heart rate variability in the fetus pdf

... SDNN, rMSSD and pNN27 increased, there was an increase in the differences Figure 11-6 also shows an increase in the standard deviation of the differences (indicated by the spreading out of Comparison ... was then plotted against the average value of N and F, i.e., N+F In the Bland-Altman plot, the middle solid line running horizontally across the plot represents the mean of (N-F) throughout the ... F-EXTRACT, the results of the time- and frequencydomain analyses on the selected epoch were generated by using programming commands that included entering the start and end beat numbers on the MatLab...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:11

... developed in this institution Pre-processing of the foetal RR-interval data included removing non-sinus and artifact beats, and replacing them with linearlyinterpolated beats The time-domain variables ... its full influence on the foetal heart rate Heart rate variability of healthy foetuses 172 in the late third trimester Studies on foetal lambs also demonstrated that vagal influence in the newborn ... normal R-R interval, thereby causing interruptions and errors in the HRV analysis Hence, it is necessary to incorporate tools in the FEXTRACT system that corrects these ectopic beats In fact, the FEMO...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:11

... longer in the neonate than in the term foetus (p

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:11

... averaging by inserting a triggering signal after the R wave, recording the data on tape and then playing the tape in reverse to initiate the averaging process But this signal was not useful in real ... is the sole factor interrupting with the The foetal electrocardiogram 11 conduction of the fECG current, thereby causing the decline in the fECG signals during 28th –34th gestational weeks In ... on the same common principle by attachment to the presenting part of the foetus by penetrating the skin surface The spiral electrode is screwed into the scalp whilst the Copeland clip works The...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:11

... treatment according to the guideline Loose intensive insulin therapy: blood glucose control in the three participating ICUs followed the 2004 Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines [26] and aimed ... 16 intensive insulin therapy in adult intensive care units: the GLUCONTROL study Int Care Med 2009, 35:1738-1748 Arabi YM, Tamim HM, Rishu AH: Hypoglycemia with intensive insulin therapy in critically ... documented in the brain Indeed, glucose is the preferential energetic substrate in the brain The absence of cerebral stores of glucose and the diffusive character of transport imply that the glucose...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... cortical inhibition are therefore appealing for augmenting motor learning in behavioral therapies [38-40] Here we present data supporting the idea that depending on the nature of the training and ... associated with an increase in MEP amplitude, was observed in the muscle involved in the training, but not in a muscle unrelated to the task While MEPs returned to their baseline amplitude after ... movement, thus explaining the choice to consider the dominant plane only Training Once the baseline twitch direction in the dominant plane had been identified, subjects were instructed to perform...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... from 3.0% in the Control group to 0.9% in the Insulin group (p < 0.05), representing a relative reduction of 70.0% In diabetics, the incidence was 5.6% in the Control and 2.5% in the Insulin group ... by the definition of RIFLE), and in 10 (5.5%) solely to an increase in serum creatinine In the Insulin group there were 342 patients who developed renal injury/failure (scoring R, I or F) In ... serum creatinine (p < 0.001) In non-diabetics, there were significantly more '0-RIF' patients in the Insulin group (55.7%) then in the Control group (40.4%) (p = 0.002) The incidence in patients...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... participated in the design of the study and in the analysis and interpretation of data and reviewed the manuscript DRE and GGG participated in the acquisition of data and in the analysis and interpretation ... study Moreover, in the present study, we included males and thus expanded the generalisability of our findings Subsequently, the present study substantiates previous findings pertaining to both men ... Vigorous was defined as activity leading to sweating or dyspnoea, and examples such as swimming, tennis, netball, athletics (which may involve running, walking, throwing or jumping), and running were...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... treatments other than surgery Of the remaining 20 patients, nine received chemotherapy, with regimens that included the following drugs: dacarbazine (DTIC), carmustine (BCNU), verapamil, cisplatin and ... metastasis are shown in table Figure shows the different degrees of immunostaining observed in metastasis specimens, including intense (A-C), weak (D-F) and absence (G-I) of immunostaining Fisher's exact ... after serial rinsing with tap water, 2% ammonia solution, ethanol and xylol The slides were evaluated by two independent pathologists and classified according to staining intensity (% stained cells),...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... participated in the design of the study and in the analysis and interpretation of data and reviewed the manuscript DRE and GGG participated in the acquisition of data and in the analysis and interpretation ... study Moreover, in the present study, we included males and thus expanded the generalisability of our findings Subsequently, the present study substantiates previous findings pertaining to both men ... Vigorous was defined as activity leading to sweating or dyspnoea, and examples such as swimming, tennis, netball, athletics (which may involve running, walking, throwing or jumping), and running were...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... difficult to maintain in the predominant virus population in multiple pretreated patient In this article we provide insights into a possibility how to maintain efficient selection pressure on the protease ... that in the presence of the L76V substitution, ATV reveals a more productive binding affinity, in agreement with hypersusceptibily data [15] Conclusion The strategy of combining mutation-selecting ... resistance against all PIs including ATV and SQV and the majority of NRTIs and NNRTIs resulting in an active drug score (ADS) of ≤ 1.0 for the failing regimen (Figure 1) Interestingly, in phenotypic...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:22

... longitudinal studies beginning in more mild stages of COPD Our findings suggest that screening for anxiety may be important in patients with moderate to severe COPD Treating anxiety when present in ... which allows us to extend the findings of other investigators who suggested greater impairment in physical functioning and quality of life with increasing levels of anxiety in COPD patients [7,40-42] ... SGRQ and the UCSD SOBQ Published guidelines for the MWD suggest 50 meters change to indicate clinically significant changes in walk distance [67] For the SGRQ a change in points is used to indicate...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:20

... tests The remaining individuals in the bottles were maintained until pupation in order to estimate larval viability by counting all pupae Further collections were performed in A Escobar in March ... flies to the collecting baits; and iv), lack of selection in the laboratory (see Ruiz et al, 1986) In the present work we report the results of the analysis of the first assumptions, with the aim ... from the progeny of each wild inseminated female allowed us to assess the karyotype for the second chromosome of both parents assuming that the progeny of each female was fathered by a single...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... regression analysis was used to determine the independent predictor(s) for being in the high-PWV group All variables with P

Ngày tải lên: 22/09/2015, 15:19

... and the mean values of the two sites were used in the analysis There is an apparent increase in the degree of carotid intimal thickness in the examined patient (0.9mm) compared with 0.6 mm in the ... stratified according to expression of the T allele and reanalyzed for the plasma tHcy, there was no significant increase in tHcy in the TT genotype individuals in the different groups This finding supports ... Furthermore, they suggested that elevated homocysteine increases the cholesterol accumulation in the endothelial cells and suggested the use of statins in patients with elevated homocysteine...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:49

... a main investigator, designed the investigation, was involved in all aspects of the study, and contributed to the preparation of the manuscript SR-D was a main investigator, designed the investigation, ... numerous single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the peptidyl arginine deiminase enzyme 4, i.e the enzyme Available online http://arthritis-research.com/content/6/4/R303 converting peptidylarginine to ... in healthy individuals is limited, as is the role of SE genes in this context The conversion of arginine to citrulline in HLADRB1*0401 transgenic mice has been demonstrated to significantly increase...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... participated in coordination and interpretation of the data KB and KW participated in the acquisition of data and helped draft and revise the manuscript H-PB was involved in drafting and revising the ... determined in 362 patients and in 351 controls Genotype distribution did not deviate from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in patients or controls In contrast to the primary working hypothesis, the ... autoantibodies in an Austrian population Further independent studies in other ethnic cohorts are necessary to delineate whether the differences between our results and those obtained from the Swedish...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... to play a role in the pathogenesis of infections in SLE [3], but the mechanisms underlying the increased infection rate in SLE are not fully understood Our study demonstrates the occurrence of ... with the occurrence of the first major infection in our patients in the best multiple logistic regression model This finding is in line with a previous study on major infections in SLE patients in ... Furthermore, the high incidence of Herpes zoster infection, occurring at least one time in 14% of the patients, is in line with other studies in patients with SLE [1,31] With respect to major infections,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... structural integrity Interestingly, in areas of exceeding matrix deterioration the level of GM-CSF, a proinflammatory mediator and important regulator of the vascular collagen and elastin metabolism ... that although both collagen and elastin production was stimulated in SMC, the even greater increase in MMP activity in both inflammatory cells and SMC resulted in Weissen-Plenz et al Journal of ... tropoelastin was found to be 2-fold increased (data not shown) In areas of exceeding matrix deterioration the level of the granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), was massively increased...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... important clinicopathological role in the lung cancer It will be of considerable interest to further understand these interactions and elucidate the intrinsic mechanisms, since one of the most important ... performed in duplicate and the controls were included in which the reaction mixture contained no cDNA The amount of target mRNA after normalized to the loading control b-actin was calculated by the ... trypsin at 37°C for 20 minutes After phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) washing, nonspecific antibody binding was blocked by incubating the slides with 10% normal goat nonimmune serum for 30 minutes...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21