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... pattern of care and main outcomes, and a discussion of the feasi- bility of this kind of approaches in the specific setting, the second about the effects (effectiveness) of treatments on patients (and ... treatment of patients with chronic pain. A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Pain Clinic 2003, 15:193-202. 10. Farar JT, Halpern SD: Understanding clinical trials in pain research. In ... Cherny N: The management of cancer pain. Cancer J Clin 2000, 50:70-116. 2. Hearn J, Higginson IJ: Cancer pain epidemiology: a systematic review. In Cancer Pain, Assessment and Management Edited...

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... guided internal jugular vein catheterization Patients with neutropenia 254 of 1660 Patients with low platelet count 116 of 1660 N. Patients % of patients N. neutrophil/mm3 N. Patients % of patients ... CVC [34-36]. In this large series of 1,978 CVC insertional performed procedures in 1,660 consecutive patients suffering from cancer in different phase s of t heir disease, none of the patients experienced ... determines an increase of the diameter of the veins. Under ultrasound- guide in real time, a 16-gauge needle is introduced into the last portion of internal jugular vein. This vein was reached...

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... 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 TLC was 1200 cells/ml because of its clinical significance in starting ... scale-up of HAART. Some of the suggested strategies 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...

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... contains mainly ß- D-glucan material with 1-6 main chains and 1-4 branchings, and the more common 1-3 main chains and 1-6 branchings. 18 This frac- tion also is highly active in vitro and in animal models ... review. AHCC and Maitake D-Fraction are still in the early stages of investigation. The remaining two have been subjected to in- depth applica- tion against cancers in humans. Glucan Chains Core Proteins or ... humanity continues to strive for longer lifespan and better quality of life. But the disease of cancer continues to be the scourge of humanity; being a leading cause of early death, and resistant...

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... subscale of the EORTC QLQ-C30 was associated 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 continuous treatment strategies. The findings indicated ... between health-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 global quality of life did not predict...

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... 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, 7:30 http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/7/1/30 Page ... beats/min, in the last week he sustained eight minutes stair climbing training without a break. Physical assistance with knee extension of the paretic side was required throughout the training of ... value of 48 steps/min, the other parameters remained unchanged. Initially the training of stair climbing had to be stopped every two to five minutes as the heart rate exceeded the level of 120...

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... system (HMD) Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2010, 7:20 JNER JOURNAL OF NEUROENGINEERING AND REHABILITATION Tanaka et al. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2010, ... techniques and offers the potential to enhance a human performance testing and training envi- ronment [25]. VR has been investigated in a few studies using 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...

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... 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 interests The ... suffocating disease status may explain the high percentage of depression in patients with COPD and BA in the study, which was higher than the percentage reported in studies performed with in- patients ... chronicity of the disease in our study, which has a negative effect on quality of life [13]. In recent years there has been a growing interest in the relationship between chronic pain and depression...

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... 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 mainly male lung cancer patients [26]. In our study, we report elevated ghrelin levels in a cohort of colon cancer patients. ... hypothalamic regula- tion of nutrition, it causes weight gain by reducing food utilization, increasing food intake, and inhibiting leptin- induced feeding reduction [24]. High ghrelin levels are associated...

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... (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, ... Elevated concentrations of IgG in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) IgG-albu- min ratio, IgG index, and the presence of oligoclonal bands have all been described with varying frequencies. Increased levels 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 have been reported in NPSLE patients [40] and could...

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... which offer potential benefits over existing therapies in cancer patients [108,109]. For instance, as cancer patients are at an increased risk both of VTE and bleeding [30,31], can- cer patients ... and long-term anticoagulation in cancer patients [ 1,16-19]. However, despite the existence of these guidelines and the high-risk of VTE in cancer patients, up to 75% of cancer patients do not receive ... therefore, LMWHs offer considerable advan- tages over warfarin in cancer patients in terms of practi- cality of use as well as in efficacy. Cost comparisons The costs involved in managing VTE in general...

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... 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 of death in thalassemic patients. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of SENV-D and SENV-H genotypes viremia by performing nested-PCR in 120 and 100 sera from ... comparison of paraclinical characteristics in tha- lassemic patients and healthy blood donors with and without SENV infection are shown in tables 4 and 5. The differences of the white blood cell and...

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