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Research
Strict glycaemic control in patients hospitalised in a mixed
medical and surgical intensive care unit: a randomised clinical trial
Gisela Del Carmen De La Rosa
1
, Jorge Hernando Donado
2
, Alvaro ... medical and surgical patients [12]. Therefore, we
conducted a randomised clinical trial to assess the efficacy
and safety of intensi...
... not analyzed
separately). They confirmed that MRI sacroiliitis was very
common in SpA, most often involving the dorsocaudal part of
the joint in early disease in which subchondral bone oedema
was ... Eligi C, Maresca M, Ciompi ML: A comparison of ultra-
sonography and magnetic resonance imaging in the
evaluation of temporomandibular joint involvement in
rheumatoid...
... necessary in this regard.
Summarizing our clinical andtherapeuticfindings,
most children show a favorable clinical outcome in the
first year of anti-inflammatory treatment. Inflammatory
radiological ... 12:R74
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RESEARC H ARTIC LE Open Access
Chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis in childhood:
prospective foll...
... epithelial lining fluid in acute respiratory distress syndrome. Am J
Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2004, 286:L1088-L1094.
14. Kohno N, Awaya Y, Oyama T, Yamakido M, Akiyama M, Inoue Y,
Yokoyama A, Hamada ... be a useful marker for pr edicting prog-
nosis in ARDS patients.
List of abbreviations
ALI: acute lung injury; ANOVA: analysis of variance; ARDS: acute resp...
... gap-junctional coupling using flow cytometry.
Methods
Primary lung fibroblast cultures
Primary lines of normal human lung fibroblasts were
established by using an outgrowth from explant following
the method ... ranged from 52 to 61 yr.
Three fibrotic lung fibroblast lines were established from
histologically proven fibrotic lung tissue of 3 patients with
idiopathic...
... link apoptosis with the pathogenesis of
acute lung injury in humans. The first of these, namely the ‘neutrophilic hypothesis’, suggests that
during acute inflammation the cytokines granulocyte ... outcome in acute lung injury.
Phagocytosis of apoptotic neutrophils and release of
cytokines by macrophages
The third mechanism whereby apoptosis of neutrophils can
modify the infl...
... before/after Fontan surgery (days)
Available online http://ccforum.com/content/7/2/185
Research
Protein-losing enteropathy in patients with Fontan circulation:
is it triggered by infection?
Dominik ... = Epstein–Barr virus; ELISA = enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; IL = interleukin; PLE = protein-losing enteropathy.
Abstract
Introduction Protein-losing enteropathy...
... are infected with HIV-1 subtype or clade
C. Subtype C is the most rapidly expanding HIV-1 sub-
type, which predominates in Eastern and Southern Africa
and India, and is increasing in frequency in ... products in the cytoplasm at 24 h post-infec-
tion to identify the effects of the RT from subtypes B
and C on reverse transcription in infected cells. To
exclude the p...
... were
Commentary
Recently published papers: Delivery, volume and outcome – what
is best for our patient?
Lui G Forni
1,2
1
Department of Nephrology & Critical Care, Worthing General Hospital, Lyndhurst ... supporting this approach. This leads on to a
study by Peelen and colleagues published in this journal
examining the influence of volume and ICU organi...
... number of brain- injured patients. The overall
results indicated convincingly that intensive glycemic control
was beneficial, and subsequent post-hoc analysis indicated
that intensive glycemic control ... used. The results are complex and do not indicate that
Commentary
Intensive glycemic control in traumatic brain injury: what is the
ideal glucose ran...
... after having
recruited 6,100 patients [5].
Third, further aggravating the problem of power, the study
turned out to realize intensive insulin therapy, but without tight
glycaemic control. The median ... Bouillon
R: Intensive insulin therapy in the medical ICU. N Engl J Med
2006, 354:449-461.
4. Krinsley JS: Effect of an intensive glucose management proto-
col on the m...
... 2010 BioMed Central Ltd
Tight glycemic control: what do we really know,
and what should we expect?
Stanley A Nasraway Jr* and Rishi Rattan
See related research by Chase et al., http://ccforum.com/content/14/4/R154
COMMENTARY
*Correspondence: ... studies, what do we actually know?
What are the consistent threads? e following sum-
marizes what we know with...
... of burns remain unclear. Clinical findings, such as
fever, may not be discriminatory to help identify invasive
infection in burn patients. Specific definitions for burn/
wound infection rely heavily ... appropriately points out the importance of
infecting agents apart from bacteria in the burn- injured
patient. Burn patients are frequently cited as having the
highest risk for...