implant osseointegration in bp treated patients

... 8-fold higher in risperidone -treated patients than in olanzapine -treated patients, 31-fold higher than in quetiapine -treated patients, 6-fold higher than in ziprasidone -treated patients, and ... clinicians may test prolactin levels routinely in patients who take antipsychotics known to increase prolactin, even in the absence of PPAEs Disproportionate prolactin testing in risperidone -treated ... frequent prolactin testing among risperidone -treated patients The frequency of prolactin tests in risperidone -treated patients was about two times that in patients treated with olanzapine, haloperidol,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... after rituximab therapy in 10 patients with SLE and nine patients with RA In all patients, BAFF levels increased significantly during B-cell depletion In contrast, APRIL levels in SLE started out ... baseline in the patients with RA (rs = -0.67, p < 0.05) (c) Moreover, a correlation between the disease activity score using 28 joint counts (DAS28) and circulating levels of BAFF at baseline in patients ... eliminated by Bcell-receptor-induced apoptosis during negative selection in the periphery However, this could be inhibited by the increased availability of BAFF, which by binding to the BAFFR induces...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... institution review board in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and informed consent was obtained from all participating patients The treatment algorithm was shown in Figure Monitoring ... (vincristine, adriamycin and dexamethasone) Those achieving ≥ 75% reduction in paraprotein, i.e VAD-chemosensitive patients, proceeded to auto-HSCT Patients with

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... decreased in 23 patients and remained unchanged or increased in patients (no significant difference between the groups) The reason why some of the patients were not included after months was in most ... remained low after months compared with baseline values, though not significant for etanercept In the etanercept -treated group, serum COMP decreased in 15 of the 17 patients, whereas in the infliximab ... protocol, which is an integrated part of the routine management of these patients The protocol includes repeated serum sampling The sera are stored at –80°C [14] The patients included in the present...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... TNF-α in these patients In another third of the patients circulating TNF-α bioactivity was inhibited by infliximab infusion for a short time, because bioactive TNF-α reappeared but was again inhibited ... resting synoviocytes Accordingly, the predictive value of changes in IL-6 was better than that of OPG Our findings extended previous studies indicating a correction in high OPG serum levels in ... plasma tumour necrosis factorinfliximab bioactivity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients treated with (TNF)-α matoid arthritis (RA) patients treated with infliximab Using this bioassay three patterns...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... observed Initial DNA damage levels in breast cancer patients Radiation-induced apoptosis in breast cancer patients Initial DNA damage was determined as radiationinduced double-strand breaks (DSB) in ... skin of treated patients [40] Anyhow, it is possible to estimate the cellular radiosensitivity of PBL of patients analyzing the RIA rate by annexin V/PI staining flow cytometric analysis, defining ... Annexin-V-FITC and 10 μl of propidium iodure (PI), cells were incubated during 15 minutes at room temperature in the dark Finally, 400 μl of Annexin V buffer Kit were added Every assay was made in...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... grade in patients (2.59%), and grade in patient (0.86%) There were no late grade GI toxicity-suffering patients in this group Pretreatment GU damage of grade was found in the history of patients ... grade GU toxicity developed in 20 (24.69%) and grade in (1.23%) patients Late grade GU toxicity occurred in (8.64%) and grade in (7.41%) patients None of the patients in the cohort had grade of ... and seminal vesicles, in given period five sessions per week In the treatment room, the patients were aligned on a carbon-fiber couch panel within their immobilization device using the skin marks...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... significantly decreased in patients with higher age, higher PGUM and in patients who were not treated by HT The decreased rate of GU late effects in patients undergoing HT is in accordance with pooled ... summarized in Table Incidence of single symptoms (dysuria, incontinence, retention, frequency/urgency, hematuria) as well as the highest toxicity occurred in a given patient concluding all single ... bone scan When clinically indicated a chest x-ray and/or thoracic CT was performed Based on these examinations clinical staging was defined according to the 2002 American Joint Committee on Cancer...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... are the major IFNα-producing cells in peripheral blood These data strongly suggest that infliximab maintains pDCs in an IFNα secreting state by quenching TNFα Infliximab increases plasma cell generation ... and increase IFNα secretion [39] The authors suggested that this inhibition may explain the increase of ANA production in patients treated with TNFα blockers We confirmed their findings by showing, ... abnormalities in infliximabresponsive patients Plasmacytoid dendritic cell number, blood IFNα and anti-nuclear antibody positivity in infliximab -treated rheumatoid arthritis patients body positivity in infliximab-treated...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... geometry of the implant used Parallel to the uncertainties concerning details of mineral formation at implant surfaces, it can be observed in implant literature that distinct implant types converge ... understand and define the term osseointegration in a new way Joos U, Wiesmann HP, Szuwart T, Meyer U: Mineralization at the interface of implants Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg in press 2006, May ... Head & Face Medicine 2006, 2:19 mation (modelling), determine the fate of implant healing[2] http://www.head-face-med.com/content/2/1/19 The advances in basic scientific and clinical knowledge...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:22

... time in untreated patients (A) and in HAART -treated patients harboring a functional preintegration reservoir (B) Functional Functional preintegration reservoir decay over the time in untreated patients ... Characterization of preintegrated HIV-1 DNA using AluLTR real-time PCR in the model of latent infection and in infected patients In the model of latent infection as well as in two untreated patients (nos ... continual replenishing of the pool of infected resting CD4+ T lymphocytes harboring unintegrated HIV-1 DNA In sustained responder to HAART, the results obtained using the HIV-1 integrase inhibitor...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:22

... systemic cytokine release induced by OKT3/ATG administration could lead to increased enteral permeability with endotoxin translocation causing the PCT increase In contrast to the findings of this ... investigated in two groups of patients undergoing OLTx with different regimens of the immunosuppressive therapy and in one group of patients undergoing liver resection as a surgical control In ... clinical point of view? If there is a systemic bacterial infection present in a patient, one of the most important issues in the monitoring of PCT is its dynamics In our study, in both groups of patients...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... admission to the intensive care unit in patients with and without a history of insulin -treated diabetes No history of insulin -treated diabetes (n = 2921) History of insulin -treated diabetes (n ... were patients without a history of insulin -treated diabetes On admission, more patients with a history of insulin -treated diabetes had renal failure and were undergoing hemodialysis than did patients ... no history of insulin -treated diabetes Importantly, these results refer to patients who were receiving insulin on admission and not reflect the effects of insulin treatment during the hospital...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... 24/232 in patients who normalized their protein C up to Day vs 32.0%; 63/ 197 in patients who did not normalize; P < 0.0001) Furthermore, in a predefined analysis of patients where the protein C ... diagnostic definitions are provided online in Table S1 in Additional file Exclusion criteria were similar to those used in PROWESS [3] and are detailed in Table S2 in Additional file Main exclusion ... Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA) was supplied as a sterile freeze-dried product in glass vials and administered by site personnel as a continuous intravenous infusion An interactive voice...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... pre-existing increased insulin resistance and dysfunction of beta cells Insulin resistance is present in the acutely ill [13,15,18,28] in different intensity, but the factors determining the extent ... Mediators of cytokine-induced insulin resistance in obesity and other inflammatory settings Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care 2002, 5:377-383 15 Marik PE, Raghavan M: Stress-hyperglycemia, insulin and immunomodulation ... mortality in conventionally treated patients with diabetes mellitus and acute myocardial infarction: longterm results from the Diabetes and Insulin-Glucose Infusion in Acute Myocardial Infarction...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... cardiac index during endexpiratory occlusion of the ventilator as well as changes in cardiac index during PLR were examined An increase in cardiac index of 10% or more during PLR predicted an increase ... 17:193-199 Boulain T, Achard JM, Teboul JL, Richard C, Perrotin D, Ginies G: Changes in BP induced by passive leg raising predict response to fluid loading in critically ill patients Chest 2002, ... the ICU attending to administer fluid was based on clinical signs of inadequate tissue perfusion (e.g escalating vasopressor requirement, decreasing urine output, etc.) and his/her clinical impression...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... our hospital and informed consent was obtained from all subjects Maintenance treatment scheme consisted of a combination of a calcineurin inhibitor (tacrolimus) with a purine inhibitor (mycophenolate ... conditions were 1min at 94οC, 40 cycles of 1min at 94οC (template denaturation), 1min at 55οC (primer annealing), 1min at 72οC (primer extension) and finally, 7min at 72οC (final elongation) The ... Hesselink DA, van Schaik RH, van der Heiden IP, et al Genetic polymorphisms of the CYP3A4, CYP3A5, and MDR-1 genes and pharmacokinetics of the calcineurin inhibitors cyclosporine and tacrolimus Clin...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:32

... serum obtained from patients with positive IgG cardiolipin antibodies interfered with protein C activation [2] Protein C activation is disturbed in patients with APS [17] Since protein C is closely ... high-intensity warfarin (INR over 3.0) with or without low-dose aspirin (75 mg/day) was significantly more effective than low-intensity warfarin (INR under 3.0) with or without low-dose aspirin, ... antibodies in ischemic stroke patients Intern Med 2006; 45: 1017-8 Diz-Kucukkaya R, Hancer VS, Artin-Esen B, et al The prevalence and clinical significance of inherited thrombophilic risk factors in patients...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... for a minimum of months post-OLT After one year, reinfection occurred in 20% of patients in each group, but the finding of circulating HBV DNA by PCR in of 11 receiving HBIG and of 10 receiving ... survival In a prospective study of indefinite LAM pre-OLT therapy, 32 of 154 patients (21%) died and 25 of the 32 deaths occurred within months of initiating therapy [52] Bilirubin, creatinine and ... being least in patients transplanted with fulminant hepatitis B (17%) and greatest in cirrhotics (67%) [9] The rate of reinfection in patients receiving HBIG who were transplanted with fulminant hepatitis...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:17

... groups were both examined by an expert ophthalmologist and routine ophthalmic examinations including visual acuity determination, slit lamp examination, ophthalmoloscopy and intraocular pressure ... cataract In: Tasman W, Jaeger A, eds Duane’s Clinical Ophthalmology Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven publishers, 2000:12-14 Kahn HA, et al The Framingham eye study I Outline and major prevalence findings ... alterations in blood, may be the intervening ones [29] Multiple studies have been done to clarify the relationship between human biochemical elements and cataract formation Interestingly in some...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:49