neurological effects and cognitive development

... programme in England, Wales and Northern Ireland) were for Table Age and disease history characteristics of ESRF patients discharged alive from ICU following an episode of critical illness and a comparator ... Rowan K: Case mix, outcome and length of stay for admissions to adult, general critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre Case ... 28.3% and 38%, respectively, and confirmed the increased illness severity and mortality conferred by ESRF compared with non-dialysed patients Survival at six months was 52.2% Hutchison and colleagues...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... last viral load assessment and censoring at time of death and loss of follow up Rates of changes in drug regimens and drug toxicities were assessed using Poisson models and simple descriptive statistics ... at CD4 < 50 cells/mm3, and1 9.1% of patients were underweight Men presented at an older age and with more advanced disease (lower CD4 counts, lower BMI, anemia and WHO III and IV disease) compared ... EFV or NVP Second-line HAART consists of AZT, didanosine (DDI), and LPVr Clinical and laboratory (including CD4 count, viral load and hemoglobin) data are collected at all scheduled visits, except...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... adolescent and adult patients with pineal parenchymal gland tumors treated with radiation therapy, to identify outcome, possible prognostic factors and patterns of failure in our patients Materials and ... status and details of radiation therapy (fields and doses) as well as information regarding recurrence pattern In case of relapse, salvage treatment was documented Information concerning early and ... concerning early and late side effects were collected from the patient files The extent of surgical tumor resection was assessed from the surgical and pathological reports and from postoperative imaging...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... respiratory and digestive symptoms such as abdominal discomfort All patients had an elevated hemidiaphragm in chest X-ray and CT or MRI (Figure 1) and paradoxical movement in ultrasound or flouroscopy and ... atelectasis in left lower lobe, and relocation and retraction of mesenteric adipose tissue and colon loops towards diaphragm FEV1 improved by 43.6 ± 30.6% (p < 0.001) and 27.3 ± 10.9% (p < 0.001) ... safe, and non-invasive method without Page of radiation exposure and has replaced the use of radioscopy and EMG [11] The etiology of diaphragm paralysis is usually defined based on the history and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... physicians and the coauthors (Dr Mehdi and Dr Weinberger) Authors' contributions All authors conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination All authors read and approved ... significant for small ventricular septal defect and chronic constipation On examination, she was between 75th and 90th percentile for weight, and between 10th and 25th percentile for height Chest examination ... asthma exacerbations and pneumonia and treated as such several times in her lifetime She had history of transient clinical improvement with antibiotics, bronchodilators and oral corticosteroids...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... and to reduce coercive and inconsistent parenting practices by using consistent and firm discipline Positive effects have been replicated many times across different studies, investigators, and ... specific measure and ranged from 2%9% Long-term efficacy two-parent families Table shows the means, standard deviations, intragroup, and inter-group effects sizes for the parenting and child measures ... Observation and teacher ratings for two-parent families Table shows the means, standard deviations, intragroup, and inter-group effects sizes for the Behavioral Observation FOS variables and the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... relatives, and means able to daily activities, social functions, work routines and organisations without anyone's assistance Cognitive function was assessed using the Bender-Gestalt (BG) test [16] and ... conceptualised, designed, supervised and wrote the study LS statistically analysed the data and wrote the paper MT conducted psychological and clinical assessments, regular follow-up, and data entry NS reviewed ... and wrote the paper GC interpreted data, and reviewed, wrote and formatted the Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Annals of General Psychiatry 2009, 8:24 paper All authors read and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... radiochemotherapy between 1992 and 2005 for primarily inoperable advanced oro -and hypopharyngeal squamous Long-term side effects Most common long-term side effects documented were xerostomia and alterations ... hyperfractionated and accelerated radiotherapy and concurrent chemotherapy with carboplatin and 5fluorouracil: updated results of a randomized multicentric trial in advanced head -and- neck cancer ... head and neck cancer initially published by Staar et al [19] After accelerated and hyperfractionated radiotherapy with concurrent 5-FU and carboplatinum chemotherapy the authors achieved a 1- and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... assessment included standard M mode, 2D and color Doppler study using Sonos 2500 system (Hewlett Packard, Andover, MA, USA) LV volumes and EF were calculated from apical two- and four- chamber cross ... thickness at enddiastole and PWTd = posterior wall thickness at enddiastole, and corrected by ASE - cube conversion Left ventricle mass and volumes were adjusted to body surface area and expressed as ... during 6MWT and their results were excluded from further analysis Statistical analysis Data are expressed as mean value ± standard deviation for continuous variables, and the paired and unpaired...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... the chronically mentally ill Evaluation and Program Planning 1988, 11:51-62 19 Fischer EP: Mental health outcome module development and testing: development and initial validation of the schizophrenia ... facial and oral movements (muscles of facial expression, lips and perioral area, jaw, tongue), extremity movements (upper [arms, wrists, hands, fingers], lower [legs, knees, ankles, toes]), and ... Lilly and Company and/ or its subsidiaries We thank Carlos I Alatorre, PhD for his critical review of the manuscript and Kory Schuh, PhD for providing medical writing services Drs Alatorre and Schuh...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... patients Sepsis is highly correlated with age and comorbidities, and it may be difficult to separate their independent effects on mortality [21] Davidson and coworkers [20] also argued that critical ... was conducted in a surgical ICU, and the patients with sepsis (76%) were mostly admitted after major abdominal surgery and had abdominal sepsis Haraldsen and Andersson [22] retrospectively evaluated ... Between January 2003 and December 2003, a total of 164 patients were included in the study Sixty-six of the patients were admitted because of sepsis (severe sepsis and septic shock), and 98 of the patients...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... manuscript SS–S and TW participated in the design, organization and data collection of the study and performed the statistical analysis AW, CW, HE, and WS participated in the design and coordination ... friendship and social contacts as well as to partnership and sexuality Most of the patients and controls reported good family relations with no significant differences between patients and controls ... conversion and would have been classified as having somatoform disorder according to DSM-IV's terminology (in DSM-IV the term "dissociative" only refers to mental and cognitive symptoms and does...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... functional class, and serial measurements of BNP and NT-proBNP as continuous variables Comparison of time course of BNP and NT-proBNP levels between survivors and nonsurvivors and between BNP and NT-proBNP ... Basel, Switzerland) [23] The intra-assay coefficients of variation are 2.4% and 1.8% at 355 and 4,962 pg/mL, respectively, and the respective interassay coefficients of variation are 2.9% and 2.3% ... 1-year survivors and non-survivors in our study, including lower BMI and eGFR levels and higher cTn and ASAT levels in non-survivors More 1-year survivors were treated with beta-blocker and ARB, diuretics,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... presence and persistence of IgG and IgE anti-influenza antibodies in the serum from those with normal and ele- 243 vated levels of IgE are understandable Our findings appear to be of importance and ... conditions (50-64 y/o), and for children months and older [21, 25] In some countries, vaccination is recommended for health care workers, and caregivers in nursing homes and assisted living facilities ... Reimer CB Immunoglobulin M and G antibody response to type- and subtype-specific antigens after primary and secondary exposures of mice to Influenza A viruses Infect and Immunity 1983;: 510-517...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:10

... social and spiritual well-being [57] Troublesome physical late effects can have a devastating effect on the survivors’ QoL, such as fatigue [11] , menopause symptoms [58] , and sexual [52] and ... in spiritual and reproduction concerns Surgery: same as controls Radiation: lower in physical field Same as healthy in general, cognitive and emotional fields Lower in physical and social fields ... are those of menopause and aging It is important to distinguish effects due to cancer from those due to aging and/ or comorbidities Information on confounding variables and which variables are...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

... Kennedy and White Weightbearing mechanical axis views and CT axis measurements correlated well (r = 0.908) with disagreements and 19 agreements The disagreements were in the adjacent zones and may ... contributions AK collected and analysed data and drafted the manuscript; CWO contributed to statistical analysis and revisions of the manuscript; AJS conceived of the study All authors read and approved the ... (24 knees) returned the questionnaire and 21 patients (23 knees) attended a radiologic and clinical review Of the 24 knees 10 had been navigated (9 reviewed) and 14 non-navigated (14 reviewed) Average...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... Kennedy and White Weightbearing mechanical axis views and CT axis measurements correlated well (r = 0.908) with disagreements and 19 agreements The disagreements were in the adjacent zones and may ... contributions AK collected and analysed data and drafted the manuscript; CWO contributed to statistical analysis and revisions of the manuscript; AJS conceived of the study All authors read and approved the ... (24 knees) returned the questionnaire and 21 patients (23 knees) attended a radiologic and clinical review Of the 24 knees 10 had been navigated (9 reviewed) and 14 non-navigated (14 reviewed) Average...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... the landscape scale [16], of chestnut groves, abandoned chestnut groves and coppice stands [21, 41] This could possibly help managers and foresters to achieve a management and sustainable development ... annuals and wind-dispersed species would characterize the first year after logging, and that long-lived trees and animal-dispersed species would characterize the uncut stand MATERIALS AND METHODS ... according to species diversity and evenness, were very similar to those of the species richness except after thinning Indeed, Shannon index (Fig and Tab I) and evenness (Fig and Tab I) increased quickly...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... numerous examples of recovering virus-free plants (Morel and Martin, 1952; Wang and Hu, 1980), fungi-free plants (Baker and Phillips, 1962), and bacteria-free plants (Knauss, 1976; Theiler, 1977; ... clones established from nodal and shoot-tip explants derived from both juvenile and mature plant materials tip MATERIALS AND METHODS -1 g•l sucrose; -1 (Touzart and Matignon) g•l Depending ... (Murashige and Skoog, 1962) with 1/4 NH ; NO full strength MS micronutrients (Murashige and Skoog, 1962); MS vitamin solution (Murashige and Skoog, -1 1962) complemented with 10 mg•l glutamine and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21