when is radiography indicated for patients with acute shoulder pain

... al[11] published the results of a trial which enrolled 45 patients with AMI from one center in Japan Patients were included if their AMI was unsuccessfully treated with thrombolysis (tPA within 12 ... therapy, although for every 42 patients treated with an IABP, one extra stroke resulted (P = 0.03) Not only is the size of the treatment effect important, but so too is the precision Unfortunately, ... eligible patients had predischarge follow-up QCA, although the composite predischarge clinical endpoint was determined on all patients It is crucial that clinical endpoint follow-up is complete,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... and benefit of administering progesterone to patients with acute TBI [19] No serious adverse events were found in the 77 patients who received progesterone, and the patients with moderate TBI who ... variables Statistical analysis was performed using contingency analysis (chi-squared) for categorical data and Student's t test for continuous data P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant ... double-blind trial, progesterone or placebo was dissolved in the same camellia oil and taken daily for days by patients with acute TBI Those patients administered progesterone experienced significant...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... back pain in patients with subacute low back pain Pain 2006, 124:305-311 doi:10.1186/1748-5908-5-86 Cite this article as: McKenzie et al.: Improving the care for people with acute low-back pain ... line with the main analysis, the primary outcome for the economic analysis will be x-ray referral to three months post-onset of patients acute LBP episode based on the practitioner checklist For ... different characteristics between groups) [68] Statistical methods for handling missing data and dealing with selection bias in CRTs are limited [69], and for some forms of missing data (empty...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... of mortality in patients with conservative treatment and renal replacement therapy Binary logistic regression analysis with ‘without RRT’ as reference category, controlled for disease severity ... more in-depth correction for disease severity by using the individual SHARF scores in a logistic regression analysis, patients treated with RRT showed an increased risk of mortality of RR = 1.73 ... outcome in patients with conservative and RRT treatment AKI patients that were not treated with RRT showed an in-hospital mortality of 43% while patients with RRT Table Patient characteristics and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... open at University of California, San Francisco for recurrent (NCT00293423) or newly diagnosed (NCT00905060) patients with GBM Enrolled patients are being vaccinated with the heat shock protein ... uniform groups for data analysis For valid statistical conclusions to be reached one cannot directly compare the outcomes of two individual trials where in one the patients enrolled have persistent ... pulsed with autologous tumor cell lysates with or without intratumoral Gliadel wafer recently were closed for accrual At Duke University (NCT00890032), recurrent GBM patients are treated with autologous...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... significantly lower in OA patients with a high pain score (visual analog scale [VAS] score of greater than 40; ᭝) compared with healthy controls (❍) and with OA patients with a low pain score (VAS score ... purposes) Materials and methods Patients and tissue preparation Synovial tissues were obtained from patients with knee OA (n = females, ages 37 to 57 years, visual analog scale [VAS] score of ... not shown) DREAM mRNA expression is reduced in osteoarthritis patients with high visual analog scale score DREAM mRNA expression was analyzed in PBMCs from both OA patients and healthy controls...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... complete remission (CR) in 60% - 80% of patients with newly diagnosed de novo acute myeloid leukemia (AML) [1, 2] However, current therapy is still unsatisfactory in patients with high-risk AML including ... is widely believed to be a milder regimen than 3+7 for high-risk and elderly AML and MDS patients It is therefore valuable to perform a prospective randomized trial in high-risk elderly MDS patients ... new and R/R AML groups for meta-analysis Another seven studies did not specify AML status of the rest 117 patients These 117 patients were therefore excluded for this comparison (Table 3) The heterogeneity...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... Survival analysis was performed by the Kaplan-Meier method using the SPSS 13.0 software Results Characteristics of the patients Characteristics of the patients at the time of diagnosis are listed in ... not statistically significant (Table 2) The results suggest that HA is also an effective induction regimen with less toxicity in elderly patients with AML Furthermore, of the patients with AML ... mg/m2 daily for days), EA (etoposide, 60 mg/m2 daily for days, Ara-C 100 mg/m2 daily for days) and MA (mitoxantrone mg/ m2 daily for days, Ara-C 100 mg/m2 daily for days) by turns In patients older...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... the diagnosis appears to be a useful marker for predicting prognosis in ARDS patients List of abbreviations ALI: acute lung injury; ANOVA: analysis of variance; ARDS: acute respiratory distress ... serum between the patients with primary and secondary ARDS or between the patients with and without preexisting ILD Interestingly, we found no significant difference in each comparison These data ... conclusion and, therefore, further study on this issue is necessary Although promising results were obtained, we are aware that this study has some limitations The number of patients included in...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... were studied included patients with a wide variety of predisposing causes for ARDS Patients with ARDS associated with indirect causes, for example sepsis, trauma, or pancreatitis, have a greater ... author of that study Statistical analysis Meta-analysis was performed using the inverse variance method Statistical heterogeneity was evaluated using the Q statistic with P < 0.1 The primary ... Figure Forest plot of mortality This Forest plot represents the odds ratio (OR) mortality (95% confidence interval) for 28-day to 30-day mortality in patients treated with surfactant compared with...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:22

... antifungal prophylaxis in acute Con: Prevalence and risks of fungal colonisation of pancreatic necrosis Saurabh Jamdar and Ajith K Siriwardena Fungal colonisation of pancreatic tissue is a feared complication ... infected necrosis Several small randomised trials of antibiotic prophylaxis in severe acute pancreatitis [13-15] together with a meta-analysis [16] and a Cochrane systematic review [17] have indicated ... number not for citation purposes) rule [20] defines patients with pancreatitis (with central lines and receiving broad spectrum antibiotics) as being at high risk for fungal colonisation Incorporation...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... are persistently elevated in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients compared with normal and at-risk individuals Plasma levels measured by ELISA Page of (page number not for citation ... that the BALF KL-6 concentration is elevated in patients with ARDS but is not elevated in critically ill patients at risk of the disease BALF KL-6 correlated with plasma KL-6 and was related ... (KL-6) levels are increased in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients who subsequently die of the disease BALF KL-6 level is elevated in patients with ARDS and reflects outcome BALF...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... Nordisk A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) The authors wish to thank Hassane Njimi for his considerable help with the statistical analysis of the data This study is endorsed by the European Society for ... in patients with early- and late-onset ARF, oliguric and non-oliguric patients, and patients treated with or without RRT Page of (page number not for citation purposes) In addition, patients with ... course of without stay in patients the ARF mean fluid balance during intensive care ARF, Timewith late-onset dailyacute renal failure (ARF), with early-onset unit stay in patients without acute renal...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... that 14% of ICU sepsis episodes are caused by Candida This estimate is higher than the to 10% estimate described in recent literature and is based upon studies that included the isolation of Candida ... affordable Additional data and improved estimates will help refine the best empiric anti-Candida strategy for ICU patients with sepsis Competing interests YG has received research funding and is ... fluconazole resistant But data from clinical trials show that 50 to 60% of C glabrata isolates are treatable by fluconazole when administered at the dose used in Zilberberg and colleagues’ analysis [9-10]...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... 14 patients for the protein content (8 patients with ALI/ARDS without thick secretions and patients with ACLE) and in 15 patients for PMN percentage determination (9 patients with ALI/ARDS without ... shorter for patients with ACLE The ICU and hospital mortality rates were lower than expected for patients with ALI/ARDS (19% and 24%, respectively) [15] In patients with ACLE, the Table Characteristics ... or a comparison of mini-BAL with s-Cath have not been performed We therefore designed a prospective study in two groups of patients with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure, those with ALI/ARDS...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... volumes while correcting for risk factors for ALI, a multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed Variables with a P value < 0.10 in univariate analysis were considered for a multivariate ... 301865:-1872 Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome: the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ... 200 patients Lung injury diagnosis for interim analysis For reasons of safety, interim analyses on the development of lung injury were conducted after the inclusion of 100 and 150 patients For...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... the 11 patients with vessel disease a stenosis > 50% was found in the circumflex artery in patients and in the right coronary artery in patients Complete revascularization in the patients with ... validated recommendations for the PFR in VVI analysis are still not available The data of former studies showed that a mean PFR about 40-50 Hz is suitable for VVI analysis A far higher PFR might ... Comparison of VVI and LE-MRI MRI was performed 8.1±1.4 days after AMI The LE-MRI study resulted in 209 (38%) segments with a LE ≥ 51%, 91 (17%) with a LE of 1-50% and 244 (45 %) segments without...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15

... 18 patients with acute coronary syndrome (11 males and females aged from 47 to 68) Once conditions for combined microbiologic and nucleic acid amplification protocol were established, 38 more patients ... cycle consisted of denaturation step at 94°C for 45 sec, primer annealing at 63°C for 45 sec , primer extension at 72°C for 45 sec Amplified product (10 µl) was visualized by electrophoresis in a ... conditions consisting of an initial denaturation at 95°C for min, followed by 45 cycles of denaturation at 95°C for 30 sec, annealing at 63°C for 30 sec, and extension for 30sec at 72°C For the second...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 08:57

... This was also observed in studies with patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) In CLL, analysis allowed the identification of proteins that clearly discriminated between the patients ... respectively This finding is inline with data from the PAI-2 serum levels of patients with hematological malignancies, where different expression levels were correlated with different serum levels for PAI-2 ... approach with 2D-electrophoresis in newly diagnosed patients with AML Materials and methods Sample preparation and solubilization Blast samples from bone marrow aspirates and peripheral blood were isolated...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... score by type of HCW (p = 0.19), with a mean post-training score of 87% for nurses, 86% for laboratory technicians, 89% for physicians and 92% for district supervisors The mean posttraining scores ... However, combined with logistical support, on-site supervisory visits and monthly continuing education meetings, the training allowed the scale-up of HIV activities for patients with TB at primary ... Health Organization: Task Analysis: The Basis for Development of Training in Management of Tuberculosis Geneva 2005 Publish with Bio Med Central and every scientist can read your work free of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20