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... patients (80% of the cohort) Second, RCRI assess specifically the cardiac risk of the patient, not the mortality related to the surgical procedure Accordingly, mortality was 6% to 7% in the patients ... scores of and more A high-risk surgical procedure was performed in a minority of the patients, and the effects of beta-blockade were neutral in these patients References How to reconcile these apparently ... patients who had no contraindication for beta-blockade, and the outcome of these patients receiving beta-blockade was compared to the other patients, using a propensity score to match patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... (CHKS data) and to the ICU (ICNARC data) for 94 NHS hospitals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland between January 1999 and October 2004 inclusive These hospitals were selected because they contributed ... authors had full access to data and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the analysis References 10 Conclusion The present study confirms the existence of a large population ... ICU admissions the duration of the ICU stay was 2.1 (0.9–5.6) days and the duration of the hospital stay was 18 (10–35) days (Figure 2) There were 3,283 early discharges from the ICU because...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... of high risk patients and if the improvement in the rate of detection of flat lesions in the follow-up may improve the use of additional treatment and the prognosis of these patients Conclusions ... described below The surface of the bladder absorbs the HAL solution and converts it to the endogenous pigment, protoporphyrin IX This pigment is selectively deposited in the tumour and causes fluorescence ... revision MG has conceived the study and participated in its design and coordination All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... guidelines children? issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),19 the AAPD,20,21 and the ADA.22,23 • What are the areas of agreement among the existing professional guidelines? ... young children from other young children The group debated whether to stratify recommendations at age or and felt that there was no strong evidence supporting either age as the most appropriate ... included sharing the decision support matrix with association members from organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the ADA, the AAPD, and the Association of State and Territorial...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... with hand-sewn ileo-anal anastomosis The patients had had their ileostomy closed for more than one year, at the time of the study The absence of pouchitis was defined clinically, histology and ... participated in its design and coordination, and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing ... after informed consent from the patients The study was carried out at the State University of Campinas, Coloproctology Unit, and at the Cell Signaling Laboratory of the Department of Internal...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... to know whether E6-mediated loss of p53 and MAGI-3 with equal efficiency and whether this is carried out in a similar manner in the cell We therefore compared the degradation of p53 and MAGI-3 ... HPV18 E6-GFP, or the HPV-33 E6-GFP prototype both in the presence and absence of the proteasome inhibitor MG132 Although the half life of the ectopically expressed p53 and MAGI-3 in the transfected ... under the technical direction of MT, LB, and GM who also participated in the design of the study, data analysis and writing the manuscript, FC provided the information contained in Table and direction...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... application The core component of the algorithm is the selection and the extraction of the features best describing the image contents The first step of the algorithm consists in building the feature ... Image and Video Processing Concerning the synthetic images, the evaluation criterion was the detection error between the estimated and the known maxima positions For the real images, we used the ... camera (C) The figure depicts (a) the front view and (b) the side view of the recording setup which consists in the scanning camera (C), the surface to inspect (S), and the illumination (L) The depicted...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... world and the majority of them live in Asia and Africa Approximately 10% of them has concurrent chronic HBV and 4-5 million has chronic HCV With the increased availability of antiretroviral therapy, ... role among the epidemiology and public heath for the dangerous communicable diseases spreaded to the famillies and the general population Based on those problems, we had searched thesis: “Situation ... due to type 1a and 1b The genotype of the virus plays a substantial role in determining the duration and type of treatment the patient receives; thus it is necessary to confirm the genotypes of...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 14:07

... NK, and SK contributed to the clinical and rating evaluations during the follow-up periods KH and MI conceived of the study and participated in its execution and coordination All authors read and ... effects Although the treatment with fluvoxamine modified the natural course of the case, psychotic-like symptoms never appeared during the major depressive episode Furthermore, the patient’s idea ... clothes, among other things In response, he had begun to delay his meal and bath times in order to shun contact with them, and to his laundry several times a day His QoL was highly disturbed and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... contributions SK did the data collection and data analysis, reviewed the literature, and wrote the manuscript ZD provided the pathology figures and legends PW wrote the manuscript and supervised the work ... http://www.wjso.com/content/9/1/80 Page of staging and guide further therapy including therapeutic lymph node dissection and adjuvant radiation Currently, there is no consensus agreement on the standard of care staging ... patients Among the head and neck cases (n = 51), the NPV for SLN biopsy was 100%, i.e there were no regional nodal recurrences in any patient found to have a negative SLN On the other hand, SLN biopsy...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:20

... combination of pathological and histological grade, pelvic radiotherapy and salvage treatment The time point for survival analyses was from the end date of the radiotherapy treatment The log rank test ... obturator foramen The lateral borders were set at cm beyond the lateral margins of the bony pelvic wall at the widest plane of the pelvis Lateral field borders were the posterior border of the S3 vertebral ... decreased in the cancer death rate was seen with the addition of pelvic radiotherapy, and the pelvic relapse rate was lower, at 4.5% versus 20% This series was done to report the relapse and survival...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... Amsterdam, The Netherlands) The plans that were developed used a four-field technique to treat the pelvis and will serve as the control arm for this dosimetric study For the anterior/posterior fields the ... prostate gland while also treating the pelvic node bearing regions if the physician can reliability identify these treatment volumes In the area of head and neck radiotherapy, standardized and reliable ... preparation and approval of the final manuscript SY, ML, DD, and GB co-supervised the project, assisted in the interpretation of the statistical analysis, and assisted in the preparation and approval...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... strategies to reduce them It is planned that the model would then be tested and refined The two phases will be elaborated below Theory and modelling Phase 0/I involves planning and evaluating complex ... semi-structured interview about their medical and non-medical care needs We will further explore how they experience hospitalizations and what they would expect from and fear of a care management ... Authors’ contributions TF is responsible for the design of the study and wrote the first draft of the manuscript FPK, CM, AE, MB, FMG, JG, and SZ participated in the design of Freund et al Implementation...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... wrote the paper and performed the experiments, AD developed the assay with AYCT, co-wrote the paper and revised the paper in accordance with the reviewers' comments, DAW, DC, and JFS initiated the ... Diagnostics) and 1× Buffer The primers used were the same as stated above except that the M13 sequences 5' TGTAAAACGACGGCCAGT and 5' CAGGAAACAGCTATGACC were tagged to the forward and reverse primers ... for the critical molecular changes in NPM1 and FLT3 Results and Discussion In this study, we developed HRM assays allowing rapid assessment of the mutation status of NPM1 and the presence of the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... reasons, these specimens are saved for the end of the day, cause the most trouble and frustration, and are the least successful from the standpoint of the pathologist, the urologist, or the patient ... and the surface cells round and large, and often binucleate When the bladder is distended, the mucosa may be only 2–3 layers thick and the intermediate and surface cells may appear flattened The ... that the sample is not normal, but is not forced to “find the lesion” On the other hand, we emphasize the importance of identifying the high grade lesions, as these are life threatening to the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 01:22

... hyperchromatic and may be seen at the edges of the large cluster For the most part, the nuclei are small and hyperchromatic (600x) Benign Cellular Changes 29 Figure 2.7 Atypical Urothelial Cells—catheterized ... rather than to neoplasia, unless the individual cell features and architecture within the fragments persuade otherwise Benign Cellular Changes—Normal/Reactive Normal urothelial cells have bland ... Renal tubular epithelial cells are usually so degenerated by the time they reach the bladder that they resemble histiocytes (Fig 2.26) They are usually few in number, unless there is intrinsic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 01:22

... derive from the lining cells of the renal tubules They mimic macrophages because of their degenerated, often eccentric, nucleus and foamy cytoplasm The larger cell in the bottom of the figure is ... without all the features of a low grade neoplasm Note the high NC ratios, variable nuclear shapes, and hyperchromasia Other areas of the same sample had more atypical cells reflecting the lesion, ... Figure 2.17 Reactive Urothelial Cells—catheterized urine: These superficial reactive urothelial cells show homogeneous cytoplasm and mildly hyperchromatic nuclei Note the low nuclear to cytoplasmic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 01:22

... used in this Handbook The newest terminology considers the natural history of urothelial neoplasia and the relationship to premalignant and preinvasive lesions In 1998, members of the International ... previously considered Therefore, cytopathologists may prefer to divide the neoplasms of the urothelium simply into low and high grade 57 58 Grading Urothelial Neoplasms Table The WHO/ISUP Consensus ... authors, the cytologic diagnosis of low grade urothelial lesions is made with difficulty One of the obvious reasons is that these lesions not shed as readily as the higher grade lesions, and therefore...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 01:22

... tissue, the architecture is the reliable diagnostic feature Note the crowding of cells, the high NC ratios and the nuclear overlapping The nuclei are small when compared with those of the umbrella ... overlapping and crowding However, the nuclei are small and chromatin is relatively even when compared with the benign urothelial cells in the lower portions of the photograph (600x) 80 Grading Urothelial ... case, the cells appear slightly more atypical than the usual low grade urothelial carcinoma and some of this atypia may be secondary to the degenerative process However, the cells, for the most...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 01:22