... were included in the study Criteria used to diagnose rhinitis included history, nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea and nasal itchiness Blood was collected from each patient in a plain vacutainer, ... precipitates formed using sera from 20 patientswith diseases other than allergy indicated that IgM was present in all of them, IgG in 18 and IgA inIn the present study, CIC were detected in 33 of the ... observed in rhinitis Table 1: Specific IgE (sIgE) antibodies, circulating immune complexes (CIC) and mean complement C3 and C4 levels inselected groups of patientswith rhinitis Group/number of patients...
... continuing education meetings, the training allowed the scale-up of HIV activities for patientswith TB at primary health care clinics The correlation between mean post-training scores of clinic's ... workers and helped with its development WD and FB also helped with developing the training AVR conceived of the study, participated in developing the training, coordinated the study with FB and helped ... of pre- and post-training assessments and observations made during the training guided the revision of the initial training manual Topics that raised confusion or remained insufficiently understood...
... time [6] Inpatientswith schizophrenia, delusions and hallucinations could arise as a result of deficits in cognitive functions involving perceptual and attributional biases [7,8] People with schizophrenia ... study replicates the findings of numerous studies that demonstrated the presence of neurocognitive deficits inpatientswith schizophrenia on most domains tested, including attention, vigilance, ... early in the illness process [9] Data from industrialized nations show that only around 10% of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia are working in full-time employment Most studies that link cognitive...
... reported with prolactin-elevating compounds, the clinical significance of elevated serum prolactin is unknown in asymptomatic patients [12] In an analysis by Conley and Mahmoud [31], raw clinical ... behind patients' discontinuation came from CATIE phase I data [15] Relapses were categorised as either 'requiring hospitalisation' or 'not requiring hospitalisation, but incurring an increase in ... be the dominant strategy in all tests except in the case of a 10% increase in the resource utilisation of patientsin stable days and 10% decrease in resource utilisation of relapses In both cases...
... release compared with alternative oral antipsychotic agents inpatientswith schizophrenia in Greece: a cost effectiveness study Annals of General Psychiatry 2008, 7:16 Publish with Bio Med Central ... effectiveness compared with paliperidone ER: Cost (€) 52 Effectiveness -0.3 -7.0 Correction Following the publication of our article [1], it has come to our attention that there was an error with the values ... Effectiveness Olanzapine Risperidone Quetiapine Ziprasidone Aripiprazole 7.030 272.5 7.034 272.2 7.082 265.5 8.321 260.7 7.807 258.6 7.713 260.5 1.291 -11.8 777 -13.9 683 -12.0 Incremental cost and...
... of pain interference by point (0- to 10-point scale) is associated with a total annual cost increase of €1,453 Pain intensity measured with the BPI was significantly associated with total, indirect, ... Brief Pain Inventory inpatientswith oncological pain Med Clin (Barc) 2003, 120:52-59 26 Cleeland CS, Gonin R, Hatfield AK, Edmonson JH, Blum RH, Stewart JA, Pandya KJ: Pain and its treatment in ... level, lower increases of the impact are accompanied by higher cost increments A similar phenomenon was observed using the BPI using the pain interference index For example, an increase in the degree...
... allow invasive monitoring to be avoided in some patientswith heart failure inotropic agents (including norepinephrine [noradrenaline], phenylephrine, vasopressin, dopamine, dobutamine, or milrinone); ... logic behind evaluating ICU patients by testing for B-type (brain) natriuretic peptide (BNP) or its amino-terminal pro-fragment NT-proBNP These markers are useful in diagnosing or excluding heart ... biomarkers in the evaluation of patientsin the ICU setting remains largely unexplored Because hemodynamic monitoring is a frequent theme in the evaluation of patientsin the ICU setting, there...
... N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide inpatientswith severe sepsis Circulation 2005, 112:527-534 Chua G and Kang-Hoe: Marked elevations in N-terminal brain natriuretic peptide levels in septic ... correlate with invasively measured hemodynamic parameters, such as pulmonary capillary wedge pressure or low cardiac output inpatientswith various types of shock in the ICU [1,14] In agreement with ... of inflammatory cytokines such as IL-6 in ICU shock patients However, future studies evaluating the precise mechanisms responsible for enhanced natriuretic peptide secretion in critically ill patients...
... micafungin Nevertheless, the main finding of this study by Zilberberg and colleagues is encouraging The reduction in the acquisition cost of micafungin, as well as that of other echinocandins, has ... associated with amphotericin B therapy Clin Infect Dis 2001, 32:686-693 Golan Y, Wolf MP, Pauker SG, Wong JB, Hadley S: Empirical anti-Candida therapy among selectedpatientsin the intensive ... revisited Clin Infect Dis 2003, 37: 1172-1177 Kumar A; CATSS Study Group: The high mortality of Candida septic shock is explained by excessive delays in initiation of antifungal therapy In Proceedings...
... diabetes and those without it Insulin may protect through anti -in ammatory effects [15] given that in the intensive insulin therapy era, many patients without diabetes are receiving insulin Also, a higher ... outcomes measures in diabetic patients undergoing cardiac surgery the pre-intravenous insulin era Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006, 18:281-288 17 Slynkova K, Mannino DM, Martin GS, Morehead ... ICU, intensive care unit 15 Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests 16 Published: March 2010 References Vincent J, Preiser J, Sprung C, Moreno R, Sakr Y: Insulin-treated...
... general internal medicine departments Previous studies investigating scoring systems in septic patients were largely confined to ICU settings [8-12], whereas today the majority of septic patients ... to general internal medicine departments with good accuracy, and can thus be utilized in this enlarging clinical setup Key messages • Sepsis is a common medical issue with increasing incidence ... that increasing age is a major contributing factor for mortality from sepsis, regardless of co-morbidities [3] This fact emphasizes the need for including elderly patientsin clinical trails investigating...
... toxicity in the treatment of ESCC [16] In this study, the effects of replacing CDDP with NDP on the pharmacokinetics of 5-FU 306 were investigated in ESCC patients treated with a definitive 5-FU/CDDP-based ... Forty-nine of 56 patients were treated with CDDP (the CDDP group), and the remaining patients were treated with NDP (the NDP group) This study was conducted with the authorization of the institutional ... summarized in Table In the CDDP group, the plasma concentrations of 5-FU were significantly higher in the patientswith CR than those with non-CR (P
... biomarkers found in heart failure include BNP, NT pro-BNP, C-reactive protein, tumor necrosis factor a, interleukins and 6, TNF-a, matrix metalloproteinases, neuroepinephrine, renin, galectin-3 [16-18], ... plasma levels in both ICM and NIDCM groups vs controls Interestingly, IL-5 plasma levels inversely correlated with disease duration in NYHA III/IV ICM patientsIn fact, patientswith longer disease ... that IL-9 levels inversely correlated with ejection fraction in ICM patients, but not in NIDCM patients This would suggest that increased levels of this cytokine are associated with left ventricular...
... biomarkers found in heart failure include BNP, NT pro-BNP, C-reactive protein, tumor necrosis factor a, interleukins and 6, TNF-a, matrix metalloproteinases, neuroepinephrine, renin, galectin-3 [16-18], ... plasma levels in both ICM and NIDCM groups vs controls Interestingly, IL-5 plasma levels inversely correlated with disease duration in NYHA III/IV ICM patientsIn fact, patientswith longer disease ... that IL-9 levels inversely correlated with ejection fraction in ICM patients, but not in NIDCM patients This would suggest that increased levels of this cytokine are associated with left ventricular...
... start If there are vancomycin no if (Linezolid, contraindications patient is clinically quinupristin/dalfopristi to line removal, stable and responds n, and daptomycin are this to antibiotics ... Staphylococcus with duration based on infections aureus, the clinical setting following S Enterococcus); aureus gram-positive and the difficulty rods of (Bacillus, infection treating Corynebacterium ... Catheter-Related Infections Because IV catheters are commonly used in cancer chemotherapy and are prone to infection (Chap 125), they pose a major problem in the care of patientswith cancer Some...
... inflammatory scoring system included the following three parameters: hyperplasia/enlargement of synovial lining layer (intima), activation of fibroblastic cells in the sublining stroma, and inflammatory ... sublining stroma, and 2.1, 0.8 and 0.1 points for inflammatory infiltration in RA, OA and ND, respectively Thus, the synovitis score – assessed in a blinded manner – was increased in all patients ... whereas inpatientswith RA the expression was more frequently found in the sublining layer A decrease in BMP-4 and BMP-5 in RA and OA could be correlated with markers of systemic and in part with...
... T, Inokuma T, Takemoto Y, Nakamura T, Kataoka K, Sakaeda T: Replacement of cisplatin with nedaplatin in a definitive 5-fluorouracil/ cisplatin-based chemoradiotherapy in Japanese patientswith ... Discussion Originally, 5-FU was administered alone as a bolus, but more recently, it is being administered with biomodulating agents and/or through continuous infusion [11,33] Because of the preclinical ... Association of 8-point average of plasma concentrations of 5-fluorouracil with overall survival in Japanese patientswith esophageal squamous cell carcinoma Line: patientswith plasma concentrations...
... times with origin at month in groups of patientswith and without 5% decline in VC at month Solid line with closed circle: No decline in VC at month 3; broken line with plus: a ≥ decline in VC ... exacerbation inpatientswith ≥ 5% and < 5% decline in VC 5% decline in VC at Month Table Outcome of patients; Change from baseline to month 12 in H-J classification for patientswith ≥ 5% and < 5% decline ... times in groups of IPF patients a) The disease progression was defined by a ≥ 5% decline in VC from baseline or death b) The disease progression was defined by a ≥ 5% decline in VC from baseline...
... requirement for norepinephrine to maintain CPP above 70 mmHg observed in the present analysis could reflect ongoing alterations within the injured brain, possibly induced by maintaining blood glucose ... associated with an increase in ICP or a decrease in CPP (data not shown) ICP during the first week, and markedly increased insulin and norepinephrine requirement compared withpatientswith a blood ... and urinary tract infections In addition, we investigated the impact of maintaining blood glucose levels within low and tight limits on fluctuations in blood glucose values, insulin and norepinephrine...
... of bloating We thus hypothesized that 1) bloating predominant IBS patientsin Asia have delayed intestinal transit; and 2) tegaserod could improve bloating and intestine transit in these patients ... view, in this thesis, we are trying to find the role of GIT transit using bran scan in IBS patientswith bloating (See later chapter) 1.3 The role of Serotonin in IBS Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, ... regulating GI smooth muscle contraction, resulting in abnormal intestinal motility 2) There may be dysregulation of the sensory nerves linking intestinal receptors and nerve endings to CNS, resulting...