... and weight- mitigating agents Interestingly, baseline BMI has been identified in the past as a predictor for weight gain with olanzapine treatment, withpatientswith lower BMI tending to gain ... significant weight gain in more than 1/ ofpatients during short-term therapy and in more than 1/2 ofpatients who receive long-term olanzapine therapy The current prescribing information for olanzapine ... predictors of substantial weight gain inpatients who were treatedwith olanzapine Their analysis revealed that patientswith bipolar disorder treatedwith olanzapine who had gained to kg in the...
... findings were reported in a study comparing long-term treatment with the LMWH tinzaparin with warfarin; 7% ofpatientstreatedwith tinzaparin and 16% of those treatedwith warfarin experienced symptomatic, ... Comparison of LowMolecular -Weight Heparin versus Oral AnticoagulantTherapy for the Prevention of Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism inPatientswith Cancer (CLOT) Investigators: Low- molecular- weightheparin ... M: Costs and clinical outcomes associated with low- molecular- weightheparin vs unfractionated heparin for perioperative bridging inpatients receiving long-term oral anticoagulanttherapy Chest...
... heparin levels found after subcutaneous administration of 2500 U dalteparin in a group of critically ill patientsIn their study, patientswith edema were defined by at least a 10% increase in ... in body weight and the appearance of generalized edema The pharmacokinetics were compared by examining the peak anti-factor Xa heparin level and the area under the anti-factor Xa heparin level–time ... Anti-Xa activity after subcutaneous administration of dalteparin in ICU patientswith and without subcutaneous oedema: a pilot study Crit Care 2006, 10:R93 Page of (page number not for citation purposes)...
... treatment Of the 42 patients, 10 had to be retreated within 12 weeks after discontinuation of infliximab infusions, 37 within 24 weeks, and 38 within 36 weeks By week 48, of the 42 patients had not ... 41 were again receiving infliximab inpatientswith AS Several important observations were made First, we found that discontinuation of long-term therapywith infliximab inpatientswith AS leads ... reason to think that ongoing infliximab therapy may be harmful, good data are lacking) Another finding of our study is that discontinuation of infliximab therapy seems justified, since we found...
... 184 patients who discontinued infliximab therapy Fifty percent ofpatients were switched to another biological therapy (Table 2) Evolution of the DAS28 score over time Patients continuing with infliximab ... respectively, of predicting withdrawal of infliximab therapy due to inefficacy (Table 3) Taking into account the 13.6% a priori chance to withdraw therapy due to inefficacy, a DAS28 of at least ... and maintained with a standard infliximab dosage of mg/kg and that dosage increases were transient in a majority ofpatients The higher percentage ofpatients who need a dosage increase in some...
... of the clinical centers specializing in the care of SSc patients participating in the network, but also ofpatients who are seen only once a year in a clinical center participating in the network ... College of Rheumatology criteria or the main symptoms of SSc, combined with another nonorgan-specific autoimmune disease or with the main symptoms of such a disease and, as a rule, with proof of characteristic ... (that is, the use of methotrexate, azathioprine, (hydroxy)chloroquine) with disease-modifying therapyin other rheumatological diseases when deciding on an anti-inflammatory therapyin a severe autoimmune...
... to difficulty with walking in about 75% of people with RA, and is the main or only cause of walking difficulty in 25% [1] In the foot, joint pain and stiffness is the most common initial presentation, ... of mobility 42% of RA patients are registered disabled within yrs of diagnosis [2] 80% are moderately to severely disabled within 20 yrs At diagnosis, 16% of RA patients may have foot joint involvement ... should be in place whereby everyone with a diagnosis of inflammatory arthritis receives a foot examination within three months of diagnosis [16] Patientswith RA should be provided with information...
... ongoing multinational, observational registry study, has been evaluating outcomes inpatientswith schizophrenia After 24 months of follow-up in eSTAR in Spain, RLAT use was associated with increased ... error of 3% Assuming that approximately 50% ofpatients would drop out within year [35,36], enrollment of 600 patients was planned Analysis included evaluation of baseline demographics, clinical ... acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, and drafting of the manuscript and its critical revision for important intellectual content WM was involved in the interpretation of data and in...
... being and functioning of all patientsin the region, living both inside and outside hospital The monitor is part of routine outcome monitoring as required by insurers and health authorities in ... included in the SMI group for all assessments [5] Patients scoring less than 45 on one of the two GAF scales and presenting with a single need in one of the four a priori CAN domains are defined ... the same person (>99% certainty) without being able to trace information back to specific persons The PCR registering service consumption in the provinces in the North of The Netherlands (hereafter:...
... use of packed red cell (PRC) and blood products inpatientswith acute kidney injury requiring RRT treatedwith DrotAA A further comparison of the outcome parameters was made during the DrotAA infusion ... difference in the minimum value of haemoglobin during DrotAA and in the post-DrotAA period (Table 4) A larger proportion ofpatients required platelet transfusion during DrotAA infusion compared with ... anticoagulation inpatients on RRT during the infusion DrotAA therapy and in clinical practice the choice of RRT modalities and anticoagulation is dependent on expert opinion, and the clinician's level of...
... the groups in relation to type of work, smoking, fee subsidization, leg pain, pain intensity at base-line and at the 4th visit, dura- tion of pain at base-line, total duration of pain in the past ... subsidization, type of work, and tobacco consumption) Clinical information at the first visit (leg pain, pain intensity past 24 hrs, duration of pain for the current episode, duration of pain in total past ... radiating into the leg, who were new to the clinic or had not received chiropractic treatment within the past three months, were invited to participate in the study in the spring of 2006, providing...
... significant Results Of 395 patients screened, a total of 110 patients fulfilling the inclusion criteria were entered in the study from January 2006 to March 2007 In these patients, a minimum of two SIRS ... levels are not indicators of infections or sepsis, although they correlate well with the degree of severity of inflammation [7] Sepsis continues to be the leading cause of morbidity and in its severe ... [14] The frequency of multi-resistant pathogens inpatients undergoing long-term antibiotic therapy is clearly increased [11] In this context, newly arising fungal infections in seven-day antibiotic...
... duration of antibiotic therapyin intensive care patients: a randomized prospective controlled trial Crit Care 2009, 13:R83 Hausfater P: Procalcitonin measurement in adult clinical practice [in French] ... French] Rev Med Interne 2007, 28:296-305 McLean A: Procalcitonin: seeking a niche Crit Care 2009, 13: 149 Christ-Crain M, Müller B: Procalcitonin and pneumonia: is it a useful marker? Curr Infect Dis ... Graf JD, Rohner P, Pugin J: Use of procalcitonin to shorten antibiotic treatment duration in septic patients A randomized trial Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2008, 177:498-505 Page of (page number not...
... electrocardiogram in the prediction of cardiac death in dialysis patients Arch Intern Med 1988; 148: 2381-2385 20 Aronow Ws Usefulness of serum creatinine as a marker for coronary events in elderly patientswith ... occurrence of de novo vascular events in this population (27) In a recent study C-reactive protein and low albumin has been shown to be the predictor of morbidity and mortality in CKD 3-5 patientsin ... majority ofpatients (79%) had HTN and 27% had DM CVD was prevalent in 35% ofpatients A total of 62% were on angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-i), 30% on beta blockers and 53% on statins...
... fitness of the final model was good in terms Table Sites and methods of diagnois of extrapulmonary involvement in 40 patients Involved organ* Miliary involvement Lymph node Intestine Larynx Soft ... lesions, absence of bilateral lung involvement, and lower albumin levels were associated with extrapulmonary involvement inpatientswith pulmonary TB Patientswith bilateral lung involvement were ... one organ involved, all of them were counted independently; � patientswith intestinal TB diagnosed based , on typical colonosopic findings and the other patientswith TB laryngitis without AFB...
... Neuroserpin was used as a continuous variable since there was a linearity of the odds ratios for outcome The influence of neuroserpin decrease at 24 h on serum levels ofmolecular markers of brain injury ... parameters, neuroimaging findings and molecular markers of brain damage inpatientswith a neuroserpin decrease within the first 24 hours ≥ 70 ng/mL or < 70 ng/mL transformation of ischemic stroke ... defined as neuroserpin decrease All determinations were carried out in a laboratory blind to the clinical outcome and neuroimaging findings Endpoints The primary endpoint was the decrease of...
... Neuroserpin was used as a continuous variable since there was a linearity of the odds ratios for outcome The influence of neuroserpin decrease at 24 h on serum levels ofmolecular markers of brain injury ... parameters, neuroimaging findings and molecular markers of brain damage inpatientswith a neuroserpin decrease within the first 24 hours ≥ 70 ng/mL or < 70 ng/mL transformation of ischemic stroke ... defined as neuroserpin decrease All determinations were carried out in a laboratory blind to the clinical outcome and neuroimaging findings Endpoints The primary endpoint was the decrease of...
... to pain Weight- bearing was gradually increased and full weight- bearing was allowed when clinical and radiological signs of fracture union were present Pin entry sites were cleaned with saline ... (9.3%) postoperatively, in group A and in group B Pin track infection was superficial, located in all patients at the site of insertion of the proximal pins and was treatedwith broad spectrum oral ... at that time During a minimum of 12-month follow-up period patients, from group A and from group B, died from causes unrelated to the fracture In the remaining 64 patients no clinically significant...
... initiating second-line HAART within the first four years of HAART was 10% for female patients and 13% for male patients (Figure 6) Second-line HAART was initiated in 81% (342 of 420) following two consecutive ... Biometrics 1995, 51(2):524-532 Robins JM, Finkelstein DM: Correcting for noncompliance and dependent censoring in an AIDS Clinical Trial with inverse probability of censoring weighted (IPCW) log-rank ... missing demographic information and seven because of errors in recorded dates oftherapy The majority (83.8%) of non-pregnant patients initiated d4T3TC-EFV, 7.9% initiated d4T-3TC-NVP, 2.0% initiated...