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... consistent with eosinophilic pneumonia The patient recovered fully following withdrawal of sertraline and treatment with oral corticosteroids In this report we describe the case of a 33 year old man with ... Presentation A 33 year old Asian male with chronic schizophrenia was admitted to hospital with a six month history of inexorably progressive dyspnoea associated with a dry cough At presentation he ... fibrotic NSIP with diffuse established interstitial fibrosis associated with moderate chronic inflammation (×20 magnification) 2b) The lung at high power, shows focal organising pneumonia within a...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... of the association with religious attendance is about equal to that with family integrity An intact two-parent family and regular religious participation are also associated with the parent reporting ... structure and child behavior problems Children who live with both biological parents or two adoptive parents exhibit the fewest behavior problems Child Behavior Problems by Religious Attendance ... Survey of Children’s Health Finds Intact Family and Religious Participation Are Associated with Fewer Developmental Problems in SchoolAge Children By Nicholas Zill, Ph.D and Philip Fletcher, Ph.D.1...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... and virion -associated HIV-1 RNA copies were quantified using the Roche Amplicor™ Ultra-Sensitive HIV-1 Monitor Assay, according to assay protocol Samples from a cohort of 43 women with measurable ... vaginal secretions, while 32.6% shed X4-like genotypes To identify viral and clinical factors associated with vaginal X4- or R5-like genotypes, we evaluated plasma and vaginal viral levels, ART use, ... counts using Chi-square and Fisher's exact tests (Table 1) R5-like vaginal HIV genotypes were associated with high levels of plasma virus and the absence of ART Table 1: Vaginal Genotypic Associations...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... ferritin and hsCRP levels were associated with increased mortality; compared with a ferritin value of 25 μg/L, a baseline serum level of 250 μg/L was associated with an approximate 67% increased ... was associated with a nearly 10-fold increased hazard (AHR 9.28 [3.13, 27.50]) A baseline hsCRP level of 15 mg/L was associated with a nearly two-fold increased hazard of death compared with ... interval: 0.67, 0.93]) compared with a value of 0.87 mmol/L (i.e., the low end of the normal range) [21] A serum albumin of 30 g/L compared with 25 g/L was associated with a nearly 50% reduced hazard...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... 2) at enrolment was associated with lower CrCl, but not with lower eGFR Lower enrolment weight was associated with lower CrCl, but in contrast, lower weight was associated with higher eGFR Of ... associated with both a CrCl < 60 mL/min and eGFR < 60 mL/min/ 1.73 m2 Being female was associated with lower eGFR, but not with lower CrCl, at enrolment Having WHO disease stage (compared with stage ... not associated (p = 0.07) with time to overall mortality, whereas lower eGFR as a continuous variable was again not associated with overall mortality We repeated the Model analyses (i.e., without...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... correlated significantly with levels of IL-6, TNF-α, and IL-1Ra at baseline IL-6 in serum was highly associated with ESR (Fig 1a) and, to a smaller degree, was inversely associated with IGF-1 TNF-α was ... also associated weakly with the change in sIL-6R and more strongly with the alterations in IL-1Ra and ESR and inversely to a smaller extent with the change in IGF-1 R207 Arthritis Research & Therapy ... together with estrogen and cortisol to influence alterations in immunological reactivity, such as decreasing cytokines associated with T-helper-1 cells and increasing those associated with T-helper-2...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... in ACPA-IgG levels were associated with clinically prolonged responses to immunoablative therapy The susceptibility of ACPA-IgG to immunoablative therapy was associated with a high degree of synovial ... immunoablative therapy ('pre-TX'), the lowest antibody level after immunoablative therapy ('nadir'), the period after immunoablative therapy without disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) therapy ... Rheumatology criteria [27] with progressive erosive disease, including large joint involvement, and were refractory to combination therapy with DMARDs and, in four patients, with tumour necrosis factor...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... photochemotherapy [15,16] Indeed, the beneficial effects of extracorporeal photochemotherapy in the treatment of severe chronic or acute graft-versus-host disease have been associated with the ... exudates Briefly, after four washes with cold PBS of the peritoneum cavity of each rat, enriched macrophage suspension was adjusted to × 106 cell/ml and cultured with or without lipopolysaccharide (LPS) ... compared with rats receiving only PBS or apoptotic cells (Figure 2b, left panel) Injection of apoptotic cells with SCW decreased spontaneous TNF release in the culture supernatants compared with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... RA, rheumatoid arthritis; SSZ, sulfasalazine; TNF, tumour necrosis factor Table Variables associated with metabolic syndrome Multivariatea Univariate OR Body mass index 95% CI P value OR 95% ... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 11 No Raterman et al Table Characteristics of the study population MetS presenta n =...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... Institute, Athens, Greece References Toms TE, Panoulas VF, Douglas KMJ, Kitas GD: Methotrexate therapy associates with a reduced prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in rheumatoid arthritis patients over ... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 11 No Toms et al Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing ... Lack of association between glucocorticoid use and presence of the metabolic syndrome in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study Arthritis Res Ther 2008, 10:R145 Page of (page...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... associated with dasatinib therapy Fluid retention AEs have been associated with all three BCR-ABL inhibitors currently on the market, but pleural effusions may be more common with dasatinib therapy ... patients with CP CML receiving nilotinib, but none of these cases were severe [14] Patients with AP CML experienced similar rates of edema Pleural effusions is uncommonly associated with nilotinib therapy ... imatinib has been commonly associated with grade 1-2 fluid retention (59.9% in the multicenter phase III study that led to its approval), nilotinib is not as frequently associated with these events Any-grade...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... immuno-compromised when therapy was initiated suggesting that IRIS may be associated with persistent hyperactivation of both CD4 and CD8 T lymphocytes, and associated with a lack of naïve CD4 ... on stable ART for > months with suppressed viremia, diagnosed with Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) associated IRIS, who were unresponsive to conventional anti-MAC therapy We showed that these ... represent T cell responses after immunotherapy with IL-2 plus GM-CSF in conjunction with ART and resolution of IRIS Data are shown as median SI values with interquartile ranges X-axis depicts...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... colleagues raises two issues with respect to prolonged use of NAC: first, whether prolonged NAC use is potentially harmful by reducing liver regeneration in patients presenting late with APAP poisoning, ... poisoning, especially in those with APAP-induced ALF, and second, the issue of appropriate dosing and duration of NAC treatment The concept of tailormaking NAC therapy to the APAP-poisoned patient ... management of late presenters with APAP poisoning and APAPinduced liver failure, clinicians may have to consider individual case scenarios in tailor-making duration and dose of NAC therapy Competing interests...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... abdominal surgery is probably associated with an increased likelihood of developing AKI The appropriate timing of renal replacement therapy (RRT) initiation in patients with AKI has been under debate ... Chen YM, Hu FC, Lin YH, Tsai PR, Wu KD: Early renal replacement therapy in patients with postoperative acute liver failure associated with acute renal failure: effect on postoperative outcomes J ... patients with AKI after major abdominal surgery Early versus late initiation of RRT Current practice suggests that RRT is indicated for a patient with an abruptly decreased renal function along with...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... treatment with HCV therapy could not be assessed with our limited study This study is limited in that it is retrospective and examined only subjects who completed HCV therapy The association of SVR with ... was associated with treatment success (10, 20) However, other studies demonstrated that weight loss did not improve the treatment outcomes (15, 21) It is known that interferon therapy is associated ... and laboratory data between patients with and without sustained virological response (SVR) Characteristics Male gender, n, (%) Patients with SVR Patients without SVR (n=13) P-Value (n=41 ) 30...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39

... study population did not include subjects with malnutrition nor there were any with nutritional modifications during the interventional period More studies with larger sample sizes and longer follow-up ... metabolism among older people A recent report has shown that greater aspirin hydrolysis can be associated with decreased cholesterol levels of high-density lipoprotein in type diabetics (6) Although ... significant correlations with the changes in cholesterol concentrations may open new avenues for exploration of aspirin metabolism Our present results of improvement of aspirin effect with decreased total...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39

... subjects with or without the 16 repeat allele (Table 3) The plasma BNP level was significantly higher in the EH group than in the NT group (p=0.0203) The plasma BNP level in each genotype with or without ... increased with age, and were higher in females than males among subjects with no known cardiovascular or detectable structural heart disease [18] Maffei et al reported that hormone replacement therapy ... found to be associated with an increased risk of BP progression in males, but not in females [22] Further studies are needed to resolve these conflicting results Since there are many loci with a high...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:04

... Gab1 polymorphism was associated with the low risk of the infection independent on severe atrophy Although the Gab1 polymorphism prevented H pylori infection, it was associated with the risk of atrophy ... seropositive subjects, the Gab1 polymorphism was not associated with gastric cancer When we made a comparison between cases and controls with seropositive atrophy, the ORs of G/A and A/A for ... 55:74-108 Blaser MJ, Perez-Perez GI, Kleanthous H, et al Infection with Helicobacter pylori strains possessing cagA is associated with an increased risk of developing adenocarcinoma of the stomach...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 15:37

... seem to be associated with the occurrence of coronary heart disease or the elevation of plasma tHcy in the studied patients Plasma tHcy was significantly higher in elder patients with cardiovascular ... complications compared with the young control group There was a significant positive correlation between plasma tHcy and age Also, the high plasma tHcy was associated with the presence of mildly ... group and Gp2 compared with the control This impairment in the glycemic control most probably reflects a state of insulin resistance Elevated homocysteine is associated with several cardiovascular...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:49

... D-MEM/F12 supplemented with 10% FBS on a poly D lysine-coated 96 well plate at a density of 105 cells/well After 30 min, the medium was replaced with Neurobasal media supplemented with 2% B-27, 0.5 ... immunohistochemistry was performed as previously reported [21] with minor modifications Briefly, spinal cord tissue sections were treated with an antibody against Vgf (rabbit anti rat monoclonal D20, ... Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.) labeled with Zenon Alexa Fluor 594 (mouse IgG labeling kit; Molecular Probes Inc.) at 25°C for h Furthermore, the sections were treated with the monoclonal antibody against...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 10:52