amnioreduction therapy for twin twin transfusion syndrome

... regional pain syndromes: guidelines for therapy Clin J Pain 1998, 14:155-166 Forouzanfar T, Koke AJ, van Kleef M, Weber WE: Treatment of complex regional pain syndrome type I Eur J Pain 2002, 6:105-122 ... consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal Abbreviations ALP: alkaline phosphatase; CRPS: complex regional pain syndrome; CRPS I: complex regional pain syndrome type I; ... contributions YA, JT, and TW performed the bisphosphonate treatment and several examinations of the patients and carried out the follow-up of the patients for more than 30 months KI performed the bisphosphonate...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:22

... Int J Med Sci 2010, with APS We therefore compared single antiplatelet therapy and a combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy for secondary prevention in ischemic stroke ... between single antiplatelet therapy and combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy for secondary prevention in ischemic stroke patients with antiphospholipid syndrome Table Hemorrhagic ... in the single antiplatelet therapy group, and one subcutaneous hemorrhage was found in the combination therapy group As for the patient in the single antiplatelet therapy group who developed...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... promising agent for treatment of patients with SAPHO syndrome We have therefore conducted a prospective interventional study to evaluate the efficacy of antibiotics in patients with SAPHO syndrome Materials ... initial study enrollment to study follow-up for the treatment of SAPHO syndrome syndrome to the Department of Microbiology of Hannover Medical School for further work-up as previously described ... 27 patients before and after the treatment with antibiotics in week and week 16 After week 16, the scores for MRI (1.5 to 1.1, P = 0.01), for skin activity (3.2 to 1.2, P = 0.01), for Page of (page...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... nerve (for details see respective paragraphs) Patients who are eligible for participation will be informed about the trial by the neurologist If they show interest, they will receive written information ... will be performed by neurophysiologist before the electrodiagnostic tests For subjective evaluation of severity of symptoms, the Boston Questionnaire will be completed by patients just before the ... this article as: Milani et al., Progesterone - new therapy in mild carpal tunnel syndrome? Study design of a randomized clinical trial for local therapy Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... drugs for months, before presenting with a further relapse A more intensive treatment was performed (Figure 1) with cyclophosphamide 10mg/kg/ day for 10 days and methylprednisolone 40mg/kg/day for ... drug-based immunosuppressive therapy is to be preferred We therefore decided to adopt a combined therapy approach, with high doses of methylprednisolone (40mg/kg/day for consecutive days), which ... http://jmedicalcasereports.com/jmedicalcasereports/article/view/3/4/6443 are recommended for a minimum of months following completion of therapy and prophylaxis for P jirovecii pneumonia is also suggested [7] The patient...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... beginning of argatroban therapy Data are provided for each patient Table Argatroban therapy Patient HIPA test Platelet count (×1,000/μL) INR before A INR after A aPTT before aPTT after aPTT mean ... analysis was performed by using software (SPSS version 16; SPSS inc., Chicago, IL, USA) The study was approved by the local ethics committee The need for informed consent was waived for this retrospective ... renal-replacement therapy in patients with and without HIT [15,16] However, recent limited data suggested the consideration of kidney function before initiation of argatroban therapy in HIT [13,17,18]...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... Table Eligibility standard for oral rehydration therapy I Patients eligible for oral rehydration therapy (receiving oral rehydration solution) Those who give an informed consent and have not ... before and after treatment were analyzed for differences using the t-test (two-sided at =0.05) In the follow-up study to assess the safety of ORT, 1078 surgical patients who received ORT before ... consume at least 500 mL, received intravenous therapy For patients with malignant gastric cancer, the timing of consumption was limited to up to h before surgery because of the possibility of delayed...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:51

... Sci 2010, against most TKIs [1] Therefore, extermination of CML stem cells could be critically needed for CML patients to be fully liberated from the TKI therapy On the other hand, anti-tumor ... myeloma and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) [7] In order to eradicate minimum residual CML cells which survived long-term imatinib therapy, we started WT1 peptide vaccination therapy in combination ... assay was performed Autologous EB-virus transformed B-lymphoblastoid cell line (B-LCL) cells pulsed with WT1 peptides were labeled with 10 μM CFSE, and were used as target cells for the cytotoxicity...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39

... rates for the control group (surgical only) were 80.1%, 36.5% and 20.8%; for chemotherapy group there were 85.7% 45.2% and 25.1%; for herbal group there were 84.5%, 43.5% and 26.1%; and for the ... half survival period was 30 months for the control group, 36 and 36.5 months for chemotherapy and herbal groups, and 48 months for Qigong plus herbal group Unfortunately, the herbs and their combination ... that the effect of Qigong therapy for cancer is not purely psychological 3.3 In Vivo (Animal) Studies of Qigong for Cancer The in-vivo (animal) studies of Qigong therapy for cancer treatment are...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... WITH PAIN Pain Triad 30 Castor Oil Pack for Pain 30 Hydrotherapy for Pain 31 Heat above the Abdomen for Upset Intestinal Tract 31 Chamomile Tea Enema for Upset Intestinal Tract 31 Potassium Added ... one serving) For cancer patients, not over hours For non-patient use: refrigerate for up to days (not over days better) or put into freezer for several months (leave ample room at top for expansion) ... uncomfortably hot “5 Keep it on for to 1½ hours Apply it every four hours You can reuse the castor oil pack.”— Gerson Primer, 3rd ed., p 11 HYDROTHERAPY FOR PAIN—Another Gerson treatment for pain...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... weightÆday)1 for weeks [47] No apparent toxic effects were observed in transgenic mice treated with DGJ for 140 days, indicating that DGJ is well tolerated in mice ASSC therapy for Fabry disease ... insufficient delivery of enzyme to particular tissues [16,17] The therapy is expensive, which could be an economic burden for patients, especially for those living in developing countries An emerging therapeutic ... basis for the deficient activity of a-Gal A in mutant enzymes that are identified in Fabry patients with residual enzyme activity, and review recent progress in the development of ASSC therapy for...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 03:20

... otherwise standard MuLV vectors for gene therapy has not been successful Beyond these HEMATOPOIETIC STEM AND PROGENITOR CELLS AS TARGETS FOR GENE THERAPY 137 efforts, there are obviously major ... PROGENITOR CELLS AS TARGETS FOR GENE THERAPY 143 144 GENE THERAPY FOR HEMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS restoration of cellular and humoral immunity were documented after gene therapy Data showed a surprisingly ... Blood 92:1131–1141, 1998 152 GENE THERAPY FOR HEMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS Gene Therapy Blaese RM, Culver KM, Miller AD, et al T lymphocyte-directed gene therapy for ADASCID: Initial trial results...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2014, 22:10

... worldwide For these reasons, the liver has become an important target organ for gene therapy At the same time, certain circumstances make the liver an especially challenging target for gene therapy ... other hand, it is necessary for any vehicle used for in 156 GENE THERAPY FOR LIVER DISEASE vivo hepatic gene therapy to reach the liver efficiently For systemic application, the gene vectors are ... PRINCIPLES FOR HEPATIC GENE THERAPY 157 therapy is that only dividing cells are efficiently transduced To circumvent this problem, researchers have performed partial hepatectomies before the administration...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2014, 22:11

... competes for an essential substrate or co-factor that is available in limiting amounts, or, for proteins that form multimeric complexes, the 270 GENE THERAPY FOR HIV INFECTION TABLE 11.1 Gene Therapy ... MKL, Morgan RA Gene therapy for acquired immune deficiency syndrome AIDS Updates 7:1–14, 1994 Yu M, Poeschla E, Wong-Staal F Progress towards gene therapy for HIV infection Gene Therapy 1:13–26, ... available for use in HIV-1 gene therapy The 282 GENE THERAPY FOR HIV INFECTION limitations of retroviral vectors include the inability to infect nondividing cells due to the requirement for DNA...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2014, 22:11

... COGNITIVE THERAPY FOR CHRONIC AND PERSISTENT DEPRESSION Richard G Moore Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge and Anne Garland Nottingham Psychotherapy Unit COGNITIVE THERAPY FOR CHRONIC AND ... the cognitive therapy administered The majority appear to have used standard cognitive therapy for depression as described by Beck et al (1979) However, one study used a group format for some patients ... trained as a cognitive therapist at the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Philadelphia He has been a therapist on major controlled trials of cognitive therapy for recurrent and residual depression in...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 17:19

... for autologous adipose cell therapy, such as Cytori's Celution™ system [16] and Tissue Genesis' TGI 1000™ platform [17], which are presently entering clinical trials Unfortunately, since the majority ... were performed within a 10-day period and were very well tolerated without any significant side effects The treatment plan also included physical therapy sessions Page of (page number not for citation ... replacement therapy for arrhythmia treatment: early clinical experience J Interv Card Electrophysiol 2008, 22:99-105 Slavin S, Kurkalli BG, Karussis D: The potential use of adult stem cells for the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... established tumors were treated with anti-CD52 therapy twice-weekly for three weeks Therapy was then discontinued and tumor growth was monitored for several weeks Therapy significantly restricted solid ... the described work Authors' contributions HP: Performed experiments, wrote manuscript, GS: Performed experiments, IS: Performed experiments, KM: Performed experiments, AK: Contributed research material, ... Cambridge, MA) for thirty minutes Isolated VLC were washed and incubated with 10% human serum or heat inactivated serum at 37°C for one hour (human serum was inactivated by incubating at 60°C for thirty...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was carried out for 30 cycles (98°C for 15 sec, 58°C for 30 sec, and 72°C for 40 sec and finally 72°C for min) The integrity of the cDNA was assayed by RTPCR ... regulatory sequences of the H19 gene for the development of DNAbased therapy for human ovarian cancer related ascites The successful development of anti-tumor gene therapy depends on the use of a ... specificity of the ISH The intensity of the hybridization signal was indicated as (+1) for weak, (+2) for moderate and (+3) for strong signals The distribution of the hybridization signal was referred...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... tree, as a basis for comparisons These classifiers were performed using the Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (WEKA) software [19] First, naive Bayes is the simplest form of Bayesian ... Because there are three genotypes per locus, each SNP was coded as for homozygote of the major allele, for heterozygote, and for homozygote of the minor allele, respectively Classification algorithms ... Fatigue Syndrome Research Group [18] More information is available on the website [18] In the entire data set, there were 109 subjects, including 55 subjects having had experienced chronic fatigue syndrome...

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