... period from January 2003 through December 2009, a total of 20 women with early- stage invasive uterine cancer underwent vaginal RT with lymphadenectomy in Sapporo Medical University Hospital Among ... efforts of neonatologists and co-workers Fetal growth up to the delivery was appropriate for gestational age for patient Fetal growth of patient was also within the normal range over the pregnancy ... Ultrasonographic changes of BPD as a marker of fetal growth in patient and patient Fetal growth of each patient assessed by the changes of BPD (biparietal diameter) was within normal range over the pregnancy...
... chance that some children with wheezing symptoms in early life have outgrown their childhood asthma as teenager or as adults, but asthmatic children who continue to wheeze as adults have poorer baseline ... that abnormalities of neonatal airway function which precede transient wheezing in early childhood not predict adult obstructive lung disease (10) A longitudinal population-based cohort study has ... reports have also demonstrated that a certain percentage of subjects with apparently outgrown atopic asthma remain asymptomatic without needing therapy for the rest of their lives, but asthma remission...
... participants with differing degrees of vulnerability for psychosis: patients diagnosed with psychosis in a current state of remission; first-degree relatives of patients diagnosed with a psychotic ... a similarly significant decrease in positive affect associated with stress, compared with controls For negative affect associated with stress, the relatives showed a significantly greater increase ... findings Conclusion There is evidence that adult adversity is a component cause of psychosis, in interaction with enduring liabilities created by both genetic and early environmental factors The concepts...
... cells Hormone therapy can play a role in treating early- stage prostate cancer For men with high-risk early- stage prostate cancer, it may be used along with radiation therapy You can also receive it ... and what the benefits and risks are Talking With Others Along with talking with their doctors and spouse or partner, many men find it helpful to talk with others, such as: n Family This includes ... life after prostate cancer Treatment Choices for Men With Early- Stage Prostate Cancer Men Different Treatment Choices “I talked it over with my wife and son I chose radiation therapy because...
... C18 tip-microcolumns; columns were washed with water and then eluted with μl of matrix solution (30 mg/ml sinapinic acid in 50% acetonitril and 0.1% TFA with addition of mM n-octyl glucopyranoside) ... algorithm with the correlation function Then the possible coincidence of the obtained clusters with subgroups defined by clinical parameters were assessed by using the chi-square test (with Yates ... proteome patterns that were related to therapy of early breast cancer patients Methods Characteristics of patient groups Seventy patients diagnosed with clinical stage I or II breast cancer were...
... from 142– 150 cm for females and 152–162 cm for males [10] Dysmorphic features include small narrow hands and/or short feet, with an average adult foot length of 20.3 cm for females and 22.3 cm ... interfere with gait pattern include muscular hypotonia, short stature, small hands and/or feet (acromicria) and scoliosis Hypotonia is nearly uniformly present and gradually improves with age ... obese children walk with a significanlty lower peak knee flexion angle during early stance but they did not show any change in sagittal plane knee moment [4] As far as obese adult patients are...
... associated with higher serum and CSF cryptococcal antigen titers Of the 11 patients with CSF antigen titre ≥ 1:32 or serum titre ≥ 1:64 mortality was 10/ 11, as compared with 0/4 for those with lower ... of the deaths of HIV-infected adult inpatients in sub-Saharan Africa Patients with cryptococcal meningitis presented with typical symptoms, and universal screening with a serum cryptococcal antigen ... among patients with cryptococcal meningitis in our cohort Discussion Of the 333 HIV-infected adults consecutively admitted to our Tanzanian hospital during the ART era and screened with the serum...
... and pelvis with intravenous and oral contrast Inflammation is demonstrated Figure CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis with intravenous and oral contrast Bilateral dilated fallopian tubes with pronounced ... migration of neural crest cells or early cell death There have been eight genes identified that are associated with Hirschsprung disease and the disease has been associated with other congenital abnormalities ... reported to present at menarche in females with underlying urogenital malformations [8] In this case the patient presented just prior to her second menstrual period with pyosalpinx that was confirmed...
... Interestingly, and similarly to patients with aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD), in patients with acute urticaria induced by distinct NSAIDs (both with and without chronic urticaria), cross-reactions ... Patients already presenting with a history of multipleNSAID intolerance, with or without underlying chronic urticaria, should directly undergo oral tolerance tests with drugs exerting little or ... should start with a chemically distinct COX-1 inhibitor There are several reasons why these patients should be challenged first with another nonselective COX inhibitor rather than with a selective...
... Background Schizophrenia is a mental disorder with typical onset in early adulthood [1] Although the disorder has also been identified in children and early adolescents, such occurrences are rare ... tissue class volume in patients withearly onset schizophrenia Association between positive syndrome scores and grey matter tissue class volume in patients withearly onset schizophrenia (n = ... class volume in patients withearly onset schizophrenia Figure (n = 18)4 Association between negative syndrome scores and grey matter tissue class volume in patients withearly onset schizophrenia...
... patients with recent onset disease Thus, in the present study we sought to determine whether AGE-damaged IgG could be detected in patients withearly synovitis, and whether this was associated with ... correlated highly significantly with the ability to make RFs In this cohort of patients withearly disease, anti-IgG-AGE was found to correlate significantly with the swollen joint count and ... serum albumin with and without AGE damage were determined Available online http://arthritis-research.com/content/5/2/R82 Table Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients withearly synovitis...
... treated with MTX, with SSZ, and with MTX + SSZ) Among 32 patients with decreasing anti-CCP2 concentrations, 14 were treated with MTX (43.75%), 10 with SSZ (31.25%), with MTX + SSZ, and with hydroxychloroquine; ... converted to negative by the end of the first three years of follow-up (5 treated with MTX, with SSZ, with MTX + SSZ, and with hydroxychloroquine) None of the differences in DMARD regimens across these ... in patients withearly arthritis [1] Anti-CCP antibodies appear early and may antedate symptom development [17] However, little is known about the time-course of anti-CCP during the early phase...
... American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 1987 criteria for RA [24], had early disease with disease duration of less than one year without prior use of disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) ... complete blood count with differential, as Available online http://arthritis-research.com/content/8/3/R82 Table Clinical characteristics and lipid profile of patients withearly rheumatoid arthritis ... (HDL-C) with C-reactive protein high-density lipoprotein choCorrelation of total cholesterol (TC) and (CRP) lesterol (HDL-C) with C-reactive protein (CRP) Inverse correlation of CRP differences with...
... retrospectively evaluated the long-term outcomes of our adolescent and adult patients with pineal parenchymal gland tumors treated with radiation therapy, to identify outcome, possible prognostic factors ... the patients with pineoblastoma had undergone gross or partial tumor resection Two out of the patients with primary pineoblastoma received chemotherapy prior to radiotherapy: A 17 female yearold ... failure In the patient with pineocytoma with intermediate differentiation, the gross tumor volume was irradiated up to a TD of 54 Gy in single fractions of 1.8 Gy Among the patients with primary pineoblastoma,...
... compared with controls The low Lp-PLA2 activity is in accordance with previously published data by our group, indicating that patients with active juvenile rheumatoid arthritis presented with lower ... < 0.0001 compared with controls, ‡P < 0.001 and **P < 0.01 compared with baseline values tantly, the autoantibody titers against oxLDLP and oxLDLD were inversely correlated with serum HDL-cholesterol ... correlated with HDL-Lp-PLA2 activity (Figure 1) One year of therapy with DMARDs resulted in a significant decrease in autoantibody titers against all types of oxLDL in ERA patients compared with the...
... disease with skin changes similar to SSc [14] For all these reasons we considered it of interest to explore the occurrence of IL-15 in the circulation of patients withearly SSc [15], with special ... in accordance with other studies [24] (Figure 1) In the group with high serum IL-15 levels, diffuse cutaneous SSc was twice as prevalent as limited cutaneous SSc Among patients with low or intermediate ... IL-15 levels, limited increase compared with IL-15 in patients with systemic sclerosis Serum concentrations ofhealthy control individuals increase compared with healthy control individuals Striped...
... groups Figure shows CRP levels and MBL2 genotypes in patients with a current remission and patients with active disease with or without a previous remission When the patients were stratified ... erythematosus [17,18] It has also been suggested that MBL deficiency is associated with joint erosions and early disease onset of adult rheumatoid arthritis (RA) [19-23], although other investigators were ... allele is associated with decreased plasma MBL levels and the Y variant with high plasma MBL levels Subsequently, intermediately decreased MBL serum levels are seen in individuals with the genotypes...
... lymphoma in patients with rheumatoid arthritis compared with the general population CI, confidence interval; DMARDs, lymphoma in patients with rheumatoid arthritis compared with the general population ... identified early RA population [4,5,8,9] Askling and colleagues [4,5] found an increased risk of lymphoma and lung cancer and a decreased risk of breast cancer in patients withearly RA compared with ... be a slightly reduced risk of breast cancer associated with RA With one exception, all the reported SIRs clustered just below risk parity with the general population, and the summary estimate...
... test was used to compare continuous data between patients with RA and patients with UA or, within the RA group, between patients with or without RF, anti-CCP, or radiological erosions The chi-square ... polymorphism withearly rheumatoid arthritis and undifferentiated arthritis We analyzed the distribution of the BAFF 871T>C polymorphism among patients withearly RA and patients with UA The two ... genotypic Table Baseline characteristics of 710 patients withearly rheumatoid arthritis or undifferentiated arthritis Patients withearly RA or UA Early RA n = 710 76.5% 77% 74% 0.8 49.0 (40.0–64.0)...