4 treatment of patients with poor prognosis disease

... http://www.implementationscience.com/content/6/1/67 Page of Figure Visual display of the total network of health professionals in ParkinsonNet Legend: health professionals with ≥10 PD patients in red, those with < 10 PD patients in blue ... the competence of health professionals regarding treatment of PD Higher professional competence is associated with better clinical performance, quicker uptake of recommended Page of interventions, ... connectedness with those two types of health professionals is expected to contribute to the spread of competence among health professionals in the network Connectedness between health professionals...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... will perform a selective review of the psychotropic medications often prescribed to patients with bipolar disorder, with an emphasis on their use in patients with medical comorbidity Currently, ... from heart disease, cancer and pneumonia decrease, deaths from renal disease are on the rise [65] As more of our patients develop renal disease, psychiatrists must be aware of the effects of psychotropics ... report of olanzapine-associated respiratory failure occurred in an elderly patient with chronic lung disease and the authors recommend careful observation of patients with chronic lung disease...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:51

... The purpose of this study was to compare olanzapine and risperidone on the risk of hospitalization during the treatment of adherent patients with schizophrenia in usual care settings Patients who ... SCAP was independent of patients' psychiatric and medical comorbidities, substance abuse behaviors, use of concomitant medications of any type, level of suicidality, display of aggressive behaviors, ... Number of prior episodes of schizophrenia, mean (SD)‡ Prior use of antipsychotic, %§ Prior use of depot formulation, %§ Prior use of mood stabilizer, %§ Prior psychiatric hospitalization, %§ Days with...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... increase for patients with PsA was 4.7, for patients with SpA 5.0, for patients with JIA 6.4 and for patients with RA 3.7; P values are given in Table The median level of expression of CD25brightCD4+ ... of CD25brightCD4+ T cells in the synovial fluid and peripheral blood could be correlated with disease duration, severity of disease and degree of inflammation Because of the large number of patients ... This allowed a longitudinal study of the frequencies of CD25brightCD4+ T cells in eight patients with PsA, four with SpA and eight with JIA (Fig 2) In nine of these patients, three or more samples...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... supplemented with 0.1 mg/ml of fatty acid-free bovine serum albumine Experimental subjects We examined the urines of a group of individuals composed of patients with glomerular diseases (diagnosis of patients ... and patients with glomerular diseases for the expression of ADAM10 and L1 adhesion molecule We detected elevated levels of ADAM10 in urine and in urinary vesicles of patients with glomerular diseases ... urine of patients with glomerular kidney diseases Western Blot analysis of ADAM10 expression in urine and urinary vesicles of healthy volunteers (HV 1-2) and patients with glomerular kidney diseases...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... catheter was removed upon confirmation of resolution of the fluid No recurrence occurred during months of follow-up Discussion The presence of bile on XXXthoracentesis of a pleural effusion and bilioptysis ... recurrence of bilioptysis within an 11-month follow-up period Case Cholecystectomy and cystectomy due to hydatid cyst of the liver were performed on a 47-year-old man One week later, he presented with ... One month later, the patient presented with cough productive of greenish sputum The cough had persisted for weeks without any colored sputum The temperature of the patient was 38.1°C No dyspnea...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 19:21

... from a multicenter survey of off-label use of rFVIIa in American academic hospitals [16], which reported that only 52% of the patients stopped bleeding within hours of rFVIIa administration and ... associated with off-label use of FVIIa, the majority occurring in trauma patients However, MedWatch is a database for voluntary reporting of observed complications, and therefore the incidence of complications ... found the frequency of adverse events associated with administration of FVIIa to be similar to those with placebo The patient presented above is a relatively healthy male, with no assumed underlying...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:24

... carcinoma with the percentage of The association of overall survival patients with Stage IIIB The association of overall survival with the percentage of CD133+ cells in colon carcinoma patients with ... Kojima's study, a total of 189 patients consisted of 106 cases of colon cancers and 83 cases of rectal cancers with TNM stages varying from I to VI, that is, one group of patients with a definite stage ... percentage of CD133+ tumor cells and the prognosis of colorectal cancer patients This study showed that the percentage of CD133+ tumor cells was associated with the prognosis among patients with locally...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... PsA and 19% of patients with AS were women Most patients had well-established disease, with average disease durations of 10.2 years for patients with AS, 10.0 years for patients with RA, and ... quality of life of patients with RA to that of patients with PsA [4], the mean number of active joints in patients with PsA was 6, while the baseline mean number of tender and swollen joints for patients ... of patients with RA was 52.1 years Patients with PsA (46.8 years) and AS (39.8 years) were typically younger than those with RA Most patients with RA (80%) were women, while 39% of patients with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... measure of disease- specific quality of life in patients with AS and differences of one to two points are clinically relevant [7,42,43] BASDAI The BASDAI is a patient-reported measure of AS disease ... demonstrated with adalimumab in patients who continued in an open-label extension trial [33] However, in light of the substantial impairment of physical function and HRQOL observed in patients with active ... consists of 10 questions designed to determine the degree of functional limitation in patients with AS Each question is answered using a 10-cm visual analogue scale (VAS), with a recall period of the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... two Japanese patients with Paget's disease of the bone To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a long-term follow-up of patients with PDB after a six-month treatment with low-dose ... Five-year follow-up of Japanese patients with Paget's disease of the bone after treatment with low-dose oral alendronate: a case series Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010, 4:166 Page of ... treat Japanese patients with PBD since July 2008 It might be better to treat patients like Case with a high dose of oral risedronate (17.5 mg per day) for eight weeks in accordance with the guidelines...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... sample of patients consisting of both inpatients and outpatients at the time of the examination, might be more representative for the population of patients with schizophrenia at various stages of ... sample representative of the majority of patients with schizophrenia The aim of this study was to explore the prescription pattern of antipsychotics among a sample of patients with schizophrenia ... prevalence of antipsychotic combination treatment increased with number of hospital admissions, severity of the disease as measured with PANSS, and level of dysfunction, as measured with GAF The...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... presence of DM were the independent predictors of CVD in the earlier stages of CKD (Table 4) Table 1: Characteristics of patients with CKD stage II to IV excluding patient with history of renal ... prediction of CVD In addition, many of our patients were on medications that have protective effects on cardiovascular disease Another important limitation is the lack of consistent measurements of other ... Results were reported as p values and Odds Ratios with 95% confidence intervals All analyses were conducted with the use of STATVIEW software RESULTS The patients included 52% male and 48% female, 85%...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:52

... Affecting the Development of Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in Household Contacts of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis Talay F et al Table Factors associated with tuberculosis frequency ... tuberculosis patients in contacts of index cases whose sputum smear and culture were positive [7] Chee et al detected a rate of 0.9% TB patients in investigation of 5699 close contacts of 1374 index ... Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in Household Contacts of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis In this study, the frequency of TCT positivity in household contacts under 15 years old with index cases...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... (maximum of two decimals are given) Parkinson's disease: PD P values: Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) ON as compared with DBS turned off (DBS OFF) when tested without anti-PD medication (withdrawal of ... stand test: two patients) The patients rated their fear of falling as less severe with DBS ON as compared to DBS OFF, and the total score of FES(S) increased (p = 0.002) in median with 54 points ... Two patients were unable to perform the Chair-stand Test with DBS OFF, but managed with DBS ON (21 s, and 17 s) (n = 9) One patient was unable to perform TUG unaided with DBS OFF, but managed with...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... read the Chinese version of the HADS In Europe, the HADS has been applied extensively in the studies of patients with CHD as an index of both outcome and the effect of therapeutic intervention ... of which 154 completed the questionnaires The patients ranged in age from 38 to 86 years with a mean age of 60 years (SD = 10.37) One hundred and twenty (77.9%) patients were males In terms of ... data, over two thirds of subjects were angina The finding of high proportions of Chinese CHD patients screening positive with anxiety and depression using the HADS is consistent with previous studies...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... for the two measures in patients with mild diseases [24], but baseline values clearly differ in more severe patients such as liver transplant patients [26] and patients with a recent stroke [21] ... number of missing baseline and change scores Normality of distributions was tested with Shapiro-Wilk's W test [18] The ceiling effect of each domain was assessed by computing the percentage of patients ... algorithm of the SF-6D requires that all relevant questions are answered However, the algorithm of the domain scores of the SF-36 allows a certain amount of missing scores, which are imputed with...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... functioning in patients with cardiovascular diseases, requiring the use of acetylosalicylic acid and the relief of these symptoms, independently of the kind of therapy, has improved patients HRQL ... previously reported that HRQL in patients with acid-related disorders is as impaired as that of patients with angina pectoris [34] Our subjects treated with a double dose of omeprazole obtained an even ... recommendation of a double dose of omeprazole (2 × 20 mg) not only significantly decreased angina-like chest pain occurrence in 17 of the 48 (35%) patients with CAD and the prevalence of some electrocardiographic...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... model derived here is more applicable to patients early in the course of disease and that further study using data with more patients across the spectrum of disease could improve prediction, perhaps ... that a disease- specific measure of patient health and disease perception was an important predictor of the generic measure of HRQoL If interest centres on mapping the EQ-5D index in another disease ... data on patients with more severe cardiac disease Secondly, Goldsmith et al Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:54 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/54 Page 10 of 13 Table 6: Measures of prediction...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... This paper reports the psychometric validation of a Dutch translation of the QOLRAD questionnaire in patients with GERD Methods Patients Patients with GERD were selected in gastroenterology outpatient ... 97.7% and 99.1% of patients, respectively Furthermore, 78.1% of patients reported having symptoms on at most one day a week At visit 2, 95.3% of patients reported being satisfied with the way their ... Review of the quality of life and burden of illness in gastroesophageal reflux disease Dig Dis 2004, 22:108-114 Talley NJ, Fullerton S, Junghard O, Wiklund I: Quality of life in patients with endoscopy-negative...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20