... information) The Work Group, with the assistance of the ERT, made the final decision forthe inclusion or exclusion of all articles These articles were either reviewed in a narrative form by the ... review in 2008 before publication The KDIGO Co-Chairs appointed the Co-Chairs of the Work Group, who then assembled the Work Group to be responsible forthe development of the guideline The Work Group ... studies of other study designs For questions of interventions, the Work Group graded only RCTs The grade forthe quality of evidence for each intervention/ outcome pair was then decreased if there...
... nodes The small nodule was diagnosed as a solitary metastasis of the cecal cancer at the previous port site (Figure 2) The nodule was resected in February 2009 The tumor was located in the abdominal ... thickness as that of the CT scan Forthe PET scan, the patient, whose blood glucose level was 103 mg/dl, received 181.8 MBq of 18F-FDG intraverously Data acquisition was performed within 20 after ... performed in January 2009 The CT scan was performed first, from head to pelvic floor using 3.3-mm section thickness Immediately after the CT scan, a PET scan was performed using the identical transverse...
... selection of patients for Page of 10 APBI [22,23], and these guidelines formed the basis for patient selection in the EBT multicenter study [20] Of the 65 patients that met the initial screening ... maintain the distance from the balloon to the skin surface The greater the volume of the balloon, with the attendant compression of adjacent breast tissue, the more fully the target breast tissue ... criteria and were treated The majority of the 21 patients not eligible for treatment were disqualified at the time of implantation for inadequate balloon conformance to the tumor cavity or inadequate...
... performed operations on the remaining 133 patients and then evaluated the possibility of curative surgery (Fig 1) The clinico-pathological characteristics of the 133 patients who underwent surgery ... for prediction of curability The mean SUV of the primary tumor in patients who underwent non-curative surgery was significantly higher than that of patients with curative surgery Therefore, the ... Knoxville, TN) by a nuclear medicine physician who was given information about the clinical findings in the patient The images were analyzed forthe site and amount of positive FDG uptake; FDG uptake...
... assessed the CV component of the score considering this most relevant for our study goal The CV component of the SOFA score takes MAP and the doses per kg of vasopressor/inotropic therapy used in the ... help of a catheter in the radial artery and either a central venous catheter and/or a pulmonary artery catheter (n = 14) The latter allowed to measure the PAOP after proper wedging, the cardiac ... pericardial (regional) tamponade after primary cardiac surgeryThe aim of the current study was therefore to evaluate, retrospectively, the clinical, haemodynamic and echocardiographic features...
... TJ wrote the draft of the manuscript and obtained the written consent DL performed the literature review and participated in the manuscript writing and helped to the final writing of the paper ... eroded into the outer sternum, then there is a very high risk of massive hemorrhage during thesurgery [6] The ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm mainly bulges anteriorly while eroding the boney structures ... solution was directly injected to the coronary artery for cardioplegia The previous patch repair on the ascending aorta tissue was removed because of the infection, and then a Hemashield graft (Boston...
... chemotherapy was performed for patients with stage III disease if the patients could tolerate such treatment after surgery, or unless the patients refused additional chemotherapy The chemotherapy ... scintigraphy were performed every months forthe first years after surgery and annually thereafter The mean duration of observation was 57 months The survival curve was calculated by the Kaplan-Meier ... Association forthe Study of Lung Cancer International Staging Committee; Participating Institutions The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: proposals forthe revision of the TNM stage groupings in the forthcoming...
... patterns" The search terms were combined using the Boolean operator term "or" to find all abstracts pertaining to the chosen search terms These individual terms were then combined using the Boolean ... (PCWP) [44,45] Therefore, additional measurement of PCWP by using a Swan-Ganz catheter may be in this phase useful in estimating the time course of diastolic dysfunction and the effect of therapeutic ... Literature review: "The theory" of DD is presented in table Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2009, 4:67 http://www.cardiothoracicsurgery.org/content/4/1/67...
... ventricular sides of the leaflets They can even be found on the chordae and the endocardium In this case several microthrombi are present on the free edge of the leaflet and on the chordae Reproduced ... endocarditis of the mitral valve may vary in size and typically have a wart-like morphology They can be found near the edge of the leaflets along the line of closure; both on the atrial and ventricular ... verrucous tumor on the atrial side of the P2 section of the posterior mitral valve leaflet (Fig 4D) A quadrangular resection of the P2 section of the posterior mitral valve leaflet was performed (Fig...
... and low perfusion pressure rather than inadequate systemic oxygen delivery only The distribution of cardiac output to the various organs and to the regulation of the microcirculation that can ... manuscript Consent Written informed consent was obtained from the patient's relatives for publication of this case report A copy of the Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal ... parameters seemed adequately stable, the surgical procedure was performed with a CPB time of 25 minutes During this time, the epinephrine infusion could not be stopped and the first weaning from CPB failed...
... 0.001) Over the study period, there was a trend for decreasing ORs for death associated with AKI (6.5 to 28.9) days for AKI versus 11.7 (7.0 to 21.9) days for no AKI, P < 0.0001) The total duration ... a higher risk for AKI, there were no significant trends in incidence for these conditions over the study period, with the exception of a rise in AKI associated with admissions for acute metabolic/poisoning ... tests for trend were performed as appropriate The estimated annual percentage changes in the incidence of AKI were determined by fitting a straight-line regression of the natural logarithm of the...
... included in the metaanalysis, there is no information on the dose in the subgroup of patients with interventions in the abdominal region [11,13] In the other 30 patients, the initial rFVIIa doses ... interpretation of the data, and revision of the article for content SZ contributed to the conception and design of the work, interpretation of the data, and revision of the article for content K-DW ... interpretation of the data, and drafting of the article JK contributed to the conception of the work, interpretation of the data, revision of the article for content, and approval of the version to...
... domain The error bars represent the range between the maximum cost of each domain for CRRT and the minimum cost for IRRT and the maximum cost of each domain for IRRT and minimum cost for CRRT The ... represents the 1st and 3rd quartiles of the total cost range The thick solid line represents the range difference between the median cost differences for CRRT and IRRT The thick white line represents the ... nursing cost of CRRT on the left The box represents the 1st and 3rd quartiles of the nursing-cost range The thick solid line represents the median difference in nursing costs for CRRT and IRRT across...
... be discussed in the subsequent section), they work to either enable or inhibit the expression of the gene product of interest in transformed cells and their progeny Similarly, the overall effectiveness ... influenced by the following phenomena: 1) the ability to deliver vectors to the target cell; 2) the time taken for cells to express the delivered genes; 3) the number of cells that incorporate the exogenous ... delivered to thekidney via arterial injections and pelvic catheter infusions These methods produced transgene expression in distinct regions of the kidney1 24 The expression generated from the to ml/min...
... air leakage prolong the patient from which the indication of early surgery Thesis structure The thesis is presented in 124 pages (excluding references and appendices) The thesis is divided into: ... rate for men and 64.7% for women Proportion of patients under 40 was 84.2% for men and 70.6% for women The percentage of patients male / female is 6.4/1 The rate is consistent with the other ... Comment: The average fluid drainage after surgery of the pleural group peeled leaf and day day is less than the pleural leaves scratch in the same time (P
... within the cell and between cells It is used for transmitting the forward access channel (FACH) for access grant and the paging channel (PCH) for paging, both of which carry control information Information ... the chip rate increased For a chip rate of 0.96 Mcps, the BER performance was close to the computer simulated BER performance with L=1 The performance with 7.68 Mcps spreading became almost the ... Standard forthe UTRA FDD Air Interface 19 Figure 14 Average BER Performance with Variable Chip Rate ETSI Wideband CDMA Standard forthe UTRA FDD Air Interface 20 5.0 CONCLUSION The framework for the...
... to the dualist view The sciences of the mind have delivered another, or rather a series of others The cognitive sciences – the umbrella term forthe disciplines devoted to the study of mental ... neglected, field, they were not able to follow the instruction to grab it Rather than reach behind them forthe object, they reached toward the mirror When asked where the object was, they replied ... Hence, too, the need for this book This book is not the very first to reflect upon the ethical issues raised by the neurosciences and by the technologies for intervening in the mind they offer us,...