... treated patients with relapsed or primary resistant 12 acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) and previously untreated elderly patients with AML, secondary AML, and refractory anemia with excess blasts ... cell count was 24 × 109/L, with 54% megakaryoblasts, 17% promegakaryocytes, 10% myelocytes, 8% band forms, 7% neutrophils, 3% lymphocytes, and 1% monocytes Plasma D-dimer and lactate dehydrogenase ... (Figure 1c) and 60% positivity for CD42b (Figure 1d), while CD13, CD14, CD68, MPO, HLA-DR, CD10, CD19, CD3, CD5, and CD7 were all negative A bone marrow biopsy indicated acute leukemia with myelofibrosis...
... side with speech processor turned off and NH side unplugged and unmasked), binaural (NH and CI side) and CI-only (CI side only with contralateral ear plugged and masked with 80 dB wideband noise) ... German man with post-lingual UHL and NH on his contralateral ear His hearingloss was due to a Borrelia infection Patient S4 also showed a normal middle ear status and was implanted with a CI ... Patient S1 was a 48-year-old Caucasian German man with post-lingual UHL and NH on his contralateral ear The etiology of his hearingloss was unknown, and his middle ear status was normal He had a...
... PAD and BMD hip: NS Men: Prevalent CV disease and BMD hip: NS PAD and BMD hip: OR: 1.39 (95% CI 1.03 to 1.84) 260 BMD and IMT: NS BMD and prevalent plaque: OR: 0.90 (95% CI 0.75 to 1.07) BMD and ... Lumbar spine and hip by DXA IMT and PWV BMD spine and IMT: r -.025 (P = 0.26) BMD hip and IMT: r-0.17 (NS) BMD and PWV: NS Mangiafico, 2008 [57] Clinicbased 182 100% BMD lumbar spine and hip DXA ... (n = 6,763) with a hip fracture were compared with age- and sex-matched patients without a hip fracture (n = 26,341), with the objective to evaluate the association between stroke and risk of...
... rectangular cycle with heat transfer lossand studied the performance characteristics of the cycle Liu et al [26] modeled irreversible rectangular cycle with friction lossand heat transfer loss by using ... Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 6, Issue 1, 2015, pp.73-80 heats of the working fluid Chen et al [23] modeled a class of universal heat engine cycle with friction lossand heat transfer loss ... cycle with heat transfer lossand variable specific heats of working fluid Cycle model An air standard rectangular cycle is shown in Figure The heat additions are an isochoric process 1-2 and an...
... interval and albuterol levels Recorded QTc interval and (R)-, (S)- and total albuterol levels and are shown in (a), (b) and (c) respectively (R)-, (S)- and total albuterol levels in subjects with ... presented to the DEM with an acute exacerbation of asthma The inclusion criteria were adult patients, aged between 18 and 65 years, and self-reported rac-albuterol utilisation within 24 h prior ... severity and response to therapy included improvement in percent predicted PEF after 60 and a four-point severity score, similar to the Acute Asthma Index (AAI) designed and validated by Rodrigo and...
... dyspnoea and severity among men and women may also be a contributing factor [31] For instance, men withsevere asthma have been shown to present late, and to have more hypercapnia and more severe ... patients withacutesevere asthma Am J Med 1990, 89:42-48 Dales R, Munt P: Use of mechanical ventilation in adults withsevere asthma Can Med Assoc J 1984, 130:391-5 Webb AK, Bilton AH, Hansen GC: Severe ... patient withacutesevere asthma Anesth Int Care 1991, 19:118-121 Tuxen DV: Detrimental effects of positive end-expiratory pressure and controlled mechanical ventilation in patients with severe...
... rating 8.4 pu 10.4 pu Rating andloss considerations for large scale system The losses and ratings of a large scale electrical conversion system with MERS solution andwith a 2-level active rectifier ... between switching losses and on-state voltage With most applications requiring high switching frequencies and hard switching capability, the switching losses are normally prioritized With effort in ... voltage and current waveforms with two different modes of operation needed, representing a major cost andloss component Another issue is the size of the generator which grows large with low speed and...
... moderate hearing loss, and 6.58% (5/76) with bilateral mild hearingloss (unpublished data) The differences between the severe to profound hearingloss group and the mild to moderate hearingloss ... individuals withhearing loss, GJB2 mutations were detected in 24.67% (130/527) of patients with bilateral profound hearing loss, 22.33% (44/197) with bilateral severehearing loss, 14.33% (42/293) with ... nonsyndromic hearingloss patients is postlingual and in 89.2% (6366/ 7133) is preligual The percent of postlingual hearingloss in the 212 nonsyndromic hearingloss patients group with monoallelic...
... can induce a hearingloss (noise induced hearingloss = NIHL) which can be temporary (TTS) or permanent (PTS), depending on the intensity of the noise and its duration Studies with drugs designed ... small hole in the bone with one end in position opposite the round window, and the other end of the tube was then fixed externally to the bone with glue and to the skin with 3-0 silk suture Auditory ... total of 20 adult fat sand rats (Psammomys obesus) with a mean body weight of 219 g (200g to 260g) The fat sand rat is a rodent species found in the deserts of the Middle East and northern Africa...
... equipped with a device especially designed to accommodate, mount and load the SR and TR modules This device comprised robust horizontal and vertical steel plates, as well as cannulated posts and mm-thick ... was applied with the plane of SR and TR rings horizontal (Figure 6), - shear loading (SH) was applied with the plane of SR and TR rings vertical (Figure 7) The load cell was equipped with a loading ... were high-energy injuries, resulting in severe fracture comminution and segmental bone loss from the femur at the accident site (b) Bridging of the right knee and left ankle joints was deemed necessary...
... p.V2635F, with his hearingloss due to another gene CDH23 MYO15A Family Z686 is of Jewish-Algerian descent, now living in Israel Nine family members with profound hearinglossand two relatives with ... peripheral blood of 11 probands of families withhearingloss (Table 1) and hybridized with the cRNA capture oligonucleotides Massively parallel sequencing of DNA libraries from probands The captured ... validated variant was tested for co-segregation withhearingloss in the proband’s family Only the variants reported below were co-inherited withhearingloss TMC1 Family D28 is of Jewish Moroccan...
... anti-double strand DNA antibody, rheumatoid factor, anti-RNP antibody, and anti-SS-A antibody Bilateral hand X-rays showed mild swelling and destruction of the metacarpo-phalangeal (MP) and proximal-inter-phalangeal ... (LNs) from autopsy Hematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining and immunohistochemistry analyses of bone marrow (BM), spleen, and lymph nodes Hematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining and immunohistochemistry analyses ... aminotransferase (ALT): 78 IU/L), and elevated LDH (525 IU/L) His WBC showed relative neutropenia, and monocytosis without blast cell increase His CRP was high (4.0 mg/100 mL), and his ferritin level was...
... fistula commonly presents with non-specific symptoms of diarrhea, nausea and vomiting and weight loss, thus making it a difficult diagnosis The rarity of this condition, and alteration in the underlying ... in a woman presenting with weight lossand intermittent vomiting: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:313 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage ... nausea, non-feculent vomiting, diarrhea and approximately 20 kilogram weight loss She denied any hematemesis, melena or fever At presentation our patient was frail and emaciated Regarding clinical examination,...
... In light of the negative investigations and symptomatic improvement with bed rest and weak opioid analgesia, a tentative diagnosis of migraine was made and the patient was discharged Two months ... posterior neck pain or stiffness, nausea and vomiting and photophobia [4,6] Rarely, patients may present with a decreased level of consciousness due to severe brain displacement [4] Jones et ... paper was co-authored by WJ and PD MK and KR provided the clinical radiology images for the manuscript RB converted the radiology images to digital format and assisted with interpretation of the...
... of further hearing loss, and to possibly reverse some of the hearingloss already developed Between 15 and 18 months, a loss of 10–20 dB across frequencies was anticipated Between 18 and 23 months, ... Weights andhearing status of all animals in the studies were compared to untreated, unhandled historical controls to assure that the gavaging process and the possible stress of daily handling ... strategies to prevent, or potentially reverse, the progressive hearingloss Caloric restriction and treatment with various antioxidants and pro-antioxidant molecules have delivered mixed results...
... signs consistent with bilateral abducens neuropathy, with bilateral gaze-evoked diplopia Surprisingly, post-tetanic facilitation was observed, with unilateral resolution of diplopia and abducens ... resolve and remained six months following this event The patient was re-challenged with the same dose of oxaliplatin for her fourth cycle, with infusion time extended from to hours, together with ... fourth- Page of line epirubicin, cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil and fifth line 5-fluorouracil and cetuximab All treatments were tolerated reasonably without further adverse events The patient eventually...
... pulmonary disease with regard to clinical parameters and smoking: a descriptive and comparative study Thorax 1996, 51:825-830 11 Withers NJ, Rudkin ST, White RJ: Anxiety and depression in severe chronic ... group with more severe COPD and an emphysematous phenotype Our analyses showed that depression, as measured by the BDI total score, was significantly associated with poorer exercise performance and ... approval for surgery just prior to randomization, and other new onset complications that met study exclusion criteria Although no differences between randomized and non-randomized patients were expected...
... Age (years) withand without cancer Age-specific incidence (per 1000 population) of severe sepsis patients withand without cancer were present in 4.3% of cases, and metastatic cancer without reference ... respectively), and had a higher proportion of patients with noncancer comorbid conditions (31.8% versus 28.5%, respectively) than those patients without severe sepsis Cancer patients withsevere sepsis ... of severe sepsis in the cancer population each year The age-specific cumulative incidence of severe sepsis for those withand without cancer is presented in Figure While the incidence of severe...
... neurological outcome of patients withacutesevere TBI Materials and methods Patients Patients withacutesevere TBI and a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score ≤ after resuscitation and stabilization were Page ... 3.8 mmHg and 14.8 ± 3.8 mmHg for progesterone-treated Complications and adverse events Progesterone was well tolerated in the treated patients withacutesevere TBI No complication and adverse ... mortality of the patients withacutesevere TBI (GCS = to 8), although there was no statistical significance in the outcome improvement for GCS = to patients withand without progesterone treatment...
... pH, PCO2, and bicarbonate levels in patients withsevere hyperlactatemia Values for (a) arterial pH, (b) PCO2, and (c) bicarbonate ([HCO3]) in patients withsevere hyperlactatemia, with normal ... pH, [HCO3-], and [SID] levels were lower in patients with low [BE] (Figures and 2) Patients with normal [BE] had lower [Cl-]corrected (Figure 2) and higher Δ[AG]corrected - [HCO3-] and Δ[AG]corrected ... frequently associated with shock and surgical admission Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and medical admission were more commonly found in patients with normal [BE] Patients with low [BE] received...