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Research
Protein-losing enteropathy in patients with Fontan circulation:
is it triggered by infection?
Dominik Lenz
1
, ... = Epstein–Barr virus; ELISA = enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; IL = interleukin; PLE = protein-losing enteropathy.
Abstract
Introduction Protein-losing...
... severity of anxiety itself merits further
investigation. In our TRD patients, the depression
score was correlated negatively with Magnitude. This
finding is in accordance with the results in ... negatively correlated with Disinhibition-Seeking in the
healthy subjects, and with Total sensation-seeking and Experience-Seeking in GAD patients,
while the Magnitude of the...
... Francisco Edit for his
assistance in editing this manuscript.
The BIOBADASER database is supported by the Spanish Society of
Rheumatology (SER). The current study was funded, in part, by the ... were not independ-
ently associated with discontinuation, as demonstrated by the
introduction of the diagnosis of RA in the models. Infliximab
has the strongest association with di...
... IL-15 in patients with systemic sclerosis increase compared with healthy control individualsSerum concentrations of IL-15 in patients with systemic sclerosis
increase compared with healthy control ... capillary density when compared with systemic-sclerosis-related antibodies and markers for inflammatory activity. Inflammatory
activity describes an increased erythrocyte sed...
... with mycophenolate sodium in patients with primary Sjögren syndrome (n = 8)Short Form 36 (SF-36) at baseline and after 24 weeks of treatment with mycophenolate sodium in patients with primary ... laboratory param-
eters. MPS promises to be an additional therapeutic option in
patients with pSS, particularly in those with early disease.
Controlled studies including lar...
... demonstrating that the
efficacy of duloxetine in the treatment of pain in
patients with fibromyalgia is not associated with baseline
tiredness levels.
Analyses of the PGI-Improvement produced findings
similar ... 10, with 10 indi-
cating very severe pain) [17]. In studies 2 to 4, patients
were required to indicate a pain score of at least 4 on
the 24-hour average pain severi...
... who do not meet
clinical criteria defining ARDS.
• Increased EVLW is associated with worse survival in
patients with severe sepsis, whereas the minority of
ARDS patients with normal amounts ... there is a paucity of data regarding EVLW in
patients with severe sepsis.
The most severe form of lung failure, acute respiratory distress
syndrome (ARDS), occurs in 40% of p...
... helpful in identifying patients with potential
hypocortisolism. SAH severity did not affect cortisol
concentrations, possibly indicating relative pituitary-adrenal
insufficiency in patients with ... concentration in hypoalbumenic patients as compared
with patients with an albumin concentration more than 25 g/L.
This finding is in accordance with those of a previous...
... 37:1571-1578.
Key messages
• In septic shock patients, epinephrine pharmacokinetics
is linear.
• Higher BW is associated with higher epinephrine clear-
ance, and increased disease severity is associated with ... exogenous epinephrine to norepinephrine.
The influence of BW and disease severity on epinephrine
pharmacokinetics may account for some of the inter-patient
variability i...