infection morbidity and mortality in transplant

... increasingly important role in the survey as a means of enhancing topic coverage in the Core section The unintended result was an increasingly unwieldy survey instrument and longer interviewing ... adults and children with asthma, including those with severe asthma.3 Influenza causes substantial morbidity in adults and children with asthma, and vaccination can prevent influenza and its ... continuing declining for the past years The number of deaths due to asthma in 2002 was approximately 8.5% lower than the number of deaths seen in 1999 Hospital discharges have been declining since...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20

... collecting data, analyzing and preparing the manuscript AS participated in collecting data and preparing the manuscript PB participated in collecting data and analyzing data MP participated in analyzing ... available and was dosed at 600 mg per day, and rifampin was continued Prophylactic regimens against opportunistic infections were provided in accordance with national guidelines during both time ... time to death The baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of subjects in Groups I and II are provided in Table The mean age in Group I and Group II was 33.3 ± 7.9 and 37.8 ± 6.3 respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... reasons for not attending were distance between the workplace and the clinic (especially for those working in the periphery) and inconvenient opening hours (i.e., during working time) These reasons ... such that the clinic is not perceived as an HIV clinic; the establishment of satellite/mobile clinics in hard-to-reach peripheral areas; and flexible opening hours, including nights and weekends ... the increase in working hours resulting from a reduction in illness and death among health staff In this way, dedicated HIV services for health staff Page of is an important approach to minimizing...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... haemoglobin, white cell count and electrocardiogram Post-operative morbidity was subdivided into minor (delaying discharge), intermediate (requiring non-invasive intervention, such as starting on ... (Physiological and Operative Severity Scoring System for Enumeration of Morbidity and Mortality) and its Portsmouth modification (P-POSSUM) are in place to assess the risks involved for patients in various ... fold increase in morbidity and 3.5 fold increase in mortality, in comparison to those who underwent PD without any venous or additional visceral resection The observed to predicted ratio (O:P) in...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... were used, including major and minor infections, pneumonia, sepsis, meningitis, surgical site infections, urinary tract infections, and intra-abdominal abscesses MOF was defined by MOF scores ... variables included in the analysis were: infections, overall or specified; MOF or mortality; and inflammatory parameters, cellular or humoral Definitions of infections given by authors were used, including ... clinical outcome in trauma patients Although immunonutrition shortened the time of mechanical ventilation and ICU stay, and resulted in a lower incidence of bacteremias and intra-abdominal infections,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... decline is mainly due to a decrease in number of accidents at work [26] Only two (Icelandic and Czech) studies reported an increasing incidence of pediatric burns [59,75], which was, in Iceland, ... Sunderland R: Ethnic differences in incidence of severe burns and scalds to children in Birmingham BMJ 1989, 298:1493-1494 70 Zeitlin R, Somppi E, Jarnberg J: Paediatric burns in central Finland ... reported in the following five groups: flames/explosion (also including fireworks, and so on), scalds/steam (also including burns caused by warm food and oil), contact burns, chemical burns, and electrical...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... persists despite the continued decline in U.S TB cases and rates Initiatives to improve awareness, testing, and treatment of latent infection and TB disease in minorities and foreign-born populations ... practice? Continued awareness and surveillance of TB is needed despite the decline Initiatives to improve awareness, testing, and treatment of latent infection and TB disease in minorities and foreign-born ... discontinued reporting of individual confirmed and probable cases of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infections on July 24, 2009 During 2009, four cases of human infection with novel influenza...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming), three WNV infections were reported in dogs, and five infections were reported in unidentified animal species During 2003, WNV seroconversions ... schedules in Iraq include BCG (TB vaccine) at birth; DTP vaccine at age 2, 4, 6, and 18 months, and 4–6 years; OPV at birth, age 2, 4, 6, and 18 months, and 4–6 years; HepB vaccine at birth and age and ... tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in adults* Drug Interval and duration Comments† Rating§ (Evidence)¶ HIVHIVnegative infected Rifampin§§ In HIV-infected persons, isoniazid may be administered concurrently...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 03:20

... growth and increasing access to health interventions), whereas others are associated with increasing exposure to risk factors that lead to increased morbidity and mortality (such as increasing exposure ... lowest infant mortality rates For example, in 1960 the rate was 42 percent lower than in other subregions, and even with increasing overall mortality in the 1990s, the infant mortality rate in Southern ... lower respiratory tract infections occur among HIV-infected children, and strides made in reducing childhood mortality from lower respiratory tract infections during the 1980s and the early 1990s...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... Only invasive cancers were included in the incidence data, except in situ bladder cancers were included Incidence and Mortality Coding Beginning with the year 2001, the coding scheme for incident ... cases, passing an editing program, and timeliness Completeness of reporting to the NJSCR was estimated by comparing New Jersey and U.S incidence to mortality ratios for whites and blacks, standardized ... cancer and for all sites combined For the incidence counts and rates, in situ cancers are not included except for bladder cancer in situ cases, which are included with invasive urinary bladder, urinary...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... an infant in arms (1377) bearing of offspring; bringing forth; nativity; beginning of individual existence; coming into the world; fruit of the womb chrisom-child (in full) originally a child in ... late-fetal mortality in England during earlier centuries in ways that parallel our current understanding of long-term trends in maternal and infant mortality The demographic rates shown in Tables 4.5 and ... Bideau, Bertrand Desjardins, and Héctor Pérez Brignoli (eds.), Infant and Child Mortality in the Past Fetal health and mortality in the opening paragraph: live births and deaths within twelve months...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:33

... days Morbidity included all complications occurring during hospitalization only In- hospital mortality included both those patients who died within first 30 days and those who died later but during ... hospitalization Three-month mortality included those patients who died within 90 days after surgery Follow up was obtained by periodical clinical examination combined with chest radiography and/ or thoracic ... occurred during hospitalization The cause of death was pneumonia in patients, pulmonary embolism in patients, myocardial infarction in patients and septic shock in patient The death rate within months...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... clearance and biomarkers of pro- and anti-inflammation, coagulation, apoptosis; and further with multiorgan dysfunction and mortality in severe sepsis and septic shock These findings support a growing ... cytokines, inducing the production of tissue factor, prothrombin conversion to thrombin, and fibrin production Fibrinolysis is impaired due to increased production of plasminogen-activator inhibitor ... sorting the study population by increasing lactate clearance and separating into four groups with equivalent number of patients IL-1ra - interleukin-1 receptor antagonist; IL-6 - interleukin-6;...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:22

... microscopy were processed and embedded in paraffin Sections (five micron) were cut onto the polyL-Lysine coated slides and used for hematoxylin and eosin staining and immunostaining Pieces of the left ... recruited PIMs in endotoxin-induced mortality in a BDL rats It is striking that depletion of a single inflammatory cell results in remarkable reduction in key inflammatory 11 Competing interests The ... response in BDL rats in the absence or presence of PIMs PIM reduction protects against LPS-induced mortality in BDL rats We delineated role of PIMs by comparing LPS-induced lung inflammation and mortality...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... Subjects, reporting in the first study, having had 'wheezing or whistling in their chest at any time' and/ or having 'woken up with a feeling of tightness in the chest' and/ or having 'woken up with ... smokers and peaked in subjects who reported asthma-like symptoms (wheezing and/ or nocturnal dyspnoea and/ or nocturnal tightness in the chest) and allergic rhinitis at baseline After adjusting for ... (National Institute of statistics) 1998 for this group of subjects was mainly due to a statistically significant increase in mortality from accidents and a moderate increase in mortality from cancer and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... benefit In conclusion, in the present scenario a PAC inserted by an intensivist trained in its use and utilizing protocol-directed responses would not increase mortality and morbidity, and probably ... not showing benefit, have not shown an increase in mortality or morbidity [15,16]; although some have found an increase in length of stay and costs Those studies that suggest an increased mortality ... Stephen E Lapinsky As Guy Richards points out, both clinical assessment and PAC measurement are associated with errors in evaluation and management Clinical assessment is sometimes inaccurate in the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... Oxygen-diffusing impairment and ventilation-perfusion maldistribution may play a role in developing hypoxemia in the mechanically ventilated SARS patient A decrease in PaO2/ FiO2 and increase in PaCO2 ... PaCO2 during hospitalization Gattinoni et al also observed a similar finding in ARDS patients with pneumothorax [11] Increased dead space and cystic changes of lung parenchyma due to worsening underlying ... may explain the lower incidence of pneumothorax in our study since the proportion of our patients with ALI/ARDS (68%) is lower than the other studies [6,7] Another important finding in our study...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... find an effective treatment in patients is the paucity of early biomarkers for AKI, akin to troponins in acute myocardial disease, and hence a delay in initiating therapy [16] In current clinical ... time points after CPB obtained using Triage® NGAL device at various time points after CPB AKI was defined as a 50% increase in serum creatinine from baseline Values are expressed as means ± standard ... outcomes included percentage change in serum creatinine, days in AKI, dialysis requirement, length of hospital stay, and mortality Other variables we obtained included age, sex, ethnic origin, CPB...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... study, interpreting the results and writing the manuscript JJ, DdL, PvdV, RB, RdW and RW were involved in interpreting the results and writing the manuscript All authors read and approved the final ... manuscript LP and NdK were involved in the set-up of the study, performed the statistical analyses and helped in interpreting the results and writing the manuscript PK was involved in the set-up ... predicted mortality using the logistic regression equation in which the PaO2 value was incorporated using a spline function Standardisedmortality ratio (SMR) byby partial oxygen pressure 2) (kPa) Standardised...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... respectively and 78.1% had more than two organ failures Characteristics of the infection The infections were acquired in the community in 51.5%, in the ICU in 19.2%, and in other areas of the hospital in ... diagnosis and treatment early is underlined by the factors that were associated with mortality in the first 48 h in the univariate study, including community-acquired infection and inappropriate initial ... sites of infection and of the different microorganisms isolated The diagnosis was reached clinically in a total of 82 episodes (25.3%), based on the clinical presentation and imaging findings in 14.5%...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23