clinical manifestations anddiagnosis of nafld

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:11

... prevalence of TB in the United States Nevertheless, certain segments of the population remain at increased risk of TB, by virtue of having a higher prevalence of infection, a higher risk of progression ... mouth of jars used in antiquity (amphora) Extrapulmonary signs include clubbing and findings localized to other sites of involvement (See "Clinical manifestations; diagnosis; and treatment of miliary ... The majority of these patients had progression of disease at the original site, and four developed cavitation Other studies, which provide insight into the clinical manifestations of TB, have...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... clinical manifestations and laboratorial characteristics of atypical pneumonia, atypical pneumonia co-infection in children Practical value of the subject - Evaluate the results of clinical manifestations ... seroprevalence of C pneumoniae infection was of 50% of total population Estimated number of cases of pneumonia caused by C pneumoniae in the United States is 300,000 cases per year Globally, prevalence of ... Phong Lan, Phan Le Thanh Huong( 2012 ) , " Causes, clinical features , clinical manifestations of atypical pneumonia in children " , Journal of Medical Research , episode 80 , No A , pp 119124...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 11:36

... interpretation of data and final formulation of the manuscript, MK contributed to the design of the biochemical factors of the study method, interpretation of data and final formulation of the manuscript, ... all seasons of the year without any systematic bias Patients All depressed patients were either inpatients or outpatients of the Third Department of Psychiatry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, ... onset of depressive or anxious symptomatology appeared after the age of 18 Controls Control subjects came from the medical and nursing stuff and their families One of the authors performed a clinical...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... http://arthritis-research.com/content/13/2/R49 Page of Table Distribution of clinical manifestations according to HLA-B*51 and HLA-A status Patient subset n (%) of clinical manifestations OR (95% CI) P 0.20 Skin ... certain HLA-A alleles and clinical manifestations of BD, we compared each clinical subset with a large number of controls Then, patients with and without specific clinical manifestations were compared ... the unique clinical features of BD The lack of individual demographic data of the controls might be one of the limitations of this study Nevertheless, we believe that the results of our study...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... that of the general population in the present study (23.3 kg/m2, 16.5–36.3 kg/m2) Frequent association of reflux laryngitis (5 of 8) was observed Two patients complained of temporal association of ... average age of 47.4 (28–59) years and BMI of 22.4 (19.2–28) kg/m2 in the present study Except the frequent incidence of concomitant reflux laryngitis and standard range of BMI, characteristics of the ... participated in acquisition of data TU participated in acquisition of data MY participated in acquisition of data HM participated in acquisition of data MJ participated in acquisition of data KC contributed...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... critical values of SJ with a probability level of P < 0.05 considering the total number of manifestations present in either of the two patterns being compared and the minimum quantity of manifestations ... 2011, 6:23 http://www.cmjournal.org/content/6/1/23 Page of 12 Table Descriptive statistics of manifestations Manifestations Frequency of manifestations Liver-fire blazing upwards (n = 8; 18.6%) ... main result of the present study is that Zangfu patterns were strongly or moderately associated with clinical manifestations of TOD in subjects with hypertension Moreover, clinical manifestations...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... 80% of patients with AF convert to SR within 24 hours The use of β-blockers before the start of AF and the absence of diabetes and left ventricular hypertrophy were independent predictors of conversion ... Goodman SN, Powe NR, Bass EB: Efficacy of agents for pharmacologic conversion of atrial fibrillation and subsequent maintenance of sinus rhythm: a meta-analysis of clinical trials J Fam Pract 2000, ... contribution of AF is uncertain [124] Conclusion on improvement of morbidity The best available evidence comes from retrospective studies The impact of conversion to SR or control of rhythm on...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... isolation and cryopreservation of PBMC at each participating clinical center and indeed, optimization of cryopreservation media and of thawing practices has improved recovery of immunological responses ... processing of blood and cryopreservation of PBMC at off-site locations is expensive and requires oversight and quality control of the processing lab at each center Thus, for many multicenter clinical ... facility of the University of Virginia Data were analyzed with FlowJo software (Treestar, Ashland OR) Testing of Blood Shipping Packages The standard shipping container used in our clinical trials...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... and social functioning of the patient in terms of the impact of disease is "an essential part of clinical diagnosis, a major determinant of therapeutic choices, a measure of their efficacy, and ... implementation of HRQoL measurement in clinical practice Practical barriers that have been reported include general lack of time, money and human resources, impracticality of instruments, disruption of clinical ... clinical routine, lack of IT support and health professionals' lack of knowledge in this area Attitudinal barriers may include health professionals' scepticism of the validity of HRQoL questionnaires,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... discectomy with good clinical outcomes, there are very limited reports of how this translates to quality of life improvement and ability to return to work Health-related quality of life measures ... affect the general status of the patients It has even been suggested that more widespread use of standardized health measures may improve clinical practice [9,10] The purpose of this study is to determine ... operative time, length of hospital stay and duration of followup for endoscopic discectomy Endoscopic discectomy Age Sex Operative time Length of hospital stay Follow-up Duration of medical leave Mean...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... The CCQ scores of the patients were within the limits of the MCID of the scores of the treating clinician in 62% and the mean score of the reviewing clinicians in 63% The proportion of cases within ... measurement of precision and of accuracy for a better understanding of the sources of disagreement The equation from Lin (1989) is c = 2s xy sx + s2 y + (x − y )2 where x and y are the mean values of ... approval of the version to be published SLS: acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data; revising the manuscript; gives final approval of the version to be published BdV: acquisition of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... and social functioning of the patient in terms of the impact of disease is "an essential part of clinical diagnosis, a major determinant of therapeutic choices, a measure of their efficacy, and ... implementation of HRQoL measurement in clinical practice Practical barriers that have been reported include general lack of time, money and human resources, impracticality of instruments, disruption of clinical ... clinical routine, lack of IT support and health professionals' lack of knowledge in this area Attitudinal barriers may include health professionals' scepticism of the validity of HRQoL questionnaires,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... coupling of IRDye800CW to mAbs, enabling clinical PID as a complementary tool to radioimmunodetection In the present study, we evaluated the impact of the coupling of different numbers of IRDye800CW ... reasonable tissue penetration of exciting and emitted lights, while the amount of autofluorescence is negligible [21] Nevertheless, PID is still waiting for a broadscale clinical application The only ... its attachment to a Page of 13 broad spectrum of targeting biomolecules This dye has been evaluated in several preclinical studies [25-28], but before being used in clinical investigations, it...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... during infliximab treatment of RA patients, of AS patients and in the control RA population were of IgM isotype (11 of 13 [85%], of [100%] and of [100%] respectively) One of the sera from infliximab-treated ... treatment of RA with infliximab were of IgM isotype Furthermore, we showed that most of the detected aPL autoantibodies were also of IgM isotype The role of these IgM in the development of autoimmune ... end of the study, including in eight of nine patients who discontinued the treatment One RA became negative months after the end of the treatment Furthermore, in six of the nine R538 sera of infliximab-treated...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... small proportion of soft tissue leiomyosarcomata [4] All publications in the literature are of small clinical series or case reports 11% of the patients treated for a malignant soft tissue tumor ... Tilkorn et al World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2010, 8:103 http://www.wjso.com/content/8/1/103 Page of Table Data of the patient collective and clinical course of the tumor disease Patient ... 182 tumors (11% of all MSTT) were diagnosed as leiomyosarcoma Twelve of these tumors were of intravascular origin Intravascular leiomyosarcoma accounted for 0.7% of all MSTT or 6% of all leiomyosarcomata...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:23

... All of them underwent dilatation at the time of TNE to relieve any physical obstruction Four out of the seven patients who underwent FEES had finding of moderate or severe aspiration to one of ... the lack of systematic evaluation of some of the major end points of late dysphagia using TNE or FEES prevented more robust analysis using more objective endpoints Another limitation of the study ... caudal tips of the pterygoid plates through the lower edge of the hyoid, at the level of C2, C3 and upper C4 The inferior PC (IPC) was defined from below the hyoid through the inferior edge of the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... development of SSc Association of cytokine profiles with clinical manifestations of scleroderma To determine whether circulating plasma cytokine profiles were associated with clinical involvement in ... disease duration and the presence of SSc autoantibodies have an influence on these cytokine profiles Lastly, it was discerned that specific clinical manifestations of SSc, such as interstitial lung ... delineating the role of T-helper type 17 cells in SSc immunopathogenesis A final observation of potential interest is the association of circulating cytokines with systemic manifestations of SSc Similar...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... integrity of longitudinal studies and the validity of their conclusions [69] This is especially true of observerdependent methods of data-gathering In the clinical assessment phase of the study, the clinical ... after their baseline clinical assessment The focus of follow-up will be clinical (severity of pain and functional limitation) change and possible determinants of this The content of this survey is ... sub-scales Roddy et al Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 2011, 4:22 http://www.jfootankleres.com/content/4/1/22 Page of 16 Table Content of clinical assessment: clinical interview, physical examination...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24