device therapy for atrial fibrillation

... mechanism of atrial fibrillation is probably a focal source of automatic firing, a series of small reentrant circuits, or a combination of the two.7 Atrial fibrillation is triggered by atrial premature ... Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of lethal ventricular arrhythmias but not for the management of atrial fibrillation Nonetheless, it is widely prescribed for this indication.17,18 ... and dofetilide The patient’s renal insufprocedure for cure of atrial fibrillation. 9 Atrial ficiency makes sotalol and dofetilide unattractive fibrillation associated with cardiac surgery oc- options...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... intravenous infusion for the first 24 hrs (1050 mg total) followed by oral therapy (400 mg three times daily) for postoperative days (4800 mg total) Atrial septal pacing was given for 96 hrs Amiodarone ... Shrivastava R, Smith B, Caskey D, Reddy P: Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery: Does Prophylactic Therapy Decrease Adverse Outcomes Associated With Atrial Fibrillation J Intensive Care Med 2009, ... Reddy P, Tsikouris JP, Wilcox HA, Kluger J: Oral amiodarone for prevention of atrial fibrillation after popen heart surgery, the Atrial Fibrillation Suppression Trial (AFFIST): a randomised placebo-controlled...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:23

... medical therapy I IIa IIb III IIb III For patients who have LVEF less than or equal to 35%, a QRS duration greater than or equal to 0.12 seconds, and AF, CRT with or without an ICD is reasonable for ... medical therapy I IIaIIb III For patients with LVEF less than or equal to 35% with NYHA functional Class III or ambulatory Class IV symptoms who are receiving optimal recommended medical therapy ... are receiving optimal medical therapy and have reasonable expectation of survival with good functional capacity for more than year 31 Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy* in Patients With Severe...

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2015, 17:36

... cho bệnh nhân sau phẫu thuật để giảm AF sau phẫu thuật tim (CC: B) Trị liệu hướng nguồn (Upstream Therapy) : Khuyến cáo Class IIa Ức chế ACE ức chế thụ thể angiotensin (ARB ) phù hợp cho dự phòng...

Ngày tải lên: 22/08/2015, 18:52

... Treat Chronic Atrial Fibrillation hazard ratio hypertension international normalized ratio intravenous Japanese Rhythm Management Trial for Atrial Fibrillation left atrial left atrial appendage ... Sotalol, Amiodarone, atrial Fibrillation Efficacy Trial Screening for AF in the Elderly sudden cardiac death Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation Strategies of Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation ST ... in Atrial Fibrillation; RACE ¼ RAte Control versus Electrical cardioversion for persistent atrial fibrillation; STAF ¼ Strategies of Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation Appropriate antithrombotic therapy...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... diagnosis of atrial fibrillation Search terms Atrial fibrillation Atrial fibrillation- isolated episode Atrial fibrillation- paroxysmal Atrial fibrillation- ablation Atrial flutter Atrial Figure Summary ... of atrial fibrillation Stroke risk and atrial fibrillation (the CHADS2 score) Severity of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation Evidence-based guidelines and the management of atrial fibrillation ... examples of valvular atrial fibrillation Cases of atrial flutter, in the absence of a recorded diagnosis of atrial fibrillation, will be regarded as equivalent to a diagnosis of atrial fibrillation in...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... treatment of atrial fibrillation improve survival? Can (preventive) treatment of atrial fibrillation improve morbidity? Should we aim for rate control or rhythm control? Does atrial fibrillation ... treatment of atrial fibrillation in medical intensive care unit patients What is the pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation in medical intensive care unit patients? Does atrial fibrillation attribute ... Does atrial fibrillation attribute to morbidity? Can atrial fibrillation be treated or prevented? epiphenomena Risk factors can at least suggest a certain pathophysiology, however, and therefore...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... Table Eligibility standard for oral rehydration therapy I Patients eligible for oral rehydration therapy (receiving oral rehydration solution) Those who give an informed consent and have not ... before and after treatment were analyzed for differences using the t-test (two-sided at =0.05) In the follow-up study to assess the safety of ORT, 1078 surgical patients who received ORT before ... consume at least 500 mL, received intravenous therapy For patients with malignant gastric cancer, the timing of consumption was limited to up to h before surgery because of the possibility of delayed...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:51

... Sci 2010, against most TKIs [1] Therefore, extermination of CML stem cells could be critically needed for CML patients to be fully liberated from the TKI therapy On the other hand, anti-tumor ... assay was performed Autologous EB-virus transformed B-lymphoblastoid cell line (B-LCL) cells pulsed with WT1 peptides were labeled with 10 μM CFSE, and were used as target cells for the cytotoxicity ... anti-tumor immunotherapy as in this case These data suggested the possible usefulness of treatment for suppressing the function of regulatory T cells in combination with anti-tumor immunotherapy including...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39

... Int J Med Sci 2010, with APS We therefore compared single antiplatelet therapy and a combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy for secondary prevention in ischemic stroke ... in the single antiplatelet therapy group, and one subcutaneous hemorrhage was found in the combination therapy group As for the patient in the single antiplatelet therapy group who developed ... assigned to either single antiplatelet therapy (aspirin 100 mg) [6] or a combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy (target INR: 2.0-3.0; mean 2.4± 0.3) for the secondary preven- 16 tion...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... rates for the control group (surgical only) were 80.1%, 36.5% and 20.8%; for chemotherapy group there were 85.7% 45.2% and 25.1%; for herbal group there were 84.5%, 43.5% and 26.1%; and for the ... half survival period was 30 months for the control group, 36 and 36.5 months for chemotherapy and herbal groups, and 48 months for Qigong plus herbal group Unfortunately, the herbs and their combination ... that the effect of Qigong therapy for cancer is not purely psychological 3.3 In Vivo (Animal) Studies of Qigong for Cancer The in-vivo (animal) studies of Qigong therapy for cancer treatment are...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... Heuzey JY, Ponikowski P, Rutten FH (2010) Guidelines for the manage‐ ment of atrial fibrillation: the Task Force for the Management of Atrial Fibrillation of the European Society of Cardiology ... 4.1 Atrial stretch and AF Atrial arrhythmias frequently occur under conditions associated with atrial dilatation and increased atrial pressure, causing atrial tissue stretch and modifying atrial ... Kourliouros, A, & Camm, A J Upstream therapies for management of atrial fibrillation: Review of clinical evidence and implications for 37 38 Atrial Fibrillation - Mechanisms and Treatment european...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20

... WITH PAIN Pain Triad 30 Castor Oil Pack for Pain 30 Hydrotherapy for Pain 31 Heat above the Abdomen for Upset Intestinal Tract 31 Chamomile Tea Enema for Upset Intestinal Tract 31 Potassium Added ... one serving) For cancer patients, not over hours For non-patient use: refrigerate for up to days (not over days better) or put into freezer for several months (leave ample room at top for expansion) ... uncomfortably hot “5 Keep it on for to 1½ hours Apply it every four hours You can reuse the castor oil pack.”— Gerson Primer, 3rd ed., p 11 HYDROTHERAPY FOR PAIN—Another Gerson treatment for pain...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... variable modifications For the QTrap, mass tolerances were set to 0.4 Da for MS and MS ⁄ MS, whereas, for the QstarElite, mass tolerances were set to 0.25 Da for MS and 0.5 Da for MS ⁄ MS Only phosphopeptides ... computational analyses indicated that this site conforms to the consensus motifs for the DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit and for cyclin-dependent kinase The DNA-dependent protein ... signals were subjected to MS ⁄ MS, taking into account a dynamic exclusion Transformation of raw data into mfg format was performed as described previously [28] Tandem mass spectra were searched against...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20

... weightÆday)1 for weeks [47] No apparent toxic effects were observed in transgenic mice treated with DGJ for 140 days, indicating that DGJ is well tolerated in mice ASSC therapy for Fabry disease ... insufficient delivery of enzyme to particular tissues [16,17] The therapy is expensive, which could be an economic burden for patients, especially for those living in developing countries An emerging therapeutic ... basis for the deficient activity of a-Gal A in mutant enzymes that are identified in Fabry patients with residual enzyme activity, and review recent progress in the development of ASSC therapy for...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 03:20

... otherwise standard MuLV vectors for gene therapy has not been successful Beyond these HEMATOPOIETIC STEM AND PROGENITOR CELLS AS TARGETS FOR GENE THERAPY 137 efforts, there are obviously major ... PROGENITOR CELLS AS TARGETS FOR GENE THERAPY 143 144 GENE THERAPY FOR HEMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS restoration of cellular and humoral immunity were documented after gene therapy Data showed a surprisingly ... Blood 92:1131–1141, 1998 152 GENE THERAPY FOR HEMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS Gene Therapy Blaese RM, Culver KM, Miller AD, et al T lymphocyte-directed gene therapy for ADASCID: Initial trial results...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2014, 22:10

... worldwide For these reasons, the liver has become an important target organ for gene therapy At the same time, certain circumstances make the liver an especially challenging target for gene therapy ... other hand, it is necessary for any vehicle used for in 156 GENE THERAPY FOR LIVER DISEASE vivo hepatic gene therapy to reach the liver efficiently For systemic application, the gene vectors are ... PRINCIPLES FOR HEPATIC GENE THERAPY 157 therapy is that only dividing cells are efficiently transduced To circumvent this problem, researchers have performed partial hepatectomies before the administration...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2014, 22:11

... competes for an essential substrate or co-factor that is available in limiting amounts, or, for proteins that form multimeric complexes, the 270 GENE THERAPY FOR HIV INFECTION TABLE 11.1 Gene Therapy ... available for use in HIV-1 gene therapy The 282 GENE THERAPY FOR HIV INFECTION limitations of retroviral vectors include the inability to infect nondividing cells due to the requirement for DNA ... MKL, Morgan RA Gene therapy for acquired immune deficiency syndrome AIDS Updates 7:1–14, 1994 Yu M, Poeschla E, Wong-Staal F Progress towards gene therapy for HIV infection Gene Therapy 1:13–26,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2014, 22:11

... COGNITIVE THERAPY FOR CHRONIC AND PERSISTENT DEPRESSION Richard G Moore Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge and Anne Garland Nottingham Psychotherapy Unit COGNITIVE THERAPY FOR CHRONIC AND ... the cognitive therapy administered The majority appear to have used standard cognitive therapy for depression as described by Beck et al (1979) However, one study used a group format for some patients ... trained as a cognitive therapist at the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Philadelphia He has been a therapist on major controlled trials of cognitive therapy for recurrent and residual depression in...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 17:19