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d— comparison of ulcerative colitis in patients with and without primary sclerosing cholangitis

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Báo cáo y học: "Critical care management and outcome of severe Pneumocystis pneumonia in patients with and without HIV infection" pps

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... admissions inHIV tive) and withinfected (HIV-negative) within the intensive care (HIV-posiof cases not Pneumocystis pneumonia patients infected unit (ICU) of cases with Pneumocystis pneumonia in patients ... in patients with no HIV infection in our unit from 1993 to 2006 Although non-invasive ventilation was required in a similar proportion of patients with and without HIV infection, non-invasive ventilation ... therapy Mayo Clin Proc 1996, 71:5-13 Limper AH, Offord KP, Smith TF, Martin WJ 2nd: Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia Differences in lung parasite number and inflammation in patients with and without AIDS...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Comparing the SF-12 and SF-36 health status questionnaires in patients with and without obesity" pot

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... varying body weights to examine the correlation between the two instruments and their performance in measuring differences in QOL among patients with and without obesity Page of (page number not for ... the SF-36 in explaining variations in QOL across BMI Since the MCS36 has been shown in this and other studies to be relatively insensitive to differences in BMI, using the MCS-12 instead of MCS-36 ... Relationship between obesity and health-related quality of life in men Obes Res 2002, 10(10):1057-64 Finkelstein MM: Body mass index and quality of life in a survey of primary care patients J Fam Pract...
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Báo cáo y học: "Hypoalbuminaemia – A Marker of Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Stages II - IV"

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... majority of patients (79%) had HTN and 27% had DM CVD was prevalent in 35% of patients A total of 62% were on angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-i), 30% on beta blockers and 53% on statins ... challenges in predicting and treating patients early in course of CKD to positively alter patient outcome There is definitely a high prevalence of traditional risk factors like HTN, DM and DLP in chronic ... occurrence of de novo vascular events in this population (27) In a recent study C-reactive protein and low albumin has been shown to be the predictor of morbidity and mortality in CKD 3-5 patients in...
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Báo cáo y học: "Different effect of exercise on left ventricular diastolic time and interventricular dyssynchrony in heart failure patients with and without left bundle branch block"

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... lack of increase in LV dyssynchrony during dobutamine stress in patients with wide QRS duration (20) In contrast, Kurita et al reported on an increased mechanical dyssynchrony during pacing–induced ... blocker, and 19 a diuretic In patients with conduction disturbance, 13 of 17 patients were receiving a beta-blocking agent, 15 an angiotensinconverting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin receptor ... analyzed with the two tailed unpaired t-test For comparison of the individually observed and predicted time values and for comparison of within-group changes a repeated measures analysis of variance...
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Prevalence and Its Predictors of Extrapulmonary Involvement in Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis pdf

Prevalence and Its Predictors of Extrapulmonary Involvement in Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis pdf

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... organ involvement in patients with pulmonary TB was more common in patients with bilateral lung involvement but without cavity formation or low levels of serum albumin Clinicians should keep in mind ... one organ involved, all of them were counted independently; � patients with intestinal TB diagnosed based , on typical colonosopic findings and the other patients with TB laryngitis without AFB ... presence of cavities in patients with pulmonary TB is Table Comparison of demographic and clinical characteristics between pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients with extrapulmonary involvement and without...
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Báo cáo sinh học: "Association between neuroserpin and molecular markers of brain damage in patients with acute ischemic stroke" pot

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... and 24 hours neuroserpin levels was defined as neuroserpin decrease All determinations were carried out in a laboratory blind to the clinical outcome and neuroimaging findings Endpoints The primary ... Neuroserpin was used as a continuous variable since there was a linearity of the odds ratios for outcome The influence of neuroserpin decrease at 24 h on serum levels of molecular markers of brain injury ... therefore, a total of 129 patients were finally included in the study This research was carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association (2000) and approved...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Comparison of the discriminative ability of a generic and a condition-specific OHRQoL measure in adolescents with and without normative need for orthodontic treatment" potx

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... than the IOTN For example, DAI includes number of missing visible teeth, crowding in the incisal segments, spacing in the incisal segment, and measurement of any midline diastema that are not specifically ... Oliveira CM: The planning, contracting and monitoring of orthodontic services, and the use of the IOTN index: a survey of consultants in dental public health in the United Kingdom Br Dent J 2003, ... discriminative ability of OHIP-14 and CS-OIDP attributed to malocclusion between groups with and without normative need for orthodontic treatment These findings differed according to the indicator...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Reaching in reality and virtual reality: a comparison of movement kinematics in healthy subjects and in adults with hemiparesis" pdf

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... AG, Levin MF: Recruitment and sequencing of different degrees of freedom during pointing movements involving the trunk in healthy and hemiparetic subjects Exp Brain Res 1999, 126:55-67 Cumming BG, ... ranges of joint motion and interjoint coordination) parameters Movement onsets and offsets of each phase were defined as the times at which the tangential velocity of the IRED on the index finger ... motivation of the individual and the intensity of training [10,11] Virtual reality represents a novel training environment in which a wide variety of tasks can be easily practiced It is also becoming increasingly...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Association between neuroserpin and molecular markers of brain damage in patients with acute ischemic stroke" pdf

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... and 24 hours neuroserpin levels was defined as neuroserpin decrease All determinations were carried out in a laboratory blind to the clinical outcome and neuroimaging findings Endpoints The primary ... Neuroserpin was used as a continuous variable since there was a linearity of the odds ratios for outcome The influence of neuroserpin decrease at 24 h on serum levels of molecular markers of brain injury ... therefore, a total of 129 patients were finally included in the study This research was carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association (2000) and approved...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Improvement in quality of life measures in patients with refractory hepatitis C, responding to re-treatment with Pegylated interferon alpha -2b and ribavirin" docx

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... HRQOL domain scores when re-treated with a combination of interferon alpha-2b and ribavirin Compared to the baseline, the responders sustained a significant decrease in the domain score of vitality ... arms in terms of the HRQOL scores at base line (data not shown) Table 2: Baseline SF-36 norm based Domain scores in refractory HCV patients undergoing re-treatment with peg interferon alpha 2b and ... Weiland O: Randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of interferon a-2b with and without ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C Lancet 1998, 351:83-87 Chemello L, Cavalletto L, Bernardinello...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Responsiveness of EORTC QLQ-C30, QLQ-CR38 and FACT-C quality of life questionnaires in patients with colorectal cancer" pptx

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... therapeutic intervention [13,14] In a clinical trial, the knowledge of instrument’s responsiveness helps in the selection of measures, in setting the correct sample size and assists in prioritising the ... self-rating questionnaires and the patient’s overall assessment of his/her change in state of health is observed in patients receiving chemotherapy but only with the QLQ-C30 Indeed, measurements of ... assessed between baseline and before the fourth course for patients receiving chemotherapy, and between baseline and the last week of radiotherapy for patients treated with radiation therapy...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Relationship of cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia in remission to disability: a cross-sectional study in an Indian sample" pps

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... manuscript including extensive revision of interpretation and discussion of the results AN and RRP reviewed the methodology, contributed to recruiting patients, confirming the diagnosis and interpretation ... is part of the PGI battery of brain dysfunction, developed at PGIMER, Chandigarh, India The battery is administered in Hindi, the first language of most subjects, and has been developed and validated ... was involved in the conceptualization of the study, literature review, recruiting patients, data collection, statistical analysis and interpretation of results PBM was involved in review of the...
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Báo cáo y học: "Increased circulating levels and salivary gland expression of interleukin-18 in patients with Sjögren''''s syndrome: relationship with autoantibody production and lymphoid organization of the periductal inflammatory infiltrate" pptx

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... cytokine a prime candidate also in the pathogenesis of SS Increased serum levels and salivary gland expression of IL18 in patients with SS is in keeping with an active role for this cytokine in ... level was detected in all SS patients studied, but interestingly only in a minority of patients with chronic sialoadenitis No staining for IL-18 was found in acinar cells, indicating that IL-18 production ... syndrome (SS) in salivary gland of patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS) Paraffinembedded sections were double-stained for CD3 (brown) and CD20 (purple) (a–c) and single-stained with CD21 (d) Inflammatory...
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Báo cáo y học: "Anti-Sa antibodies and antibodies against cyclic citrullinated peptide are not equivalent as predictors of severe outcomes in patients with recent-onset polyarthritis" pdf

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... (77.9%) of patients was still being actively treated with DMARDs at 30 months Interestingly, despite blinding of their treating physicians, the patients with anti-Sa and anti-CCP were treated as intensively ... the single serological marker independently predictive of poor outcomes and, together with the presence of joint erosions at inclusion and with increasing age, characterized a subgroup of patients ... coordinating nurses and treating physicians remained blinded to the patients' HLA-DR, anti-CCP and anti-Sa status Serum and DNA materials were coded to ensure confidentiality and blinding of investigators...
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Báo cáo y học: "Magnetic resonance imaging changes of sacroiliac joints in patients with recent-onset inflammatory back pain: inter-reader reliability and prevalence of abnormalities" potx

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... for inflammation of the joint capsule of the left SI joint, which was present in only three patients Table summarizes the concordant findings of both readers with respect to inflammation and ... assessment of patients with early inflammatory back pain It is the amount of variation in the outcome of interest (inflammation and/ or structural changes) rather than the number of patients under ... joints in patients with early inflammatory back pain Assessing bone marrow and/ or subchondral bone enhancement suffices to detect inflammation Inflammation in the joint space, the joint capsule and...
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Báo cáo y học: "Utility of the Framingham risk score to predict the presence of coronary atherosclerosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis" pps

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... gender, and race with patients with RA (early and long-standing disease combined) These patients and control subjects are part of an ongoing cohort study to identify cardiovascular risk factors in ... differences in the Framingham risk score in patients and controls, and the majority of the SLE patients with coronary calcification had a low 10-year risk according to the Framingham calculations [12] In ... subjects, independent of Framingham risk scores (odds ratio = 2.46, 95% confidence interval 1.20 to 5.05) Discussion The two primary findings in this report are that patients with long-standing RA...
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Báo cáo y học: "The human anti-IL-1β monoclonal antibody ACZ885 is effective in joint inflammation models in mice and in a proof-of-concept study in patients with rheumatoid arthritis" doc

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... inflammation and cartilage degradation were inhibited by blocking IL-1β but not IL-1α In RA patients, IL-1β is overexpressed in inflamed synovial tissue, in particular in the lining layer and in sublining ... (IL-1Ra; anakinra), which binds to the IL-1 receptor without eliciting a signal and therefore competes with the binding of the two natural ligands, namely IL-1α and IL-1β As compared with TNF-α inhibitors, ... Scoring was performed on decoded slides by two separate observers, using the following parameters In the haematoxylin/eosin stained slides the amount of cells infiltrating the synovial lining and...
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Báo cáo y học: "Uric acid is a strong independent predictor of renal dysfunction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis" docx

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... file) Insulin resistance was evaluated from fasting glucose and insulin using the Homeostasis Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance (HOMA IR) [30] and the Quantitative Insulin Sensitivity Check Index ... In that study, UA was shown to associate with renal dysfunction in patients with RA In this study, we focus on the potential association of UA with renal dysfunction in patients with RA and investigate ... expensive, timeconsuming and not easily applied in large cohorts such as this Conversely, 24-hour urine collections for determining creatinine clearance are inaccurate and are being abandoned Estimated...
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Báo cáo y học: "Physical function, disease activity, and health-related quality-of-life outcomes after 3 years of adalimumab treatment in patients with ankylosing spondylitis" potx

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... improvement in clinical signs and symptoms, physical function, and HRQOL in patients with active AS [16,32] Maintenance of improvement Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) in clinical ... to measure the severity of fatigue, spinal and peripheral joint pain, localized tenderness, and morning stiffness in patients with AS The final BASDAI score has a range of to 10; a lesser number ... Table Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with AS: comparison of patients entering double-blind and open-label extension study periods Week 24 of ATLAS (n = 315) Open-label...
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