2 consolidation therapy for patients with minimal residual disease

... remediation therapy for schizophrenia and http://www.annals-general-psychiatry.com/content/6/1/14 adapted and expanded to form the core of the intervention Methods Participants Four patients signed up for ... Figure 18 month follow before and after CRT intervention and at BMI of patients – up BMI of patients – before and after CRT intervention and at 18 month follow up Age of the patients and duration ... was for patients An aspect of the intervention that seemed appealing for patients was that the exercises and reflection on them involved thought processes and not thought content In the patients' ...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... In patients with acute fulminant liver failure Several uncontrolled studies have been performed using MARS® in patients with acute fulminant liver failure, showing Page of (page number not for ... including 70 patients with grade and hepatic encephalopathy have been presented with the primary objective of decreasing by two stages the degree of encephalopathy after five days of therapy [12] ... encephalopathy in 64% of the patients treated with MARS® and 38% of the control group (p = 0.04) In particular, ammonia levels were significantly reduced in patients treated with MARS® Other uncontrolled...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... effective anti-Candida agents more affordable Additional data and improved estimates will help refine the best empiric anti-Candida strategy for ICU patients with sepsis Competing interests YG ... failure associated with amphotericin B therapy Clin Infect Dis 2001, 32:686-693 Golan Y, Wolf MP, Pauker SG, Wong JB, Hadley S: Empirical anti-Candida therapy among selected patients in the intensive ... and is on the advisory board for Merck and Pfizer YG is also a consultant and on the speakers' bureau for Merck and Astellas Pharmaceuticals Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Refrences...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... function in AD patients receiving galantamine 24 mg/day for 12 months or placebo for months followed by galantamine 24 mg/day for months [51] Although patients who took galantamine 24 mg/day for 12 months ... of 1,000 IU of vitamin E twice daily for patients with moderate AD Additional trials are needed to test the benefits of vitamin E in patients with milder forms of AD Other alternative treatment ... Coping with this spectrum of change places an enormous burden on family caregivers of patients with AD Diagnosis of the disease is the first important step, since approximately 50% of patients with...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... treatment with CMVALT with or without CMV-DCs pulsed with pp65 mRNA Patients will also receive standard of care radiotherapy and TMZ Interestingly, patients whose tumor recurs following experimental therapy ... diagnosed (NCT00905060) patients with GBM Enrolled patients are being vaccinated with the heat shock protein peptide complex (HSPPC)-96 with or without concurrent TMZ therapy Heat shock proteins ... cellular therapy trials are indicated with a blue star, the vaccine therapy trials with a red circle, and the combined cellular and vaccine therapy trials with a white triangle Cellular Therapy...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... of Behçet’s disease was assessed by the 1994 criteria for disease activity of Behçet’s disease, proposed by the Behçet’s Disease Research Committee of Japan [25] At time of sampling, disease was ... II or IL-12 receptor β1 was higher among patients with active disease (n = 4; 17.8 ± 1.1% and 49.2 ± 5.5%, respectively) than in patients with inactive disease (n = 4; 1.4 ± 0.9% and 25.2 ± 2.2%, ... different populations of patients and/or stages of disease progression in those studies [33] Indeed, Vγ9/Vδ2 cells from patients with active Behçet’s disease, but not from inactive patients or control...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... hypofractionated SIB approach for the treatment of patients with - BMs would be a safe alternative to WBRT with or without radiosurgery The observed toxicity was minimal Less than one third of patients had alopecia ... in the other (22.2%) patients was death within months after VMAT in all patients Among the patients completing the questionnaire, (28.6%) presented with systemic progressive disease Three brain ... respectively (p = 0.035) Likewise, patients with good performance status lived significantly longer The estimated 6-month OS was 66.9% and 37.5% for patients with a KPS of 90-100 and 70-80, respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... mortality of the patients with chemotherapy was 3.659 times higher than that of the patients without chemotherapy (p = 0.042) In these 13 patients receiving chemotherapy, the number of cases with tumor ... rates in patients with Stage I disease were 100%, 94%, 81%, 58%, respectively, and 82%, 55%, 37%, 24%, respectively, in patients with Stage II disease (Figure 3, p = 0.005) Overall, 14 patients ... new lesions that developed for weeks Patients whose disease did not meet the criteria for either a PR or progressive disease were classified as having stable disease for weeks Overall efficacy...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... in these patients SSc was therefore chosen as a paradigm to investigate the use of corticosteroid therapy and immunosuppressive therapy in a rare, severe disease with limited evidence for its ... (hydroxy)chloroquine) with disease- modifying therapy in other rheumatological diseases when deciding on an anti-inflammatory therapy in a severe autoimmune disease such as SSc Our findings are consistent with ... corticosteroid therapy were available for 1,396 out of 1,416 patients A total 41.3% of SSc patients (577/1,396) received corticosteroids; 73.3% of these patients received additional immunosuppressive therapy...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... 1A and 1B) The proportion of patients with Controlled asthma was higher for all GINA treatment steps when BUD/FORM maintenance and reliever therapy was compared with higher maintenance dose ICS ... significant for GINA treatment Steps (P = 0.03) and (P < 0.01) The proportion of patients with Controlled asthma was similar for all GINA treatment steps when BUD/FORM maintenance and reliever therapy ... higher for all GINA treatment steps when BUD/FORM maintenance and reliever therapy was compared with higher maintenance dose ICS + SABA (49-61% vs 37-53% of patients; P < 0.05) The proportion of patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... thrombolytic therapy has greatly improved the prognosis of patients with AMI, the inhospital mortality rate of AMI patients with cardiogenic shock remains as high as 55% [8] The main cause for early ... results of a trial which enrolled 45 patients with AMI from one center in Japan Patients were included if their AMI was unsuccessfully treated with thrombolysis (tPA within 12 h of onset of symptoms) ... IABP (28.9%) and standard therapy (29.2%) groups (P = 0.95) However, significantly more IABP therapy patients had an inhospital stroke than those treated with standard therapy (2.4% vs 0, P = 0.03)...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... for BPD while one patient (8%) met seven, four patients (25%) six, three patients (8%) five and two patients (33%) four criteria All in all, a diagnosis for BPD according to DSM-IV was made for ... of therapy to one year after therapy: Table Development of psychosocial adjustment from the beginning of therapy to one year after its end Instrument Before therapy (t1) Four weeks after therapy ... occurred in the three patients having dropped out of therapy while the nine patients ending therapy regularly were diagnosed with merely three diagnoses (33%) At the beginning of therapy, the diagnosis...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... the burden of TB among people living with HIV/ AIDS are therefore urgently needed [3] HIV counseling and testing of patients with TB and care for co-infected patients are key activities in the ... (page number not for citation purposes) Human Resources for Health 2009, 7:23 TB diagnosis, counseling strategies for patients who refuse to accept their HIV status, management of patients who default ... post-training score by type of HCW (p = 0.19), with a mean post-training score of 87% for nurses, 86% for laboratory technicians, 89% for physicians and 92% for district supervisors The mean posttraining...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... satisfaction with medication provides important outcome information from the patient's perspective as to their experience with the therapy and their willingness to ask their physician for the treatment ... (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:55 discriminate between levels of severity, with satisfaction shown to be higher for patients with lower symptom ... more representative sample of BPH patients These studies should explore the possibility of item redundancy and the minimally important difference (MID) for patients with varying levels of symptom...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... concept in chronic disease management, is of increasing interest for the assessment and management of patients with chronic diseases First, measurement of self-efficacy is helpful for planning patient ... instruments varied across the different disease groups For example, self-efficacy scales for diabetes patients were most frequently correlated with physiological outcomes (for example HbA1c as a measure ... in combination with input from experts (4 instruments [22,30,35,36]), followed by input from experts and patients without literature searches (for instruments [21,28,33]) Overall, for the development...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... training with the ABF system The home sessions were performed in the last weeks of the training, when patients were already familiar with the system and could attempt to use it independently with ... and were based on performance in the previous session, gradually progressing with intensity and complexity For example, a session could begin with a posture task in standing with the patient trying ... intervention trial using an ABF system for training posture and balance in Page of patients with PD In this pilot study, we demonstrated that ABF training in patients with PD is feasible and that it...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... Simulation of patients with topographical disorientation A connected graph with 10 nodes and different weights for the links was constructed as shown in Figure We simulated patients with five different ... in a uniform manner In the present case, however, we intend to route patients, each with unique characteristics The minimum distance route assuming uniformly processed packets is therefore not ... patients with physical disabilities This experiment intended to demonstrate how the proposed routing scheme accommodates patients with different abilities We defined three different virtual patients, ...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... applicable in both patients with hip or knee OA However, we have based our study only on patients undergoing total hip replacement, and therefore, further validation studies in patients with different ... test for multiple comparisons at P< 0.05 based on the Rasch model but used a very small sample of patients with hip OA (n = 57) Given that our target population is composed of patients with hip ... independent sample of patients with hip OA and in different languages Besides, the original WOMAC has been used in patients with hip or knee OA, consequently this 11items short form could probably...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... HRQL as measured by the SF-36 Health Survey in patients with cardiovascular disease requiring therapy with acetylosalicylic acid, both with and without gastrointestinal symptoms, two weeks after ... Method Forty-eight consecutive outpatients with CAD-11 female (23%) and 37 male (77%)-diagnosed with recurrent stable angina-like chest pain refractory to standard anti-angina therapy and without ... [3,4] Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and refractory or recurrent retrosternal symptoms have a reduction in life expectancy and HRQL compared to patients with stable coronary artery disease...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... concept in chronic disease management, is of increasing interest for the assessment and management of patients with chronic diseases First, measurement of self-efficacy is helpful for planning patient ... instruments varied across the different disease groups For example, self-efficacy scales for diabetes patients were most frequently correlated with physiological outcomes (for example HbA1c as a measure ... in combination with input from experts (4 instruments [22,30,35,36]), followed by input from experts and patients without literature searches (for instruments [21,28,33]) Overall, for the development...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20