clinical diagnosis of relative adrenal insufficiency
Báo cáo y học: " The incidence of relative adrenal insufficiency in patients with septic shock after the administration of etomidate" pot
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13/08/2014, 01:20
... of death in patients with septic shock and relative adrenal insufficiency, 72 patients received etomidate preceding the stimulation test Of these 72 patients, 68 patients (94%) had relative adrenal ... for adrenal insufficiency, on the basis that our study shows that most patients with septic shock had relative adrenal insufficiency after the administration of etomidate, and what dose of corticosteroids ... The majority of patients with septic shock show evidence of relative adrenal insufficiency when the cosyntropin stimulation test is performed within 24 hours of the administration of etomidate...
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Báo cáo y học: "Hepatitis C Virus Serologic and Virologic Tests and Clinical Diagnosis of HCVRelated Liver Disease"
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02/11/2012, 09:56
... of Hepatology, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), and of Current Hepatitis Reports, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of ... University of Paris and Pasteur Institute, France Jean-Michel Pawlotsky, MD, PhD, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Paris XII and the Director of the Department of Virology, of INSERM ... Professor at the University of Paris XII and a member of the Department of Virology and of INSERM Unit U635 at the Henri Mondor University Hospital in Créteil, France He focuses on teaching, diagnosis...
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Báo cáo y học: " Relative adrenal insufficiency and hemodynamic status in cardiopulmonary bypass surgery patients. A prospective cohort study" ppt
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10/08/2014, 09:22
... provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki Definition of Relative Adrenal Insufficiency (RAI) and Corticotropin test RAI was defined as a rise in serum cortisol ≤9 μg/dl after the administration of 250 ... Hemodynamic parameters and vasoactive drug requirements between groups No relative adrenal insufficiency (n = 27) Relative adrenal insufficiency (n = 93) P MAPa (mmHg) hrs 82 ± 11 87 ± 16 0.49 MAP (mmHg) ... the postoperative management of these patients The reported prevalence of adrenal insufficiency varies widely in critically ill patients, depending on the population of patients studied and the...
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Báo cáo y học: "Comparison of mannitol and methacholine to predict exercise-induced bronchoconstriction and a clinical diagnosis of asthma" pdf
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12/08/2014, 14:20
... the National Institute of Health (NIH) Questionnaire [17] but without a firm diagnosis of asthma or an exclusion of the diagnosis of asthma (e.g had an equivocal diagnosis of asthma or had been ... a clinical diagnosis at Visit is given in Table Of the 375 PPP, there were 240 (64%) identified as having a clinical diagnosis of asthma at Visit (ClinDx5+) and 48% of these had a likelihood of ... Visit Fifteen percent of the subjects who received a clinical diagnosis of asthma were negative to all three challenges Of the 135 who did not receive a clinical diagnosis of asthma at Visit (ClinDx5),...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "The diagnosis of adrenal insufficiency in the critically ill patient: does it really matter" pps
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13/08/2014, 03:20
... corticosteroids Although the diagnosis of adrenal insufficiency may not be clinically relevant in most critically ill patients, there may be groups of patients in whom this diagnosis may be important Available ... include patients with adrenal hemorrhage/ infarction, as well as patients with liver disease, head injury, pancreatitis, and burns, among others At this time the diagnosis of adrenal insufficiency in ... time However, it is important to stress that the diagnosis of adrenal insufficiency in critically ill patients should not be made on the basis of laboratory criteria alone Competing interests...
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Accuracy of Clinical Signs in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Comparison of Three Reference Standards Using Data from a Tertiary Care Centre in Rwanda doc
Ngày tải lên :
22/03/2014, 18:20
... Features of Different LCA Models Fitted to the Data Numbers of Classes, Manifest Variables and Dependencies, and Goodness of Fit for the Models Model Number of Latent Classes Number of Manifest ... patient-by-patient clinical case management of TB, but it expands our toolbox in clinical research, as it is one of the few statistical techniques available to address the issue of prevalence, sensitivity ... Rwanda Impact of human immunodeficiency virus infection on clinical and radiographic presentation Am Rev Respir Dis 1992; 146: 53-56 Siddiqi K, Lambert ML, Walley J Clinical diagnosis of smearnegative...
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Tuberculosis - Clinical diagnosis and management of tuberculosis, and measures for its prevention and control doc
Ngày tải lên :
22/03/2014, 18:20
... guidance the section on the diagnosis of latent TB has been updated by the Short Clinical Guidelines team New 2011 guidance on the clinical diagnosis and management of tuberculosis (TB), and within ... or TB, is one of man’s oldest foes and for centuries among the most feared One of the triumphs of modern medicine has been the development of vaccination and medication capable of combating this ... process of developing a guideline TB (partial update) clinical guideline (March 2011) 18 of 307 First step: Developing evidence-based questions The technical team drafted a series of clinical...
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Tuberculosis Clinical diagnosis and management of tuberculosis, and measures for its prevention and control pot
Ngày tải lên :
31/03/2014, 13:20
... Following diagnosis of TB in a hospital inpatient, a risk assessment should be undertaken This should take into account: • the degree of infectivity of the index case • the length of time before ... view of the Institute, which was arrived at after careful consideration of the evidence available Healthcare professionals are expected to take it fully into account when exercising their clinical ... withdrawal of the glucocorticoid considered, starting within 2–3 weeks of initiation Improving adherence • Use of directly observed therapy (DOT) is not usually necessary in the management of most...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Evaluation of the diagnostic indices and clinical utility of qualitative cardiodetect® test kit in diagnosis of ami within 12 hours of onset of chest pain in the emergency department" pptx
Ngày tải lên :
20/06/2014, 23:20
... NAR and Suhailan M: Evaluation of the diagnostic indices and clinical utility of qualitative cardiodetect®® test kit in diagnosis of ami within 12 hours of onset of chest pain in the emergency ... Society of Cardiology/ American College of Cardiology Committee (ESC/ACC) for the Redefinition of Myocardial Infarction published new criteria for the diagnosis of AMI They proposed the use of cardiac ... marker of AMI This revised definition of AMI has reiterated the importance of cardiac-specific markers of necrosis, specifically the cardiac troponins, as crucial determinants for the diagnosis of...
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Báo cáo y học: "Effect of dsDNA binding to SmD-derived peptides on clinical accuracy in the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus" potx
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09/08/2014, 10:20
... independent cohort of patients (panel III) At a cut-off of 25 units, 16 control samples and 47 SLE samples were positive, resulting in sensitivity of 47.0% and specificity of 84.0% In contrast, ... cut-off value of 100 units was used, 38/65 (58.5%) samples showed anti-SmD1 reactivity (see Figure 2) Further, 34/65 (52.3%) of the sera tested positive for SmD3 antibodies at a cut-off value of ... decision about the diagnosis of the patient and commence inappropriate therapy In a second independent cohort of patients (panel III), the newly defined cut-off limit (100 units) of the SmD1 ELISA...
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báo cáo khoa học: "Challenges in clinical and laboratory diagnosis of androgen insensitivity syndrome: a case report" ppt
Ngày tải lên :
10/08/2014, 23:20
... ladder of 100 bp; = exon with a size of 528 bp; = exon with a size of 172 bp; = exon with a size of 378 bp; = exon with a size of 516 bp; = exon with a size of 289 bp Melo et al Journal of Medical ... because of primary amenorrhea Patients with the complete form of AIS Page of have female external genitalia, an absence or thinning of pubic hair and the absence of a uterus [4] The AR NTD is relatively ... to properly reach the conclusion of a diagnosis of AIS Sex determination and differentiation depend on a cascade of events that begins with the establishment of chromosomal sex at fertilization...
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INVESTIGATION ON CLINICAL FEATURES, BRAIN IMAGING, a NUMBER OF RIKS FACTORS AND THE VALUE OF d DIMER IN DIAGNOSIS OF CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS
Ngày tải lên :
21/10/2014, 21:52
... significant Role of D-dimer test in the diagnosis of CVT: D-dimer had an important role in the diagnosis of CVT, at the cut off of D-dimer concentration ≥ 302 µg/L the diagnosis of CVT reached ... diagnosis of CVT which is considered as a gold standard and can replace invasive conventional cerebral angiography and is used as a leading mean of diagnosis in case with clinical suspicion of ... the cut off of D-dimer test 23 In our study, as showed in table 3.35, the cut off of Ddimer concentration (µg/L) ≥ 256; ≥ 280; ≥ 302; ≥ 424; ≥ 502; ≥ 604 We recognized that: at the cut off of D-dimer...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "The clinical value of daily routine chest radiographs in a mixed medical–surgical intensive care unit is low"
Ngày tải lên :
25/10/2012, 10:39
... performance of a bronchoalveolar lavage for culture, or start of or a change in antimicrobial therapy in case of unexpected infiltrates on the CXR; repositioning of tubes in case of malposition of orotracheal ... ultrasound of the thorax in case of pleural effusion on the CXR, start or change in medication (diuretics); insertion of a pleural drain; and repositioning of devices in the case of malposition of medical ... removal of intravenous lines) The observers were not involved in the daily care of the patients, and ICU physicians were not aware of this part of the observation As a consequence, the clinical...
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Báo cáo y học: "A Comparison of Immuncapture Agglutination and ELISA Methods in Serological Diagnosis of Brucellosis"
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25/10/2012, 10:56
... the diagnosis of human brucellosis? Enferm Infec Microbiol Clin 2001;19:202-5 Araj GF Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, not Agglutination, is the test of choice for the diagnosis of serodiagnosis ... an important role in the diagnosis of brucellosis Main antigenic structure which is imported in the diagnosis of brucellosis is the smooth lipopolysaccharide structure of the antigen cell surface ... J Evaluation of Brucellacapt for the diagnosis of human brucellosis Journal of Infection 2004; 49: 102–108 Clavijo E, Diaz R, Anguita A, Garcia A, Pinedo A, Smith HL Comparison of a Dipstick...
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Báo cáo y học: " the Value of Serum Biomarkers (Bc1, Bc2, Bc3) in the Diagnosis of Early Breast Cancer"
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25/10/2012, 11:15
... since none of them alone is useful for the majority of the BC and none of them is specific for cancer or breast tissues No biomarker has been suggested to date for the early diagnosis of BC (24) ... particularly with the SELDI-TOF method (38) In conclusion, it can not be said that proteomics studied with SELDI-TOF method for early diagnosis of BC is useful in the clinical practice Bc2 had the ... were transferred to a data processor and software capable of analyzing univariate statistical analysis (ProteinChip Data Manager Software) Mass calibrations of all spectra were performed internally...
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Báo cáo y học: "MALDI-TOF MS Combined With Magnetic Beads for Detecting Serum Protein Biomarkers and Establishment of Boosting Decision Tree Model for Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer"
Ngày tải lên :
25/10/2012, 11:18
... [7, 8] Early diagnosis of CRC is therefore of great importance Currently the sensitivity of the single biomarker based CRC diagnosis is low and complicated with a high probability of ‘false-positives’ ... based on a first pass of signal-noise ratio of and a minimum peak threshold of 20% of all spectra This process was completed with a second pass of peak selection at 0.2% of the mass window, and ... calculated as the ratio of the 42 number of correctly classified diseased samples to the total number of diseased samples Specificity was calculated as the ratio of the number of negative samples...
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Báo cáo y học: "Natural History and Clinical Consequences of Hepatitis B Virus Infection"
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02/11/2012, 11:17
... incidence of hepatic decompensation was 16%, the incidence per 100 person years was 3.3 and the mean interval between the time of diagnosis of cirrhosis and the onset of first episode of decompensation ... B Age at the time of infection is a strong determinant of chronicity, the earlier the acquisition of infection, the higher probability of developing chronic infection Levels of viremia in chronic ... without HBeAg seroreversion Clinical Spectrum of HBV Infection Primary Infection –Subclinical Infection and Acute hepatitis B Majority of HBV infection in children are subclinical versus those in...
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Báo cáo y học: "Advances in Molecular Diagnosis of HBV Infection and Drug Resistance"
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03/11/2012, 09:41
... is the appearance of serum markers of HBV infection that establishes the diagnosis of the disease Of these, HBsAg is considered to be the sentinel marker for the confirmation of acute infection ... study of possible clinical ramifications of HBV genotypes is the subject of intense clinical research, with evidence accumulating that HBV genotyping influences the natural history and severity of ... presence of precore/core promoter Relatively slower to detect drug resistance mutants Confirmation of spontaneous remission or co-infection Detection of low viral levels of uncertain clinical...
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Báo cáo y học: "Laboratory diagnosis of Toxoplasma gondii infection"
Ngày tải lên :
03/11/2012, 11:01
... provide indirect evidence of ocular infection [4] Moreover, it’s important to highlight that FRET PCR is able to detect the presence of T gondii DNA on a small amount of 136 sample as it was in ... experience (
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