level esa dosage and serum albumin a retrospective multicenter analysis

... We are grateful to Dr Masaichi-Chang-il Lee, Clinical Care Medicine Division of Pharmacology, Kanagawa Dental College, for valuable advice on ESR analysis We also thank Dr Itsuya Tanabe and other ... A, Nagasawa T & Era S (2004) Alteration of redox state of human serum albumin before and after hemodialysis Blood Purif 22, 525–529 10 Tomida M, Ishimaru J, Hayashi T, Nakamura K, Murayama K ... binding of L(small)-Trp as an endogenous ligand which binds to site II, and of cefazolin (site I-ligand) and verapamil (site I and II-ligand) as exogenous ligands All these ligands are known for...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 13:20

... conformation Remarkably, ibuprofen, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agent [12], and warfarin, an anticoagulant drug [12], are considered as stereotypical ligands for Sudlow’s site II and Sudlow’s ... human serum albumin at 2.5 A resolution Protein Eng 12, 439–446 Bhattacharya, A. A., Curry, S & Franks, N.P (2000) Binding of the general anesthetics propofol and halothane to human serum albumin ... Diana, F.J., Veronich, K & Kapoor, A. L (1989) Binding of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents and their effect on binding of racemic warfarin and its enantiomers to human serum albumin J Pharm...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 23:20

... calculated using an advanced, proprietary MS integration software package developed in-house The areas were added to give a total SAA area Statistical analysis Patient demographics, ORP data, and ... in healthy Box plots of total serum amyloid A (SAA) levelsmulti-trauma Box plots of total serum amyloid A (SAA) levels in healthy volunteers and ORP maxima plasma samples of multi-trauma patients ... samples as an accurate measurement of SAA maxima levels Additionally, the correlation between the ORP maxima day and SAA maxima day further validates the importance of plasma ORP maxima Discussion...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:21

... formation, patients as defect of segmentation and 16 patients had combined anomaly The average age of the patients was 15.2 years (ranged 10– 20) The average coronal Cobb angle of the main curve was 95.7° ... of Halo-femoral traction after anterior spinal release in the management of severe idiopathic and congenital scoliosis Methods A total of 60 patients with severe and rigid curve and with detailed ... surgery, and was maintained as 31.6° (ranged 21°–52°) at final follow-up For CS cases, initial mean thoracic kyphosis was 70.2° (ranged 28°–155°) and decreased to 39.0° (ranged 11°–82°) post-operatively...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... distress Patient characteristics and cardiovascular readmissions Statistical analysis Data were analyzed using SPSS 15.0 statistical software package (SPSS Inc Chicago, IL) Two-tailed level of ... implantation, coronary artery bypass grafting, pacemaker implantation, cardiac arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, cerebrovascular insult, transient ischemic attack, hypertensive crisis, heart failure A ... posttraumatic stress disorder in patients who have had a myocardial infarction Psychosomatics 2006, 47:231-239 24 Agarwal M, Dalal AK, Agarwal DK, Agarwal RK: Positive life orientation and recovery...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... in patients affected by class II and particulary in case of mandibular retrognathism, low angle and deep bite [9,10]; and it was found that treatment outcome concerning TMD is less favorable ... orthodontic approach was performed for each patient and the analysis of Delaire was used to underlining the skeletal deformity and to determine the surgical treatment The bilateral sagittal split ... the questionnaire The distribution of the patients according to sex and age at the time of the survey was 35 females and 22 males and age range was 16 to 65 years (mean 31.21 years) According to...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... cohorts of patients with a medical and a surgical admission diagnosis from a general ICU of a teaching hospital in The Netherlands Materials and methods Cohorts, setting, and data collection ... Souza RJ, van Dam RM, Heyland DK, Cook DJ, Malhotra A, Dhaliwal R, Henderson WR, Chittock DR, Finfer S, Talmor D: Intensive insulin therapy and mortality among critically ill patients: a metaanalysis ... unless stated otherwise We calculated the standard deviation (SD) and the mean absolute glucose (MAG) change [6] per patient as markers of glycemic variability Glucose was obtained from arterial blood...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... manuscript JMC and VM conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript and performed the statistical analysis All authors read and approved ... clinical practice (measured creatinine clearance monitoring, at least once a week, is a part of the routine medical care of the patients) and no randomization was performed As it was an observational ... d-1 All patients had a tracheal tube and were mechanically ventilated Patients were hemodynamically stable presenting with a stable serum creatinine in a normal range (40 to 125 μmol L-1) Patients...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... paper http://ssrn.com/abstract=594221 Desai, Mihir, Dyck, Alexander, Zingales, Luigi, 2007 Theft and taxes Journal of Financial Economics 84, 591–623 Dharmapala, Dhammika, Khanna, Vikramaditya, ... Virginia Beach for helpful comments and suggestions and Sheena Paul, Andrew Schwaitzberg, and Mandy Tham for excellent research assistance We thank Pedro Matos and Miguel Ferreira for sharing ... corporate governance result in higher valuations in emerging markets? Another examination using a new data set Journal of Banking and Finance 33, 254–262 Patel, Sandeep A. , Balic, Amra, Bwakira,...

Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2015, 17:33

... from a fractal pattern may be indicative of a shift towards an unhealthy or less desirable control strategy The analysis of fractal patterns in gait and posture data may serve as an indicator ... Parkinsonian patients (PP), spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) patients, and healthy participants’ COP were analysed using a more traditional fractal dimension analysis [13] This method recorded COP data and ... of appropriate non-linear analysis, such as fractal analysis, in place of traditional analyses [1] A strong reason behind this paradigm shift is the acknowledgment of variability in natural systems...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 10:09

... link with Romanians, who also show a weaker link with Body and Beauty compared Italian and Spanish participants The second phase of data analysis, using the One Way ANOVA test and the Games Howell ... the Italian sample, we notice the absence of a significant association to plastic surgery and also between I and make-up and old age, and a weak negative connection to sadness and ugliness Also, ... Argentina 12 Russia 13 Italy 14 France 15 Canada 16 Taiwan 17 United Kingdom 18 Colombia 19 Greece 20 Thailand 21 Australia 22 Venezuela 23 Saudi Arabia 24 Netherlands 25 Portugal The changing nature...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... Postoperatively, each patient was administered acetylsalicylic acid Patients with atrial fibrillation lasting more than 24 hours were routinely anticoagulated with heparin and warfarin Data analysis ... Galloway AC, Lapietra A, et al.: Routine intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography identifies patients with atheromatous aortas: impact on "off-pump" coronary artery bypass and perioperative ... analysis Data were prospectively entered into a computerized database and retrospectively analyzed with a statistical package (STATISTICA; StatSoft, Inc) Results are reported as the mean ± standard...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... overseas nursesa Country 98/99 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 Philippines South Africa India Australia New Zealand Canada USA West Indies Pakistan Malaysia Singapore Nigeria Zimbabwe Ghana Kenya Zambia Mauritius ... NMC and [5] bIncludes 23 each from Poland and Sri Lanka; 22 each from the Czech Republic and Saudi Arabia; 21 from Nepal and 20 from Japan in 2002/03 nurses commute to and work in the SHA in addition ... from Asia; another 7000 from Africa and 2400 from major English-speaking countries (Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the United States) Only a handful of recruits are from Europe (1500) and fewer...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... hypergammaglobulinaemia, anti-Ro/SS -A and antiLa/SS-B autoantibodies and a higher frequency of Raynaud’s phenomenon and dysphagia in ACA+/SS as compared to ACA-/SS patients A lower frequency of calcinosis, Raynaud’s ... significantly lower prevalence of anti-Ro/SS -A and antiLa/SS-B autoantibodies among ACA+/SS compared to ACA-/SS patients As expected, anti-Ro/SS -A and antiLa/SS-B autoantibodies were absent in ... ocular examination with Rose Bengal stain, Schirmer test and tear film break up time had a comparable prevalence of abnormal results (Table 4) Table Age at disease onset, disease duration and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 12:20

... the statistic values are greater than all the critical values at 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, the dataset of log(XGNP) has been shown that it is non-stationary in DF and ADF tests (Table 4. 6a and 4.6b) ... such as quotas, tariff barriers, tastes of consumers, and so on According to the above reasons, crude oil and garment have not advantages to become industries as comparative advantage for Vietnam ... services and marketing channels were lacking, and there was low awareness among farmers and processors with respect to hygienic standards, quality tools and chemical monitoring All these constraints...

Ngày tải lên: 18/05/2015, 03:46

... Usefulness of artificial liver support for pretransplant patients with fulminant hepatic failure Transplant Proc 2004, 36:2355-2356 Mita A, Hashikura Y, Tagawa Y, Nakayama J, Kawakubo M, Miyagawa S: Expression ... liver injury, as are aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) It is common to regard monitoring serum LDH as of little value because it is produced in various organs and the specificity ... transplantation: an analysis of 1309 cases in a 15-year national survey Hepatol Res 2004, 30:155-161 Sekido H, Matsuo K, Takeda K, Ueda M, Morioka D, Kubota T, Tanaka K, Endo I, Togo S, Shimada...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... cardiovascular disease, and diabetes Awareness of prescribed medications and any dosage changes is important due to the effects they may have on serum urate levels Patients should be made aware ... that dosage changes of certain drugs may precipitate a gouty attack as well as bringing to their attention the effect of aspirin on serum urate levels Awareness of radiographic changes associated ... performed five days later and were read by a radiologist The radiographs revealed well-marginated juxta-articular bony erosions at the radial styloid process and the dorsal rim of the distal radius with...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... board European aircraft Materials and methods This study originates from the surgical department of an academic teaching hospital (Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Augusta Krankenanstalt, ... registered commercial aircraft with more than one flight attendant or 12 seats to carry an automatic external defibrillator (AED) Although most large national European national airlines carry AEDs, some ... Braunschweig, Germany) and the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA; Cologne, Germany) regulate aviation on the national and continental level They regulate by law the contents of an on-board...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

... Sinuses, Nasolacrimal Passageways and Olfactory Organs in Man Philadelphia: P Blakiston’s Son; 1920 Som PM, cCurtin HD Head and neck imaging In: Som PM, Shugar JMA, Brandwein MS, eds Anatomy and Physiology, ... endoscopic and microscopic approaches In: Clemente MP, ed Surgical Anatomy of the Paranasal Sinus Stuttgart: Thieme; 2003: 1-55 Pondé JM, Metzger P, Amaral G, Machado M, Prandini M Anatomic variations ... (age, gender, hormones, and craniofacial configuration) and environmental (climatic conditions and local inflammations) factors control the frontal sinus configuration within each population and...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:04