... DEScover Investigators Outcomes of 6906 patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention in the era of drug-eluting stents: report of the DEScover Registry Circulation 2006;114:2154-2162 Windecker ... lipoprotein; LDL, low-density lipoprotein; MI, myocardial infarction; SAP, stable angina pectoris; USAP, unstable angina pectoris aIndicates patients who received sirolimus-eluting stents Numbers in ... myocardial infarction, and target vessel revascularization a Indicates patients who received sirolimus-eluting stents Percentages in this column are based on a cohort of 103 patients b c Indicates patients...
... staff of the Community Hospitals in Herdecke and Berlin, staff of an ambulant out-patient care unit in Essen, attendants of a meeting on "Spirituality and Medicine" in Berlin, a Caritas congress in ... practice religion; finding meaning" Thus, it is obvious that spiritual well-being is inextricably intertwined with the physical, social and emotional needs ofpatients Within the last years scientific ... meaning of disease Reflecting on meaning and sense of life and positive interpretation of disease obviously can have an impact on how patients change their further life, and thus on distinct...
... obtained scores via the application of the QoL SF36 and DASS instruments, besides evaluating the influence of clinical and demographic factors in the perception of quality of life This regional evaluation ... regarding QoL Patients between and years of treatment and patients with over years of treatment showed, increasingly, a more positive perception of the treatment Regarding the existence of a bleeding ... capable of answering the questionnaire The DASS analysis showed a mean QoL score of 67.1 (± 18.2) The mean score of different domains composing the instrument is described in Table Among the domains...
... occupation of biotopes Gradual increase in 318 Twilight acreage of forest vegetation in the surroundings of the D1 motorway was found Forests accounted for 14.72% of the area of interest in 1949, and in ... effects of linear constructions include direct occupation of biotopes, recolonization of the landscape in the construction of roads, environmental contamination, and widely various types of interference ... in the vicinity of the linear construction in the form of a motorway, and especially due to the accompanying structures of linear or polygon character and having service functions The individual...
... compliances of the animals during the initial 15 ventilation injury In these studies, we attempted to inhibit important pro-inflammatory mediators of early lung injury response Since many of the pro-inflammatory ... volutrauma suggesting differing roles of NF-B in stretch injury verses oxidative injury [31] In these three animal models of acute respiratory failure and in these preterm lambs, blockade of NF-B was ... block lung inflammation with high dose dexamethasone or hydrocortisone were unsuccessful in the setting of initiation of ventilation inpreterm sheep [2] In a newborn piglet model of RDS, animals...
... the combined infusion of morphine and midazolam with 50 ml Page of (page number not for citation purposes) syringes prefilled with 50 mg of midazolam plus 50 mg of morphine in sterile saline or ... Propofol can be used in addition, when high dosages of morphine and midazolam are needed, or solely, when frequent neurological evaluation is warranted (most often only inpatients with brain injury) ... Available online http://ccforum.com/content/10/4/R99 Number ofpatients receiving sedatives Of all patients, 62.4% needed morphine in the week before tracheotomy, compared with 32.5% in the week...
... the combined infusion of morphine and midazolam with 50 ml Page of (page number not for citation purposes) syringes prefilled with 50 mg of midazolam plus 50 mg of morphine in sterile saline or ... Propofol can be used in addition, when high dosages of morphine and midazolam are needed, or solely, when frequent neurological evaluation is warranted (most often only inpatients with brain injury) ... Available online http://ccforum.com/content/10/4/R99 Number ofpatients receiving sedatives Of all patients, 62.4% needed morphine in the week before tracheotomy, compared with 32.5% in the week...
... the inter-examiner ICCs Only four of the inter-examiner ICCs were in the lower portion of the good range (0.5 < ICC < 0.60) and seven inter-examiner ICCs were greater than 0.60, while one (Tz of ... minimum of three examiners each performing an analysis at least twice was needed for any conclusions to be drawn about inter- and intra-examiner reliability [30] In the current investigation of ... assessment of joint position sense in the spine Spine 1998, 23:590-597 Dunk NM, Chung YY, Compton , Callaghan JP: The reliability of quantifying upright standing postures as a baseline diagnostic clinical...
... frequency of 10 Hz compensated for variations in skin resistance up to 13 kΩ The stimulation intensity increased along with the increase of the pulse duration in increments of μs in a total of 99 ... scatter plots respectively The main diagonals in the contingency tables, consisting of grey-shaded cells, and of dotted lines in the scatter plots, indicates no change in the respective threshold ... both in clinical and research work, for the evaluationof pain as the pain threshold levels are supposed to change as a consequence of neural plasticity in long-term pain conditions [39] Pain threshold...
... hour 21 minutes in year 2002, hour 42 minutes in 2004 and hour 12 minutes in 2007 In the groups of transfused patients the mean number of erythrocyte units given day 1-10 decreased from 9.4 in 2002 ... pre-hospital and in- hospital volumes of infused fluids would also be of great interest and valuable when interpreting the changes in haemoglobin and transfusion found in our data Do improvements in other ... Following transfusion of 15 units of Page of erythrocytes, unit of platelets was administered per units of erythrocytes The consultant anaesthesiologist in the trauma team used a variety of clinical...
... terms include such visual cracking terminology as pattern cracking, surface checking, hairline cracking, and D-cracking, foundationrelated displacement cracking, and thermal cracking An offset of ... CHAPTER 4-SAMPLING AND LABORATORY TESTING 4.1-Core drilling and testing Core drilling is presently the most accepted method of obtaining information on concrete within the structure in areas which ... complete evaluationIn addition the periodic inspection may include sampling of seepage and reservoir waters, nondestructive testing, and determination of stress conditions The amount of investigative...
... considered in interpreting the results Also, the presence of reinforcing steel within the influence zone will affect the count rate Radiographic methods allow the possibility of seeing some of the internal ... additional information in Carino (1992) Fig 2.5.2 is a schematic of a continuous eddy-current covermeter In the absence of a reinforcing bar, the magnitude of the alternating current in the coil ... from Carino, 1992): (a) small current induced in sensing coil when no bar is present, and (b) presence of bar increases flux and increases current in sensing coil concrete, and the reinforcing bar...
... Length of Stay Medical Subject Headings Ministry of Health (Singapore) National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Institutional Review Board Principal component Principal ... assistance in mobility, and 6% vs 10.1% were dependent in toileting, 3.7% vs 5.3% in feeding, 8.1% vs 11.2% in grooming or dressing and 3.7% vs 10.7% were incontinent or had occasional incontinence ... assistance in mobility; and 2.0% vs 2.7% were dependent in toileting, 1.1% vs 1.4% in feeding, 2.7% vs 3.2% in grooming; and 1.1% vs 3.7% were incontinent or had occasional incontinence.[20,...
... 5.52 : Incidence of Gastrointestinal Side effects inpatients with Alendronate 94 Table 5.53 : Incidence of Gastrointestinal Side effects inpatients with Clodronate 94 Table 5.54 : Incidence of ... : Incidence of Gastrointestinal Side effects inpatients with Pamidronate 95 Table 5.57 : Incidence of Gastrointestinal Side effects inpatients with Risedronate 95 Table 5.58 : Incidence of ... the study of interventions for osteoporosis in women 1.2 Incidence of osteoporosis in Singapore There are a number of factors which may predispose an increasing proportion of women in Singapore...
... trustworthiness of a single agent [Yu and Singh, 2000] were one of the first to explore the effect of social relationships of agents belonging to an online community on reputation in decentralized ... dimension of agents and their opinions in the reputation model Regret adopts the stance that the overall reputation of an agent is an aggregation of different pieces of information instead of relying ... according to mutually perceived trust In trust-based trading limits, instead of varying the price of the resource, the amount of the resources bartered is varied This ensures that when transacting...
... gastrointestinal bleeding Endoscopic evaluationof the gastrointestinal tract is commonly performed to evaluate iron deficiency Most ofpatients with iron deficiency in, whom gastrointestinal or systemic ... respectively) The prevalence of gastrointestinal malignancy was 6-23% in these group patients [24, 28-29, 3] but only two men patients (2 of the 14 patients) had gastrointestinal malignancy The ability ... choice of which endoscopic investigation to perform first inpatients with IDA, thereby, potentially reducing the frequency of negative http://www.medsci.org Int J Med Sci 2011, findings By using...
... provocative findings stimulated detailed investigation of the polymorphisms of CTLA-4 in larger numbers ofpatients treated in a subsequent study of 152 stage IV melanoma patients at the NIH These investigators ... respectively) In the cohort ofpatients included in the prospective autoimmune study, CTLA-4 polymorphisms were investigated in 157 out of 200 patients (48 autoimmunity group and 109 without evidence of ... L, Winans MT, Gorelik E, Lokshin AE: Multiplex analysis of serum cytokines in melanoma patients treated with interferon alpha2b Clin Cancer Res 2007, 13(8):2422-8 Atkins MB, Mier JW, Parkinson...
... weekly mean sleep interference score and the weekly mean pain score at baseline were used to define groups ofpatients differing in severity Since patients had to have pain at baseline to qualify ... neuropathic pain had interfered with their sleep It consists of a single-item with an 11-point numerical rating scale, ranging from (pain does not interfere with sleep) to 10 (pain completely interferes ... an 11-point numeric self-administered rating scale ranging from (no pain) to 10 (worst possible pain) At the end of the baseline phase, a mean of the daily pain scores was calculated; patients...
... the Profile of Quality of Life in the Chronically Ill (PLC) In this questionnaire the two aspects of QoL, performance capacity and well being, are weighted equally resulting in an evaluationof ... Others/no information Persons still in professional training Of these: School of general education Apprenticeship University student Others/no information Highest professional qualification No professional ... of the highest professional qualifications was the same, the only remarkable feature was that more than half of the female patients had not finished a vocational training at the time of the inquiry...
... function in the said population -0.519* 0.011 Informed consent for publication was obtained from patients or their guardians (in case of minors) during enrollment into the study Page of (page ... reliability and validity of Quality of Upper Extremity Skills Test Phys Occup Ther Pediatr 1993, 13(2):1-18 Bruininks H: Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency Bloomington, MN: Pearson Assessments; ... assessing hand function of cerebral palsy patients This study is limited by a low recruitment rate of 70% Thirty percent of guardians who initially gave consent were not present during the appointed...