Báo cáo y học: "Proximal myopathy in lacto-vegetarian Asian patients responding to Vitamin D and calcium supplement therapy - two case reports and review of the literature" ppt

... origin and lacto-vegetarians: a 31-year-old Indian man and a 34-year-old Indian woman. In both cases, theirclinical symptoms fully resolved following vitamin D and calcium replacement therapy. These ... AccessProximal myopathy in lacto-vegetarian Asian patients responding to Vitamin D and calcium supplement therapy - two case reports and review of the literatureHood Thabit1*, Maurice Barry2, Seamus ... easily treatable and reversible. We present here two cases of vitamin D deficiency-induced myopathy. Case presentations Case 1A 31-year-old India n man, a lacto-vegetarian living in Ireland for...

Báo cáo y học: "Tenosynovial giant cell tumors as accidental findings after episodes of distortion of the ankle: two case reports" ppsx

... appear anywhere in the synovium, but in 80% to 90% of cases, it occurs in the hand joints, and infre-quently in the knee and foot joints [6]. Due to the highrecurrence rate of up to 50%, a ... diffused. The localized type of the tumor is most commonly found in finger joints while subtypes of diffuse-type TGCT maybe distinguished as intra-articular and extra-articular. The lesion may appear ... confirmed on histopa-thology. Results of special stains indicated the presence of iron in both mononuclear and multinucleated giant cells in cytologic and histologic preparations.During follow-up the...

Báo cáo y học: " Antipolymer antibody in Italian fibromyalgic patients" docx

... biotin-con-jugated monoclonal antibody directed to cytokine is added and binds to cytokine captured by the first antibody. Streptavi-din–horseradish peroxidase is added and binds to the biotin-conjugated ... (Bender MedSystem, Austria, Vienna). A pol-yclonal antibody-coating antibody is adsorbed onto microw-ells, and the cytokine present in the samples or standardsbinds to antibodies adsorbed to the ... erythematosus cases,four systemic sclerosis cases, two undifferentiated connec-tive-tissue disease cases) and 100 healthy age-matched and sex-matched subjects. Individuals with a history of...

Báo cáo y học: "Sinus aspergilloma in rheumatoid arthritis before or during tumor necrosis factor-alpha antagonist therapy" ppsx

... effects of drugs used to treat the disease, such as long-term glucocorti-coids, disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), and TNFα antagonists [3,4]. Other factors may be involved, includ-ing ... 1999 and 2007, patients were identi-fied using the database of each hospital and the keywords:(rheumatoid arthritis or spondylarthropathy) AND (aspergil-loma or fungus ball).Standardized forms ... patients had a history of inadequate disease control with glucocorti-coids and methotrexate. Other DMARDs, including lefluno-mide, were used in two patients, one of whom was still onleflunomide at the...

Báo cáo y học: " Translating research in elder care: an introduction to a study protocol series" pps

... participated in designing the study, securing grant funding, and provided critical com-mentary to the final submitted manuscript. CAE and PGNco-lead project one and LD is the lead investigator forTREC ... forquality have been developed and are executed on a rou-tine basis, and deviations from expected quality are inves-tigated using defined processes. Final master and indexfiles are designated from ... unitdocuments, and photographs of relevant artefacts and/ ornon-resident care activities. Details of the data types and the collection methods used in both projects one and two are contained in the...

Báo cáo y học: "A1298C polymorphism in the MTHFR gene predisposes to cardiovascular risk in rheumatoid arthritis" ppt

... participated in the design of the study and in data analysis, and helped to draft the manuscript. CG-J performed the ultra-sonographic studies, participated in the design of the study and in data analy-sis, ... participated in the anal-ysis of the data. JM and MAG-G made substantial contributions to conception and design of the study, acquisition of data and coordination, helped to draft the manuscript and ... genotype. Study of endothelium-dependent, flow-mediated (post-ischemia) vasodilatation (FMD) in rheumatoid arthritis patients stratified accord-ing to the 5,10-methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase...

Báo cáo y học: " Airway obstruction in asthma: does the response to a deep inspiration matter" pptx

... plasticity. The cytoskeleton of ASM is con-tinuously adapting to its dynamic microenvironment, and these cytoskeletal-remodeling events seem to play outover a wide range of time scales. Gunst and Wu [22] ... normalindividuals fails in asthmatics. Bridge dynamics and plasticreorganization of the cytoskeleton are surely importantfactors, but how they interact and details about underlyingmechanisms remain ... bron-choconstricting substances such as histamine there is areflex increase in the frequency and depth of spontaneoussighs, and these DIs cause prompt and nearly completedilation of the airway [6,13]. In...

Báo cáo y học: "Coagulation cascade in sepsis: getting from bench to bedside" pot

... augmenting or inhibiting the contribution of the clotting cascade components to inflammation would berequired for determining the selection and dosing of potentialnew therapies.Altering the intrinsic ... knowledge to the bedside’, where individual patients can benefit.Optimum balance between pro-/anti-coagulation and pro-/anti-inflammationAdministration of intrinsic or synthetic analogues of coagulation ... the detrimental inflammatory response. However, several gaps in our current understanding must bebridged before the clinician can take the basic knowledge to the bedside’, where individual patients will...

Báo cáo y học: "Selenium supplementation in critically ill patients: can too much of a good thing be a bad thing" potx

... Group: REducingDeaths due to OXidative Stress (The REDOXS Study): ratio-nale and study design for a randomized trial of glutamine and antioxidant supplementation in critically-ill patients. ... evidence of any beneficialanti-inflammatory effect of high-dose selenium is provided,either in the study by Forceville and colleagues or in any otherpublished study of septic patients or in ... pro-oxidant dose (4,000 µg) on studyday 1, followed by an antioxidant dose of 1,000 µg/day for anadditional 9 days. In a randomized trial of 60 patients withsevere sepsis, they were unable to detect...

Báo cáo y học: "Measuring sleep in critically ill patients: beware the pitfalls" pps

... PSG in critically ill patients, and research isneeded to determine the validity of these devices in measuring sleep.Though decidedly the most accurate measurement tech-nique, PSG itself may ... EEG devices such as the bispectral index (BIS) and the SEDLine™ may prove to be acceptable alternatives to PSG to measure sleep in certain circumstances. Originallydeveloped to monitor sedation ... maysignificantly affect the ability of processed EEG devices to reliably detect sleep in this population. Currently, there are nopublished studies directly comparing processed EEGdevices to...

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