... investigations in emergency department presentations have revealed relatively high plasma levels in acutesevere asthma patients, with an up to fivefold difference in concentrations of (R)- and (S)-albuterol ... from all subjects prior to the investigation Acute asthma study subjects Potential subjects of the study were patients who presented to the DEM with an acute exacerbation of asthma The inclusion ... excluded Moderate to severe asthma exacerbation was diagnosed by independent emergency physicians, in accordance with the National Asthma Council Australia (NAC) guidelines [31] Acute asthma sample...
... Case Reports 2010, 4:406 http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/4/1/406 Her history of acute- onset severe headache suggested a diagnosis of subarachnoid haemorrhage A contrastenhanced computed ... et al.: Intracranial hypotension secondary to spinal arachnoid cyst rupture presenting with acutesevere headache: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:406 ... neurologist J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1993, 56:830 Diamond ML: Emergency department management of the acute headache Clin Cornerstone 1999, 1:45-54 Schievink WI: Spontaneous spinal cerebrospinal fluid...
... somewhat reduced Discussion R116 Acutesevere asthma is a dangerous complication of a common disorder Our figure of 1.7% of all ICU admissions being due to acutesevere asthma is comparable to ... with acutesevere asthma Am J Med 1990, 89:42-48 Dales R, Munt P: Use of mechanical ventilation in adults with severe asthma Can Med Assoc J 1984, 130:391-5 Webb AK, Bilton AH, Hansen GC: Severe ... ICU for acutesevere asthma raises the possibility that sex-specific hormonal, biochemical, or anatomical (e.g differences in airway diameter) factors play roles in the pathogenesis of severe...
... progesterone on improving the neurological outcome of patients with acutesevere TBI Materials and methods Patients Patients with acutesevere TBI and a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score ≤ after resuscitation ... treatment of acute TBI Moreover, there were more surviving TBI patients in the treatment group than in the control group Our results suggest the efficacy of progesterone in the treatment of acutesevere ... patients with acute TBI Those patients administered progesterone experienced significant improvements in functioning outcome, indicating neuroprotective properties of progesterone in acutesevere TBI...
... chronic disease and an asthma attack (acute in chronicum) [8-10,16,18] In some children, food allergy may trigger an acute systemic anaphylactic response, including severe airway obstruction During ... Inability or unwillingness to lie down may be an ominous sign in a child with acutesevere asthma Children with a special risk for severe or life-threatening asthma attacks are those with a history of ... function testing in a girl with severe asthma Lung function testing in a girl with severe asthma Results of lung function testing of a 13 year old girl with a severe asthma exacerbation Spirometry...
... T.W.K., et al Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Critically ill patients with severeacute respiratory syndrome JAMA, 2003 290:374-380 40 Wong VWS., et al Treatment of severeacute respiratory ... management of severeacute respiratory syndrome Intensive Care Med, 2003 29:870-5 Hsueh P.R., et al Microbiologic characteristics, serologic responses, and clinical manifestations in severeacute respiratory ... detection in patients with severeacute respiratory syndrome Emerg Infect Dis, 2003 9:1058–1063 So L.K.Y., et al Development of a standard treatment protocol for severeacute respiratory syndrome...
... management of severeacute malnutrition could prevent the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children Nearly 20 million children under five suffer from severeacute malnutrition Severeacute malnutrition ... that there are nearly 20 million children who are severely acutely malnourished.2 Most of them live in south Asia and in sub-Saharan Africa Severeacute malnutrition contributes to million child ... suffering from severeacute malnutrition The mortality rates listed in the table at right reflect a 5–20 times higher risk of death compared to well-nourished children Severeacute malnutrition...
... Kolesnikova L, Fouchier RA et al (2003) Identification of a novel coronavirus in patients with severeacute respiratory syndrome N Engl J Med 348, 1967–1976 Ksiazek TG, Erdman D, Goldsmith CS, Zaki ... Emery S, Tong S, Urbani C, Comer JA, Lim W et al (2003) A novel coronavirus associated with severeacute respiratory syndrome N Engl J Med 348, 1953–1966 Marra MA, Jones SJ, Astell CR, Holt RA, ... 980–994 Tan YJ, Lim SG & Hong W (2006) Understanding the accessory viral proteins unique to the severeacute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus Antiviral Res 72, 78–88 Hiscox JA, Cavanagh D...
... SY, Zheng K, Lei LC, Chen QX, Gao YW, Zhou HQ, Xiang H et al (2005) Cross-host evolution of severeacute respiratory syndrome coronavirus in palm civet and human Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102, 2430–2435 ... Lau SK, Woo PC, Li KS, Huang Y, Tsoi HW, Wong BH, Wong SS, Leung SY, Chan KH & Yuen KY (2005) Severeacute respiratory syndrome coronaviruslike virus in Chinese horseshoe bats Proc Natl Acad Sci ... So LK, Miu FP, Yung RW, Poon E, Cheung TM & Yam LY (2004) Outcome of coronavirus-associated severeacute respiratory syndrome using a standard treatment protocol Respirology 9, 173–183 388 Barnard...
... oral antiviral treatment From our data, treatment with nucleoside analogues for severe and fulminant hepatitis B (acute or exacerbation of a chronic infection) is certainly indicated In fact, early ... chronic infection, since all patients displayed undetectable HBV-DNA and cleared HBsAg Severe or fulminant acute hepatitis B generally not evolve to a chronic disease, since the immune response ... guidelines treatment is indicated for patients with fulminant hepatitis B and those with protracted, severeacute hepatitis B; therefore, a control group in this setting would likely not be judged ethical...
... complicating acute lung injury The time courses of soluble endothelial selectin (sES, A), C-reactive protein (CRP, B) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH, C) are shown according to complicating acute lung ... evaluating the presence of ALI in severe pneumonia In particular, measurement of sES may be recom- http://www.medsci.org Int J Med Sci 2011, mended in patients with severe pneumonia and a high A-DROP ... of patients with ALI/cALI was small; 2) patients with very severe pneumonia, who could not provide written informed consent due to severe respiratory failure comparable to a clinical status of...
... complication probability; SARP = severeacute radiation pneumonitis; * Comparison of dosimetric factors between patients who developed severeacute RP and those who did not severe radiation pneumonitis ... clinical factors between patients who developed severeacute radiation pneumonitis and those who did not ** forced expiratory volume in second SARP = severeacute radiation pneumonitis and FEV1 were ... treat lung cancer in 2005, and we evaluated clinical and dosimetric factors associated with severeacute radiation pneumonitis (SARP) in 94 patients with a diagnosis of locally advanced NSCLC...
... http://jmedicalcasereports.com/jmedicalcasereports/article/view/3/4/6443 Introduction Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) in children is usually characterized by a severe course with a mortality rate of approximately 10% [1] The required prolonged immunosuppressive ... observation due to intense pallor, jaundice, lethargy and fever Serological evaluations revealed severe anemia (Hb = 2.8g/dL) with a strongly positive direct antiglobulin test and high-titer warm ... voriconazole was started Within a few hours, her clinical condition deteriorated and the patient developed Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), which required immediate admission to the intensive...
... with severe ARF, our patient did not have any evidence of concomitant acute tubular necrosis, interstitial nephritis or significant intratubular obstruction Thaysen et al [7] described severe ... associated with ARF in patients with acute crescentic glomerulonephritis or bilateral tubular necrosis, the types of renal disease frequently accompanied by severeacute kidney injury A dramatic drop ... patients, however, the functional impairment is severe and irreversible, requiring hemodialysis [1,6] Although anemia has been reported as a presentation in severe ARF with other renal diseases [7],...
... administration of HMGB1 produced acute inflammatory lung injury, and anti-HMGB1 Abs decreased the migration of neutrophils to the lungs as well as lung edema in endotoxin-induced acute lung inflammation ... shown to improve survival and ameliorate organ dysfunction in a wide variety of animal models of severe sepsis [10], hemorrhagic shock [11], ischemia/reperfusion-induced intestinal mucosal injury ... administration at 48 h versus survival in vehicletreated controls; P = 0.75) (Fig 4) Moreover, the animals Acute lung injury (ALI) is an important problem in humans and its pathogenesis is poorly understood...
... Considering the severity of acute attacks according to BTS criteria [14] (severe = PEF 50%, 31 patients); the proportion of patients with acutesevere attack was significantly ... of acute asthma attack Therefore, the aim of this study is to evaluate a possible correlation between acute Mycoplasma and Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and the severity of manifestation of acute ... severity [14] In particular, patients presenting with a severeacute attack were treated with systemic steroids, whereas those with a nonsevere attack were treated with topic steroids Follow-up...
... syndrome in severeacute pancreatitis: an indication for a decompressing laparotomy? Dig Surg 2002, 19:402-405 De Waele JJ, Hoste E, Decruyenaere J, Colardyn F: Adrenal insufficiency in severeacute ... objective markers of severity in acute pancreatitis Br J Surg 1989, 76:177-181 Frossard JL, Hadengue A, Pastor CM: New serum markers for the detection of severeacute pancreatitis in humans Am ... intraabdominal pressure in severeacute pancreatitis Acta Chir Belg 2002, 102:71-74 Mier J, Leon EL, Castillo A, Robledo F, Blanco R: Early versus late necrosectomy in severe necrotizing pancreatitis...