outcomes other than mortality between patients treated with in center hemodialysis and peritonal dialysis
Báo cáo y học: "One year mortality of patients treated with an emergency department based early goal directed therapy protocol for severe sepsis and septic shock: a before and after study" doc
Ngày tải lên :
13/08/2014, 19:20
... Karlsson and colleagues reported the in- hospital and one-year mortality of severe sepsis in Finland [16] Their findings are similar to our pre-implementation group with the same in- hospital mortality ... difference in hospital length of stay between the control and EGDT group and did not report mean ICU length of stay This increase in resources utilized in the ICU is a finding that deserves more investigation ... ICU -treated adults in Finland: the Finnsepsis study Intensive Care Med 2007, 33:435-443 Sarnak MJ, Jaber BL: Mortality caused by sepsis in patients with end-stage renal disease compared with the general...
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Báo cáo y học: "Cytokine polymorphisms influence treatment outcomes in SLE patients treated with antimalarial drugs" ppsx
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09/08/2014, 07:20
... presence of other cytokines, this being particularly true in the case of IL-10 and TNFα, which are mutually regulated and have complex and predominantly opposing roles in systemic inflammatory ... blocked with 1% casein in Tris Buffered Saline (TBS) for two hours at 37°C Samples and TNFα standards (R&D) were diluted in blocking solution and incubated for 18 serum levels in systemic lupus ... Liangxi W, Guofu D, Ping L, Yongling L, Wendong P, Minghai W: Chloroquine protects mice from challenge with CpG ODN and LPS by decreasing proinflammatory cytokine release Int Immunopharmacol 2004,...
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Báo cáo y học: "Early reduction in painful physical symptoms is associated with improvements in long-term depression outcomes in patients treated with duloxetine" pdf
Ngày tải lên :
11/08/2014, 15:22
... Changes in PPS were assessed by using self-rated VAS for overall pain, headache, shoulder/neck pain, back pain, joint pain, thoracic pain, and abdominal pain Changes in painful and non-painful ... serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) duloxetine [14], venlafaxine [21] and milnacipran [22] have shown efficacy in the treatment of pain and depression Duloxetine is a SNRI with ... reduction in VAS for overall pain and SSI between baseline and weeks instead of at weeks Post-hoc, this model was repeated for patients with clinically relevant (> 30 mm) baseline pain only The...
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Báo cáo y học: "Two-year Outcome of Turkish Patients Treated with Zotarolimus Versus Paclitaxel Eluting Stents in an Unselected Population with Coronary Artery Disease in the Real World: A Prospective Non-randomized Registry in Southern Turk
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25/10/2012, 11:18
... patients were pretreated with aspirin and clopidogrel A loading dose of 300 mg clopidogrel was administered before the procedure for patients who were not previously pretreated with asprin and clopidogrel ... groups In hospital incidence of MACE was 1.7% in ZES treated group and 1.9% in PES treated group (p:0.6) Long-term clinical outcomes Two-year clinical follow-ups were completed for 214 patients ... 1.7% in our ZES treated group On the other hand, the incidence of non-Q wave MI ranged from 1%, to 5.6% in first four ENDEAVOR trials whilst registering at 2.6% in the ZES treated group in our...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Epidermal growth factor receptor gene copy number in 101 advanced colorectal cancer patients treated with chemotherapy plus cetuximab" doc
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18/06/2014, 16:20
... found in patients treated with Cetuximab plus chemotherapy as second or more line with or without an increased EGFR-GCN (p = 0.03) In our population 89/101 patients were treated with combination ... treatment advantage in untreated and pretreated patients This effect was maintained in the subset of k-ras evaluated patients Integration of this information with that coming from other molecular ... of patients can be separated according to the line of chemotherapy and EGFR-GCN Patients treated as first line and with an increased EGFR-GCN had the best PFS but a significant difference in...
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Báo cáo hóa học: "DNA polymeraseh protein expression predicts treatment response and survival of metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma patients treated with oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy" pot
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18/06/2014, 16:20
... oxaliplatin in combination with continuous infusional 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin (modified FOLFOX-4 regimen) as first-line chemotherapy for elderly patients with advanced gastric cancer Am J Clin ... (fluorouracil, leucovorin and oxaliplatin) or XELOX (capecitabine and oxaliplatin) regimen as first-line chemotherapy at Cancer Center of Sun Yat-sen University, and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded pretreatment ... of advanced gastric cancer patients [14-16] Oxaliplatin and cisplatin share the similar mechanism, and cause mono-adducts and intra-strand or inter-strand cross-links in the double DNA helix that...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Substitutions in the Reverse Transcriptase and Protease Genes of HIV-1 Subtype B in Untreated Individuals and Patients Treated With Antiretroviral Drugs" potx
Ngày tải lên :
20/06/2014, 08:20
... among untreated patients, and this may be a result of spontaneous mutation In contrast, the GA hypermutation was not more prevalent in treated patients than AG transitions, and in PI -treated patients ... leading to the inclusion of an adenosine instead of guanosine in positive-stranded cDNA This results in mutant viruses that contain several GA changes With cell passage, more GA mutations in ... nucleotide substitutions in RT and PR in Numbers of nucleotide substitutions in RT and PR in untreated patients (Values represent means for each transition between patients ± standard error of the...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Nutrition outcomes of HIV-infected malnourished adults treated with ready-to-use therapeutic food in sub-Saharan Africa: a longitudinal study" ppt
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20/06/2014, 08:20
... provides outpatient and inpatient HIV and tuberculosis (TB) care The Mathare clinic is a stand-alone clinic, located in Nairobi, providing HIV and TB treatment and care for people living in the slum ... compilation and analysis, and findings were shared with our partners in the health ministries Page of To investigate associations with NP failure, factors significantly associated with the outcome in ... failure, including death, compared with patients already on ART These findings highlight the importance of integrating HIV and nutrition care to carefully monitor patient eligibility for ART and initiate...
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báo cáo hóa học: " F-fluoride PET: changes in uptake as a method to assess response in bone metastases from castrate-resistant prostate cancer patients treated with 223Ra-chloride (Alpharadin)" pdf
Ngày tải lên :
21/06/2014, 02:20
... therapy for bone metastases remains at an early enough time point to be clinically relevant in informing clinical management decisions and for measuring early response in clinical trials A qualitative ... imaging with 18 F-fluoride PET and PET/CT has shown increased diagnostic accuracy compared to 99mTc-MDP planar and/ or single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging in prostate and other ... carcinoma treated with orchidectomy Eur J Nucl Med 1988, 14:203-206 Sundkvist GM, Björk T, Kjellström H, Lilja B: Quantitative bone scintigraphy in patients with prostatic carcinoma treated with...
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Báo cáo y học: "Serum cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) decreases in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with infliximab or etanercept" pot
Ngày tải lên :
09/08/2014, 01:21
... values) in CRP between time points correlate with those in COMP The CRP values decreased significantly in the ACR20 responders in both infliximab- and etanercepttreated patients (P < 0.001 and P ... decreased in 15 of the 17 patients, whereas in the infliximab group, serum COMP decreased in 23 patients and remained unchanged or increased in patients (no significant difference between the groups) ... multicenter, double-blind, dose-ranging, randomized, placebo-controlled study of recombinant human interleukin-1 receptor antagonist in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: radiologic progression and...
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Báo cáo y học: "Circulating tumour necrosis factor-α bioactivity in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with infliximab: link to clinical respone" pot
Ngày tải lên :
09/08/2014, 06:22
... modulation in circulating bioactivity was observed in patients with low circulating TNF-α bioactivity before infliximab therapy (n = 8; Fig 4c) A link was observed between these patterns and the clinical ... factorinfliximab bioactivity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients treated with (TNF)-α matoid arthritis (RA) patients treated with infliximab Using this bioassay three patterns were observed and ... prolonged inhibition in circulating TNFα bioactivity, suggesting the critical contribution of systemic TNF-α in these patients In another third of the patients circulating TNF-α bioactivity was inhibited...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Normalization of prostate specific antigen in patients treated with intensity modulated radiotherapy for clinically localized prostate cancer" pot
Ngày tải lên :
09/08/2014, 09:20
... normalization of 95 days longer than patients with stage T1 tumors and 221 days longer than patients with stage T3 tumors when normalizing to PSA < ng/mL Similarly, patients with stage T2 tumors had ... 2005, 133 patients with clinical stage T1c to T3b prostate cancer (using the 2002 AJCC staging system) treated in a community setting were reviewed for time to PSA normalization All patients received ... endpoint PSA levels were normalized to below ng/mL in 119 of the 133 total patients in the follow-up period Information on NAAD was available for 80 of these patients Those patients treated with...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Low early ototoxicity rates for pediatric medulloblastoma patients treated with proton radiotherapy" pptx
Ngày tải lên :
09/08/2014, 09:20
... of between 54 and 55.8 CGE Relevant details regarding radiation targets and doses are included in Table All patients received platinum-based chemotherapy, with a median cumulative cisplatin dose ... of variables apart from radiation and chemotherapy dose in determining ototoxicity rates for these patients Within the relatively narrow range of cisplatin and cochlear radiation doses delivered ... Ototoxicity in children receiving platinum chemotherapy: underestimating a commonly occurring toxicity that may influence academic and social development J Clin Oncol 2005, 23:8588-8596 Kolinsky DC,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Combined low initial DNA damage and high radiation-induced apoptosis confers clinical resistance to long-term toxicity in breast cancer patients treated with high-dose radiotherapy" pdf
Ngày tải lên :
09/08/2014, 09:20
... Thus, increasing numbers of radiation induced DSB were related to severe late subcutaneous toxicity in LABC patients treated with HF [18] In the other hand, determination of radiation-induced ... been involved in conception and design of the study and has made the DNA-DSB experiments and analyses PCL has been involved in conception and design of the study and in drafting the manuscript and ... background and our previously observations, we explored the clinical association between initial DNA damage and RIA in relation to radiation-induced toxicity in the set of LABC patients treated with...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "The evolution of rectal and urinary toxicity and immune response in prostate cancer patients treated with two three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy techniques" ppt
Ngày tải lên :
09/08/2014, 09:20
... with the patients in supine position (using knee and ankle supports) with an emptied rectum and “comfortably full” bladder filling 3D conformal treatment planning based on CT images with mm thickness, ... were stained with the antibody mixture for 30 on ice, washed, and measured with a Becton Dickinson LSRII instrument (BD Biosciences) We included single-stain controls for further offline compensation ... dynamics are summarized in Table The values of the last late GI and GU toxicity observed in patients during their last inspection are shown In the cohort of patients included in the WP group, pretreatment...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Constitutive gene expression profile segregates toxicity in locally advanced breast cancer patients treated with high-dose hyperfractionated radical radiotherapy" pot
Ngày tải lên :
09/08/2014, 09:22
... from un-irradiated and irradiated lymphocytes and the development of toxicity due to RT in patients with LABC Patients and methods Twelve consecutive patients treated between 1991 and 1997 by a hyperfractionated ... aspects related with the patients selected EB and CRG have made the irradiation experiments with lymphocytes and the obtaining of samples CB and LFP have been involved in revising the manuscript critically ... of hyperfractionated and accelerated radiotherapy and combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy regimens in unresected locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck BMC Cancer 2006,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " Monte Carlo dose verification of prostate patients treated with simultaneous integrated boost intensity modulated radiation therapy" ppsx
Ngày tải lên :
09/08/2014, 09:22
... relative % differences between SC and MC calculated dose-volume indices including standard deviation and the range of dose-volume indices Structure Dose-volume index Range of Indices (%) Average ... and rectum were within 3% for the majority of the patients This is within our clinical accept- Figure Relative percent differences between SC and MC calculated plans for the PTVprostate D98 and ... SC and MC calculated dosevolume indices agreed within 3% for both target and critical structures For example, twenty out of twenty-two patients had the SC and MC calculated indices agree within...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " Audiological findings in patients treated with radio- and concomitant chemotherapy for head and neck tumors" potx
Ngày tải lên :
09/08/2014, 10:20
... accordance with the results of Pearson et al., who retrospectively evaluated audiological findings in 15 patients with head and neck tumors, treated with radio- and concomitant chemotherapy, using the ... ears with mixed hearing loss (one with a mild hearing loss and with a moderate hearing loss) The other 29 ears presented sensorineural hearing loss of unknown etiology: ears showed mild sensorineural ... treatment; to establish a link between the findings obtained and the factors related to the treatment, including the cumulative dose of chemotherapy, the total dose of radiotherapy, and the volume irradiated...
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Báo cáo y học: "Characteristics of repair tissue in second-look and third-look biopsies from patients treated with engineered cartilage: relationship to symptomatology and time after implantation" ppsx
Ngày tải lên :
09/08/2014, 13:22
... tissues between the two treated groups of patients (biopsies obtained longer than 18 months after surgery and biopsies obtained within 18 months of surgery) P < 0.05 was considered significant No intrapatient ... characteristics biopsy with hyaline characteristics taken 14 months after Hyalograft® C Autograft implantation (a) H & E and eosin staining (b) Glycosaminoglycan (safranin-O) staining (c) Collagen ... be used in in vitro cartilage tissue reconstruction with impressive results in terms of grafting and clinical outcome In the three asymptomatic patients who received both second-look and third-look...
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Báo cáo y học: " Myeloid dendritic cells correlate with clinical response whereas plasmacytoid dendritic cells impact autoantibody development in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with infliximab" pdf
Ngày tải lên :
09/08/2014, 14:22
... each infliximab infusion (c) Detecting IFNα in serum of RA patients treated by infliximab and developing or not ANA IFNα levels (pg/ml) were measured in peripheral blood of RA patients under infliximab ... healthy donors, from RA patients treated by infliximab and developing ANAs, and from SLE patients were cultured in the presence of influenza virus with or without the TNFα blocker, infliximab After ... double-stranded DNA induced in rheumatoid arthritis patients following treatment with infliximab, a monoclonal antibody to tumor necrosis factor alpha: findings in open-label and randomized placebo-controlled...
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