opportunistic infections in patients with cancer

... treatment with TNF antagonists may reduce the incidence of emerging opportunistic infections. 51 52 Vaccinations (Table 2) Vaccines are certainly underutilised in patients with IBD. In the USA, in 2005, ... in the case of lymphopenia, CD4 lymphocyte count c C-reactive protein c Urine analysis in patients with a history of urinary tract infection, and urinary symptoms c VZV serology in patients without ... bacterial infections. 87–91 PCT has not been formally tested in IBD patients with suspected infections, and cannot be recommended in routine practice. Nevertheless, given the promising interest in this

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... not receiving colony growth factor support and in patients receiving mucotoxic regimens consisting of cytarabine plus anthracyclines This finding is consistent with the bowel being a principal ... established infections is unproven, it may be considered in the setting of profound neutropenia (ANC < 100/mcL) and in serious infections, including invasive fungal infection (Category 2B) in cases ... with increased mortality occurring in older patients, in patients with poorly controlled malignancy, and in cases in which Candida (Torulopsis) glabrata was isolated.6 However, blood stream infection

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2017, 19:28

... pathway activity in three subgroups of patients: SLE patients with one or more major infections, patients with SLE who experienced minor infections only, and SLE patients without any infections (Figure ... following subgroups were considered: SLE patients with one or more major infections versus SLE patients without major infections, SLE patients with one or more major infections versus patients ... obtain information on documented infections since diagnosis of SLE. Major infections were defined as infections requiring hospital admission and intravenous administration of antibiotics. In total,

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... Changing and maintaining body position d410 Changing basic body position x d415 Maintaining a body position x x x Carrying moving and handling objects d430 Lifting and carrying objects x d440 Fine ... before, patients in stage 1 did not report eating and drinking as impaired, whereas patients in stage 2 did. In addition, only the patients in stage 2 experienced improvements in eating and drinking ... as HPN in a vulnerable population with cancer. Background Weight loss is a common and serious problem in patients with cancer [1-3]. In patients with cancer in the abdomi- nal cavity weight loss

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... malnutrition in studies including patients with a specific kind or stage of cancer as documented in a large cohort study from Italy including 1952 patients with various types and stages of cancer There, ... well-nourished patients in multivariable analyses In a subgroup analysis in of these studies, the relation remained only significant in patients receiving palliative chemotherapy but not in patients with ... a decline in health-related quality of life compared to well-nourished patients In one of these studies, this effect was not maintained in in the multivariable analysis in patients receiving chemotherapy

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... Gastrointestinal, STAS-J scale Liver and Breast Cancer Liver cancer Gastrointestinal, Breast, Lung, and other Cancer Lung cancer Gastrointestinal cancer Lung cancer Gastrointestinal cancer Gastrointestinal, ... Unknown Gastrointestinal cancer Lung cancer Unknown Gastrointestinal cancer Unknown Liver cancer Gastrointestinal, Breast, Lung, and other Cancer Liver cancer Unknown Gastrointestinal, Breast, ... life in patients with gastrointestinal malignant tumor Chin J Behav Med Brain Sci 2012;21(8):709–11 23 Luo J, Wu F, Zheng D Influence of informed status on the quality of life of patients with

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... and February 2017, cancer patients receiving chemotherapy infusions or follow-up cancer care were recruited to participate in art therapy sessions Patients meeting the following inclusion criteria ... research These findings are consistent with other studies reporting the benefit of art therapy in cancer, [32] on emotions in women with breast cancer [33], and as a form of mindfulness that ... assessing distress in oncology, several providers either not routinely address distress, not use screening instruments in their assessment, or not feel they have adequate training in addressing

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 01:39

... distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Double primary malignancies associated with colon Cancer in patients with Situs Inversus Totalis: Two Case ... esophageal cancers in a 49-year-old male with SIT (5) and one case of synchronous esophageal and gastric cancers in a 58-year-old male with situs ambiguus with polysplenia were reported (6). Herein, ... colon cancer ranges from 0.5 to 3.6% (8). According to Galiatsatos et al. (9), 41 cases of malignancy in patients with situs abnormalities including SIT and situs ambiguus were found in the

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:21

... consistent with other results showing no benefit in povidone-iodine use for prevention of wound infection [29]. Conclusion In summary the basic aspects of TRD in patients with gas- trointestinal cancer ... Surgical Oncology Open Access Research Taurolidine reduces the tumor stimulating cytokine interleukin-1beta in patients with resectable gastrointestinal cancer: a multicentre prospective randomized ... Povidone-iodine lavage is commonly used abdominal disinfectant. In our study the subcutaneous wound infec- tion rate was higher in the povidone-iodine group com- pared to the TRD group. These findings

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... Twenty-eight patients had previously been treated with hepatic surgery, 54 with prior systemic chemotherapy, including FOLFOX in 35 patients, FOLFIRI in 15, Avastin in 37 patients, and other biologics in ... treated with Irinotecan drug eluting beads with liver dominant hepatic metastasis after fail-ing standard chemotherapy b) Overall Survival of patients treated with Irinotecan drug eluting beads with ... report but including at least 13 deaths [...]... been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content MR have been involved in drafting the

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... techniques in recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma is feasible and yields encouraging results in terms of local control and overall survival in patients with acceptable toxicity in patients with less ... regarding the distribution of dose to organs at risk see table 3. Regular follow-up examinations took place in our institution or in the referring centers including at least clinical examination ... toxicities mainly in patients with con- current systemic treatment. Most patients developed a minor mucositis, a grade III mucositis was found only in two patients, with one of them suffering from

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... anti-tumour activities in human prostate cancer in vivo and in vitro. Although in vitro data indicated that the combination of COX-2 inhibition and radiation was not associated with an increased toxicity, ... providing informed consent. Further inclusion criteria were normal levels of hemoglobin, leukocytes, platelets, creatinine, urea, GGT, AP, AST, ALT, bilirubine, creatinine clearance > 50 ml/min ... (gastrointestinal and genitouri- nary). This finding may simply reflect a certain lack of precision for the definition of grade 1 effects using the RTOG criteria, allowing inaccuracies when comparing

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... Inter- fraction interval in patients with stage III non-small-cell lung cancer treated with hyperfractionated radiation therapy with or without concurrent chemotherapy: final results in 536 patients. ... radiotherapy was combined with concom- itant cisplatin and in 26 cases with 2 courses of neo-adju- vant cisplatin and gemcitabin. In total 49 patients received radiotherapy without chemotherapy. ... start on Thursday) in 21 patients, in five patients the treat- ment was interrupted for acute side effects and in three patients the reason for interruption was not clear. In 5 patients the OTT

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... or angina; carcinomatous meningitis; or uncontrolled infection. Patients with a h istory of brain metastases, or another uncontrolled primary cancer were ineligible. All patients signed an Informed ... among patients with advanced lung cancer. Methods: This cross-sectional and case control study was conducted in 84 patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer in a hospital setting for the patients ... for a linear increasing or decreasing trend and subsequently determining the probability that the s lope of the best-fitting line is different from zero. Using the same technique, the cosinor method

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... proved to be highly discriminating in distinguishing lung cancer patients from healthy controls, but breath analyses can be affected by both clinical and analytical confounding variables [9]. The ... studies have included mixed groups of patients with primary small or non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and lung metastases, and did not compare VOC levels in lung cancer patients with those in asymptomatic ... levels were higher in NSCLC patients than in the control non-smok- ers and COPD patients, which suggests its potential use- fulness in screening procedures (probably in combination with other relevant

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... Rodnan skin score was higher in patients with alveolitis than in patients without (p = 0.038). Modified Rodnan skin score > 14 [9] was observed in 8 (50.0%) patients with alveolitis and in 5 (19.2%) ... autoantibodies when compared to patients without alveolitis (Table 4). Diffuse skin involvement was present in 12 (75.0%) patients with alveolitis: patients with diffuse skin involve- ment and ground ... eycombing involving up to 25% of the lobe, 3- honeycombing involving 25–49% of the lobe, 4- honey- combing involving 50–75% of the lobe, 5- honeycomb- ing involving > 75% of the lobe for interstitial

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... marker in patients with community-acquired infections. Methods Patients suspected of having infections/ sepsis and admitted to a department of internal medicine were included in the study in a prospective ... differences in HMGB1 levels between the following groups: non-infected patients, infected patients without SIRS, patients with sepsis, and patients with severe sepsis (Table 3; Figure 1). When all infected ... inducing acute lung injury and produc- tion of pro-inflammatory cytokines/mediators in the lungs; pro- moting translocation in the gut; inducing arthritis and joint inflammation; affecting heart

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... described in Methods, we computed a continuous prognostic score (PS) based on the grouping defined in the training set A Cox proportional hazards model on the training set (CoxTrain) using PS to ... protein synthesis machinery including phosphorylated S6 ribosomal protein and 4EBP1, a group with overexpression of stromal markers including collagen VI, CD31 and caveolin1, and a group defined ... 168) in two cohorts of patients with primary breast cancer A score was constructed using ordinal logistic regression to quantify the probability of recurrence in the training set and tested in

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... common cancer affecting women in Scotland, accounting for 28% of all cancers in the Scottish female population (World Cancer Research Fund 2013) Breast cancer in Scotland has increased ... of a clinically significant change in hand size with treatment. The studies would support the use of the figure of eight method for monitoring hand oedema in patients presenting with BCRL. ... method, the subject numbers with this increase and patients with difficulty in achieving the standardised position in the volumeter page 109 Table 14: The change in affected hand size for the

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 21:42

... with clinical outcome in patients with CRC treated with 5-FU In a study of 221 CRC patients treated with 5-FU, an improvement in overall survival was seen in patients with ... 82 OTHER AfiAm AfiAm Afica-indian Afica-indian AfrAm AfrAm AfrAm Arab Arab Argentina Argentina Brazil Canada (Inuit) Croatian HispAm HispAm India India Indian Indian Indian Indonesia Mexico S Africa Sub ... in patients with advanced CRC In a retrospective study of patients with metastatic CRC, the response rate of patients receiving oxaliplatin/5-FU was significantly higher in patients

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