strategy for long term survival

... which the incidence of sARF was determined [8,33,34], and all these studies are limited as none were able to assess for risk factors, long- term survival or long- term renal recovery prognosis [8,9,33] ... Discussion This study describes the incidence and long- term mortality rates for critically ill patients with a diagnosis of sARF and the prognosis for long- term renal recovery in a well-defined nonspecified ... objectives of this study were, therefore, to define the incidence of and quantify the risk factors for developing sARF, and to establish the long- term outcome and its determinants in a large well-defined...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... described long- term survival after resection of pulmonary metastases from HCC [18] Our case report suggests that for a patient with HCC and pulmonary metastases, surgical resection for lung metastases ... Komiyama A: Long- term survival after report resection of pulmonary metastases from hepatocellular carcinoma: report of two cases Surg Today 2000, 35(10):890-892 Consent Written informed consent ... treated medically [15] Previous literature described four criteria for pulmonary metastasectomy: [1] the patient must be a good risk for surgical intervention; [2] the primary malignancy must be controlled;...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... rate for obtaining removal efficiency of 80% for T-N and about 99% for NH4+-N, at the recycle ratio of 600% and C/N ratio of about was about m3/day, which means that about 2.3 days is proper for ... constant at about 2,200 mg/L for T-N and 2,000 mg/L for NH4+-N Effluent T-N under steady state condition was about 400 mg/L for the recycle ratio 400% and 330 mg/L for 600 % and declined to about ... Effects of Recycle Ratio 3.1 Nitrogen This test was performed for the effects of recycle ratio after about 50 days of stabilization period for sufficient adaptation of methanol to be inserted as...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... PROVIDING AND PAYING FOR LONG- TERM CARE © OECD 2011 Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long- Term Care © OECD 2011 Executive Summary What will be the effects of growing need for long- term care? Chapters ... WANTED? PROVIDING AND PAYING FOR LONG- TERM CARE © OECD 2011 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ● Improving productivity in long- term care Pay -for- performance initiatives in long- term care are limited to a few ... PROVIDING AND PAYING FOR LONG- TERM CARE © OECD 2011 17 Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long- Term Care © OECD 2011 Summary and Conclusions Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long- Term Care The...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... Guidance Note 2: Selecting storage media for long- term preservation Contents INTRODUCTION .4 SELECTION ISSUES .4 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Longevity Capacity ... records It is intended for use by anyone involved in the creation of electronic records that may need to be preserved over the long term, as well as by those responsible for preservation This ... This guidance note provides information for the creators and managers of electronic records about the selection of physical storage media in the context of long- term preservation The scope of...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 18:20

... different types of information, such as, long- term and short -term information The long- term information is used to get an insight on the past history in order to create strategic plans for risk management, ... strategy and uses the developed strategy to sustain long- term profitability The framework facilitates an in-depth analysis of service design for the delivery of LTSAs and can be instantiated for ... product for a customer’s usage • It generates a new stream of revenues for a provider • It establishes a long- term relationship between a customer and a provider, thus, enhancing customer loyalty for...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 00:59

... conditions For each PCR, forty cycles of amplification were performed with the following temperature profiles: 94°C for min, 55°C for min, and 72°C for for the outer primer set and 94°C for min, 60°C for ... isolation and long term replication were carried out in several phases: short term cultures (positive for HCV up to 10 weeks), medium term cultures (positive for 10–23 weeks), or extended term cultures ... individual patients for further analysis http://www.virologyj.com/content/2/1/37 Determination of optimum day for harvesting HCV for RNA extraction In order to determine the optimum day for harvesting...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... from each other Only for Ec /Ior = 50% the coverage of strong blocks is above or equal to 95% for 384 kbps, but for 256 kbps the coverage value for strong blocks is above 95% for Ec /Ior = 5% This ... blocks For the reference BLER of 1%, the spread in Es /N0 values for different k values is much higher for weak blocks compared to strong blocks As a result, we observe a small coverage gain for ... This is particularly true for the high bit rate 384 kbps For the low bit rate the macrodiversity gain is not so substantial as the throughput performance is already good for a single radio link...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... though RBS and FTSP estimate the clock skew alongside clock offset using linear regression, they are insufficient in practice for longterm synchronization, for example, the shooter localization system ... is evident that the MLE performs well even for small N and hence suitable for the power limited regime of WSNs CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK Using a quadratic model for the relationship between ... results in long- term synchronization between nodes and consequently saves a lot of energy in terms of considerably less frequent resynchronization through timing message communications For future...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... hormonal therapy All of them have not been able to obtain long- lasting objective responses, neither in terms of local control, nor in terms of systemic efficacy We herein present a case of PSCC ... number not for citation purposes) Radiation Oncology 2007, 2:15 plished with a sigmoid colostomy Unfortunately, that patient died months after surgery of perineal recurrence [18] In Japan the longest ... RCP/PLND/TURP RCP/PLND RCP RP/PLND/MPD RCP/MPD RP/RT/CT Survival times: to mo Survival times: mo.-6 yrs range 5/7 pts survived less than year Survival times: days-9 yrs range Died year after diagnosis...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... risk factor for survival, hemodialysis for survival, cardiac death, and cardiac event, LVEF for survival and cardiac death, number of PCI for cardiac death, and number of arterial grafts for cardiac ... clinical characteristics was performed by the chi-square analysis for categorical variables and by Student t test or ANOVA for continuous variables Cumulative probability of survival was estimated with ... repeated PCI as a risk for early clinical outcomes after subsequent CABG, its pathomechanisms are still unclear PCI per se has disadvantages over CABG in terms of long- term clinical outcomes...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... with long- term survival exclusively in adult patients with active leukemia at allo-HCT Therefore, we comprehensively evaluated the pre- and post-transplant factors which contribute to long- term survival ... with long- term disease control in patients who have active leukemia at transplant The results of the current study showed that GVL effects mediated by cGVHD may play a crucial role in long- term survival ... that patients who survive for more than five years without leukemia relapse are most likely cured Only one large-scale retrospective study has examined long- term outcomes for more than five years...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21

... regimen for unresectable ESCC with T4 or M1a [5,6], and a long- term evaluation of efficacy and toxicity with 139 patients resulted in a complete response (CR) rate of 56%, along with a 5-year survival ... improvement in long- term survival, not a short -term clinical response, so parameters predicting prognosis have been absolutely imperative In this study, patients with ESCC were followed up for years ... affected the long- term survival, and the survival depended on the clinical response assessed at month after the treatment, i.e., CR or non-CR (P = 0.001, Figure 2) The clinical response was determined...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21

... 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-guided transbronchial lung biopsy in a man with long- term survival: a case report Tomiharu Niida1, Kikuo Isoda1*, Koji Miyazaki1, Soichiro Kanoh2, Hideo ... 19.5 Page of mmol/L under room air We performed pulmonary function tests to evaluate the cause of the hypoxemia Our patient’s forced vital capacity (FVC) and forced expiratory volume in one second ... the long- term prognosis of patients with IVL [13,14] Our patient is rare in that he has pulmonary IVL and remains in complete remission more than 24 months after chemotherapy This favorable long- term...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:21

... not for citation purposes) Journal of Nanobiotechnology 2009, 7:7 http://www.jnanobiotechnology.com/content/7/1/7 Figure Long term observation of the terminal part of a nerve cell process Long term ... Niederkinkhaus for help with the cell culture, Maren D Lange for performing some SICM measurements, Stefan A Mann for helpful discussions, Rolf Heumann, Jan Meijer and the RUBION-team for continuous ... material Additional file Long term observation of the terminal part of a nerve cell process A movie composed of top views of the data presented in Figure Click here for file [http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/supplementary/14773155-7-7-S1.MPG]...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... from her initial diagnosis This is the second longest time of follow-up reported for WDPMP The longest follow-up was a 41-year-old woman observed for 29 years who eventually died of a pancreatic ... overtreatment of WDPMP Additional information obtained from other case reports describing the long- term behavior of this tumor should also help to elucidate the precise roles for observation and therapeutic ... malignant transformation at some point in the clinical course [9] To better understand and characterize the malignant potential of this tumor, additional case reports with long- term follow-up...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 02:21

... Oster G: Longterm mortality and medical care charges in patients with severe sepsis Crit Care Med 2003, 31:2316-2323 Sasse KC, Nauenberg E, Long A, Anton B, Tucker HJ, Hu TW: Long- term survival ... looking at longterm outcomes of patients with ICU-acquired infections as a whole Most of the published studies deal with long- term mortality from specific infections, often ones acquired before the ... undergoing short -term and those undergoing long- term ICU stays with regard to physical role and vitality [36] In our series, the patients with an ICU-acquired infection also had a significantly longer...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... expected to be associated with a less favourable long- term prognosis Compared with the general population, long- term survival Table Long- term survival after more than 28 days of intensive care ... factors for a shorter survival time in patients surviving more than 150 days, as were surgery for malignant diseases, duration of mechanical ventilation (> 50 Magnitude of short -term and long- term survival ... was defined as P < 0.05 Analysis of long term survival beyond the second year after inclusion Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was used to describe long- term survival after the second year after...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... to long- term survival, while ISS and the delta SOFA score were not For both admission and maximum SOFA score, the hazard ratio for about a nine point difference was equal to the hazard ratio for ... ANOVA The relationship between organ failure and longterm survival was analysed univariately by Kaplan-Meier survival statistics, using log rank tests for differences between groups, and multivariately ... patients into MOF or not enables us to identify patients at risk of both impaired longterm survival and impaired long- term functional status Functional status is one of the most important outcome...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20