... EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CATARACT AND CATARACT SURGERY 2.2 RURAL HEALTH CARE IN CHINA 2.3 HKI, CHINA AND TIERED PRICING 10 2.4 THE ARAVIND EYE HOSPITAL, INDIA 11 2.5 HKI, CHINA AND CATARACT SURGERY 13 CONCEPTUAL ... BEDNETS IN EASTERN NIGERIA 31 5.2 WTP FOR COMMUNITY-BASED INSURANCE IN BURKINA FASO 32 v 5.3 WTP FOR CATARACT SURGERY IN NEPAL 33 5.4 WTP FOR CATARACT SURGERY IN TANZANIA 33 5.5 FINDINGS AND ... the poorest, using data from a willingness to pay survey administered to a rural population in this region China and Cataract Cataract is the leading cause of blindness in the PRC in people aged...
Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 16:20
... people in Austria suffer from UI, 850 000 of these are women There are different types of UI including stress urinary incontinence (SUI), urge incontinence, mixed incontinence, neurogenic incontinence, ... case of SUI an increase in intraabdominal pressure (induced by activities such as coughing, laughing, sneezing, lifting of heavy loads or using stairs) causes involuntary urinary leakage without ... the domains of physical well-being, social well-being, emotional well-being and functional well-being Incontinence Quality of Life Instrument (I-QOL) The Incontinence Quality of Life Instrument...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo y học: "Evaluation of preoperative intra-aortic balloon pump in coronary patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction undergoing OPCAB surgery: early and mid-term outcome" ppsx
... arrhythmia occurred in seven patient (6.1%) in group A and 13 patients( 12.3%) in group B (p < 0.05) The acute renal failure occurred in eight patients( 6.9%) in group A and 12 patients( 11.3%) in group B ... placed using percutaneous insertion technique via femoral artery In group A, preoperative insertion was normally performed in the anesthesia preparation room in the operating room (OR) prior to induction ... therapy, inserted during or after the operation Postoperative IABP treatment was initiated if fulfilling definitions stated: when CI cannot be maintained at a level greater than 2.0 L/min/m2, despite...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo y học: "he Association Among Lipoprotein-associated Phospholipase A2 Levels, Total Antioxidant Capacity and Arousal in Male Patients with OSA"
... Individuals with an apnea hypopnea index (AHI) >5 were diagnosed as OSAS and included in the study Determining of Arousals An arousal was defined as an increase in EEG and/or EMG activity (frequency ... triglyceride levels were increased in patients above median arousal and TAC was reduced in these subjects Other demographic and laboratory findings were comparable in two groups According to the arousal ... was 43.5±10.5 years) Patients were divided into two groups according to the median arousal value and patients characteristics and laboratory findings were demonstrated in Table LP-PLA2, total...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00
Báo cáo y học: "Replacement of cisplatin with nedaplatin in a definitive 5-fluorouracil/ cisplatin-based chemoradiotherapy in Japanese patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma"
... toxicity in the treatment of ESCC [16] In this study, the effects of replacing CDDP with NDP on the pharmacokinetics of 5-FU 306 were investigated in ESCC patients treated with a definitive 5-FU/CDDP-based ... less nephrotoxicity and gastrointestinal toxicity than CDDP [14] In phase II clinical studies, NDP was found to be highly effective against solid tumors, including non-small cell lung cancer, ... no patients with recurrence were included in this study Protocol The protocol is presented in Figure A course consisted of continuous infusion of 5-FU at 400 mg/m2/day for days 1-5 and 8-12, infusion...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:53
Báo cáo y học: "Serum cystatin C levels to predict serum concentration of digoxin in Japanese patients
... digoxin in Japanese patients The serum levels of Cys-C and Cr in the patients were higher than those in the healthy elderly subjects, but the increase of Cys-C was more predominant in the patients, ... creatinine as a filtration marker in glomerulopathic patients Kidney Int 1985; 28(5):830–838 Perrone RD, Madias NE, Levey AS Serum creatinine as an index of renal function: new insights into ... Int J Med Sci 2006, 93 performed for the patients treated with a cardiac glycoside, digoxin, since digoxin is mainly eliminated via the kidneys and its individual dose is adequately...
Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:08
Cardiac and Hemodynamic Changes during Carbon Dioxide Pneumoperitoneum for Laparoscopic Gynecologic Surgery in Rajavithi Hospital ppt
... during and after CO2 insufflation in an extraperitoneal laparoscopy cohort Mean (SD) / p-value Parameter Before insufflation (base line) First 10 mins insufflation (every measurement) Remaining ... remifentanil was administered Intraoperative fluid replacement was provided with lactated Ringer solution The subjects were supine for induction and emergence from anesthesia, remaining in a flexed lateral ... regimen was used on all patients Induction was achieved using NO 2, isoflurane, and thiopenthal during which, peripheral intravenous access was obtained Rocuronium was administered intravenously to...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20
Bariatric Surgery in Women of Reproductive Age: Special Concerns for Pregnancy pot
... recent findings by other researchers.26 An interesting finding of this analysis is that the growth in use of bariatric procedures delivered in the inpatient setting has been even more pronounced in ... limitation in data, these are the preliminary findings: 1) What is the incidence of bariatric surgery in women of reproductive age? What are the trends in incidence of bariatric surgery in women ... (TEP) We invited a distinguished group of scientists and clinicians, including individuals with expertise in obesity, obstetrics, surgery, pediatrics, and fertility, to participate in the TEP...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Functional analysis of mutations in UDP-galactose-4epimerase (GALE) associated with galactosemia in Korean patients using mammalian GALE-null cells pdf
... transfected individually or in combination into ldlD cells and immunoprecipitation was carried out with myc antibody using detergent-soluble cell lysates containing the amount of protein indicated ... galactose was determined by measuring BrdU incorporation The level of BrdU incorporation into each cell line cultured in the absence of galactose was set to 100% and the corresponding results from ... mutant proteins were also observed in the cytoplasm, as seen for the wild-type protein Similar staining patterns were observed in other human cell lines, including hepatoma Hep3B cells and fibroblast...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20
Icodextrin reduces adhesion formation following gynecological surgery in rabbits potx
... anesthetized for surgery with IM injection of 55 mg/kg of ketamine The abdominal ventral side was shaved and dis-infected with povidone iodine A vertical 5cm abdominal incision was made Uterine horns ... to involve 253 centeres (103 general -surgery and 150 gynecologyicalsurgery centers) in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece (gynecology only) and the UK The findings indicate that icodextrin ... model Adhesins were more filmier and easily separable in 4% icodextrin group comparing with Ringer lactate group (8) In contrast to these research results some other working groups found insufficient...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20
Classification and regression tree (CART) model to predict pulmonary tuberculosis in hospitalized patients docx
... ranging from 3.7 to 44% among patients admitted to RI [8-14] As a consequence, medical costs are increased due to the need for installing and maintaining IR [15-17] IR are still scarce and infection ... sample of all patients admitted in IR had their medical charts reviewed Inclusion criterion was clinical suspicion of TB We defined clinical suspicion in the same way patients in our hospital ... rate for an individual not included in the original data [33] Data collected from all patients were included in the model Patients with missing HIV serology results were joined with the HIV negative...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Problems of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Elderly Patients doc
... drugs, and mortality during treatment Initial presenting symptoms about which patients complained, and highest body temperature measured during initial presentation were included A body axillary ... of TB in the elderly A positive sputum AFB smear was obtained in 57.1% of elderly and in 57.5 % of young TB patients, and a positive AFB culture was obtained in 70.6% of the elderly and in 74.4% ... dormant lesions in TB These include insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, poor nutrition, long-term corticosteroid therapy, other debilitating diseases, smoking, alcohol abuse, and waning cellmediated...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20
Pioneer Surgery in Kentucky pot
... surgeon, living in Danville, a neighboring village, did the second piece of original surgical work in Kentucky It consisted in removing an ovarian tumor The deed, unexampled in surgery, is destined ... aseptic surgery He urged the trephine in the treatment of epilepsy and applied it in six cases in four of which the disease was cured The result in the two remaining cases is unknown, because the patients ... experienced in removing the sponge because of its being extensively penetrated by blood-vessels springing from the surface of the brain This inconvenience he afterward obviated by putting a thin piece...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20
Fertility Sparing Treatments in Young Patients with Gynecological Cancers: Iranian Experience and Literature Review pptx
... sparing in young women with ovarian tumors Clin Exp Obstet Gynecol, 37, 290-4 Gotlieb WH, Beiner MR, Shalmon B, et al (2003) Outcome of fertility sparing treatment with progestin in young patients ... progress into endometrial cancer The standard treatment for endometrial carcinoma includes staging laparotomy, total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectromy with pelvic washing ... bleeding from abdominal incisions may be more in vaginal trachelectomy, but other complications rate doesn’t increase in abdominal approach comparable to vaginal one (Ungár et al., 2005) Although the...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20
Cytokines Genes Polymorphisms in Iranian Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis doc
... polymorphic genes coding for cytokines or for cytokine receptors have been investigated in a case control study including a group of 40 Iranian PTB patients and 40 healthy individuals 126 IJI ... tuberculosis in Gambian patients may be partly determined by a region in the IL-1 gene cluster on chromosome (6) TGF-¾ codon 10 polymorphism was investigated in 110 healthy control and 101 tuberculosis patients ... cluster increases and T allele at codon 10 of TGF-¾ decreases in PTB patients Key words: Cytokine, PCR-SSP, Polymorphism, Tuberculosis INTRODUCTION A recent study by Hussain et al using a diluted...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20
Hospital Control and Multidrug-Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Female Patients, Lima, Peru pot
... and Auramine staining were performed by standard techniques (8) Cultures Mycobacterial growth indicator tubes (Becton Dickinson, Sparks, MD) containing both 10% OADC (oleic acid, albumin, dextrose, ... containing serial dilutions of anti-TB drugs (isoniazid, rifampin, ethambutol, streptomycin, capreomycin, ciprofloxacin) until control wells tested positive for mycobacterial growth, usually in ... to streptomycin None were resistant to ciprofloxacin or capreomycin Eight patients (20%) had TB resistant to both isoniazid and rifampin and were classified as having MDRTB All patients with...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo khoa học: The specificity of alcohol dehydrogenase with cis-retinoids Activity with 11-cis-retinol and localization in retina docx
... ADH4 in retina ADH4 is detected in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and it is extensively distributed in the retina ADH4 is found in the outer (ONL) and the inner (INL) nuclear layers, in the ... stain technique Protein concentration was determined by a dye binding assay (Bio-Rad) using bovine serum albumin as standard [30] Enzyme kinetics Standard ADH activity was determined by measuring ... retinoids and the C4 of the nicotinamide ring, involved in the hydride ˚ transfer, is lower than 4.83 A In contrast, both distances are notably increased in the docked 11-cis-retinal, suggesting...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20
LONG TERM FEEDING TUBE PLACEMENT IN ELDERLY PATIENTS pptx
... volunteers How are patients hand-fed? proper feeding techniques are needed to help prevent patients with eating problems from aspirating These techniques include: sitting her up in bed choosing food of ... when deciding about placing a feeding tube? Stroke patients who have swallowing problems may recover better if the feeding tube is placed earlier on in their illness, rather than waiting a few ... regarding continuing with the tube z What questions need answering before you can decide? { Who should decide about placing the tube? | What is my overall “leaning” about placing a feeding tube?...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20
CATARACT SURGERY pdf
... Cataract Surgery in Retina Patients 371 Kemal Örnek Chapter 26 Cataract Surgery in Patients with a History of Retinoblastoma and Melanoma 391 A.C Schefler and T.G Murray Chapter 27 Cataract Surgery ... assessment in patients undergoing cataract surgery In the second section, Operative Surgery and the History of Cataract Surgery, a variety of topics are introduced by study of the main milestones in ... primary and paracentesis incisions are created This substance also assists with initiating and maintaining pupil dilation Epinephrine 1:10,000 (1 ml.) is used in 500 cc in the continuous irrigation...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 21:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Validation of a HLA-A2 tetramer flow cytometric method, IFNgamma real time RT-PCR, and IFNgamma ELISPOT for detection of immunologic response to gp100 and MelanA/MART-1 in melanoma patients" doc
... positive cells in combination with the high inter-assay variability that is expected in flow cytometric methods This finding supported our clinical testing regimen; all longitudinal frozen PBMC ... analyte in biological matrix (matrix effect) is defined as the direct or indirect alteration or interference in response due to the presence of unintended analytes or other interfering substances in ... Co-staining with anti-CD3 showed decrease tetramer binding probably due to proximity of CD3 and TCR, therefore anti-CD3 staining was not used Fixed cells were shown to have decreased binding as...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20