... we assigned 1149 patients to undergo PCI with optimal medicaltherapy (PCI group) and 1138 to receive optimal medicaltherapy alone (medical- therapy group) The primary outcome was death from any ... Research Supplemental cor- and optimal medicaltherapy (PCI group) or optiporate support from several pharmaceutical com- mal medicaltherapy alone (medical- therapy group) panies included funding ... 0.5 Medicaltherapy 0.9 Years 638 637 409 418 192 200 120 134 Years No at Risk No at Risk Medicaltherapy 1138 PCI 1149 1025 1027 956 957 833 835 662 667 418 431 236 246 127 134 Medical therapy...
... Behçet's http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/1/1/42 or ankylosing spondylitis or, as in this case, an exogenous factor Hypopyon uveitis is well recognised following rifabutin therapy for mycobacterium ... contributed to write up Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Medical Case Reports 2007, 1:42 http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/1/1/42 NGS collected data from case notes in ... disseminating the results of biomedical researc h in our lifetime." Sir Paul Nurse, Cancer Research UK Your research papers will be: available free of charge to the entire biomedical community peer reviewed...
... evaluate the effect of initial antibiotic therapy on medical resource utilization, such as duration of mechanical ventilation, ICU LOS, and hospital LOS To compare medical resource utilization for doripenem ... 1, early and late VAP in study (onset 15) After stratification, patients ... were and 16 μg/mL Median durations of mechanical ventilation (7 versus 13 days; generalized Wilcoxon P = 0.031) and ICU stay (13 versus 21 days; P = 0.027) were shorter for doripenem; betweengroup...
... well-being: the medical outcomes study approach Durham (NC): Duke University Press; 1992 16 Eisen M, Ware JE Jr, Donald CA, Brooke RH: Measuring components of children’s health status Medical Care ... doi:10.1186/1477-7525-9-80 Cite this article as: Riazi et al.: A tool to measure the attributes of receiving IV therapy in a home versus hospital setting: the Multiple Sclerosis Relapse Management Scale (MSRMS) Health ... all subscales of the MSRMS and the Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale (MSIS-29) [9] scales and the Medical Outcomes Study Short-form Health Survey SF-36 scales (SF-36) [19] Group differences validity,...
... ± 10 years versus 60 ± 13 years) versus the traditional group, p=0.029 (Table 1) The target vessel was more often the right coronary artery (70% versus 49%, p=0.020) in the culprit versus the ... Coronary Angiography – The Need for Improvement in Medical and Interventional Therapy Traditional catheterization and PCI versus culprit vessel PCI versus a hybrid approach for STEMI The benefits ... therapy of arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and lipid disorders and by campaigning against the smoking are important components of this medical success Furthermore, improvements in medical...
... the HRT group (P = 0.003) The R461 Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol No Forsblad d'Elia et al Figure The effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on serum markers of bone and cartilage metabolism ... Rheumatism, Reumaforskningsfond Margareta, King Gustav V:s 80-years Foundation, The Medical Society of Göteborg, and the Medical Faculty of Göteborg (LUA) Nycomed provided the calcium and vitamin D3 ... individuals undergoing antiresorptive therapy Bone 2000, 26:505-511 38 Lems WF, van den Brink HR, Gerrits MI, van Rijn HJ, Bijlsma JW: Effect of hormone replacement therapy on markers of bone metabolism...
... therapies are needed Although there is a role for intensive physiotherapy, as was recently shown [11,12], this review concentrates on the drug therapy of AS — the most prevalent subtype of SpA, and the ... blind injection technique, which is also feasible [48] Radiation and immunosuppressive therapy Radiation therapy for AS has successfully relieved spinal pain in the past, but the associated risk ... antiTNF therapy should only be considered in severe, refractory cases Controlled studies in homogeneous patient populations and a systematic comparison with local and systemic steroid therapy...
... therapies are needed Although there is a role for intensive physiotherapy, as was recently shown [11,12], this review concentrates on the drug therapy of AS — the most prevalent subtype of SpA, and the ... blind injection technique, which is also feasible [48] Radiation and immunosuppressive therapy Radiation therapy for AS has successfully relieved spinal pain in the past, but the associated risk ... antiTNF therapy should only be considered in severe, refractory cases Controlled studies in homogeneous patient populations and a systematic comparison with local and systemic steroid therapy...
... responded to conventional therapy (therapy and definition of clinical response are described in detail in the Materials and methods section) were analyzed before and after therapy by SELDITOF MS ... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol No Miyamae et al Table SELDI-TOF MS protein peaks differentially expressed in paired sera from SJIA before and after therapy Before/after conventional therapy Mass (m/z) ... spectra of sera before and after conventional therapy Sera from eight patients with SJIA who responded to conventional therapy were analyzed before and after therapy by SELDI-TOF MS using Ciphergen...
... patients after radiotherapy J Clin Oncol 2008, 26:5119-5125 Eisbruch A, Levendag PC, Feng FY, et al: Can IMRT or brachytherapy reduce dysphagia associated with chemoradiotherapy of head and neck ... Gomez et al.: An investigation of intensitymodulated radiation therapyversus conventional two-dimensional and 3D-conformal radiation therapy for early stage larynx cancer Radiation Oncology 2010 ... previously received head and neck radiotherapy The authors found that the ten-year incidence of cerebrovascular events was 34% in patients treated with radiotherapy alone, compared to 25% and 26%...
... AIDS Research and Therapy 2008, 5:24 http://www.aidsrestherapy.com/content/5/1/24 Background Results The Children with HIV Early Antiretroviral Therapy (CHER) study recently found ... and 7/4 at week 168) ART: antiretroviral therapy Page of (page number not for citation purposes) AIDS Research and Therapy 2008, 5:24 http://www.aidsrestherapy.com/content/5/1/24 Table 1: Baseline ... Antiretroviral Therapy BMC Infect Dis 2006, 6:10 Dunn D: Short-term risk of disease progression in HIV-1infected children receiving no antiretroviral therapy or zidovudine monotherapy: a meta-analysis...
... Organisation: Rapid advice: antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection in adults and adolescents 2009 Johansson et al AIDS Research and Therapy 2010, 7:3 http://www.aidsrestherapy.com/content/7/1/3 10 11 ... JJ, Brooks JT, et al: Effect of Early versus Deferred Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV on Survival N Engl J Med 2009, 360:1815-1826 Starting Antiretroviral Therapy Earlier Yields Better Clinical ... HIV treatment in low income countries: Survival estimates of early versus deferred antiretroviral therapy AIDS Research and Therapy 2010 7:3 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and...
... cognitive-behavioural therapy for severe health anxiety: randomised controlled trial BrJ Psychiatry 2011, 198:230-236 34 Tyrer H, Tyrer P, Lovett I: Adapted cognitive-behavior therapy for medically unexplained ... treatment in the form of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has been shown to be effective, mainly in primary care [8,9] and, more recently, in a secondary care medical clinic [10] Although these trials ... audio-taping of 50% of treatment sessions, and for access to their Page of medical records The presence of existing medical pathology, provided it was not new and requiring further investigation,...
... differentiation in individual versus family therapy Journal of Counseling Psychology 1998, 45:104-14 Rigter H: Report on the INCANT pilot study The feasibility of Multidimensional Family Therapy in European ... intent-to-treat principle, such that all cases will be assessed at all time points regardless of therapy and therapy dosage received We will pool the data from all subjects from all sites for analyses ... (Germany), the Hotel-Dieu Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects in Biomedical Research (CCPPRB; France), the medical- ethical committee for research in mental health care settings (METiGG...
... clinical trial of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for panic disorder Am J Psychiatry 2007, 164(2):265-272 Furukawa TA, Watanabe N, Churchill R: Combined psychotherapy plus antidepressants for panic ... Lidren DM, Watkins PL, Gould RA, Clum GA, Asterino M, Tulloch HL: A comparison of bibliotherapy and group therapy in the treatment of panic disorder J Consult Clin Psychol 1994, 62(4):865-869 11 ... a self-help program Behavior Therapy 2001, 32(4):751-764 12 Schneider AJ, Mataix-Cols D, Marks IM, Bachofen M: Internet-guided selfhelp with or without exposure therapy for phobic and panic disorders...
... within 28 days, in the C-A group Discussion The aim of this study was to compare monotherapy versus combination therapy for the treatment of VAP and to look for differences in the clinical and inflammatory ... others If this study failed to demonstrate any advantage of combination therapy over monotherapy, the use of empirical combination therapy remains probably relevant in patients with potentially multiresistant ... M, Benuri-Silbiger I, Soares-Weiser K, Leibovici L: Beta lactam monotherapy versus beta lactam-aminoglycoside combination therapy for sepsis in immunocompetent patients : systematic review and...
... factor appears to be an essential variable as well; interruptions cause a clinically significant therapy downtime and increase discrepancy between prescription and effective delivery [8] A recent ... during convective (16.3 ml/minute, IQR 10.9 to 23) than diffusive (6.27 ml/minute, IQR 1.6 to 14.9) therapy; however, this difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.055) Median TWA adsorptive ... clearance of β2m appeared to be superior during hemofiltration (0.012 ml/ minute, IQR -0.09 to 0.1, versus -0.016 ml/minute, IQR -0.08 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) hemofiltration...
... trial performed assessing the effectiveness of spinal manipulative therapy on thoracic spinal pain [1] Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) was compared to a placebo group receiving non functional ... reviewing paper records and contact with study participants SMT: Spinal Manipulative Therapy; GT: Graston Therapy; US: Ultrasound Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Chiropractic ... Verstengen G, Hofhuizen D, Houben J, Knipschild P: Randomised clinical trial of manipulative therapy and physiotherapy for persistant back and neck Publish with Bio Med Central and every scientist can...
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