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**A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE DIAGNOSIS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS USING CONVENTIONAL TOOLS AND POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION* pot**

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 04:20

... available for comparison of the performance of the individual tests, an analysis of results was done using a variety of standards Efficiency of microscopy, culture and PCR in terms of sensitivity, specificity, ... design A total of 144 respiratory samples (sputum with or without saliva) from as many individuals were tested Of these, 123 samples were from individuals suspected of having pulmonary tuberculosis, ... tuberculous lesion @ 0% positivity of PCR is the expectation in this group Indian Journal of Tuberculosis 72 COMPARISON OF PCR WITH ROUTINE DIAGNOSTICS b PCR data of smear negative samples from tuberculosis...

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ASSESSMENT OF DIAGNOSIS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS BY SPUTUM MICROSCOPY IN A DISTRICT TUBERCULOSIS PROGRAMME pdf

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 04:20

... For a number of reasons, one of which is the influence of the training programme of NTI, the findings of this study should be considered illustrative of methodology of assessment of integrated ... methods of assessment also: (i) Assessment based upon the results of examination of duplicate and that of the reexamination of the centre smears (Method 2) (ii) Assessment based upon the result of ... supply of stains and other requirements, and quality of supplies particularly stains and slides Some of these aspects could be studied only subjectively in the present study Transfer of medical officers...

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Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by smear microscopy and culture in a tertiary health care facility: Biology and Medicine docx

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 03:20

... Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by smear microscopy and culture in a tertiary health care facility *SI Khatib1,3, MT Williamson1, R Singh2, JM Joshi2 Department of Microbiology; Department of Pulmonary ... patients A total of 210 adult patients suspected to suffer from Pulmonary Tuberculosis on the basis of their clinical and radiological presentations were enrolled Old cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis ... medium; pulmonary tuberculosis; smear microscopy; Ziehl Neelsen staining Introduction Millions of people have succumbed to tuberculosis worldwide Tuberculosis is out of control in most of the...

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Accuracy of Clinical Signs in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Comparison of Three Reference Standards Using Data from a Tertiary Care Centre in Rwanda doc

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 18:20

... Features of Different LCA Models Fitted to the Data Numbers of Classes, Manifest Variables and Dependencies, and Goodness of Fit for the Models Model Number of Latent Classes Number of Manifest ... part of routine examination For HIV testing, specific informed consent was asked and counseling offered Approval for this study was obtained from the relevant authorities of the Ministry of Health ... the public wards of internal medicine of CHK, a 600-bed hospital of national referral center in Rwanda Three hundred consecutive patients who were hospitalized with a cough of at least weeks...

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SPECIFICITY OF SPUTUM SMEAR COMPARED TO CULTURE IN DIAGNOSIS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS docx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 18:20

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LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS : CONVENTIONAL AND NEWER APPROACHES+ pdf

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 03:20

... the diagnosis of Tuberculosis and try to improve upon our own deficiencies for making the best use of the old technique of microscopy instead of criticizing the inherent deficiencies of this technique ... Contamination is a may only be of use in children where other tests problem that all PCR laboratories must face, are not of much help since the product of the reaction contains millions of suitable templates ... those of us who are carried away by certain reports coming from research DNA PROBES publications Batches of 200 samples containing Recent developments in the field of molecular varying numbers of...

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Báo cáo y học: " Difficulties in establishing a timely diagnosis of pulmonary artery sarcoma misdiagnosed as chronic thrombo-embolic pulmonary disease: a case report" ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 20:20

... Rhabdomyosarcoma of pulmonary artery trunk University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Department of Pathology Online Case Studies Case 303 – Progressive Shortness of Breath, Pulmonary Pathology ... obstruction of the right large filling defect Pulmonary angiography showing a pulmonary artery causing Pulmonary angiography showing a large filling defect causing complete obstruction of the right pulmonary ... sarcoma is often mistaken for pulmonary embolism, leading to inappropriate therapy such as prolonged anticoagulation or thrombolysis [1] The symptoms often associated with pulmonary embolism can...

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Báo cáo y học: "Splendors and miseries of expired CO2 measurement in the suspicion of pulmonary embolism" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 20:21

... Vereerstraeten J, Schoutens A, Tombroff M, De Koster: Value of measurement of alveolo-arterial gradient of PCO2 compared to pulmonary scan in diagnosis of thromboembolic pulmonary disease Thorax 1973, ... Re-emergence of an “orphan” test for pulmonary embolism Chest 2001, 120:5-6 Patel MM, Rayburn DB, Browning JA, Kline JA: Neural network analysis of the volumetric capnogram to detect pulmonary embolism ... approach to the diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism N Engl J Med 1959, 586-591 Nutter DO, Massumi RA: The arterial-alveolar carbon dioxide tension gradient in diagnosis of pulmonary embolus Dis...

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Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism pot

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 14:20

... acute major pulmonary embolism Eur Respir J 2005;25:843 –848 60 Value of the ventilation/perfusion scan in acute pulmonary embolism Results of the Prospective Investigation of Pulmonary Embolism ... a rate of 100 ml/s.397 The major effect of venous air embolism is the obstruction of the right ventricular pulmonary outﬂow tract or obstruction of the pulmonary arterioles by a mixture of air ... JS Risk of fatal pulmonary embolism in patients with treated venous thromboembolism JAMA 1998;279: 458 –462 27 Goldhaber SZ, Morpurgo M Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of pulmonary embolism...

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Tài liệu Diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in people with HIV infection or AIDS in resource-constrained settings: informing urgent policy changes docx

Ngày tải lên : 15/02/2014, 12:20

... range of variation in the recommended number of courses and duration of the antibiotic treatment in the sampled countries Duration of the antibiotic treatment ranged from days to 28 days The use of ... expanded use of fluorescence microscopy as a routine activity of tuberculosis-control programmes Careful assessment of the effectiveness of this strategy (including cost) and improvement of its performance ... with smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis had a significantly higher risk of death than patients with smear-positive tuberculosis, with a hazard ratio of 2·2.11 Autopsy studies of HIV-positive patients...

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Evaluation of in-house PCR for diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in Kampala, Uganda doc

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 03:20

... Medicine, School of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda 3Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health ... Utility of nucleic acid amplification techniques for the Nakiyingi et al BMC Research Notes 2012, 5:487 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/5/487 27 28 29 30 31 Page of diagnosis of pulmonary ... diagnosis of tuberculosis Indian J Med Microbiol 2005, 23(1):29–33 doi:10.1186/1756-0500-5-487 Cite this article as: Nakiyingi et al.: Evaluation of in-house PCR for diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary...

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Factors affecting delays in diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in a tertiary care hospital in Istanbul, Turkey pptx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 18:20

... detection of tuberculosis cases and prompt implementation of a full course of therapy [5] This is especially important in the case of untreated smear-positive patients, who are the main sources of infection ... rate of transmission of tuberculosis in an office: impact of delayed tuberculosis Clin Infect Dis 1995; 21: 1170-74 14 Yilmaz A, Boga S, Sulu E et al: Delays in diagnosis and treatment of hospitalized ... date of diagnosis, and (13) date of treatment initiation The presence of cough, fever, night sweats, hemoptysis, weight loss, anorexia, fatigue, and dyspnea were the criteria for the onset date of...

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Báo cáo hóa học: "Computed tomographic pulmonary angiography and pulmonary embolism: predictive value of a d-dimer assay" docx

Ngày tải lên : 21/06/2014, 19:20

... Karalus N: Pulmonary embolism: accuracy and safety of a negative CT pulmonary angiogram and value of a negative D-dimer assay to exclude CT pulmonary angiogram-detectable pulmonary embolism Australas ... suspected of acute pulmonary embolism J Am Coll Cardiol 2002, 40(8):1475–1478 16 Eng CW, Wansaicheong G, Goh SK, Earnest A, Sum C: Exclusion of acute pulmonary embolism: computed tomography pulmonary ... new diagnoses of unsuspected carcinoma Of the 66/405 (16.3) CTPAs reported as pulmonary embolism, 52 patients had significant additional pulmonary pathology Table Classification of pulmonary emboli...

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Báo cáo y học: "False positive diagnosis of malignancy in a case of cryptogenic organising pneumonia presenting as a pulmonary mass with mediastinal nodes detected on fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography: a case report" ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 17:21

... history of a cough A chest X-ray performed at the time of onset of symptoms had been normal She had a history of allergic rhinitis and had developed a wheeze, and a provisional diagnosis of allergic ... limitations of the predictive value of positive PET scans, both in establishing mediastinal invasion in proven primary lung cancer and in establishing a diagnosis of lung cancer where histological proof ... the possibility of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) No evidence of fungal colonisation was found in the resected lung Although COP has been associated with a variety of infections...

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Báo cáo y học: "A step-by-step diagnosis of exclusion in a twin pregnancy with acute respiratory failure due to non-fatal amniotic fluid embolism: a case report" pps

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 23:21

... a tachycardia of 140 beats/minute, blood pressure of 110/70 mmHg, bilateral basal crackles and temperature of 37.6°C Cardiotocography (CTG) revealed no signs of fetal distress Pulmonary edema ... revealed bilateral pulmonary edema with pleural effusions while a spiral computed tomography (CT) scan of the thorax supported the above findings and excluded any case of pulmonary embolism A noradrenaline ... only 39% of cases [9] Furthermore, biochemical analysis of the pleural fluid did not reveal signs of exudate The final diagnosis that was made, therefore, by exclusion of other causes of respiratory...

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Báo cáo y học: " Systems biology coupled with label-free high-throughput detection as a novel approach for diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 14:20

... diagnosis of COPD is based on the presence of typical symptoms of cough and shortness of breath, together with the presence of risk factors, and is confirmed by spirometry A variety of methods ... implementation of these high-throughput technologies has vastly increased the prospects of biomarker research as they facilitate simultaneous analysis of multiple (often tens of thousands) potential ... kinetics of potentially thousands of proteins and genes rapidly and simultaneously [143] Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) The use of SPR for the detection of biomolecules The single great virtue of...

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Báo cáo y học: "Prognostic value of brain natriuretic peptide in acute pulmonary embolism" docx

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 11:22

... control of confounding factors, minimization of selection bias with clear description of inclusion and exclusion criteria, description of the baseline characteristics of the cohort, completeness of ... deviation); relative timing of BNP assessment; technical characteristics of the BNP test and threshold, including type and brand of test used; and rate of short-term death and rate of SAEs as previously ... PE, pulmonary embolism; PPV, positive predictive value Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Critical Care Vol 12 No Coutance et al Figure Figure peptide levels in acute pulmonary embolism...

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Báo cáo y học: "Comparing different thrombolytic dosing regimens for treatment of acute pulmonary embolism" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 21:21

... Efficacy of thrombolytic agents in the treatment of pulmonary embolism Eur Respir J 2005, 26:864-874 Agnelli G, Becattini C, Kirschstein T: Thrombolysis vs heparin in the treatment of pulmonary embolism: ... initial treatment of pulmonary embolism: a meta-analysis of the randomized controlled trials Circulation 2004, 110:744-749 Fiumara K, Kucher N, Fanikos J, Goldhaber SZ: Predictors of major hemorrhage ... fibrinolysis for acute pulmonary embolism Am J Cardiol 2006, 97:127-129 Goldhaber SZ, Agnelli G, Levine MN: Reduced dose bolus alteplase vs conventional alteplase infusion for pulmonary embolism thrombolysis...

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Báo cáo y học: "Endogenous plasma activated protein C levels and the effect of enoxaparin and drotrecogin alfa (activated) on markers of coagulation activation and fibrinolysis in pulmonary embolism." ppt

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 07:21

... transfusion of less than two units of packed red blood cells Further safety endpoints were an aPTT more than three-fold the upper cutoff of normal range, recurrent pulmonary embolism or worsening of symptoms ... this model There were no signs of a systemic profibrinolytic effect of enoxaparin, or the combination of enoxaparin with DAA The lack of a profibrinolytic effect of enoxaparin or DAA combined ... in vitro half-life of DAA The distribution of D-dimer levels of all patients is shown in Figure Three of 12 patients in the placebo group, of patients in the μg/kg BW group, of patients in the...

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Báo cáo y học: " Diagnosis of invasive bronchial-pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with chronic obstructive respiratory diseases" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 08:21

... 15:420 http://ccforum.com/content/15/2/420 Page of Published: 27 April 2011 References He H, Ding L, Li F, Zhan Q: Clinical features of invasive bronchial -pulmonary aspergillosis in critically ill ... definitions of invasive fungal disease from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/Invasive Fungal Infections Cooperative Group and the National Institute of Allergy and ... Infect Dis 2008, 46:1813-1821 Bulpa P, Dive A, Sibille Y: Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Eur Respir J 2007, 30:782-800 Guinea J, Torres-Narbona...

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