long term results in 59 patients pdf

... accurate in predicting longterm outcome in much older patients Conclusions Our study provides information about short- and longterm outcome for a large group of much older patients in the medical ... relations and spending time by oneself increased with increasing age, suggesting that ‘quality of life’ has a different meaning for older individuals than it does for younger ones In ICU patients, Tabah ... available during ICU stay Third, only very few patients were long- term survivors, and further studies are required to evaluate HRQOL in much older patients in the years following ICU discharge Finally,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... effectiveness of the training Our results are in contrast with those obtained by Maffiuletti et al [12] on morbidly obese individuals In their study, specific balance training, in addition to a body ... them properly at home in the following 6-month training period Our initial hypothesis was that balance is mainly reduced in PWS because of muscle weakness [7] and our training addressed the muscle ... showing that long- term strengthening and gait training is feasible and effective, with the present investigation we aimed to verify if the reduced balance could be amended by specific training...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... 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 ... performed in a FACScalibur (Becton Dickinson, San José, CA) using a 488 nm argon laser, and each sample was analyzed in a Macintosh Quadra 650 minicomputer (Apple computer Inc., Cupertino, CA) ... 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

... SPO, in early unifying firms, controlling shareholders increased their voting power ex ante by more than in late unifying firms, and, in the long- term, experienced a small (0.3 percentage points) ... aggregate inter-temporal changes in firm valuation) The results (not tabulated) indicate a small improvement in Q following a decline in the controlling shareholders’ power — a 10% decline in either ... matching between unifying and control (non-unifying) firms is as explained in Table Mean difference in the controlling shareholders’ voting power between unifying and non-unifying firms in year...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 01:20

... since in the cases not diagnosed early, the diaphragm becomes very thin, causing ruptures at the suture line and preventing the tightening of the diaphragm Pleural space was drained using single ... hospital stay was days Two patients (15.3%) experienced a superficial wound infection None of the patients died at longterm follow-up Radiological findings In eleven patients, position of the ... treatment for long- term in unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis and showed improvement of spirometry findings at longterm period up to 14 years [5] Similar results were also reported by Ribet and Linder...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... weeks before conditioning Prophylaxis for acute GVHD was a calcineurin inhibitor alone (n = 5), calcineurin inhibitor plus short -term methotrexate (n = 32), calcineurin inhibitor plus mycophenolate ... (n = 3) The calcineurin inhibitor included cyclosporine administered to 33 patients and tacrolimus to six patients End points The absence of post-transplant remission in some patients biased ... examined long- term outcomes for more than five years following allo-HCT in adult patients with acute leukemia not in remission [9] This study showed that several pre-transplant variables including...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21

... Figure intraperitoneal fluid mass in Couinaud segment and segment of the liver and Abdominal computed tomography on admission showing a Abdominal computed tomography on admission showing a mass in ... abdominal pain for hours The patient's initial blood pressure was 88/58 mmHg and his heart rate was 109 beats/minute Laboratory data were within normal limits except for the hemoglobin and alanine ... pulmonary metastasectomy in patients with HCC Abbreviations CT: computed tomography; HCC: hepatocellular carcinoma Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/2/1/222...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... hours in the treatment of acute spinal cord injury Results of the Third National Acute Spinal Cord Injury Randomized Controlled Trial National Acute Spinal Cord Injury Study JAMA 1997, 277: 1597 -1604 ... concomitant spinal cord injury, leaving unanswered the question of whether patients with combined head and spinal cord injury should receive steroids The key question that remains is why corticosteroid-treated ... Complications, such as seizures, gastrointestinal bleeding, and infection, were similar in both groups The authors note that they remain unsure of the mechanism of increased mortality with steroids...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... long- term prognosis, which is mainly determined by preexisting illnesses • Long- term survival in chronically critically ill surgical patients is reasonably good after successful surgery and intensive ... and treatments applied during intensive care According to our findings, the greater case fatality rate in long- term survivors must predominantly be attributed to pre-existing diseases, especially ... of short -term and long- term survival Our analysis is the largest to describe the determinants and secular trends in acute and long- term mortality over a 12-year period in postoperative patients...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... the remaining concentrations did not have any increasing or decreasing trends DISCUSSION In previous studies analyzing long- term trends regarding water quality and/or pollutant load in rivers, ... affected by the long- term trend of precipitation Comparison of five-year data sets Long- term trends in water quality were also analyzed by comparing three data sets, each containing data collected ... affected the water quality in the following way In forests (covering approximately two-thirds of the land in Japan), delayed thinning of conifer plantations (covering approximately 40% of all...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... education of individuals planning to work in long- term care It contains a wide range of information they will need as they provide leadership in the long- term care arena This handbook is also intended ... for administrators and policy makers This text grew out of my long- standing interest in long- term care During varied work experiences, I have seen that: Ⅲ A person, even one with diminishing abilities, ... reminds the reader of the administrator’s importance in the culture of an organization, saying, in long- term care, leadership is the soil in which a culture of care can grow.” In Chapter 14, Vincent...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 19:20

... Paddington? Car Existing rail High speed rail mins 15 mins hours 30 mins hours 30 mins 15 mins hour hour 30 mins hours 45 mins hours 30 mins mins hours 40 mins hour 10 mins 10 mins hour 35 mins ... and Paddington? Car Existing rail 15 m ins hour hour 30 m ins hours 45 mins m ins 15 m ins hours 30 mins hours 30 m ins m ins hours 40 mins hour 10 m ins 10 m ins hour 35 mins 90% on time 90% on ... time" (arrive within 10 mins of expected arrival time) Air Existing rail mins hours 30 mins hours 30 mins 15 mins hour hour 30 mins hours 45 mins hours 30 mins mins hours 40 mins 90% on time 90%...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... Shopping Getting in and out of a bed or chair Light housework 7% 4% 4% C ooking\ preparing meals 4% Moving around at home 3% Bathing or showering 3% Dressing and undressing 3% Taking care of finances ... Care” INTRODUCTION Confronted with rising long- term care needs due to an increasingly ageing population, the European Union is supporting the Member States in their efforts to improve health and long- term ... 4.2 Paying for the long- term care of a parent 85 RECEIVING LONG- TERM CARE 91 5.1 Likelihood of receiving appropriate care in the future 91 5.2 Expected and preferred form of long- term...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... relevance In the study of White (2005), factors used for ranking sentences include the position of sentence in the source document, the words contained in sentence and the number of query terms contained ... Collins-Thompson, Paul Ogilvie, Yi Zhang, and Jamie Callan 2002 Information filtering, Novelty detection, and named-page finding In Proceedings of the 11th Text REtrieval Conference, National Institute ... query terms, hence the assumption of dependence occurring among any query terms is considered more reasonable The dependences among all query terms will be defined in this paper Based on this definition,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... Rehabilitation: Guidelines for exercises and training London: Butterworth Heinemann; 2003 Barbeau H, Visintin M: Optimal outcomes obtained with body-weight support combined with treadmill training in stroke ... trial of weight-supported treadmill training versus conventional training for walking during inpatient rehabilitation after incomplete traumatic spinal cord injury Neurorehabil Neural Repair 2003, ... of stair climbing had to be stopped every two to five minutes as the heart rate exceeded the level of 120 beats/min, in the last week he sustained eight minutes stair climbing training without...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... EWWG and SM were involved in all of the data collection, statistical analysis and interpretation as well as drafting of the final manuscript TAHC was involved in editing the final manuscript and ... done using the Unpaired T test A value of p < 0.001 was taken as significant All patients were followed up in clinic at weeks, month and then at monthly intervals All patients had a minimum of ... performed patients with equovical findings The patients were included in the study after obtaining written, informed consent Two different outcome scoring measures were used to evaluate the effectiveness...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... EWWG and SM were involved in all of the data collection, statistical analysis and interpretation as well as drafting of the final manuscript TAHC was involved in editing the final manuscript and ... done using the Unpaired T test A value of p < 0.001 was taken as significant All patients were followed up in clinic at weeks, month and then at monthly intervals All patients had a minimum of ... performed patients with equovical findings The patients were included in the study after obtaining written, informed consent Two different outcome scoring measures were used to evaluate the effectiveness...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... and in response to changing circumstances [4] Individualised measures of QoL (IQoL) increase respondents' discretion in selecting the domains most important to their QoL and, in determining the ... they should be using the same internal criteria for rating T1 as they are now using for rating T2 Differences between the original T1 rating and the retrospective T1 rating indicate response ... assessments using the then-test were significantly lower that the Index scores generated using the original baseline data (original baseline: 75.0; then-test baseline: 69.2, p < 001) When Index scores...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... screening tool the HADS scale is increasing in popularity, particularly in clinical settings, because of its ease of administration and independence from physical symptomatology After reviewing ... making it quick and easy to use in clinical settings Since its publication in the early 1980's the HADS has been used in a growing number of studies across a variety of patient groups and clinical ... percent of patients reported pain in the lower back, 20% in an upper or lower limb, 15% in the cervical region and 10% in other locations Procedure The HADS is routinely administered to all patients...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... research into the content validity of PRISM-RII is warranted, including cognitive debriefing sessions It is not clear if using a single question on degree of suffering in this context is indeed ... located in the centre of one's life than in the bottom right corner In addition, in our experience with the original PRISM, several patients put the illness disk in the center of the sheet, commenting ... relevant information to existing measures of psychological well-being and insight into the patients' illness perceptions The non-verbal PRISM-RII is a promising tool that can be used both in research...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20