depression in geriatric patients with cancer

... 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 ... survey of fertility issues in young women with breat cancer J Clin Oncol, 22, 4174-83 Parkin DM, Pisani P, Ferlay J, et al (1999) Global cancer statistics CA Cancer J Clin, 49, 33-64 Plante M, Renaud ... upper intact, lymph nodes involvement ruled out by paraclinic (Dargent et al., 1994; Silva-filho et al., 2007) Some believed it’s better to perform radical abdominal hysterectomy in patients with...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... patients living in patients living in patients living in endemic including areas, endemic areas, endemic areas, college including college including college students in students dormitories Influenza ... bacterial infection A few amoxicillin/clavulanic acid tablets are a reasonable choice for this purpose Table 82-2 Vaccination of Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy Use in Indicated Patients Vaccine ... meningococcal administered conjugated splenectomized patients be Should be to administered to administered splenectomized and patients Should be to splenectomized and patients and patients living...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20

... addition to exhibiting susceptibility to certain infectious organisms, patients with cancer are likely to manifest their infections in characteristic ways Table 82-3 Infections Associated with Specific ... Types of Cancer Cancer Underlying Immune Abnormality Multiple Hypogammaglobulinemia myeloma Organisms Causing Infection Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis ... neutropenic patients i.e., those with

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20

... found on the skin (Chap 119) Although cellulitis tends to be circumscribed in normal hosts, it may spread rapidly in neutropenic patients A tiny break in the skin may lead to spreading cellulitis, ... pain and erythema; in the affected patients, signs of infection (e.g., purulence) are often lacking What might be a furuncle in a normal host may require amputation because of uncontrolled infection ... maculopapular rash Punch biopsy of the skin may be the best method for diagnosis Cellulitis, an acute spreading inflammation of the skin, is most often caused by infection with group A Streptococcus or...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20

... Catheter-Related Infections Because IV catheters are commonly used in cancer chemotherapy and are prone to infection (Chap 125), they pose a major problem in the care of patients with cancer Some ... start If there are vancomycin no if (Linezolid, contraindications patient is clinically quinupristin/dalfopristi to line removal, stable and responds n, and daptomycin are this to antibiotics ... Staphylococcus with duration based on infections aureus, the clinical setting following S Enterococcus); aureus gram-positive and the difficulty rods of (Bacillus, infection treating Corynebacterium...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20

... Gastrointestinal Tract Disease Hepatic candidiasis (Chap 196) results from seeding of the liver (usually from a gastrointestinal source) in neutropenic patients It is most common in patients being ... present in an indolent manner and persist for several months) is based on the finding of yeasts or pseudohyphae in granulomatous lesions Hepatic ultrasound or CT may reveal bull's-eye lesions In some ... bacteremia The use of keratinocyte growth factor (palifermin) in a daily dose of 60 µg/kg for days before chemotherapy and total-body irradiation is of proven value in preventing mucosal ulceration...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20

... expanded in immunocompromised patients A predisposition to infections with intracellular organisms similar to those encountered in patients with AIDS (Chap 182) is seen in cancer patients receiving ... diarrhea in cancer patients who have received antibiotics Central Nervous System–Specific Syndromes Meningitis The presentation of meningitis in patients with lymphoma or CLL, patients receiving chemotherapy ... previously, splenectomized patients are susceptible to rapid, overwhelming infection with encapsulated bacteria (including S pneumoniae, H influenzae, and N meningitidis) Similarly, patients who are antibody-deficient...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20

... present without purulent sputum—or, in fact, without any sputum at all—and may not produce physical findings suggestive of chest consolidation (rales or egophony) In granulocytopenic patients with ... the management of pulmonary infiltrates relate in part to the difficulties of performing diagnostic procedures on the patients involved When platelet counts can be increased to adequate levels ... procedures Table 82-7 Differential Diagnosis of Chest Infiltrates in Immunocompromised Patients Cause of Pneumonia Infiltrate Infectious Noninfectious Localized Bacteria, Legionella, Local mycobacteria...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20

... following caveats: In terms of diagnosis, a lack of physical findings resulting from a lack of granulocytes in the granulocytopenic patient should make the clinician more aggressive in obtaining ... diagnose during the neutropenic period It can be defined by indium-labeled WBC scans or gallium scans after neutrophil counts increase CMV infection can cause adrenalitis with or without resulting adrenal ... resulting adrenal insufficiency The presentation of a sudden endocrine anomaly in an immunocompromised patient may be a sign of infection in the involved end organ Musculoskeletal Infections Infection...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20

... mandatory for patients with ALL and for all cancer patients receiving glucocorticoid-containing chemotherapy regimens Vaccination of Cancer Patients In general, patients undergoing chemotherapy ... vaccines should not be given to patients during intensive chemotherapy because of the risk of disseminated infection Recommendations on vaccination are summarized in Table 82-2 Further Readings ... prophylaxis has been shown to be cheaper and efficacious in preventing infections in most CLL patients with hypogammaglobulinemia Routine use of IVIg replacement is not recommended Sexual Practices...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20

... [23] Ghrelin participates directly in hypothalamic regulation of nutrition, it causes weight gain by reducing food utilization, increasing food intake, and inhibiting leptininduced feeding reduction ... learned about cachexia in gastrointestinalcancer Dig Dis 2003, 21:198-213 Chamberlain JS: Cachexia in cancer- zeroing in onmyosin N Engl J Med 2004, 351:2124-2125 Rubin H: Cancer cachexia: its correlations ... Erkog R, Ozbek H, Noyan T, Yavuz M: Serum levels of leptin and proinflammatory cytokines in patients with gastrointestinalcancer Int J Clin Pract 2004, 58:545-549 Kemik et al World Journal of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:22

... test for samples This method was also used for comparing the QoL in patients with or without radiotherapy For comparing the QoL in patients with four different treatment regimens, Kruskal-Wallis ... questionnaires in identifying differences in stoma and nonstoma patients Since the meantime to QoL assessment were similar across all our groups our findings are unlikely to be due to differences in timing ... analyzing the impact of sexual function in patients with or without radiotherapy, so the interaction between demographic features and clinical features in patients with multimodality treatment is still...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... Changing and maintaining body position d410 Changing basic body position x d415 Maintaining a body position x x x Carrying moving and handling objects d430 Lifting and carrying objects d440 Fine ... before, patients in stage did not report eating and drinking as impaired, whereas patients in stage did In addition, only the patients in stage experienced improvements in eating and drinking due ... Walking and moving d450 Walking x x x d455 Moving around x x x d460 Moving around in different locations x d465 Moving around using equipment x x x Moving around using transportation d475 Driving...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... pharmacoinformatics in addressing drug-related problems faced by patients with cancer 24 1.5.1 Targeting drug interactions in patients receiving chemotherapy 25 1.5.2 Targeting ... problems faced by patients with cancer Cancer is a highly prevalent health problem with increasing incidence worldwide In 2007, one in deaths was due to cancer. 109 The global burden of cancer is also ... Having a history of depression and socioeconomic pressures are also precipitating factors of depression in patients with cancer. 139-141 Untreated depression in these patients may lead to increased...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:50

... hypopnea 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 ... 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 ... lowest quartile [19] According to the knowledge, circulating Lp-PLA2 levels were not previously studied in patients with OSA Due to the circulating Lp-PLA2 levels, patients in the highest arousal...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00

... 306 were investigated in ESCC patients treated with a definitive 5-FU/CDDP-based CRT Patients and Methods Patients Fifty-six ESCC patients were enrolled in this study based on the following criteria: ... morning [21-24], being consistent with the findings of this study However, in the NDP group, the pattern of 310 circadian rhythm in 5-FU pharmacokinetics was certainly different from that in the ... summarized in Table In the CDDP group, the plasma concentrations of 5-FU were significantly higher in the patients with CR than those with non-CR (P

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:53

... 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 ... found In conclusion it is suggested that pro inflammatory cytokines and TGF-¾ decrease in PTB patients, however further studies with a larger sample size for better understanding of cytokine gene ... 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

... observed between patients with and without septic shock, with increased sFlt-1 concentrations in patients with septic shock (116.0 pg/ml, range 42.7-208.4 pg/ml) compared to patients with non-complicated ... of antimicrobial agents in neutropenic patients with cancer Clin Infect Dis 2002, 34:730-751 Vincent JL, Moreno R, Takala J, Willatts S, De Mendonca A, Bruining H, Reinhart CK, Suter PM, Thijs ... Talcott J: The Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer risk index: A multinational scoring system for identifying low-risk febrile neutropenic cancer patients J Clin Oncol 2000, 18:3038-3051...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... concentrations in the CSF and saliva of MS patients were further analyzed by subgrouping them into those with enhancing lesions vs those without enhancing lesions on brain MRI, with the understanding that ... reported a decrease in sHLA-I concentrations during exacerbations in MS, but an increase in CSF sHLA-I was observed in patients with lesional activity by MRI brain scan The variability in the studies, ... Beneficial effect of interferon-beta 1b treatment in patients with relapsingremitting multiple sclerosis is associated with an increase in serum levels of soluble HLA-I molecules during the first months...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20