... detailed study is necessary Delirium is regarded as syndrome that consists of several domains of symptoms, such as disturbance of consciousness, cognitions, and perceptions [17] At present, it is unclear ... the selective sigma-1 receptor agonists (for example, cutamesine (SA4503)) inpatientswith delirium would also be of interest Previously, it has been reported that the combination of SSRIs with ... is currently stable Discussion To our knowledge, this is the first report demonstrating that fluvoxamine monotherapy is effective for treating the delirium of patientswithAlzheimers disease...
... Five patients also received several training sessions (up to training sessions) in their home to explore the possibility for future independent home training with the ABF system The home sessions ... net training time of 30-45 minutes in each session Assessments Assessments included standardized tests of balance and, postural control as well as ADL s to evaluate the effects of training Balance ... rise (5CR) test was used to assess the ability to perform sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit transfers Patients were instructed to stand up and sit down five times as fast as possible Page of starting...
... Comorbidity Postural hypotension5 Prior surgery related to Parkinson 's disease6 Pain symptoms Assistive device (walking indoors) Assistive device (walking outdoors) Falls within the past months7 Median ... destabilizing visual tilts [9,15-17] In some cases, assessment of quiet stance on a firm surface lacks the sensitivity to distinguish healthy subjects from patientswith balance disorders [18] A method ... minutes in- between the tests (eyes open, eyes closed) The same test order was maintained during the DBS OFF and ON measurements In every test situation, spontaneous sway was recorded for 30 seconds...
... measures The standard psychometric tool used to assess cognition in the majority of these studies is the Alzheimer'sDisease Assessment Scale (ADAS) [15] The section of the scale from which scores ... time was measured with a questionnaire documenting time spent supervising and assisting with ADL, untreated patients required increased supervision by the caregiver and increased assistance with ... Galasko D, Bennett D, Sano M, Ernesto C, Thomas R, Grundman M and Ferris S An inventory to assess activities of daily living for clinical trials inAlzheimer'sdisease The Alzheimer's Disease...
... These results strongly suggest that an NK2 shift was associated withdisease remission In addition, the expression level of perforin was reduced when the patients'disease status changed to remission ... modulates disease flare/ remission in BD patients by controlling the pathogenic Th1 response This situation is analogous to multiple sclerosis, another Th1-mediated disease, in which NK2 bias is associated ... the results Our results suggest that the NK2 cells in iBD patients can suppress the Th1 response through at least two distinct mechanisms First, the NK2 cells in iBD patients were intrinsically...
... complements data from rat tissues showing that calcineurin is also expressed in neurons [14,15] RCAN1 gene expression is significant in several tissues, particularly human brain, spinal cord, kidney, liver, ... control tissues (a representative western blot is shown in Fig 3A) As human brain tissue is difficult to obtain, we focused on the most interesting regions for further studies These regions included ... identified using an antisense RNA probe against exon Expression was examined in neurons, astrocytes and microglia, by labeling cells with antibodies against each of these specific cell types We first created...
... populations of patients and/or stages of disease progression in those studies [33] Indeed, Vγ9/Vδ2 cells from patientswith active Behçet s disease, but not from inactive patients or control individuals, ... Disease Research Committee of Japan [25] At time of sampling, disease was active in 15 patients and inactive in 10 All patients were using colchicine, an immunosuppressant agent such as ciclosporin ... International Study Group for Behçet sdisease [24], were studied The activity of Behçet sdisease was assessed by the 1994 criteria for disease activity of Behçet s disease, proposed by the Behçet s Disease...
... was also significant but lower in professionals with ≥10 PD patients No statistical difference was found for three measures: density, incloseness centrality, and outcloseness centrality Regarding ... knowledge is not delayed by network characteristics Primary care professionals were less connected in the network than professionals based in hospital settings This finding should be interpreted in the ... Visual display of the total network of health professionals in ParkinsonNet Legend: health professionals with ≥10 PD patientsin red, those with < 10 PD patientsin blue One strength of this study...
... been classified into two types, acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), on the basis of distinct substrate specificities and inhibitor sensitivities AChE (EC 3.1.1.7) is a key ... pose was evaluated by considering the RMSDs values, docking scores and similarity scores The selected re-docked pose was further evaluated by its interactions and energetic analysis to investigate ... of cholinesterases inhibitors usingin silico methods: Currents status and future prospects New Biotech 2009, 25:331-346 51 Nachon F, Asojo OA, Borgstahl GEO, Masson P: Role of water in aging of...
... confounders selected based on prior studies and clinical relevance, including age, sex, HTN, DM and DLP were used in final model STATISTICAL ANALYSIS Results were expressed as mean ± SD for continuous ... diseases such as systemic lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, other connective tissue diseases, liver disease, malnutrition from other causes, and does not just represent cardiovascular diseaseIn addition, ... Kaysen GA, Dubin JA, Muller HG, Rosales L, Levin NW, Mitch WE, HEMO study group Inflammation and reduced albumin systhesis associated with stable decline in serum albumin in hemodialysis patients...
... resulted in intestinal colonization in all the patients, including those taking metronidazole All patientsin this study had active Crohn s disease, despite use of steroids and immunomodulatory drugs ... screening visit Patients were allowed to decrease the steroid dose during the study period as clinically indicated Patientswith intestinal strictures that are likely to necessitate surgery, patients ... effective in treatment of Crohn sdisease by several potential mechanisms such as altering the intestinal mucins, promoting local immune response, and stabilizing the gut mucosal barrier Lactobacillus...
... cohorts involved in the study [9], it remains possible that these contrasts were due to geographical differences, for instance in the fine structure of linkage disequilibrium or in interactions with ... 0.36) Similar patterns were seen both in controls and in cases Possible associations of AD with HLA-B & C alleles Tables and show the overall results for the 26 studied alleles Apart from the associations ... undertaken blind to diagnosis Unadjusted p values were by Fisher 's exact test; odds ratios were also adjusted for age, gender and APOE4 status by logistic regression analysis Potential interactions were...
... measuring betaamyloid protein oligomers in human plasma and brain tissue of patientswithAlzheimerdisease Arch Neurol 2009, 66:190-199 41 Sehlin D, S llvander S, Paulie S, Brundin R, Ingelsson ... with this approach Methods Serum samples Serum samples were obtained from the Rush AlzheimersDisease Center (Chicago, IL) from individuals whose diagnosis on the basis of post-mortem clinical ... encouraging results were obtained in two clinical trials in which IvIg was administered to AD patients [22,23] and a multi-site phase trial is in progress In our ELISA studies we found that in addition...
... depression using the HADS is consistent with previous studies conducted in China or in western countries [3,5,34,35] The CFA findings are in many respects, rather surprising It has been suggested that ... and screening issues Current Psychiatry Reviews 2005, in press: Wang XC, Xiong BW, Chen HJ: Depression and anxiety inpatientswith coronary heart disease Chinese Journal of Infrequent Disease ... F, Frasure-Smith N: Depression inpatientswith cardiac disease: a practical review J Psychosom Res 2000, 48:379-391 Martin CR, Thompson DR: Depression in coronary heart disease patients: Etiological...
... was assessed by computing the percentage of patients reporting no problems To reduce the number of missing scores in the SF6D, we imputed missing items in the SF-36 from the SF36 domain scores ... intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) Statistical analyses were done with Statistica version 5.5 (Statsoft, 1999) and SPSS version 10.1 (SPSS Inc, 2000) Results Instruments The EQ-5D health status ... at baseline between the patientswith or without a missing utility score post-intervention, so we assumed these missing scores to be at random Baseline and change scores from both measures were...
... Helsinki Page of Statistics Statistical analysis was conducted using a licensed version of statistical software STATISTICA PL 9.0 for Windows Power considerations indicated that a sample size ... Outcomes 2011, 9:77 http://www.hqlo.com/content/9/1/77 measured using both disease- specific surveys and generic instruments, has been shown inpatients without cardiovascular diseases but with ... patient numbers and inclusion criteria, as our patients did not suffer from clinically manifested gastrointestinal symptoms and symptoms associated with aspirin use were not analyzed As mentioned...
... measure of HRQoL If interest centres on mapping the EQ-5D index in another disease area, disease specific measures for the diseasein question may also be important The mapping exercise was initially ... different disease groups, since the most effective predictors may vary between diseases Also, mapping models need to incorporate variables that are commonly measured when studying the diseasein question ... index Several studies have looked at mapping using other generic or disease- specific HRQoL measures, with one Page of 13 other using clinical measures to map to the EQ-5D index [13,15] This study...
... esophagitis grade C or D, presence or history of other gastrointestinal diseases and conditions, and presence or history of other non-gastrointestinal serious diseases and conditions Patients ... satisfied Quite satisfied - 71.2 24.1 79.1 15.8 Quite dissatisfied - 3.9 3.8 Completely dissatisfied - 0.8 1.0 Regurgitationb Responsiveness to change Responsiveness to change was assessed using ... score, indicates that the scales will have poor discrimination Thus sensitivity and responsiveness is reduced Construct validity Construct validity assesses whether an indicator actually measures...
... atorvastatin had a ol levels below 100 mg per deciliter is associated persistent elevation in alanine aminotransferase, with substantial clinical benefit inpatientswith aspartate aminotransferase, ... cause In both groups, cancer (mainly lung and gastrointestinal) was the leading noncardiovascular cause of death; other causes included respiratory diseases, infection, degenerative diseases, ... 2005 Massachusetts Medical Society All rights reserved intensive atorvastatin therapy for stable coronary disease Table Characteristics of Five Patientswith Rhabdomyolysis.* Characteristic Patient...
... desensitization using intact cow s milk was reported in a few patientswith cow s milk allergy.8 It took to months with increasing doses of milk intake During the desensitization process, some ... digestive sites of BLG polypeptides by these enzymes Digestion with chymotrypsin resulted in small peptides ranging from 3- to 31-amino acid residues whereas digestion with trypsin V produced smaller ... peptides Chymotrypsin digestion decreased the lymphocyte responses compared with intact BLG but retained significant responses in PBMCs from some patientswith cow s milk allergy Hence, chymotrypsin-digested...