... severity of injury or illness index (NACA) [16]Score Definition0 No injury or disease1 Injuries/diseases without any need for acute physician care2 Injuries/diseases requiring examination and ... Vieveen J, Brinkman ACM,Christiaans HMT, Toor EJ, Jukema GN, Loer SA, Boer C, investigators A-T:Prehospital endotracheal intubation in patients with severe traumaticbrain injury: guidelines versus ... Piek J: Guidelines for the pre-hospital care of patients with severe headinjuries. Working Group for Neurosurgical Intensive Care of theEuropean Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Intensive Care...
... increase in urine Cu levels in patients suffering from myocar-dial infarction (MI) (15). Reunanen et al. (1996) found increased levels of serum Cu in patients with CAD (14). In contrast, in our ... patients with CAD compared to the control group. Other investigators have also re-ported decreased retinol levels in patients with CAD (31,32). In other studies, Levels of retinol were similar in ... (20,21,18). Accordingly, we found signifi-cantly lower serum iron levels in patients with CAD. Because of its possible role in preventing heart disease researchers have taken interest in fat-soluble...
... blood pressure were observed in response to p-synephrine or p-synephrine in combination with naringin and hes-peridin (Table 2). p-Synephrine differs from ephedrine in that it has a hydroxyl ... in blood pressure, rest-ing heart-rate and self-ratings in the four treatment groups involving p-synephrine, naringin and hes-peridin relative to the placebo group is very positive, and in ... p-synephrine) Group 3: Advantra Z® with 0 mg hesperidin and 600 mg naringin Group 4: Advantra Z® with 100 mg hesperidin and 600 mg naringin Group 5: Advantra Z® with 1,000 mg hesperidin...
... deformation indices two-dimensional strain (2DS) and strain rate (SR), might be an alterna-tive approach in clinical routine. Tissue Doppler Imaging (TDI) and 2D Speckle Tracking (2DST) algorithms ... circumferential strain and strain rate by 2DST in normo-, hypo-, akinetic and dyskinetic seg-ments of post-infarct patients 8-13, 30-37, which were not reliably accessible by TDI. Radial strain also ... strain analysis between infarcted and adjacent segments. Segments with LE ≥ 51% demonstrated signifi-cantly decreased strain and velocities in comparison to segments with no LE. Comparing...
... related increased oxidative activity in RA patients. Anti-CCP antibodies are directed against antigens containing the nonstandard amino acid citrulline, for example, citrullinated fibrin, which ... with rheumatoid arthritis. Clin Rheumatol 2000;19:275-277. 29. Bandt MD, Grossin M, Driss F, Pincemail J, Babin-Chevaye C, Pasquier C. Vitamin E uncouples joint destruction and clinical inflammation ... Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic, inflam-matory, autoimmune, systemic disease, in which various joints in the body are inflamed, leading to swelling, pain, stiffness, and the possible loss...
... of the bleeding source. Bleeding lesions in the GI tract are identified in about 50% of patients with IDA [7-8]. Laboratory findings in IDA include elevated total iron-binding Int. J. Med. ... of gastrointestinal tract in patients with iron deficiency anemia. N Engl J Med. 1993; 329: 1691–5. 29. Bini EJ, Micale PL, Weinshel EH. Evaluation of the gastrointes-tinal tract in premenopausal ... ga-strointestinal investigations in pre-menopausal women who have IDA, but significant gastrointestinal pathology was detected in published studies [29, 37-39]. Significant upper gastrointestinal...
... their written informed consent. Handedness was determined using a Chinese translation of the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory 29. Such an inventory has been used in two previous Chinese studies ... line bisec-tion errors in our study. Such a result is in line with previous studies, showing that the unipolar depres-sive patients displayed a non-significant leftward bias in manual line ... 25. The internal reliability of this inventory is .93 21. Procedures All subjects were requested to bisect eight lines without measuring or folding the paper. The lines, drawn in black...
... autonomic nervous system, including the brain stem, spinal cord, hypothalamus and cerebral cortex. Demyelinating plaques may disrupt reflex pathways in the insular, cingulated and ventromedial ... medulla. In addition there can be interference with the descending autonomic nervous system pathways during their course in the brainstem or spinal cord (6). Although orthostatic dizziness has ... cerebrospinal fluid analysis and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the brain in each case. Two patients with POTS, who were followed at our clinic, developed multiple sclerosis after being diagnosed with...
... concentrations in female subjects. The effect remained significant after correcting for multiparametric testing according to Bonferoni and was seen only in subjects with a BMI below the median. In addition, ... were determined using GPO-PAP and CHOD-PAP kits, respectively, from Boehringer Mannheim (Mannheim, Germany). HDL was measured following precipitation of apoB containing lipoproteins with phosphotungstate ... PCR condition were: 96°C for an initial 5 minutes (min.) followed by 96°C 1 min., 65°C 1 min., 72°C 1 min. for 43 cycles and final extension at 72° for 10 min. MS-PCR created two fragment...
... responses in patients with staphylococcal septicemia against two Staphylococcus aureus fibrinogen binding proteins: clumping factor and an extracellular fibrinogen binding protein. Clin Diagn ... patients with deep-seated infection had elevated levels of IgG antibodies against TA, even within Int. J. Med. Sci. 2005 2 134peptidoglycan in stimulating proinflammatory cytokine secretion. Invest ... against PG in some of the patients with deep infection might be due to impaired immunity of advancing age, poor expression of virulence determinants by the infecting strain or changes in...
... Chorioretinal lesions vary in number and size, involving the mid-periphery, with or without involvement of the poste-rior pole. Linear clustering of chorioretinal lesions, following the course ... ophthalmoscopy, with early hyopofluorescence and late staining on fluorescein angiography (FA). Inac-tive chorioretinal lesions typically are partially atro-phic and partially pigmented with a “targetlike ... (type Culex), with wild birds serving as its reservoir. The disease is endemic in Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, and North and Central America since its appearance in New York in 1999.1...
... associated with bradycardic responses during ILR monitoring. Interestingly, some of the patients in our study were labeled as having psycho-genic syncope for years before the ILR monitoring revealed ... moni-toring as well as automatic activation during events, resulting in a higher diagnostic yield than traditional monitoring techniques [6-12]. During ILR monitoring of patients with recurrent ... Ivyspring International Publisher. All rights reserved Research Paper Clinical Symptoms Associated with Asystolic or Bradycardic Responses on Implantable Loop Recorder Monitoring in Patients with...
... attending nephrology clinic of a community hospital. Excluded from initial sample of 583 patients were those with CKD stage I, V and those with missing albumin values or CVD data. Patients with ... is the reflection of inflammation induced malnutrition. The underlying mechanism be-hind this includes appetite suppression and increased catabolism by inflammatory cytokines (38). Cai and colleagues ... malnutrion and inflammation in ESRD patients (25, 26). Hypoalbuminemia, a marker of malnutrition and underlying inflammation has come up as a powerful predictor of mortality in patients with ESRD...