treatment of severe idiopathic pulmonary hypertension

... and initiation of tuberculosis treatment Impact Proportion of pulmonary tuberculosis cases who have died two months into treatment and six months into treatment (or at end of treatment) , stratified ... diagnosis and treatment of smearnegative tuberculosis  Part i Improving the diagnosis and treatment of smear-negative tuberculosis Background management of smear-negative pulmonary and extrapulmonary ... at the beginning of treatment) ; treatment outcome and date of treatment outcome Identifying, managing and reporting adverse events Adverse events are common during treatment of HIV-associated...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... relapse (In months) initiation of the treatment Side of relapsed foot Relapse Treatment offer to deformity correct the deformity Result of the Result at five Treatment year of follow up Bilateral Left ... relapse of the deformity Patient age at the time of relapse, bilateralism or unilateralism of the relapse foot, relapse foot deformity, treatment offered to relapsed foot, immediate results of the offered ... weeks of the age group while beginning of the treatment Out of patients resistant to Ponseti serial cast manipulation were from the 13-24 weeks of the age group while beginning of the treatment, ...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... relapse (In months) initiation of the treatment Side of relapsed foot Relapse Treatment offer to deformity correct the deformity Result of the Result at five Treatment year of follow up Bilateral Left ... relapse of the deformity Patient age at the time of relapse, bilateralism or unilateralism of the relapse foot, relapse foot deformity, treatment offered to relapsed foot, immediate results of the offered ... weeks of the age group while beginning of the treatment Out of patients resistant to Ponseti serial cast manipulation were from the 13-24 weeks of the age group while beginning of the treatment, ...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... Successful treatment of severe accidental hypothermia with cardiac arrest for a long time using cardiopulmonary bypass – report of a case Keigo Sawamoto*1, Katsutoshi ... or severe accidental hypothermia associated with immersion is the cause of cardiac arrest due to drowning We here report the case of a patient who developed prolonged cardiac arrest because of ... a.m.) Soon, movement of his limbs appeared, the size and reactivity of the pupils became almost normal, and spontaneous breathing became adequate Aspiration of a large amount of seawater was suspected...

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... amplitude and duration of sustained movements of the head, the presence and the severity of shoulder elevation as well as the severity and duration of tremor The score of the scale ranges between ... showing improvement of TDt with other atypical antipsychotics, except three cases successfully treated with olanzapine [16–18] Several reports of the use of BTX for the treatment of TDt have been ... The treatment of TDt is very difficult Several pharmacological or other somatic interventions have been tried with poor results Pharmacotherapy interventions are of some benefit in only 50% of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... advent of biologic therapeutics over the past 10 years there has been a rapid increase in the number of and types of agents available for treatment of JIA While much of the treatment of childhood ... exposure, treatment of children with JIA involves a careful balancing of risks and benefits of interventions The present article will focus on recent advances in the medical treatment of JIA In ... approval for treatment of moderate to severe polyarticular JIA in patients as young as years old To date there has only been one randomized controlled trial of etanercept for the treatment of JIA Lovell...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... blood support for the treatment of severe aplastic anemia Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2011 4:27 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • Convenient online ... cell (MNC) count of the transfused cord blood was 2.25-15.1 × 107 cells/kg with a median MNC count of 4.0 × 10 cells/kg Two patients weighing over 80 kg were given double units of the umbilical ... characterize the kinetics of hematopoietic reconstitution Table Recovery of hematopoiesis in different age groups hematopoiesis reconstitution (range days) Age Group Number of cases ≤12 yrs >12 yrs...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... most promising drug in the treatment of the former, almost lethal, severe SOS to date To increase response to treatment, ongoing investigations focus on the combination of defibritode with other ... causal treatment Despite early treatment, multiple organ failure (MOF) with kidney failure requiring dialysis and ventilatordependent lung failure aggravated the clinical course Symptomatic treatment ... accepted standard of therapy for severe SOS Despite thrombolytic therapy with tissue-plasminogen activator (t-PA) or prostaglandin E1 with or without heparin, the mortality of severe VOD has remained...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... administration of losartan may benefit patients with pulmonary hypertension secondary to COPD, using echo-Doppler derived measurements of Tran tricuspid pressure gradient (TTPG) as an index of pulmonary hypertension ... McCann WS: Studies of pulmonary hypertension I Pulmonary circulatory dynamics in patients with pulmonary emphysema at rest J Clin Invest 1953, 32(2):130-7 Heath D: Remodeling of the pulmonary vasculature ... evaluation of pulmonary artery pressure in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease A European multicentre study Working Group on Noninvasive Evaluation of Pulmonary Artery Pressure European Office of the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... from hospital, which varies among countries Overview of studies Messori and colleagues also report the results of a metaanalysis of four studies of AT III in sepsis [5–8] Conclusions are drawn based ... analysis of the effects of coadministered heparin In the results section it is suggested, erroneously, that no differences exist between results on the basis of P values alone mechanisms of antithrombin, ... Surveys and audits are very important ways of documenting routine clinical practice and of confirming the implementation of guidelines based on the results of RCTs Surveys and audits are also useful...

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Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... outcomes Of the 15 patients enrolled, 50 PHVHF treatments were performed on a daily basis The mean number of treatments per patient was 3.4 (1–9) No treatment was prematurely discontinued because of ... Seven out of eight survivors underwent CVVH after the termination of daily PHVHF treatments because of renal failure In one survivor renal function recovered by the time of cessation of daily ... with septic shock /severe sepsis treated with pulse high volume hemofiltration Age (years)/sex/ body weight (kg) Number of organ failures APACHE II scorea SAPS II scorea Number of treatments Diagnosis...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21

... in the treatment of cardiogenic pulmonary edema Chest 1987, 92:481-5 Hoffmann B, Welte T: The use of noninvasive pressure support ventilation for severe respiratory insufficiency due to pulmonary ... meta-analysis of RCTs focusing on the effect of CPAP and NPPV in the treatment of ACPE was undertaken The methodological approach included the development of selection criteria, definition of search ... obstructive pulmonary disease) Description of baseline criteria for severity of illness Report of interventions (technical description of CPAP and NPPV methods) Report of objective criteria for endotracheal...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... developed after a few days of scheduled treatment as has been suggested by other authors [2] During the course of the first 28 weeks of therapy she experienced only three episodes of hives that were ... five fold greater expression of FcεRI prior to treatment with omalizumab After the first 14 days of treatment, there was an approximate 80% decrease in the expression of the high affinity IgE receptor ... of decreased FcεRI expression in this process Conclusion Treatment with omalizumab and the resultant down regulation of FcεRI expression is temporally associated with improvement of chronic idiopathic...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... before and after PCC treatment Patients treated for severe bleeding None of the 38 patients treated for severe bleeding were receiving coumarin derivatives at the time of treatment; before the ... factors, offer a number of advantages over FFP These include a lower volume of infusion, ambient storage and reconstitution, lack of blood group specificity, a more favorable safety profile and ... antithrombotic benefits of oral anticoagulants are well established, these therapies increase the risk of hemorrhagic events, some of which may be severe or even life-threatening [4-7] The risk of bleeding...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... completed treatment with resolution of symptoms b Unsuccessful outcome – if treatment of PTB patients resulted in treatment failure (i.e., remaining smear-positive after months of treatment) , ... weight at initiation of anti-TB treatment (

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... detection of tuberculosis cases and prompt implementation of a full course of therapy [5] This is especially important in the case of untreated smear-positive patients, who are the main sources of infection ... diagnosis [14,18] The treatment interval was the time from diagnosis to initiation of treatment Intervals that exceeded one day were considered indicative of a delayed treatment [14,18] Clinic ... date of diagnosis, and (13) date of treatment initiation The presence of cough, fever, night sweats, hemoptysis, weight loss, anorexia, fatigue, and dyspnea were the criteria for the onset date of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... Pepke-Zaba J: The Cambridge Pulmonary Hypertension Outcome Review (CAMPHOR): A measure of health-related quality of life and quality of life for patients with pulmonary hypertension Qual Life Res 2006, ... References 10 11 12 Rubin LJ: Primary pulmonary hypertension N Engl J Med 1997, 336:111-7 Gibbs JSR, Higgenbottam TW: Recommendations on the management of pulmonary hypertension in clinical practice ... jaw pain and hypotension Current treatments for PH (with the exception of pulmonary endarterectomy for thromboembolic PH) not cure the disease The present aim of treatment is to lengthen survival...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... predict the correction rate of posterior instrumentation for severe scoliosis Conclusion Halo-femoral traction was a safe and effective method for the treatment of severe idiopathic and congenital ... the magnitude of thoracic kyphosis of CS patients was larger than that of IS cases (t = -2.21, p = 0.041, Table 1) After posterior surgery, the difference of the correction rate of kyphosis between ... posterior fusion, it could notably reduce the incidence of severe complication such as spinal cord injury, at the time of good correction of severe spinal deformity In addition, curve correction...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... pathobiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension J Am Coll Cardiol 2004, 43:13S24S Jeffery TK, Wanstall JC: Pulmonary vascular remodelling: a target for therapeutic intervention in pulmonary hypertension ... for pulmonary hypertension (SERAPH) study Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2005 [epub ahead of print] 18 Ghofrani HA, Rose F, Schermuly RT, Olschewski H, Wiedemann R, Kreckel A, Weissmann N, Ghofrani ... the pathophysiology of PAH and RP, particularly in the context of connective tissue disease, inhibition of the renin–angiotensin system may prove effective in RP A pilot study of the angiotensin...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:23