diagnostic characteristics and clinical manifestations

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:11

... Sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV, and ROC were obtained for the Cardio Detect and TnT (individually and in combination) and for the repeated Cardio Detect test All diagnostic indices were determined ... definition of AMI includes a combination of two out of three characteristics composed of clinical history, a rise and fall of cardiac biomarkers, and ECG changes Despite being guided by the WHO criteria, ... especially to assess its performance and practicality to detect AMI in patients presenting with chest pain in the ED setting General objectives The diagnostic indices and clinical utility of qualitative...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... and methods Systemic sclerosis patients and controls Patients and unrelated controls were selected from the Scleroderma Family Registry and DNA Repository and University of Texas Rheumatology Division, ... levels of IL-17 (P = 0.0009) and IL-23 (P = 0.04) No differences were observed in circulating levels of IL-1β, IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL8, IL-10, and IFNγ Table Demographics and clinical data of the cohort ... 0.01) and IL-8 (P = levels 0.01), and lower circulating levels of IL-13 (P = 0.03) and IL-23 (P = 0.006) Plasma cytokine levels (in pg/ml) were logn-transformed Data presented as mean ± standard...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... PNH, PR0, PR1 and PR2 proteins (Figure 1), Sm and dsDNA (ELISA and Farr assays) were measured in sera from 163 SLE patients, 210 disease controls and 100 healthy donors to define and compare the ... constituents P0, P1 and P2 were investigated ARibPR0 revealed the best diagnostic performance among all aRibP types and offered the most diagnostic benefit among sera negative for anti-dsDNA and anti-Sm ... anti-dsDNA and anti-Sm antibodies and therefore have to be discussed in the upcoming classification and diagnostic criteria for SLE Among all four investigated aRibPs, aRibP R was the most abundant and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... overweight [10] and 21 to 59% of the general population have symptomatic GOR [13] GOR = gastro-oesophageal reflux In one patient who complained of cough and heartburn, and presented laryngitis and frequent ... responsiveness and cough sensitivity tests, and sputum induction Diagnosis of GOR-CC was on the basis of response to week-course of a proton-pump inhibitor (PPI, lansoprazole™) and/ or positive ... Research Society [6,9] If examinations and intensive therapeutic trials for GOR-CC, CVA, sinobronchial syndrome, and atopic cough including inhaled corticosteroids and anti-reflux treatment were failed,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... Interviewing and Diagnostic Exercises for Clinical and Counseling Skills Building This page intentionally left blank Interviewing and Diagnostic Exercises for Clinical and Counseling Skills ... front of me and then the glass splinters are everywhere and I see that my husband is unconscious and bleeding and I wake up in a lurch Then, the alarm goes off and I have to get dressed and drive ... S., 1955­ Interviewing and diagnostic exercises for clinical and counseling skills building / Pearl S Berman, with Susan Shopland p cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-8058-4640-9...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... status and health insurance status at the time of admission In addition, we reviewed TB disease characteristics for each case such as clinical, radiological and microbiological features, diagnostic ... load and symptom existence Retrospective design and mentioned these subjects are the limitations of the present study However, this long period study provides a guide to understand the clinical and ... Palatine tonsil in Turkey, we analyzed demographic, and clinical characteristics of 2404 TB patients diagnosed in Samsun,Turkey, between January 1st, 2003 and December 31st, 2010 Precise epidemiological...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... antibiotic resistant, and prolonged treatment time Little is known about the epidemiology, clinical and laboratorial manifestations of atypical pneumonia in children, including the diagnostic techniques ... pneumonia Co-infection with bacteria and viruses was the related factors for severe atypical pneumonia - This study described the clinical manifestations and laboratorial characteristics of atypical pneumonia, ... subject - Evaluate the results of clinical manifestations and laboratory characteristics of atypical pneumonia to draw specific symptoms which suggesting early clinical diagnosis, help clinicians...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 11:36

... scores between winter and spring (23.58 ± 6.61 vs 30.29 ± 6.60, p = 0.025) and between spring and summer (30.29 ± 6.60 vs 21.29 ± 4.68, p = 0.008) and in HAS scores between spring and summer (38.29 ... of the current paper are that it is the first study to use modern and rigid diagnostic criteria and diagnostic methodology; the clinical subtypes of depression, though reliable [31], constitute ... given physical and laboratory examinations, including a routine EEG and a thyroid profile The Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN)v 2.0 [6] were used to assist clinical diagnosis...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... namely antinuclear (ANA) and anti-double-stranded DNA (anti-dsDNA) autoantibodies, has also been observed after infliximab treatment in 63.8% and 13% of RA patients and in 49.1% and 21.5% of Crohn's ... RA patient and three more AS patients, giving a total induction of 87% in RA and 85% in AS The induction of ANA appeared between and 18 months (mean 6.35 months) for RA and between and 24 months ... for two sera (25 and 40 AU/ml) and both myeloperoxidase and proteinase for one serum (45 and 30 AU/ml) For the RA control group, ANCA were observed in two patients at baseline and remained positive...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... literature, and not completely operationalise the concept of guideline implementability To better understand the concept of implementability and the relationship between characteristics of guidelines and ... facilitate the careful examination and understanding of the attributes of guidelines (e.g., its text, content, and presentation) and how changing these attributes might impact clinical decision making ... attributes and their definitions and will represent both an integrative and interpretive approach to revealing the relationships between guideline attributes and uptake [18,24,43] RTA and refutational...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... enrollment and depot initiation, and prior use (past weeks) of emergency psychiatric services Finally, clinical characteristics assessed with the SCAP-HQ included substance use (alcohol use and illicit ... [18-21] US-SCAP participants underwent clinical assessments with standard psychiatric measures at baseline and 12month intervals thereafter (e.g., the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale [PANSS]) ... others, it is unclear whether there are specific treatment patterns and clinical characteristics that immediately precede and thus may "trigger" the http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/9/46...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... ing, complicated with social embarrassment [6] and sometimes eating disorders with weight loss [7] We present here the clinical characteristics and treatment variables of a series of patients ... our clinic and declined repeat injections She was lost to follow-up Results and discussion We present here a series of patients with eating dysfunction associated with OMD The clinical and epidemiological ... S: [Oromandibular dystonia Clinical forms, diagnosis and examples of therapy with botulinum toxin] Laryngorhinootologie 2001, 80(12):708-713 Hermanowicz N, Truong DD: Treatment of oromandibular...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:22

... 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 ... between these HLA-A alleles and certain clinical manifestations, we compared the frequencies of HLA-A*02:07, A*26:01, and A*30:04 between patients with and without a specific clinical manifestation ... patients and analyzed genetic susceptibilities to clinical manifestations of BD and found that HLA-A*02:07, A*26:01, and A*30:04 may be BD susceptibility alleles in the Korean population and are...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... the ones of their brothers/sisters 3.1.2 Several clinical and paraclinical characteristics 3.1.2.1 Clinical characteristics Figure 3.6 - Clinical characteristics of antibiotic-resistant H pylori ... (

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2016, 20:24

... dt dt dt ð3:32Þ dr dr ¼ 2r· dt dt ð3:33Þ and Substituting (3.32) and (3.33) into (3.31) gives: dv2 m dr2 ¼2 dt 2r dt ð3:34Þ Constellation Characteristics and Orbital Parameters 89 Integrating (3.34) ... co-ordinate system Constellation Characteristics and Orbital Parameters 91 the satellite moves upward and downward through the equatorial plane are called ascending node and descending node, respectively ... bsinE ¼ að1 e2 Þ1=2 sinE ð3:48Þ and OB ¼ rcosq ¼ acosE ae ð3:49Þ Adding QB and OB from equations (3.48) and (3.49) gives: qffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi r ¼ a2 ð1 ecosEÞ2 and q ¼ 2tan 21 " 11e 12e 1=2...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2012, 11:26

... genotypes and (B), and genotypes 4, and (C) Int J Med Sci 2006, HCV genotypes and Patients infected with HCV genotypes or have a 70%-80% likelihood of an SVR with a low dose of ribavirin and only ... extraction in Cobas Ampliprep® (Roche Molecular Systems), and Abbott RealTime™ HCV assay (Abbott Diagnostics), which uses the Abbott m2000 system and can also be coupled with an automated extraction ... to treat patients with mild lesions and to re-assess their liver disease after to years The patients with inflammation and/ or fibrosis (Metavir score A ≥ and/ or F ≥ 2) have an indication for...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 09:56

... Europe, India, and Africa Genotype B and C are common in Asia; genotype D, in southern Europe, the Middle East, and India; genotype E, in West Africa and South Africa; genotype F, in South and Central ... activity, and with or without HBeAg seroreversion Clinical Spectrum of HBV Infection Primary Infection –Subclinical Infection and Acute hepatitis B Majority of HBV infection in children are subclinical ... infection Hence, further research and understanding in this sector may bring exciting new information and better understanding of the natural history of HBV and supplement our existing armamentarium...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:17

... b) Demand conditions c) Related and supporting industries d) Firm strategy, structure and rivalry 1.1.4 SWOT analysis 4 10 10 11 12 13 13 13 14 15 15 16 16 16 INDUSTRY CHARACTERISTICS AND SOCIO ... demand conditions, related and supporting industries and firm strategy, structure and rivalry (figure 2.6) 14 Figure 5: Determinants of national competitiveness Chance Firm trategy structure and ... • identify and evaluate the following factors: economic, social, political, demographic, products and technology and market and competition • prepare a forecast, make predictions and assessment...

Ngày tải lên: 13/04/2013, 10:31

... samples Chloramphenicol and cycloheximide were used as specific growth inhibitors of bacteria and fungi, respectively (Anderson and Domsch, 1975; Newell et al., 1983; Fuhrman and McManus, 1984; Bjornsen, ... of the resulting N2O concentration (Weiss and Price, 1980; Fogg and Gerrand, 1991) - 69 - Results Characteristics of fungal denitrification in sediments and soils Figure shows the behaviors of ... biomass and metabolic activity in the Table Potentials and contributions of bacterial and fungal denitrifications in tea soils, the submerged litter and sediment of an irrigation pond, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40