behavioral interventions with acute coronary syndrome patients

... viable elementary bodies of C pneumoniae with typical electron microscopic structure can be isolated from the serum samples of the patients with acute coronary syndrome Furthermore, using combination ... 18 patients with acute coronary syndrome (11 males and females aged from 47 to 68) Once conditions for combined microbiologic and nucleic acid amplification protocol were established, 38 more patients ... Furthermore, using combination of bacteriological and PCR-based methods we show herein that patients with acute coronary syndrome have higher C pneumoniae detection rate in serum as compared to healthy...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 08:57

... and 6.4% of them to acute myocardial infarction (AMI) Because of the importance of the IHD, we chose all patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) as our study population All patients residing ... not be feasible in routine practice The overall satisfaction of inpatients with acute coronary syndrome in Bulgaria is associated with the type of hospital, the number of family members living together ... percentages together with the distribution of overall satisfaction 24% of the patients were satisfied with the treatment in the hospital setting, 14% were unsatisfied and 62% of the patients were satisfied...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... (ACS with or without ST-segment elevation) A total of 23 patients did not receive thrombolytic thera and the remaining 27 patients underwent thrombolytic therapy with streptokinase The patients with ... have not yet been systematically assessed in patients with cardiac arrest caused by acute coronary syndrome (ACS) In the present study, conducted in patients who were resuscitated following cardiac ... amnesic syndrome and neurologically intact (but often with psychological changes) Patients with cardiac arrest were followed up in the ICU until their cardiac function became stable The patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... clinical trial of different transfusion strategies in patients with acute coronary syndromes with mortality as the primary endpoint and with consideration of the age of the blood transfused and ... transfusion in elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction N Engl J Med 2001, 345:1230-1236 A comparison of recombinant hirudin with heparin for the treatment of acute coronary syndromes The Global ... Open Occluded Coronary Arteries (GUSTO) IIb investigators N Engl J Med 1996, 335:775-782 Inhibition of platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa with eptifibatide in patients with acute coronary syndromes The...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21

... related quality of life after percutaneous coronary intervention versus coronary artery bypass graft surgery in patients with acute coronary syndromes without ST-segmet elevation 12-month follow ... operated over 2000 patients Between January 2006 and December 2008, 645 patients were admitted to our emergency service with the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome Seven patients had cardiac ... revision patients (1.4%) patients (3.6%) 0.386 0.317 Mortality patients (3.5%) patients (5.4%) 0.645 0.690 IABP: Intra-aortic balloon pump; PCI: Percutaneous coronary intervention; CABG: coronary...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... [8] Conclusion Our patient with EM secondary to idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome presented with several misleading features, including symptoms of acute coronary syndrome, nonspecific electrocardiography ... article as: Amini and Nielsen: Eosinophilic myocarditis mimicking acute coronary syndrome secondary to idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:40 ... myocarditis due to medication (Table 1); acute necrotizing eosinophilic myocarditis (ANEM), usually with a fulminant course; hypersensitivity myocarditis associated with specific agents including smallpox,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... et al Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Critically ill patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome JAMA, 2003 290:374-380 40 Wong VWS., et al Treatment of severe acute respiratory syndrome ... compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome N Engl J Med 2000;342:1301-8 47 Fowler R.A., et al Critically ill patients with severe acute ... serum of patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome Clin Chem, 2003 49:197680 63 Paul N.S., et al Prognostic Significance of the Radiographic Pattern of Disease in Patients with Severe Acute...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 10:20

... combination with granulocyte colonystimulating factor in treating acute myeloid leukemia patients with relapsed or refractory disease and myelodysplastic syndrome: a multicenter study of 112 Chinese patients ... of induction chemotherapy for patients with high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) or MDS-transformed acute myeloid leukemia with CHG regimen and its comparison with regimen GAG and HA Zhongguo ... the 1029 patients was 53.7% (95% CI, 49.7%-57.6%) Data available from 29 trials with 814 AML patients showed that the CR rate was 57.9% (95% CI, 53.0%-62.7%) As for the 215 patients with MDS...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... complementary treatments in patients with acute psychotic episodes and agitation seen in emergency departments [20,21] Study participants were outpatients aged 18 or older with acute psychosis and agitation ... This study was designed to validate the PANSS-EC in patients with acute psychosis and agitation through the comparison of PANSS-EC ratings with ratings of the Clinical Global Impression of Severity ... of agitation in most patients between admission and discharge Validity Experts found that the scale eased their assessment of the intensity of agitation in patients with acute psychotic episodes,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... series of measurements were compared between the patients with primary (n = 20) and secondary (n = 12) ARDS or between the patients with (n = 3) and without (n = 29) preexisting interstitial lung ... ARDS patients in relation to KL-6 concentrations in ELF (a) and in serum (b) The survival rate of patients with a high KL-6 levels in ELF and serum was significantly lower than that of patients with ... was a difference in KL-6 levels in ELF and serum between the patients with primary and secondary ARDS or between the patients with and without preexisting ILD Interestingly, we found no significant...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... improve oxygenation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases [8] In accordance with other vasodilators, the venous admixture was even enhanced in these patients ARDS is the extreme ... infusion and NO inhalation in patients with severe ARDS in the early stage of the disease, in a nonblinded crossover design Materials and methods Subjects Ten patients with severe ARDS were enrolled ... nitric oxide inhalation for systemic oxygenation and pulmonary hypertension in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome Eur J Clin Invest 1993, 23:499–502 26 Imanaka H, Hess D, Kirmse M,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... ill subset of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome Those in the quartile with the highest Simplified Acute Physiology Score II (SAPS II) have a marked mortality benefit with ‘proning’ ... Koulouras V, Kastani D: Effect of the prone position on patients with hydrostatic pulmonary edema compared with patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome and pulmonary fibrosis Am J Respir Crit ... survival of patients with acute respiratory failure N Engl J Med 2001, 345:568-573 The ARDS Network: Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... Incidence of acute lung injury in the United States Crit Care Med 2003, 31: 1607-1611 The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network: Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional ... failure in acute respiratory distress syndrome JAMA 2000, 284:43-44 Eisner MD, Parsons P, Matthay MA, Ware L, Greene K: Plasma surfactant protein levels and clinical outcomes in patients with acute ... F, Slutsky AS: Effect of mechanical ventilation on inflammatory mediators in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: a randomized controlled trial JAMA 1999, 282:54-61 Ranieri VM, Giunta...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... patients with direct lung injury In a recent study of pediatric patients with acute lung injury, treatment with surfactant significantly improved oxygenation and survival in the subgroup of patients ... of patients with direct acute lung injury, while having little effect on patients with indirect acute lung injury [31] To date, studies focusing on the adult population with direct acute lung ... 30-day mortality in patients treated with surfactant compared with controls OR < indicates that treatment with surfactant was associated with a reduction in mortality compared with the control group,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:22

... Prone without support Prone with support 30 30 17 11 4.5 17 11 4.5 30 29 28 29 28 Patients' positions and contact pressures Patients' positions used in pressures the study: supine (top), prone without ... evaluated with an analysis of variance for repeated measures, performed with the SAS MIXED procedure In addition, each study treatment (prone with and without supports) was compared with baseline ... ap ≤ 0.05 compared with supine; bp ≤ 0.05 compared with prone without supports Table Lung volumes and respiratory mechanics Variable Units Supine Prone without support Prone with support Tidal...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... Brochard L, Slutsky AS, Ranieri M: Effects of recruiting maneuvers in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome ventilated with protective ventilatory strategy Anesthesiology 2002, 96:795-802 ... pulmonary ARDS as well as in late ARDS (for example in patients with more consolidation or fibrosis) [12] In our study we included mainly patients with pulmonary ARDS This could have contributed to ... gas exchange and haemodynamic parameters have not been investigated in patients presenting with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) This is of concern when ventilator settings (such as adjusting...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... (KL-6) levels are increased in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients who subsequently die of the disease BALF KL-6 level is elevated in patients with ARDS and reflects outcome BALF ... correlated in patients with ARDS (r = 0.3260, P = 0.04) (data not shown) Figure BAL KL-6 did not correlate either with the Lung Injury Score, the Simplified Acute Physiology Score II, or the Acute Physiology ... of patients with ARDS • Plasma levels of KL-6 reflect the severity of lung injury and show that BALF levels correlate with indices of inflammation • • • BALF KL-6 levels of ARDS patients with...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... neutropenic patients treated with G-CSF or non-neutropenic patients, both presenting septic ARDS We also used healthy individuals' monocytes as a control population Patients and methods Patients ... Twenty-two consecutive patients with cancer were prospectively enrolled in the study All patients had developed documented septic ARDS and were divided into two groups: neutropenic patients (absolute ... induction for neutropenic patients and for non-neutropenic patients and control individuals Cytokine Control individuals (n = 10) Non-neutropenic patients (n = 12) Neutropenic patients (n = 10) TNFα...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... Res 2008, 36:211-221 Guérin C: Ventilation in the prone position in patients with acute lung injury /acute respiratory distress syndrome Curr Opin Crit Care 2006, 12:50-54 Staudinger T, Kofler J, ... October 2004 and March 2008, all 121 patients presenting with acute respiratory failure were enrolled in the prospective study iLA was implemented in 51 patients suffering from ARDS mostly due ... and clinical monitoring of the pumpless interventional lung assist (iLA) in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) Evaluation and preparation Insertion Monitoring Echocardiography:...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... PN, Schoenfeld D: Effects of recruitment maneuvers in patients with acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome ventilated with high positive end-expiratory pressure Crit Care Med ... L, Slutsky AS, Marco Ranieri V: Effects of recruiting maneuvers in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome ventilated with protective ventilatory strategy Anesthesiology 2002, 96:795-802 ... Anzueto A, Matthay MA: Airway pressures and early barotrauma in patients with acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002, 165:978-982 Luecke T, Pelosi...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20