... contributions of Yves Renaudineau (Brest, France) to several of the studies cited in this editorial Studies in the laboratory of CP are funded by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal ... lupus Furthermore, high titers of anti-α-actinin antibodies were present in the serum and kidney eluates of LN mice [8] Our results confirmed and extended those reported by Mostoslavsky and colleagues ... in the prevalence of LN [14] Finally, levels of anti-α-actinin antibodies correlated with those of anti-DNA antibodies and were significantly higher in patients with renal flares [5] While these...
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... the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis All authors read and approved the final manuscript References 10 11 12 13 14 15 Rhen T, Cidlowski JA: Antiinflammatory action of ... effects of comorbidities, the diverse nature and severity of the acute illness and therapeutic interventions in the critically ill The Corticosteroid Randomization after Significant Head Injury ... that the use of corticosteroids increased the incidence of fungal superinfections and contributed to higher mortality in the critically ill [23] In the present study, the late development of infections...
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Báo cáo y học: "Vascular injuries after minor blunt upper extremity trauma: pitfalls in the recognition and diagnosis of potential "near miss" injuries" ppsx
... [32,34,35] In the 1970's and 80's, arteriography became the "gold standard", and was abandoned more recently, due to invasive risks of iatrogenic complications and the observation that the angiographic ... flow in the forearm (Fig 5, arrow) The patient was taken emergently to the OR for exploration of the antecubital fossa, revealing a traction-avulsion injury of cm length at the level of the brachial ... first evaluation, the left arm appeared cooler than the right arm, and there was a gross deformity and instability at the elbow joint with an ecchymotic area over the medial side of the elbow (Fig...
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Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism pot
... exist The level of evidence and the strength of recommendation of particular treatment options are weighed and graded according to predefined scales, as outlined in Tables and The experts of the ... after the onset of DVT, and may be fatal within h after the onset of symptoms in 10% of cases, the diagnosis going clinically unrecognized in most fatal cases PE presents The consequences of acute ... probability of PE However, this situation is infrequent and the 3-month thromboembolic risk is low in such patients.67 Therefore, both the necessity of performing further tests and the nature of these...
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Diagnosis of acute maxillary sinusitis and acute otitis media pptx
... the scientist, a modern aspect of the follow-up of URI and other diseases is evaluation of quality of life Patients, on the other hand, have never cared about nasal volumes nor the presence of ... influence of pressure variations on the impedance of the human ear drum The Journal of Laryngology and Otology (1959) 59:409-418 Thibodeau, L A., and Berwick, D M Variation in rates of diagnosis of acute ... diagnosed AOM in 44% and the GP on-call in 64% of the children brought to the walk-in clinic for suspected AOM The clinicians agreed on the diagnosis of AOM in 64% of children GPs paid the most attention...
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Diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Australia pptx
... inadequate diagnosis and management of ARF and RHD in Australia The review covers diagnosis and management of ARF, secondary prevention and RHD control programs, and diagnosis and management of chronic ... has been produced by the National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand for the information of health professionals The statements and recommendations ... manifestation in the diagnosis of ARF Management of ARF In the first few days a�er presentation, the major priority is confirming the diagnosis With the exception of heart failure management, none of the treatments...
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The Science and Technology of Carbon Nanotubes III ppt
... 1271 It would be of most importance to establish the controllability of the diameter and the helical pitch in this kind of synthesis of SWCNT toward the development of novel kinds of electronic ... to further improve the process of catalytic synthesis and, in order to so, clarification of the mechanism of CNT growth is necessary to control the synthesis CNT can be synthesized by the chemical ... dependence of the intensity The radii of the dark circles are given by the zeros of the sums of Bessel functions [17] 3.4.4 Simulation of diffraction patterns [ 17,191 Several sections of the diffraction...
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ADVANCES IN THE ETIOLOGY, PATHOGENESIS AND PATHOLOGY OF VASCULITIS potx
... control of the vascular inflammation and disruption of endothelium, allowing the passage of the virus in the organs The early NiV infection of endothelial cells importantly upregulated the chemokines ... GTCCACCACCCTGTTGCTGTAG The relative expression represents the ratio of the number of copy of mRNA of interest versus mRNA of GAPDH All calculations were done using the 2CT model of (Pfaffl, 2001) and experiments ... in the Etiology, Pathogenesis and Pathology of Vasculitis damages on the endothelium, including systemic vasculitis in case of Lupus (Zimmer et al., 1998) and may be therefore involved in the pathogenesis...
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) pot
... Portland, and one thing and another; and all at once it popped into my head, and I up and told father, and says,— "I am going to Portland, whether or no; and I'll see what this world is made of ... rich there proper fast; and that fall there was a couple of new papers come up to our place from there, called the "Portland Courier" and "Family Reader," and they told a good many queer kind of ... for, to change a word in the lines of the poet, "It is a joy to think the best We may of human kind." Admitting the hypothesis of elopement, there was no mystery in their neither sending nor receiving...
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Báo cáo y học: "Association between the TNFRII 196R allele and diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis" potx
... arthritis The results show that the progression of the radiographic damage after year of follow up did not differ between the whole group of patients and the subgroup of patients with RA, whether the ... not routinely used in the diagnosis of RA because they are not part of the ACR criteria for the diagnosis of RA Taking into account a single genetic marker for RA diagnosis and/ or prognosis will ... autoantibody populations and/ or genetic markers The latter have the particular advantages of being present from the onset of the disease and of remaining unchanged by therapy To date, the only genetic...
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báo cáo khoa học:" Sinus lifting before Le Fort I maxillary osteotomy: a suitable method for oral rehabilitation of edentulous patients with skelettal class-III conditions: review of the literature and report of a case" doc
... of the maxilla and the mandible were peformed under general anaesthesia A mixture of cancellous bone from the iliac crest and Grafton®-DBM-Putty (Osteotech, Eatontown, NJ, USA) was used for the ... optimal position and angulation of the inserted implants [16-18] A similar variant of the maxillary sandwich osteotomy for the rehabilitation of the severely atrophied maxilla is the horseshoe Le ... correction of the sagittal intermaxillary relationship and the vertical dimension Some authors emphasize the advantages and satisfactory long-term results of the one stage procedure [4,15], but others...
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HYDRODYNAMIC DELIVERY FOR THE STUDY, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY
... is similarly capable of blunting the extent of injury Altogether, these results indicate the development of novel and exciting platform for the future study and management of renal injury Simon ... subsequent section), they work to either enable or inhibit the expression of the gene product of interest in transformed cells and their progeny Similarly, the overall effectiveness of RNAi in inducing ... respective sites of the gene expression and silencing machinery It is therefore important 16 to understand how the effective concentration in the cytoplasm relates to the dose and timing of transgene...
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Characterisation of the effects and mechanism of action of rapamycin and genistein on acute myeloid leukemia using high throughput techniques
... REVIEW OF LITERATURE The literature review section comprises of an in-depth examination of the biology of acute myeloid leukemia, the drugs rapamycin and genistein, and an evaluation of the advantages ... long period of time On the one hand, the risk factors include heredity, abnormal genetic regulation and genetic makeup of some individuals On the other hand, in many cases, the onset of the disease ... map the expression patterns of drug effects on the cell at both the nucleic acid and the protein levels 1.6.3.1 Mass spectrometry- the magic wand of proteomics In the past decade, the study of...
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The study on characteristics of the image and value of ultrasound, computed tomography in the diagnosis and follow up of hepatobiliary f
... (16.7%) .The difference was statistically significant with p < 0.01 3.1.2.4 .The structure of the lesions on US and CT Table 3.8 The structure of the lesion on US The structure of the lesions Number of ... clustered and scattered in the liver parenchyma 3.1.2.5 The effects of lesions to the portal veins (PV) on US and CT Table 3.9 The effects of lesions to the PV US (n = 126) CT (n = 126) P Number of ... Thus, the result of our research is also consistent with the results of other authors that most of the small lesions are concentrated on clusters with ill-defined boders 4.1.2.3 The shape of the...
Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2016, 11:15
Updated in Diagnosis of Acute Ischemic Stroke CTMRI and advances
... Volume of the core • DWI = irreversible lesion = core of infarction • Bigger core, worse outcome • In the MCA occlusion, core volume in DWI > 100cm3 -> no indication of treatment (>1/3 territory of ... Multiphase, single phase and CT Perfusion Protocol • Non contrast first then multiphase • Phase 1: • Evaluate the carotid and brain circulation • Double scan with contrast, then subtraction algorithm ... artery • TOF 3D: arterial occlusion site • PW: if possible Non-contrast • “Emergency imaging of the brain is recommended before any specific treatment for AIS Non-enhanced CT will provide the necessary...
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Prevention and treatment of acute kidney injury in the ICU
... as an Early Marker of AKI IL-18 as a marker for the diagnosis of ATN and delayed graft function: •ROC - discriminatory power of IL-18 for the diagnosis of ATN The area under the ROC curve was ... burns, acute glomerulonephritis, and rhabdomyolysis In the presence of liver disease, FENa can be less than 1% in the presence of ATN Because administration of diuretics may cause the FENa ... Prevention and Treatment of Acute Kidney Injury in the ICU J Christopher Farmer Learning Objectives To discuss… – – – – Pathophysiology, risk factors, and etiologies of AKI Current and emerging...
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The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System
... relative importance of the various kinds of data written to disk, both in terms of how much of the live blocks they occupy on disk and in terms of how much of the data written to the log they represent ... delay the cleaning a while and let more of the blocks die in the current segment The value of a segment’s free space is based on the stability of the data in the segment Unfortunately, the stability ... writes, then reads the file back sequentially, then writes 100 Mbytes randomly to the existing file, then reads 100 Mbytes randomly from the file, and finally reads the file sequentially again The bandwidth...
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The Breadth and Depth of DSP
... very specialized audience State -of -the- art researchers need this kind of detailed mathematics to understand the theoretical implications of the work A basic premise of this book is that most practical ... word in the incoming audio signal is isolated and then analyzed to identify the type of excitation and resonate frequencies These parameters are then compared with previous examples of spoken ... away at the speed of light Aircraft in the path of this wave will reflect a small portion of the energy back toward a receiving antenna, situated near the transmission site The distance to the object...
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Cambridge.University.Press.Fearing.Others.The.Nature.and.Treatment.of.Social.Phobia.Mar.2007.pdf
... patterns Whether these are activated depends on the social demands placed on the individual by the way of life of their community These determine the situational contexts evocative of the social ... see the rise of psychology and the application of its psychometric methods to the study of social phobia The first scale for the measurement of social anxiety À the psychological construct at the ... if the above definitions of the two terms and the distinctions drawn between them were of interest and perhaps of some clinical value, they would hardly be meaningful so far as research and theory...
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Báo cáo y học: "Management of chest pain: exploring the views and experiences of chiropractors and medical practitioners in a focus group interview"
... referral) may depend on the nature of the condition, whether the referral is for reasons of diagnosis and/ or treatment, the preference of the provider, and the relationship between the providers Medical ... situation, that the point of referral may depend on the familiarity or relationship between the providers, and that the nature of the referral (e.g., amount and type of information accompanying the referral) ... group composed of both chiropractic and medical professionals The goals of the focus group were to explore the attitudes and experiences of medical and chiropractic clinicians regarding their patients...
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