... pattern of care and main outcomes, and a discussion of the feasi-bility of this kind of approaches in the specific setting, thesecond about the effects (effectiveness) of treatments on patients (and ... treatment ofpatients with chronicpain. A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.Pain Clinic 2003, 15:193-202.10. Farar JT, Halpern SD: Understanding clinical trials in painresearch. In ... Cherny N: The management ofcancer pain. Cancer J Clin 2000,50:70-116.2. Hearn J, Higginson IJ: Cancer pain epidemiology: a systematicreview. InCancer Pain, Assessment and Management Edited...
... guided internal jugular veincatheterization Patients with neutropenia 254 of 1660 Patients with low platelet count 116 of 1660N. Patients % ofpatients N. neutrophil/mm3 N. Patients % ofpatients ... CVC [34-36]. In this large series of 1,978 CVC insertional performedprocedures in 1,660 consecutive patients suffering from cancer in different phase s of t heir disease, none of the patients experienced ... determines anincrease of the diameter of the veins. Under ultrasound-guide in real time, a 16-gauge needle is introduced intothe last portion of internal jugular vein. This vein wasreached...
... haemoglobin(Hgb) in the study area, we used an arbitrary cut off value of 10 g/dl to define anaemia. The cut off point for the TLCwas 1200 cells/ml because of its clinical significance in starting ... scale-up of HAART. Some of the suggestedstrategies include: early introduction of HAART, isoniazid(INH) prophylaxis and immune boosting mechanisms[15]. In the resource-limited settings such as in ... combinations of stavudine (d4T), lamivudine(3TC), nevirapine (NVP), zidovudine (ZDV) and efa-virenz (EFV) are approved for use in district hospitals in Ethiopia [25]. The first-line drug combination...
... contains mainly ß-D-glucan material with 1-6 main chains and 1-4 branchings, and the more common 1-3main chains and 1-6 branchings.18 This frac-tion also is highly active in vitro andin animalmodels ... review.AHCC and Maitake D-Fraction are still in theearly stages of investigation. The remainingtwo have been subjected to in- depth applica-tion against cancers in humans.Glucan ChainsCore Proteinsor ... humanity continues to strive for longer lifespan and better quality of life. But the disease ofcancer continues to be the scourge of humanity; being aleading cause of early death, and resistant...
... subscale of the EORTC QLQ-C30 wasassociated with a 27% increase in the rate -of- dying hazard[27]. Similarly, Efficace et al. found that a 10-point wors-ening in the pain and dysphagia scores in a ... appeared in 1987. This paper compared qual-ity of life during chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer between patients receiving intermittent and continuoustreatment strategies. The findings indicated ... betweenhealth-related quality of life and survival in head and neck cancer. A study of 208 head and neck cancer patients reported that physical functioning, mood and globalquality of life did not predict...
... floor walking and stair climbing up and down in stroke patients Jour-nal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2010, 7:30 Hesse et al. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2010, 7:30http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/7/1/30Page ... beats/min, in the last week he sustained eight minutes stair climbingtraining without a break. Physical assistance with kneeextension of the paretic side was required throughout thetraining of ... value of 48 steps/min, the otherparameters remained unchanged. Initially the training of stair climbing had to be stopped every two to five minutesas the heart rate exceeded the level of 120...
... system (HMD) Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2010, 7:20 JNERJOURNAL OF NEUROENGINEERING AND REHABILITATIONTanaka et al. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2010, ... techniques and offers the potential toenhance a human performance testing and training envi-ronment [25]. VR has been investigated in a few studiesusing devices for augmentation of visual information. ... et al., A case study of new assessment and train-ing of unilateral spatial neglect in stroke patients: effect of visual image trans-formation and visual stimulation by using a head mounted display...
... disease. Detection and manage-ment of these mental disorders may ameliorate prognosis of the pulmonary disease and improve adaptation and quality of life of these patients. Competing interestsThe ... suffocating disease status may explainthe high percentage of depression inpatients with COPD and BA in the study, which was higher than the percentagereported in studies performed with in- patients ... chronicity of the disease in our study, which has a negative effect onquality of life [13]. In recent years there has been a growing interest in therelationship between chronic pain and depression...
... circulating IL-6 and midkine, independently of the patients weight status, and with Il-1, Il-8 and VEGF in cachectic cancer patients. TNF-a, IL-1 and IL-6 are key cytokines involved in can-cer-related ... active ghrelin in cancer related cachexia have been reported in cohorts of mainlymale lung cancerpatients [26]. In our study, we report elevated ghrelin levels in acohort of colon cancer patients. ... hypothalamic regula-tion of nutrition, it causes weight gain by reducing foodutilization, increasing food intake, and inhibiting leptin-induced feeding reduction [24]. High ghrelin levels areassociated...
... (SLE) patients, (d) APRIL and BAFF in serum of SLE patients, (e) IL-6 and APRIL in CSF of SLE patients, and (f) IL-6 and BAFF in CSF of SLE patients. APRIL, a proliferation-inducing ligand; BAFF, ... Elevatedconcentrations of IgG in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) IgG-albu-min ratio, IgG index, and the presence of oligoclonal bandshave all been described with varying frequencies. Increasedlevels of interleukin ... antibody-inducing cytokine APRIL in the CNS of NPSLE patients compared with SLE patients without CNS involvement. Elevated levels of IL-6 in CSF havebeen reported in NPSLE patients [40] and could...
... whichoffer potential benefits over existing therapies in cancer patients [108,109]. For instance, as cancerpatients are atan increased risk both of VTE and bleeding [30,31], can-cer patients ... and long-term anticoagulation incancerpatients [ 1,16-19].However, despite the existence of these guidelines and the high-risk of VTE incancer patients, up to 75% of cancerpatients do not receive ... therefore, LMWHs offer considerable advan-tages over warfarin incancerpatientsin terms of practi-cality of use as well as in efficacy.Cost comparisonsThe costs involved in managing VTE in general...
... al. findings (2002) [12].Considering the reports of the replication of the virus in liver cells and the failure of manifesting clinical signs in infections such as cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr,Hepatitis ... important cause ofdeathin thalassemic patients. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of SENV-D and SENV-H genotypes viremia byperforming nested-PCR in 120 and 100 sera from ... comparison of paraclinical characteristics in tha-lassemic patientsand healthy blood donors with and without SENV infection are shown in tables 4 and 5.The differences of the white blood cell and...