... first time in this study. Measurement of
exhaled breath temperature and bronchial blood flow
may provide means of detecting airway inflammation and
vascular remodelling in a non-invasive way.
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that, potentially, minor changes of bronchial blood flow
may not affect exhaled breath temperature.
Elevated levels of exhaled N...
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ways by inspiration, thus possibly influencing the exhaled
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Background: Analysis of exhaled breath condensate (EBC) is a non-invasive method for studying
the acidity (pH) of airway secretions in patient...
... mental health.
Increased risk of malnutrition (combining medium
and high risk) was found in 7.1% of the individuals in
the current sample. In previous studies of community-
living elderly individuals, ... conducted by The University of Tromsø, Department of
Community Medicine.
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treated in the pulmonary ward of the same hospital [12],
underlying that request for ICU admission is mainly trig-
gered by clinical instability, the need for close monitoring
or the probability for ... (illustrated by the yearly decline in percent
predicted FEV
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) were strong independent predictors of
mortality.
The increased survival age of patients with CF predicts a
shi...
... These findings should no n ecessarily be
interpreted as demonstrative of the lack of clinical effi-
cacy, because immunotherapy-induced changes in air-
way responsiveness or in inflammatory markers ... injections
were administered every 4 weeks for 1 year (Table 1).
Skin prick tests
Skin-prick testing was performed with glycerinated sal-
ine (negative control), histamine (1% histami...
... cross-sections with a thickness of 5 μm,
being selected and stained with hematoxylin-eosin
(HE). All examinations were carried out by a single
professional.
The odontogenic lining epithelium ...
expected.
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stage of rhizogenesis
Type of lining epithelium
Absent SSE ERE Total
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Correlation of histopathology with MRI
Interstitial bone marrow edema as detected by histopathology
in the zygapophyseal joints of the lumbar spine was found by
MRI in thre...
... prolongation in the
answering and processing times of emergency calls in
Helsinki, the capital of Finland [5].
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... medical information are essential to
integrate pharmacists in the primary care system [20].
The role of medical professionals is a dominant factor
in defining, controlling and scoping the work of ... consum-
ing Chinese OTC medication in the previous year. The
majority of them (19%) reported having no consultation
with a Chinese medicine practitioner within the same
period. Chin...
... weather-dependent insecurity beyond a
distance of 200 m.
Pain:
5 patients were painfree, one patient had mod-
erate complaints after long walks. The other two pa-
tients reported of minor pain during mobilisation ... cement
Introduction
The maintenance of the joint function and the
infection eradication are the treatment aims of bacte-
rial infections of the proximal femur and...