... created the figures and wrote the manuscript HJ and ME helped withthe statistical analysis RK and MAM oversaw the research, helped analyzed the data and edit the manuscript All authors have read and ... mean with standard deviation in parentheses Data presented in graphs are mean with error bars indicating the standard error ofthe mean (SEM) The odds ratios for death are calculated per standard ... Northern Ireland Department of Medicine, William Osler Health Centre, Toronto, Canada Department of Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco at San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco...
... studies within a meta-analysis Fewer events within a study result inan increased variance and thus a lower weighting We therefore applied alternative weightings including total number ofpatientsand ... Nonetheless, most analyses of observational studies reported an increased risk of infection, which conflicts withthe result ofthe RCTs The dose of GC therapy varied both within and between RCTs and observational ... review and meta-analysis (where appropriate) of RCTs and observational studies to assess the association between systemic GC therapy andthe risk of infection inpatientswith RA, compared with patients...
... experimental setting ofacute lung injuryand needs to be verified in clinical indications other than lung transplantation Competing interests None declared References There are case reports and small ... transplantation Inthe cases of graft failure, brain death and infection ofthe donor lung, reduced surfactant function is aggravated by preservation ofthe graft, ischaemia and reperfusion Therefore, ... substitution of surfactant may bridge the patient to recovery ofthe graft The combination of iNO and surfactant proved to be successful in experimental severe reperfusion injury [15], strengthening Della...
... into the pulmonary microcirculation To test this hypothesis, several investigators have tied off the bronchial artery of sheep and then exposed the animals to smoke In these studies the hypothesis ... the effects of rhAPC inan ovine model when the bronchial artery is tied off to clear its mechanism in ALI Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Page of ... capillaries The activated neutrophils release reactive oxygen species and proteases that damage the parenchyma [15] The final proof of this hypothesis was to deplete the animals of their neutrophils and...
... measured by smoking, drinking, exercising andthe body mass index – contribute to explaining the gradient We find that the effects of education on smoking, drinking, exercising and eating a proper diet ... a similar manner when one ofthe indicator is ordinal andthe others are continuous We list below the synthetic indicators, the observed variables used for each indicator andthe interpretation ... three binary indicators: whether the mother died early, whether the father died early and whether the mother andthe father where present when the individual was aged 10 The extracted principal...
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... JK, and CD designed the study DZ and LB performed the analysis and wrote the manuscript All authors edited and approved the final manuscript 10 11 12 Acknowledgements Thank you to Christi Findlay, ... outcome in multisystem ICU patients [4,5] In this cohort of patients, the proportion ofpatientswith renal, hepatic, and hematologic failure was small However, the proportions ofpatientswith SOFA-defined ... had an impact on results for this end-point Conclusion Inpatientswith brain injury, the SOFA scoring system has superior discriminative ability and stronger association with outcome compared with...
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