diagnosis of acute rhinosinusitis

... Department of Otorhinolaryngology University of Helsinki and Dr Maija Hytönen Department of Otorhinolaryngology University of Helsinki Reviewed by: Professor Emeritus Heikki Puhakka Department of Otorhinolaryngology ... University of Tampere and Docent Jukka Luotonen Department of Otorhinolalaryngology University of Oulu Dissertation opponent Professor Jouko Suonpää Department of Otorhinolaryngology University of Turku ... continue after diagnosis of URI Parents’ suspicion of AOM has been a more reliable predictor of AOM than have most signs and symptoms, with a sensitivity of 71% and specificity of 80% (Kontiokari...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 13:20

... the onset of DVT, and may be fatal within h after the onset of symptoms in 10% of cases, the diagnosis going clinically unrecognized in most fatal cases PE presents The consequences of acute PE ... presence of an acute clot because of simultaneous activation of coagulation and fibrinolysis Hence, a normal D-dimer level renders acute PE or DVT unlikely, i.e the negative predictive value (NPV) of ... et al Value of perfusion lung scan in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism: results of the Prospective Investigative Study of Acute Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis (PISA-PED) Am J Respir Crit Care...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... Australia DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER 2.1 IMPORTANCE OF ACCURATE DIAGNOSIS It is important that an accurate diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is made: • over -diagnosis ... Diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever (Quick reference guide for health professionals) Management of acute rheumatic fever (Quick reference guide for health professionals) Secondary prevention of ... criteria for the diagnosis of ARF in high-risk compared to low-risk populations; • use of corticosteroids in treatment of ARF; • use of echocardiography in diagnosis and monitoring of patients with...

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... Stroke Scale (NIHSS) of above 15 • Decrease in the level of consciousness to give a score of or more on item 1a of the NIHSS • Signs on CT of an infarct of at least 50% of the middle cerebral ... endarterectomy within week of onset of stroke or TIA symptoms • undergo surgery within a maximum of weeks of onset of stroke or TIA symptoms • receive best medical treatment (control of blood pressure, ... recommendations in this section cover the rapid diagnosis of people who have had sudden onset of symptoms that are indicative of stroke and TIA How to identify risk of subsequent stroke in people who have...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20

... only 39% of cases [9] Furthermore, biochemical analysis of the pleural fluid did not reveal signs of exudate The final diagnosis that was made, therefore, by exclusion of other causes of respiratory ... premature rupture of the membranes (PROM) and use of tocolysis initially after preterm labor and, subsequently, shortly after delivery By step-by-step exclusion of every possible cause of acute lung ... type of non-fatal AFE Differential diagnosis of severe respiratory distress in such patients may be extremely difficult since common symptoms and signs of sepsis, pneumonia, thromboembolism and acute...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... ICU was Page of (page number not for citation purposes) shock of septic origin (n = 3) or of other origin (n = 4), or a pulmonary oedema (n = 1) Only one ICU patient had a history of cardiac disease ... placed through the centre of the mitral flow and aligned in the direction of the inflow jet Propagation velocity of LV inflow at early diastole (Vp) was measured as the slope of the first aliasing ... difference between the two sets of measurements divided by the mean value of measurements, and expressed as a percentage of error Agreement for the measurement of Doppler parameters was also assessed...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:56

... absorption of fats and carbohydrates [5] In spite of their widespread use and the lack of credible reports regarding adverse effects, controversy has existed regarding the safety of bitter orange ... and is not a constituent of C aurantium Because of the known cardiovascular effects of nor-epinephrine and ephedrine, it has generally been assumed that consumption of p-synephrine and bitter ... increases in heart rate and blood pressure [8-11] The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of the acute administration of a product containing caffeine from guarana, p-synephrine...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:10

... 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) ... 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 ... 23–71; mean age 39.1) Complex protein profiles of sera of 27 women with BC, 24 women with benign breast disease and 37 healthy women were obtained by SELDI-TOF MS analyses using IMAC30-NI beams...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15

... [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...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... 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 ... antibodies at the time of diagnosis It is difficult, in this case, to distinguish acute hepatitis C from an acute exacerbation of chronic hepatitis C or an acute hepatitis of another cause in a...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 09:56

... From Acute to Chronic HBV Disease When hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is suspected, it is the appearance of serum markers of HBV infection that establishes the diagnosis of the disease Of these, ... patient serological profiles fall outside of classical patterns Some key advantages and disadvantages of HBV DNA testing are presented in Table Current HBV DNA assays make use of differing technologies ... necessary should the rate of emergence of resistance and the impact of such mutations turn out to be clinically relevant for therapy management Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Resistance HBV is...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:41

... 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 (

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:01

... imaging technique (SENSE factor of 2) Imaging time of DWI was 90 s for 20 slices Detection of uterine malignancy The ADC values of uterine cancers are lower than of normal tissue On the other hand, ... usefulness of DWI for the detection of metastatic bone tumor Current status and future directions of DWI for gynecological diseases Figure 12 shows a decision-making diagram in the MRI diagnosis of gynecological ... They showed that the ADC value of the 752 Table DWI studies with ADC values in ovarian diseases Authors of Study Year of Publication Journal Tumour & Tissue (no of subjects) b-values Moteki et...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... the diagnosis of smear-negative tuberculosis is reached in some of the sampled countries Clinical peer review, or discussion of the case by a clinical team, was used to establish the diagnosis of ... range of variation in the recommended number of courses and duration of the antibiotic treatment in the sampled countries Duration of the antibiotic treatment ranged from days to 28 days The use of ... programme recommendations of selected countries for diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis Sputum and blood cultures Sputum culture is the gold standard for the diagnosis of tuberculosis and...

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Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... management of five regions of acute musculoskeletal pain (acute low back pain, acute thoracic spinal pain, acute neck pain, acute shoulder pain, anterior knee pain) • The scientific evidence on the diagnosis, ... Features of Serious Conditions Associated with Acute Neck Pain Summary of Key Messages: Acute Neck Pain Alerting Features of Serious Conditions Associated with Acute Shoulder Pain Summary of Key ... Associated with Acute Low Back Pain Summary of Key Messages: Acute Low Back Pain Alerting Features of Serious Conditions Associated with Acute Thoracic Spinal Pain Summary of Key Messages: Acute Thoracic...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 11:20

... Treatment of acute migraine attack: ibuprofen and placebo compared Headache 1989;29(8):507-509 57 Kloster R, Nestvold K, Vilming ST A double-blind study of ibuprofen versus placebo in the treatment of ... frequency and severity of attacks, the presence and degree of temporary disability, and the profile of associated symptoms such as nausea and vomiting The patient’s history of, response to, and ... analysis of NSAIDs and other nonopiate analgesics included 33 controlled trials Comparisons with placebo consistently demonstrated the efficacy of this class of agents for pain relief 10 of acute...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20

... available for comparison of the performance of the individual tests, an analysis of results was done using a variety of standards Efficiency of microscopy, culture and PCR in terms of sensitivity, specificity, ... with past history of tuberculosis ! with symptom complex Table 2: Summary : Final diagnosis of tuberculosis patients Tuberculosis patients Diagnostic review Final diagnosis of TB patients Description ... al Utility of nucleic acid amplification techniques for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in sub-saharan Africa Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2001; 5: 364-369 Rattan A PCR for diagnosis of tuberculosis:...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... For a number of reasons, one of which is the influence of the training programme of NTI, the findings of this study should be considered illustrative of methodology of assessment of integrated ... differences of NTI technician Thus, neither under -diagnosis nor overdiagnosis was a ‘serious problem’ in out of the centres Of the remaining centres, underdiagnosis was substantial in two and overdiagnosis ... methods of assessment also: (i) Assessment based upon the results of examination of duplicate and that of the reexamination of the centre smears (Method 2) (ii) Assessment based upon the result of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20