significance in clinical practice

... Extraarticular Intraarticular involving radiocarpal joint Intraarticular involving distal radioulnar joint Intraarticular involving radiocarpal and distal radioulnar joint I III II IV V VI VII VIII ... line passing from anterior body through the inferior subchondral plate Stage IV: Inferoposterior margin displaced

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:20

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... Figure Outline of a PACS infrastructure comprising the most common components in an imaging institution Figure Evolution of PACS research and current trends Medical Imaging in Clinical Practice ... of art in museums and images in the internet, but we know of no use-case in a clinical context Other, more complex types of query can be expressed over these Medical Imaging in Clinical Practice ... DICOM and Clinical Data Mining in a Small Hospital PACS: A Pilot Study In Communications in Computer and Informa‐ tion Science; 2011: Springer Berlin Heidelberg p 254-263 [37] Medical Visual Information...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:21

... an instructor of Occlusion, Pre -Clinical Fixed Prosthodontics, Integrated Clinical Sciences and maintains a part-time private practice in San Francisco, California Marina Wasche DDS, BS Marina ... opening and in the closing movements? In general, a late opening and early closing joint sound indicates a greater dysfunctional diagnosis than an early opening, late closing joint sound This information ... brain is associated with verbal, logical, and analytical thinking It excels in naming and categorizing things, symbolic abstraction, speech, reading, writing, and arithmetic The right brain,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 11:20

... Figure Outline of a PACS infrastructure comprising the most common components in an imaging institution Figure Evolution of PACS research and current trends Medical Imaging in Clinical Practice ... of art in museums and images in the internet, but we know of no use-case in a clinical context Other, more complex types of query can be expressed over these Medical Imaging in Clinical Practice ... DICOM and Clinical Data Mining in a Small Hospital PACS: A Pilot Study In Communications in Computer and Informa‐ tion Science; 2011: Springer Berlin Heidelberg p 254-263 [37] Medical Visual Information...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 09:20

... widely implemented in clinical practice This may be explained by the initial lack of convincing data regarding the effectiveness of standardized HRQoL measurement in actually improving HRQoL or psychosocial ... physicians in the experimental group requested the information in 92% of the consultations, discussing it with their patients in 58% of the consultations They indicated finding the HRQoL information ... can instantly be accessed by clinicians The aim of the present study was to gain more insight in the practical and attitudinal feasibility problems encountered during the process of implementing...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... EFVcontaining 3- or 4-drug combinations in a blinded fashion found the EFV-based regimens to be more effective at suppressing viral replication and maintaining that suppression, regardless of baseline ... for this combination of drugs is not due to an adverse pharmacologic interaction Nonthymidine-Containing ("TAM-Sparing") t-NRTI Regimens as Initial ART Clinical trials that have investigated ... caused many clinicians to be cautious, and often confused, about using t-NRTI in current practice Recently, t-NRTI combinations that contain tenofovir (TDF) have been investigated in prospective...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... widely implemented in clinical practice This may be explained by the initial lack of convincing data regarding the effectiveness of standardized HRQoL measurement in actually improving HRQoL or psychosocial ... physicians in the experimental group requested the information in 92% of the consultations, discussing it with their patients in 58% of the consultations They indicated finding the HRQoL information ... can instantly be accessed by clinicians The aim of the present study was to gain more insight in the practical and attitudinal feasibility problems encountered during the process of implementing...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... just beginning In such instances, the experiences related to more common tumor types may inform trials on these more rare clinical entities Interest in neoadjuvant chemotherapy also intensifies ... FU, 5-flourouracil; adr, adriamycin; cyc, cyclophosphamide; epi, epirubicin; cis, ciplatin; doc, docetaxel; dox, doxorubicin; vinc, vincristine; vino, vinorelbine; tam, tamoxifen; pac, paclitaxel ... accelerated growth in the residual tumor focus within 24hrs The labeling index and growth fraction were increased with a decrease in tumor doubling time There was minimal change in DNA synthesis...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 13:20

... DEKKER, INC NEW YORK BASEL HONG KONG Page ii Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Intravenous immunoglobulins in clinical practice / edited by Martin L Lee, Vibeke Strand p cm Includes ... transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing ... Extrapolation of the final slope -b1 to the ordinate and intercept C0 are explained in the text Both the α and β phases may be influenced by intrinsic IgG synthesis of the patient and by extrinsic carryover...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 09:20

... maintain boundaries between distinct sets of proteins in each domain A sodium channel domain is also maintained at nodes of Ranvier between myelin sheaths (b) Transverse section through the internodal ... complementary-determining regions (CDR), Light chain Heavy chain Antigenbinding site VH Complementarydetermining regions (CDR) VL CH1 CL CH2 FC region Fc receptor complement binding site CH3 Fig ... myelin membrane during development This glycoprotein is localized to the inner loop in mature myelin where it can interact with surface lipids or proteins from the axon One such interacting protein...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 00:20

... Pettinelli and McFarlin, 1981) Myelin basic protein is one of these proteins T cells reactive with myelin basic protein can be demonstrated in individuals with MS and in normal controls The myelin-specific ... four clinical courses that are routinely used in practice (Lublin and Reingold, 1996) This empirical classification, in agreement with natural history studies, distinguishes relapsingremitting ... gadoliniumenhancing lesion (not at the site involved in the original clinical event) is needed; if no enhancing lesion is present, a follow-up scan with new T2- or gadolinium-enhancing lesion in...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 00:20

... scanner used in clinical routine practice should operate at a field strength higher than 1.0T With the introduction of 3T MRI systems into clinical practice, several questions arise, including the ... anti-CD4; integrin inhibitors Inhibitors of intracellular Lymphocyte-specific cytoplasmic protein – tyrosine kinase P56lck; zeta-associated activation, signaling and protein (ZAP)-70; protein kinase ... considering information from multiple neuroimaging methods and analyses, we will gain a better understanding of the relationship between MRI findings and clinical symptoms and disease course The clinical MRI...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 00:20

... ADEM clinically or radiographically including leukodystrophies, tumors, and infections CSF myelin basic protein concentration, usually positive in ADEM, may also be elevated in ONDs, including ... against mouse brain sections in an indirect immunofluorescence assay A distinct IgG binding pattern associated with capillaries and the blood–brain barrier in the cerebellar cortex, midbrain, ... progression of brain atrophy in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis by reducing predominantly grey matter atrophy progression Mult Scler, in press Zivadinov, R and Leist, T.P 2005 Clinical- magnetic...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 00:20

... criteria proposed for use in clinical practice (Berger et al., 2003) Since CIDP is a multifocal disease, testing multiple nerves, including cranial nerves if clinically indicated, is more likely ... surface in acute in ammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy Ann Neurol, 39(5), 625–35 Hu, W., Dehme, T., Pirhonen, J., Hartung, H.P and Kieseier, B.C 2006 Interleukin 23 in acute in ammatory demyelination ... major endoneurial in ammatory cell seen in CIDP and can attack intact myelin around normal axons resulting in demyelination (Prineas and McLeod, 1976) Both resident macrophages, within the nerve,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 00:20

... approaches in clinical practice J Clin Neuromusc Dis, 4, 174– 89 Gorson, K.C., Ropper, A.H., Adelman, L.S and Weinberg, D.H 2000 In uence of diabetes mellitus on chronic in ammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy ... sweating, heat intolerance Vasomotor: Distal color changes, change in skin appearance, persistently cold extremities, Raynaud’s phenomenon, loss of skin wrinkling in water, heat intolerance, indoor ... of intravenous immunoglobulin in IgM paraprotein associated demyelinating neuropathy J Neurol, 249, 1370–7 Cornblath, D.R 1991 Research criteria for diagnosis of chronic in ammatory demyelinating...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 00:20

... Cyclosporine A is an immunosupressant that blocks interleukin-2 activation of T-helper cells by inhibiting calcineurin While a controlled, double-blind clinical trial has shown its effectiveness in ... terminal Guanidine increases calcium within the nerve terminal by inhibiting uptake of calcium by subcellular organelles (Kamenskaya et al., 1975) While guanidine is occasionally utilized in the ... EMG testing is useful in differentiating a neurogenic from a myogenic process EMG is useful in confirming an active myopathic process, but is of no help in distinguishing between the in ammatory...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 00:20

... increase in intracellular free calcium and inhibited 125I-α-bungarotoxin binding in cells expressing α7nAChR The authors postulate that these antibodies may act by blocking the α7nAChR that in uence ... with Hashimoto’s disease Rinsho Shinkeigaku, 32, 191– Zettinig, G., Asenbaum, S., Fueger, B.J et al 2003 Increased prevalence of subclinical brain perfusion abnormalitis in patients with autoimmune ... but imaging is unrevealing in about half of the patients Autopsy reports usually reveal perivenular and arteriolar in ltration by predominantly T lymphocytes throughout the brain including the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 00:20

... extension into the brain involving veins and arteries of varying caliber The clinicopathological syndrome was delineated and so named for the distinctive pathology (Cravioto and Fegin, 1959) ... solution using the same manufacturing method was licensed in 1992 Solvent detergent treatment, including partitioning steps and incubation at low pH in the final container has been effective in the ... in ammatory in ltrate can be seen (stain, hematoxylin and eosin; original magnification, ×250) (b) A somewhat larger leptomeningeal vessel shows necrosis of the media and internal elastic lamina...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 00:20