... injury. He
complained of pain in the left elbow and shoulder. The
proximal part of the left arm and elbow had swelling and
crepitus. His neurovascular examination was normal.
Plain radiographs ... fracture in a
“floating arm” injury like in our case. A temporary
Kirschner wire allows the surgeon to stabilize the humeral
shaft and control the motion i...
... sequence
alignment and drafted the manuscript. SS is an anesthesiologist and she
gave the anesthesia all cases, participated in the design of the study and
performed the statistical analysis. ES and ... deaths [2].
ARDS formally defined as a syndrome of inflammation
and increased permeability, is associated with a constella-
tion of clinical, radiological an...
... may be due to
increased awareness and recognition of AKI.
Despite the apparent decline in mortality in AKI patients, it
remains unacceptably high at around 40% [1]. If indeed the
rising prevalence ... for
early acute injury in a cohort of Australian intensive care units.
Crit Care 2007, 11:R68.
2. Ympa YP, Sakr Y, Reinhart K, Vincent JL: Has mortality from
acute renal fai...
... study, we evaluated the incidence of AKI and
compared the ability of the maximum RIFLE and of the
maximum AKIN within ICU hospitalization in predicting inhos-
pital mortality of critically ill patients.
Materials ... substantial contributions to the
study concept and design, the acquisition of data, and the
analysis and interpretation of data. JAL, ZCeS,...
... limitation of this study is the absence of uni-
formity resulting in often suboptimal reporting and ana-
lyses of data, with other classifications and definitions
for etiology, inhalation injury, ... Unfortunately, the quantity and
quality of research is often related to the economy and
standard of health care, because research is possible
only if resources and...
... design of the study, acquisition of data, analysis
and interpretation of data and drafted the manuscript. CD participated in
the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis. RA and ACP
participated ... classify AKI in a
number of clinical settings . This study aims to estimate the frequency and levels of severity of AKI and to study i...
... provided and facilities available at their working
institutions including the quality of offered health ser-
vices, availability of the required quantity and quality of
medicines, availability of medical ... need
for adopting health insurance system is partly related to
the increasing role of private sector in providing health-
care services and partly to the large n...
... when
they are minimally or moderately oxidized within the wall
(oxLDLs), they become proinflammatory. Endothelial cells are
activated, monocytes are attracted into the artery wall, and
monocyte/macrophages ... by SAA, which is
associated not only with disabling HDLs as anti-inflammatory
mediators, but with creating piHDLs. These HDLs can be
defined as proinflammatory because they ac...
... the inactivation of thrombin by antithrombin and decrease
the function of plasmin and activated protein C [22,23,29]. In
addition, aPL may bind to A2 and inhibit A2 -dependent plas-
min generation ... indicates
that GMT may be associated with aPL that recognize antigens
such as β2GPI and some hemostatic and fibrinolystic pro-
teases instead of cardiolipin.
β2GPI may...
... measured by using a commercial kit (ICN
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Costa Mesa, CA, USA). Sensitivity
of the assay was 0.2 ng/mL and the intraassay coefficient
of variation was 5%, as previously described ... Argentina and
Fundación Antorchas, Argentina. The gift of the reagents to measure prol-
actin, LH and FSH levels by the NIDDK's National Hormone and Pituitary...