsyndromic hearing impairment The c.235delC mutation is the most frequent mutationin Chinese patients Testing of four common mutations, ... Amino acid alignment of Connexin26 in different species Amino acid alignment of Connexin26 in different species GJB2 mutation spectra among different sub-ethnic groups in China As indicated in...
... (HR) associatedwith Survivin levels indicates the increase in risk of death for 100 fold increase in Survivin expression (Table 3) Since only these four independent variables were retained by ... this approach enables the investigator to compare the expression profile of the samples of interest with each other in terms of their fold-change with respect to a single sample (the calibrator) ... evaluating gene expression, have been used in the detection of tumor markers that indicate the presence of CTC in the blood [8] In the current analysis, we aimed to profiling the peripheral blood of...
... based on areas of the raw spectra, averaging of technical repeats, binning of neighboring points to reduce data complexity, removal of the spectral area below baseline and normalization of the total ... the possible coincidence of the obtained clusters with subgroups defined by clinical parameters were assessed by using the chi-square test (with Yates correction) in the case of discrete-type ... the abundance of both components most likely decreased in serum ofpatients treated with the adjuvant therapy while these increased in serum ofpatients subjected only to surgery In addition,...
... staining while stromal staining was evident in 87% of the samples (Fig 2c) 77% percentage of grade patients demonstrated epithelial Bn-3a(l) staining compared to 88% stromal staining Staining ... staining was determined Parallel sections were stained with hematoxylin and eosin to confirm the pathology diagnosis Interpretation of staining results The staining pattern of Brn-3a was evaluated ... staining confined to both nucleus and cytoplasm Hence, 11% of benign tumors demonstrated epithelial staining compared to 50% of stromal staining The pattern of staining in borderline ovarian tumors...
... relationship and in providing these groups ofpatientswith accurate and truthful information In respect to comparative data of subjects with skin clinical problems, our sample of colon cancer patients ... one time point instead of prospectively evaluating toxicities' impact on aspects of life over time Finally, considering the clinical conditions ofpatients included in this study (mainly metastatic ... lesions covering < 50% body surface area (BSA) Intervention indicated Interfering with ADL Interfering with ADL Intense or widespread and interfering with ADL Severe, generalized erythroderma, or...
... the inclusion ofpatients who were continuously treated with the index drug during the year following initiation was aimed at avoiding the potential pitfalls associatedwith an intent-to-treat ... were newly initiated on olanzapine or risperidone, defined as being free of both olanzapine and risperidone in the 60 days prior to initiation date, (b) were continuously treated with the index antipsychotic ... olanzapine and risperidone on the risk of psychiatric hospitalization for patientswith schizophrenia who were treated in usual care settings Current findings complement prior findings from clinical...
... http://www.aacijournal.com/content/6/1/28 Page of Figure Immunostaining for osteopontin in nasal biopsies Representative pictures of immunostaining for osteopontin in nasal biopsies of allergic rhinitis patients (peak-season, ... pictures were recorded prior to destaining the slides of hematoxylin with 1% HCl in 70% ethanol The hematoxylin destained samples were assessed in a blinded fashion using a Leica DC 300F microscope ... first example of the distribution in the nasal mucosa of AR patients The expression of OPN protein in the nasal mucosa of healthy and AR subjects was predominantly in the nucleus of the epithelial...
... cognitively intact elderly Koponen[16] was of the same school of thought and associated delirium with a significant rate of mortality These results, however, were not in line with findings by Rabins ... determinant of hospitalization outcomes Our findings disagreed with the generally held concept that the occurrence of delirium was associatedwith a high mortality rate in the following year, mainly ... variables I Influence of presence of previous psychiatric history in those with OBS on mortality This association proved to be of statistical significance (p = 0.029) indicating that patientswith a...
... effects with a variety of antidepressants, including tricyclic antidepressants, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors [5,6] The trials in this ... of venlafaxine compared with placebo and fluoxetine in outpatients in a double- blind study Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 1998, 8(Suppl 2):S142 Cunningham LA, Borison RL, Carman JS, Chouinard G, Crowder ... Ravindran A: Once-daily venlafaxine extended release (XR) compared with fluoxetine in outpatients with depression and anxiety Venlafaxine XR 360 Study Group J Clin Psychiatry 1999, 60:22-28 Salinas...