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how accurate is imaging in patients with suspected hepatic metastatic disease

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Báo cáo y học: "Segment-orientated analysis of two-dimensional strain and strain rate as assessed by velocity vector imaging in patients with acute myocardial infarction"

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... CABG In the 11 patients with vessel disease a stenosis > 50% was found in the circumflex artery in patients and in the right coronary artery in patients Complete revascularization in the patients ... passive movement, deformation imaging is crucial to identify ischemic tissue 7, 24-29 In principle, our findings are confirming previously published studies about infarct detection and size, who ... patients with 2-vessel disease was achieved by serial PCI of the remaining diseased coronary arteries according to hemodynamic relevance and morphology of the stenosis during the further clinical...
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Novel method for sputum induction using the Lung Flute in patients with suspected pulmonary tuberculosis pdf

Novel method for sputum induction using the Lung Flute in patients with suspected pulmonary tuberculosis pdf

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... Flute included mild sore throat after blowing into the device in four patients (12%) and hyperventilationrelated symptoms in three patients (9%), including dizziness in two (6%), headache in one ... other diseases in 10 A case that did not satisfy the American Thoracic Society (ATS)/ Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) microbiological criteria for NTM lung disease but met the clinical ... CXR showed lesions such as scattered in ltrates and cavities, suggesting pulmonary TB After initial screening based on symptoms and CXR at primary care clinics, patients suspected of having pulmonary...
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Báo cáo y học: " Synovial fluid leukocyte apoptosis is inhibited in patients with very early rheumatoid arthriti" pdf

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... al.: Blockade of interleukin trans signaling suppresses T-cell resistance against apoptosis in chronic intestinal inflammation: evidence in crohn disease and experimental colitis in vivo Nat Med ... fluid neutrophil apoptosis was significantly lower in patients with RA than in patients with non-RA persistent synovitis (P = 0.0004) or in patients with resolving synovitis (P = 0.002) Results ... than at initial presentation in two of the seven RA patients, four of the 11 patients with non-RA persistent synovitis, and seven of the 13 patients with resolving synovitis Prior therapy with a...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "parison between logistic regression and neural networks to predict death in patients with suspected sepsis in the emergency room" ppsx

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... Simple clinical variables were useful in predicting death in patients with suspected sepsis in the ER - Logistic regression and ANNs were equivalent in terms of predictive ability - Discriminative ... (recorded in 36% of patients) , followed by soft tissue infection (17%), intra-abdominal infection (12%), urinary tract infection (11%) and others (11%); sepsis of undetermined source was recorded in ... predictive instrument in patients with signs indicative of sepsis However, the model must be specifically tested in an independent population with a larger sample size The main determinants of mortality...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Procalcitonin testing has the potential to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use in patients with suspected lower respiratory tract infections" ppsx

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... of other clinical findings obtained by taking a thorough history and performing a careful physical examination The authors declare that they have no competing interests Christ-Crain M, Jaccard-Stolz ... Grau GE, Vadas L, Pugin J; Geneva Sepsis Network: Diagnostic value of procalcitonin, interleukin6, and interleukin-8 in critically ill patients admitted with suspected sepsis Am J Respir Crit ... bacterial infection and influence antibiotic use in patients presenting to the emergency department with suspected lower respiratory tract infection The use of PCT to guide antibiotic use resulted in...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Inducibility of the endogenous antibiotic peptide β-defensin 2 is impaired in patients with severe sepsis" pptx

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... reported in the present investigation In this investigation, hydrocortisone treatment did not impair hBD2 inducibility in patients with severe sepsis However, at the present time, there are no consistent ... performed using an open-access statistical web page [22] Results Sixteen patients with severe sepsis were included in this study Eight of these patients died from sepsis-induced organ failure In addition, ... Mann-Whitney test) Underlying diseases for severe sepsis were necrotising fasciitis (n = 2; at inclusion, both showed clinical signs of additional pulmonary infection), faecal peritonitis (n = 8), and...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "High mobility group box-1 protein in patients with suspected community-acquired infections and sepsis: a prospective study" pot

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... sepsis and admitted to a department of internal medicine This cohort was dominated by patients with infections without SIRS, patients with sepsis, and patients with severe sepsis These sepsis patients ... cytokine production in the brain; inducing acute lung injury and production of pro-inflammatory cytokines/mediators in the lungs; promoting translocation in the gut; inducing arthritis and joint inflammation; ... ng/ml in patients with malignant disease, 6.47 ng/ml in trauma patients, and 14.05 ng/ml in patients with disseminated intravascular coagulation [24] High levels were observed in patients with organ...
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Báo cáo y học: "Oxygen consumption is depressed in patients with lactic acidosis due to biguanide intoxication" docx

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... confounding variables [22] According to discharge diagnosis, patients included in this present study suffered from lactic acidosis (better defined as hyperlactatemia with metabolic acidosis) mainly ... http://ccforum.com/content/14/1/R22 nosis Sepsis may still have acted as a precipitating factor (gastroenteritis, urinary tract infection) but could not explain our present initial findings Indeed, systemic O2 consumption is usually ... progressive increase in metformin use may result in a parallel increase in the incidence of associated lactic acidosis • The pathogenesis of biguanide-associated lactic acidosis remains unclear,...
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báo cáo hóa học: " The minimal important difference of the hospital anxiety and depression scale in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" pot

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... total score Discussion This analysis showed that the minimal important difference of the HADS is approximately 1.5 points in COPD patients Investigators and those interpreting clinical research ... anxiety in diseases such as COPD evidence is still lacking to provide strong recommendations However, the treatment of depression in disease such as COPD will be increasingly important In trials using ... whether the minimal important difference of 1.5 generalizes to patients with other diseases Patients included in our study might, however, represent patients with advanced chronic disease because...
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báo cáo hóa học: " What determines subjective health status in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: importance of symptoms in subjective health status of COPD patients" pdf

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... clinic Exercise capacity Exercise capacity was measured with the ISWT The ISWT is a standardized progressive walking test used to measure functional exercise capacity in patients with cardiorespiratory ... and exercise capacity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 1999, 3(10):920-926 Fayers PM, Machin D: Quality of Life The Assessment, Analysis and Interpretation ... will increase during the next decade In addition to the social strain, COPD also influences the patients' symptoms, function, and subjective health status [3] An important issue in understanding...
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Báo cáo y học: "Endothelial cell markers reflecting endothelial cell dysfunction in patients with mixed connective tissue disease" doc

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... connective tissue disease Rheum Dis Clin North Am 2005, 31:519-533 Aringer M, Steiner G, Smolen JS: Does mixed connective tissue disease exist? Yes Rheum Dis Clin North Am 2005, 31:411-420 Greidinger ... In our study population, we investigated the traditional risk factors, in association with clinical symptoms and autoantibodies, in MCTD patients with and without cardiovascular events This is ... can clearly distinguish MCTD patients from controls and, moreover, MCTD patients with and without cardiovascular events Decreased percentage FMD showed a close correlation with the disease duration,...
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Báo cáo y học: " CD8 positive T cells express IL-17 in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" ppsx

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... polymorphism and chronic inflammatory lung diseases, including bronchial asthma and COPD, suggesting that IL-17F may be critically involved in the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory lung diseases [15] ... suppress cytokine production in cells collected from non-diseased airways, the same cell types from patients with COPD are resistant to steroid treatment [17] In this regard, it is of interest that ... following with biotinylated rabbit anti-mouse IgG (Dako) for 10 Then the sections were incubated with streptavidin-HRP for and visualized with DAB/hydrogen peroxide After counterstaining with...
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Báo cáo y học: " Characterization of the bronchodilatory dose response to indacaterol in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using modelbased approaches" ppt

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... 150 μg or higher provide sustained bronchodilation that is largely independent of disease severity Finally, it is instructive to place the findings of this analysis in the context of the GOLD classification ... with no decline over this period [2] The patient-level analysis evaluated trough FEV in 1835 patients enrolled in two dose-ranging studies in which indacaterol was delivered using the single-dose ... trials similar to those used in this programme are expected to fall within this interval of ±60 mL This is an expression of the difficulty in differentiating doses using conventional approaches...
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Báo cáo y học: " Improved outcomes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease treated with salmeterol compared with placebo/usual therapy: results of a meta-analysis" ppsx

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... this meta analysis 14 Authors' contributions 15 RS was involved in the concept and planning of the meta analysis and in writing and editing the manuscript; PW and MW were involved in the writing ... meta-analysis of randomized, controlled clinical trials is usually considered the most influential in management guidelines because of the large number of patients involved This meta-analysis included ... from the earliest assessment point (3 months) and maintained at months and 12 months, indicating that there was no decline in efficacy over this period There is increasing recognition that patient-centred...
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Báo cáo y học: "Evaluation of an ambulatory system for the quantification of cough frequency in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" ppsx

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... recording is 1-min and 1-sec from the physiologic recordings LS data were visually inspected by two independent reviewers who remained blinded to the video data Each noted the time (hour, minute ... ble sound that is generated during a cough [28] These systems, however, are susceptible to a high false positive rate when ambient noise is prominent and are unable to distinguish cough-like ... represented in the study, which was due to an inauspicious baseline imbalance Third, the data were collected in a clinical setting due to the requirement for video monitoring equipment However, patients...
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Báo cáo y học: " Diagnosis of invasive bronchial-pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with chronic obstructive respiratory diseases" pptx

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... Published: 27 April 2011 References He H, Ding L, Li F, Zhan Q: Clinical features of invasive bronchial-pulmonary aspergillosis in critically ill patients with chronic obstructive respiratory diseases: ... National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Mycoses Study Group (EORTC/MSG) Consensus Group Clin Infect Dis 2008, 46:1813-1821 Bulpa P, Dive A, Sibille Y: Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in ... Pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: incidence, risk factors, and outcome Clin Microbiol Infect 2010, 16:870-877 doi:10.1186/cc10138 Cite this article as: Bulpa...
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Study the serum erythropoietin, ferritin and transferrin concentration in patients with end   stage renal disease undergoing hemodialysis

Study the serum erythropoietin, ferritin and transferrin concentration in patients with end stage renal disease undergoing hemodialysis

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... Erythropoietin, ferritin levels and TSAT in patients with end-stage renal disease Serum EPO in patients with end-stage renal disease -The mean serum EPO concentration in patients with ESRD was ... content included following steps: + Step 1: Ask about history of some diseases such as kidney and urinary diseases, blood diseases and chronic diseases (chronic hepatitis, tuberculosis, chronic ... EPO in patients with ESRD 4.2.2 Serum iron, ferritin and TSAT in patients with ESRD and their relations with some clinical and laboratory parameters * Serum iron, ferritin and TSAT in patients with...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Is global quality of life reduced before fracture in patients with low-energy wrist or hip fracture? A comparison with matched controls" docx

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... The wrist patients have a modest decrease in health-focused quality of life within physical domain and scores in accordance with controls within http://www.hqlo.com/content/6/1/90 mental domain ... of other diseases and conditions as well [56] However, our findings suggest that by identifying patients with low GQOL, in addition to other known risk factors for hip fracture, may rise the probability ... of the patients with a wrist fracture and 307 of those with a hip fracture were examined at the Osteoporosis Centre Sixtyeight wrist and 210 hip fracture patients were excluded (21 wrist patients...
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báo cáo hóa học:" The prosurvival activity of ascites against TRAIL is associated with a shorter disease-free interval in patients with ovarian cancer" docx

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... ascites against TRAIL is associated with a shorter disease- free interval In previous studies, death receptors or ligands have been reported to be associated with outcome in patients with ovarian ... from the medical record The disease- free interval was defined as the interval between the surgery and the date of progression of the disease Disease progression was defined by CA125 ≥ X nadir value ... glycoprotein of high molecular weight which is used in the clinic as a marker of tumor burden There is indeed a strong correlation between rising and falling levels of serum CA125 with progression...
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Báo cáo y học: "Magnetic resonance imaging changes of sacroiliac joints in patients with recent-onset inflammatory back pain: inter-reader reliability and prevalence of abnormalities" potx

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... changes is low, this finding indicates that MRI might be a useful tool in the assessment of patients with early inflammatory back pain It is the amount of variation in the outcome of interest (inflammation ... one-sixth of patients show structural changes in at least one SI joint, indicating that MRI might be a useful tool to diagnose sacroiliitis in patients with inflammatory back pain Competing interests ... of the SI joints, which distinguished inflammatory activity as well as joint damage [11] Inter-observer reliability in this study, which included 41 patients with SpA, of whom 20 patients had...
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