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... maintains the medical records of patients from Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA, which is the major referral center for secondary and tertiary care, including coronary angiography, in Olmsted and ... counties The only rheumatology practice in this geographic area is at Mayo Clinic The investigators reviewed the entire Mayo medical record (including the master sheet listing all diagnoses for the ... implicated in the pathogenesis of CAD [6,9] Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions KJW carried out chart reviews, performed the immunological...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:23

... manuscript TA-K, JL, and HS participated in the design of the study and the analysis of data and drafted the manuscript PO participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis ... other variables in the final models Outcome Clinical outcome was analyzed in four groups: the groups having no infection or already having infection on admission and the corresponding groups with ... together with an infectious disease specialist and the ICU physicians Page of (page number not for citation purposes) The definitions of infections were based on the definitions proposed by the Centers...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... however that the balance between the advantages and disadvantages of starting RRT treatment was interpreted in a different way in the ICUs participating in the SHARF study The difference in center ... center For example, center had the lowest SHARF score and the highest dialysis frequency The influence of center practice with regard to the initiation of RRT on mortality is shown in Table For ... during the last year They qualified for participation if both intermittent and continuous RRT techniques belonged to their common practice A center questionnaire was sent to candidate centers in...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Turkey) The principal investigator contacted one coordinator in each country (national coordinator) who then selected the participating centers for its country ... community-acquired pneumonia and HAP, and for the day of clinical suspicion for VAP and microbiology The present study was approved by the Ethics Board of the coordinating center (Clinical Research Ethics ... other microorganisms because it exhibits a high adherence manifested by the interaction of plasma fibrinogen with the fibrinogen-binding proteins (the clumping factor) [7] Strains carrying the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... pain Further research and epidemiologic data is needed to continue the search for a definitive answer 13 14 15 16 Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests ... time that the clinician is ready for the final step of applying the evidence In our example clinical data from the experimental literature may or may not indicate that there is a link between ... demonstrate to the reader the discovery process for finding a possible link between obesity and low back pain The EBP method used is shown in Table The first step in this process is "asking an answerable...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... for the biosynthesis of TTP and DNA synthesis as well as purine nucleotides that are necessary for DNA and RNA synthesis and other cellular processes (for example, epigenetic changes to RNA and ... designed the study, collected clinical sample data and drafted the manuscript BM participated in sample collection MN performed data analysis and CLS contributed to the editing and writing of the ... psychiatrist, inspecting their medical records or structured interview of the subjects and their carers in order to confirm or rule out the presence of mental diseases The second diagnostic instrument...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... drains are routinely applied in the left subphrenic space and around the stump of duodenum in all patients Drains are removed after the 7th post operative day if there isn't the incidence of intraabdominal ... performed the statistical analysis CK and TI conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final ... parenchyma and surrounding tissue Therefore, there might be the risk for damaging the pancreatic substance without noticing In our present study, no prospective data are available to correlate the texture...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... presented at the clinic over a 9-month prospective period from July 2001 to March 2002 Informed consent was obtained from the parents The study was performed in accordance with the principles of the revised ... were asked how long they had been exposed to sunlight during the summer and during the winter time The intervals were under 3.5 hours/day and 3.5 hours/day or longer For neither time frame could ... predominantly of Scandinavian ancestry, and so fair skin is more likely to be present in these children In addition, they are generally young, making early age another confounder 10 11 12 Further...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... 15706, Spain Authors’ contributions JMMC drafted the manuscript and did the patients follow-up JRA conceived of the study and participated in its design and coordination JSQ participated in the design ... of the study AMA carried out the radiologic studies JMSP carried out the pathologic studies All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they ... distorted ring was observed in these patients (Figure 4) and the same picture was observed in two patients with SVD The percentage of distortion of the bioprosthesis ring in patients without SVD...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... Her small intestine tightly adhered the anterior uterine wall After separating the small intestine, uterine rupture became evident; her small intestine covered and occluded the uterine rupture ... that her small intestine tightly covered the anterior uterine wall, with bleeding observed from the edge of the intestinal covering (Figure 1, arrow) After separating her small intestine, it became ... phenomenon, the intestinal adhesion to the rupture may Figure Schematic diagram of the laparotomy findings The uterine rupture was not initially discernable Bleeding was observed from the rupture...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20

... contributions AG and MS performed the experiments and drafted the manuscript, ND and GS conceived the study and participated in the coordination BP and GS carried out the diagnostic evaluation of the patients; ... 41 and 42 with disease at a distance of 84.5 kb to rs9804190 [10] Ankyrin is a brain expressed member of a proteinfamily linking the integral membrane proteins to the underlying spectrin-actin ... 27th 2010 after an intense but short fighting an illness We shall continue to cherish her passion for science Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Received:...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... how the effect of intensive insulin therapy in surgical intensive care patients can be explained and which patient groups benefit most from intensive insulin therapy We propose the following ... participated in the design of the study and writing of the manuscript JJvL participated in the design of the study, data collection and writing of the manuscript JBLH participated in the design of the ... patients The benefits of intensive insulin therapy may not solely be attributed to lowering hyperglycaemia, but may be mediated by the effect of insulin on protein and lipid metabolism, independent...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... found for heavy ETS exposure in small spaces and in large indoor areas and for total ETS exposure [60] Figure search for the terms cough and tobacco and publication dates PubMed2 PubMed search for ... of Medicine It includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related ... odds ratios for respiratory illnesses and symptoms between 1.2 and 1.6 for either parent smoking, the odds usually being higher in pre-school than in school aged children For cough, the Methods...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... defined as respiratory distress, and normal The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions MEN conceived the study, participated in its design and coordination ... Children in the control group were matched for age, hemoglobinopathy and gender Sickle cell disease was determined by high performance liquid chromatography and isoelectric focusing analysis and grouped ... http://www.clinicalmolecularallergy.com/content/3/1/2 Vaso-occlusive pain was defined as pain that could not be explained by injury or infection requiring hospital admission and treatment with intravenous...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... Although the patients included in our study were suffering from ongoing infection, many had started taking NSAIDs before the beginning of effective antibiotic therapy Among the cases, the median ... before the onset of infection, defined as the appearance of the first signs, and lasted until the beginning of severe sepsis or shock Controls were observed for the same period (Figure 1) The ... a link between NSAID use and increased risk for sepsis during bacterial infection First, the sites of infection and micro-organisms that we identified, especially the low incidence of skin and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... with a rate of 20.5% in the control group None of the infants died within the first 24 hours In the IVH group, infants (22%) died within the first days and 17 (47%) died within the first week compared ... 03) Ninety-two percent of all of the fertility treatments and 94% of the IVF treatments were performed by specialists of the fertility unit at the Rabin medical center The percentage of twins and ... with (2.9%) within the first days and (4.3%) within the first week in the control group Periventricular leukomalacia was present in 19.4% of infants with IVH, compared with 5.8% in the control group...

Ngày tải lên: 31/08/2015, 13:07

... these models in- sample (Tables and 7) and their out-of-sample forecasting ability (Tables and 9) The forecasting parameters are defined through the window ending in 2010 Some interesting observations ... set by the component’s value and how much that precedent matters The term is the weight given to indicator j in the at time t The key technical challenge in constructing and validating the financial ... multicollinearity and “holes” in the lag structure 18    1) Theoretical review: Consider whether including the variable in the equation is unambiguous and theoretically sound All variables in the model...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 04:21

... we asked for the duration of exposure during the working-life, frequency of exposure and average time of exposure The last part of the questionnaire asked for the intake of drugs inducing scleroderma-like ... Moreover, in both diseases female patients predominate, offering the chance of some degree of matching for this variable The subjects were not informed on our working hypotheses, nor did they know ... whereas in the control group data of 42 women and 24 men could be included in the analysis (p < 0.0001, Fisher's exact test) had been almost ten month in the male subgroup Therefore, the mean...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... a body mass index ≥35kg/m2 increases the complexity of exposing the hip and accurately placing the 13 component, therefore increasing the risk in femoral notching [3, 14] Our study indicated that ... by changing the types and thresholds of these variables in order to find the best regression model to predict the early femoral failures The final regression model determined whether these five ... radiolucency or osteolysis observed on the acetabular side in the remaining cases In our final multivariable logistic regression models, age, body mass index, and the size of the femoral component were treated...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20