assessment of kidney function

... al [18], there is wide variation in the psychosocial functioning of children with a chronic illness In this study, assessment of psychosocial functioning was achieved by CBCL We found that children ... believe that a better understanding of the features associated with psychosocial problems might improve assessment of emotional risk and assist in the development of intervention and prevention strategies ... examine the effect of each factor on the risk for psychosocial problems A value of P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant Page of leaving 337 eligible patients Of the control group,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... improves the detection of mild renal function in older patients Ann Clin Biochem 2003, 40:648-655 Den Hollander JG, Wulkan RW, Mantel MJ, Berghout A Is cystatin C a marker of glomerular filtration ... Villa P, Jiménez M, Soriano MC, Manzanares J, Casasnovas P: Serum cystatin C as a marker of acute renal dysfunction in critically ill patients Crit Care 2005, 9:R139-R143 O’Riordan SE, Webb MC, ... Serum cystatin C as a new marker for noninvasive estimation of glomerular filtartion rate and as a marker for early renal impairment Am J Kidney Dis 2000, 36: 29-34 ...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21

... Accredited) Master of Arts - Counseling Psychology Adler School of Professional Psychology (APA Accredited) Bachelor of Science - Psychology major/Theology minor Loyola University Chicago PROFESSIONAL/CLINICAL ... assumption of an intact RAS functioning Again, given the importance of working memory highlighted by Knudsen (2007), the current study utilized an appropriate measure of working memory, often used ... the 90s, Trail Making is widely utilized as one of the choice measures in the global assessment of brain functioning; specifically attentional functioning (Groth-Marnat, 2003; Lezak et al., 2004;...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 13:42

... cells of the collecting ducts to form water channels, allowing the transcellular movement of water from the lumen of the collecting duct into the interstitial space in the medulla of the kidney ... Endocrine Regulation of Kidney Function this family of hormones is atrial natriuretic hormone (ANH), a 28-amino acid peptide produced by heart atria in response to over-stretching of the atrial wall ... hydroxylation of calcidiol to calcitriol (1,25-hydroxycholecalciferol, the active form of vitamin D) It also blocks reabsorption of phosphate (PO3–), causing its loss in the urine The retention of phosphate...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2017, 00:04

... roles of everyday life The functional assessment is one of the trademarks of the geriatric assessment, distinguishing it from the evaluation of a younger person Achieving a complete cure is often ... aspects of the functional assessment that can be performed in the office and can help older patients add quality to their lives Office Assessment of the Frail Elderly Patient I Source of Referrals ... satisfaction and quality of life A functional assessment is often used to determine the current and future health care and psychosocial needs of frail elderly The comprehensive assessment of the frail elderly...

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Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... further reduces the usefulness of serum creatinine-based formulae in the routine assessment of kidney function and has implications for early detection of impaired kidney function in these children ... sub-Saharan Africa, where the burden of HIV infection is high and the dearth of resources for kidney care profound, the high prevalence of Esezobor et al Journal of the International AIDS Society ... measures of kidney function were worse in the advanced disease group The correlation of weight, length, BMI and age with serum cystatin C was small and not significant in both groups of children...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... Middlesex Elderly Assessment of Mental State (MEAMS) The MEAMS requires the patient to perform a number of simple tasks, each of which is designed to test some aspect of current cognitive functioning ... sub-tests each of which has a 'pass score' (Table 2) A screening score of either (fail) or (pass) is assigned to each subtest These subtests are sensitive to the functioning of different areas of brain, ... form) is a logistic function of the difference between the person's ability [θ] and the difficulty of the item [b] (i.e the ability required to affirm item i), and only a function of that difference...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... roles free of mentally (or physically) related limitations [74] A measure of functioning requires decisions about: which type of functioning should be scored (for appraisal of overall functioning, ... Reliability of Global Assessment of Functioning ratings made by clinical psychiatric staff Psychiatr Serv 2005, 56:434-438 14 Schorre BEH, Vandvik IH: Global assessment of psychosocial functioning ... validity of the revised Global Assessment of Functioning Scale Psychiatr Serv 1996, 47:864-866 34 Tungström S, Söderberg P, Armelius B-Å: Relationship between the Global Assessment of Functioning...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... MIRECC Version of the Global Assessment of Functioning scale:Reliability and validity Psychiatr Serv 2007, 58:529-535 28 Patterson DA, Lee M-S: Field trial of the Global Assessment of Functioning ... evaluation of the DSM-IV Axis V Psychiatr Serv 2003, 54:1028-1030 26 Jones SH, Thorncroft G, Coffey M, Dung G: A brief mental health outcome scale reliability and validity of the Global Assessment of Functioning ... Global Assessment of Functioning ratings made by clinical psychiatric staff Psychiatr Serv 2005, 56:434-438 21 Startup M, Jackson MC, Bendix S: The concurrent validity of the Global Assessment of Functioning...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... KIM-1 (kidney injury molecule-1) [13], is required in pediatric patients to develop a panel of markers for the accurate and reliable assessment of early AKI development, AKI duration and site of ... creatinine behind as a marker of renal function in patients with AKI? Currently, the answer is no, but the work of Herrero-Morin and colleagues argues strongly for the study of other markers, including ... critically ill children with acute kidney injury Kidney Int 2007, 71:1028-1035 Chertow GM, Burdick E, Honour M, Bonventre JV, Bates DW: Acute kidney injury, mortality, length of stay, and costs in hospitalized...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... deterioration of kidney function caused by worsening circulatory dysfunction, in a cohort of patients receiving fluid therapy guided by transpulmonary thermodilution, may be relevant for the management of ... Assessment of kidney function Urinary output was recorded and urine was collected over 12hour intervals corresponding to those of haemodynamic measurements, and blood was taken at the end of each ... without evidence of intrinsic kidney disease The aim was to investigate the single and combined haemodynamic and renal effects of plasma expansion by infusion of albumin and of the decrease in...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... *p < 0.05 Figure Plasma viral loads of FIV infected cats as a function of TL-3 treatment and disease Plasma viral loads of FIV infected cats as a function of TL-3 treatment and disease (A), normalized ... week Figure Cat weight ratios as a function of FIV infection Cat weight ratios as a function of FIV infection Cats infected with FIV-C in the presence and absence of TL-3 treatment were weighed regularly ... lymphocyte levels as a function of Peripheral Peripheral CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocyte levels as a function of clinical outcome over weeks A) Total CD4+ cells per ml average and standard error of the mean;...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... forms of interactions not included in our database are likely to strongly affect the function of the motifs, raising Phylogenetic profiles of network motifs interactions As for the function of the ... possible role of motifs in biological functions reports Figure Phylogenetic profiles of interaction patterns Phylogenetic profiles of interaction patterns Normalized histograms of the evolutionary ... that perform a given functional task has in fact shown a wide variety of possible solutions [18] It is therefore of interest to address the issue of the functional role of the motifs in vivo,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:21

Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2012, 16:00

... in three out of four ambulance records and in nine out of ten air ambulance records Similarly, the Office of the Auditor General of Norway reviewed 14 EMCCs and found documentation of patient encounter ... terms of its usefulness for trauma research, we assessed the documentation rate of exact values and of RTS categories (0 - 4) of GCS score, RR, and SBP We found that a considerable fraction of ambulance ... precise documentation of physiologic data and more frequent documentation of repeated assessments Mechanistic descriptions of the motor vehicle accident were documented in 80 - 92% of ambulance records,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 09:56

... different group from others iii Table of Contents Chapter Title Page i Acknowledgement Abstract Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Acronyms List of Appendix ii iii iv viii ix x ... aware of all are there Another type of decision is one in which people are unsure of the importance of their criteria In this case to sharpen their knowledge of the criteria a wide selection of ... dependence of the priority of elements on the priority and number of other elements The principle of comparative judgments is applied to construct pair-wise comparisons of the relative importance of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2013, 10:29

... is the assessment of listening different from the assessment of reading?? How is it similar?? Micro-skills for Listening • • • • • • • • • • • discriminate among the distinctive sounds of English ... Speech types (dialogues, monologues) • Mode of listening: audio, video, reader • Varieties of English • Scripted or unscripted • Length of listening, number of exchanges in dialogues Paraphrase Recognition ... different grammatical patterns Macro-skills for Listening • • • • • • • recognize the communicative function of utterances identify main ideas from supporting details make inferences using real-world...

Ngày tải lên: 18/08/2013, 17:10