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Báo cáo y học: "Special considerations in the treatment of patients with bipolar disorder and medical co-morbidities"
... 2004, of portacaval shunting, thereby decreasing first pass metabolism; decrease in quantities and affinity of plasma proteins, thereby increasing free-drug levels; increase in volume of distribution ... hrs following the post-dialysis dose There is a case report in which lithium levels were maintained in the therapeutic range by intraperitoneal administration of lithium during continuous peritoneal ... syndrome), including carbamazepine, phenytoin, phenobarbital, and lamotrigine The triad of hypersensitivity includes fever, rash and internal organ involvement with onset of symptoms within to weeks of...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " An international evaluation of ultrasound vs. computed tomography in the diagnosis of appendicitis" doc
... [22] Despite the increase in CT usage in the United States, ultrasound continued to serve as the primary modality in many hospitals in Israel The reasoning behind the use of ultrasound in Israel ... were included in the calculation of the NA Therefore, the NA was actually 0.0% The sensitivity of US in Israel was 68.4% (121 of 177), and the positive predictive value was 94.5% (121 of 128) The ... as the first-line test in the case of suspected appendicitis, and its use is increasing [15,16,20] In this international study, we compared the performance of CT and US in the evaluation of suspected...
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Báo cáo y học: "A 64-week, multicenter, open-label study of aripiprazole effectiveness in the management of patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder in a general psychiatric outpatient setting" pptx
... subjects received their first dose of aripiprazole at the start of the switching treatment period, the starting dose of which was determined by the investigator After weeks of adverse event (AE)-free ... receiving >20 mg/day Of the 153 patients enrolled in the study, 106 patients (69.2%) were compliant with treatment During the 12-week switching period, no patients received diphenhydramine and ... shown in Figure Both patient and caregiver POM ratings for aripiprazole increased during the 12-week switching phase At the end of the switching phase (LOCF), 54.7% of 123 subjects and 48.0% of...
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Báo cáo y học: "Correlation of histopathological findings and magnetic resonance imaging in the spine of patients with ankylosing spondylitis" potx
... highest score of bone marrow infiltation in the histopathological assessment Some of the patients had inflammatory lesions in other parts of the spine, as indicated in Table Page of (page number ... illustration of the anatomy and detection of inflammation in the bone marrow The entire lumbar spine including the zygapophyseal joints and, if available, the thoracic spine was analyzed for increased ... area, in two patients it was present in 20%, in two patients in 30% and in two patients in 60% (Table 1) In contrast, none of the controls showed interstitial bone marrow edema Correlation of histopathology...
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Báo cáo y học: "Assessment of radiographic progression in the spines of patients with ankylosing spondylitis treated with adalimumab for up to 2 years" ppt
... was the principal investigator of the OASIS study and is the principal investigator who assisted in designing the ATLAS study WPM is the principal investigator and assisted in designing the Canadian ... Goldstein N, Braun J, Ankylosing Spondylitis Study for the Evaluation of Recombinant Infliximab Therapy Study Group: Radiographic findings following two years of infliximab therapy in patients ... endpoints to evaluate the effect of adalimumab on the reduction of signs and symptoms and to assess the inhibition of progression of structural damage in the spine as measured by the mean change in...
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báo cáo khoa học: " Connectedness of healthcare professionals involved in the treatment of patients with Parkinson’s disease: a social networks study" pot
... This finding should be interpreted in the context of the newly established network One of the aims of ParkinsonNet is to better integrate primary care professionals in the treatment of patients ... respect to their prominence and influence in the network The aim of this study was to examine the connectedness in a newly established regional ParkinsonNet of health professionals involved in the treatment ... variation of individual network characteristics for all measures in both the network of ‘knowing each other’ and in the network of ‘having professional contact.’ For example, the number of others...
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Báo cáo y học: "Improvement in symptoms and signs in the forefoot of patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with anti-TNF therapy" ppsx
... beneficial in monitoring the progression of active inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis [13] and in the monitoring of biologic therapy [14-16] The aim of this study was to evaluate by means of US, the ... period of TNF inhibition; however further evidence over a longer time period is required to confirm that this is sustained The findings further indicate that the use of US imaging of the foot ... anti-TNF therapy, participated in the clinical assessment of foot status and drafted the manuscript CE participated in the design of the study, carried out the assessment of eligibility of RA patients...
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Báo cáo y học: "B-lymphocyte stimulator/a proliferation-inducing ligand heterotrimers are elevated in the sera of patients with autoimmune disease and are neutralized by atacicept and B-cell maturation antigen-immunoglobulin" pdf
... transduction in B cells The interaction with TRAFs induces the nuclear factor (NF)-B signaling pathway, which plays a pivotal role in regulating diverse aspects of immune function, including mediating inflammatory ... form of BLyS The molecular mass of the heterotrimers was confirmed by SEC-MALS mass distribution LS/UV/RI 3-detector analysis Binding kinetics and affinity studies The binding affinities and kinetics ... portion of the TACI receptor linked to an Fc domain of immunoglobulin (Ig)G Atacicept modulates B cells by neutralizing BLyS and APRIL activity and is in clinical development for the treatment of...
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Báo cáo y học: " Pro/con clinical debate: The use of prone positioning in the management of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome" potx
... common in the group whose position was varied than in the group that remained continuously supine Con: prone positioning is not useful in the management of ARDS patients Gordon Rubenfeld Imagine the ... Finally, intensivists are strongly motivated by the ‘rule of rescue’ Intensivists feel obliged to offer some therapy, any therapy, to a patient in imminent danger of dying [16] As is often the ... illness [3] Disappointingly, however, in the only randomized, controlled study of proning yet published, hours of prone positioning did not influence mortality in the diverse patients entered from...
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Báo cáo y học: "Pro/con clinical debate: Are steroids useful in the management of patients with septic shock" ppt
... useful in the management of septic shock Katherine G Craig and Keith R Walley The debate surrounding the use of corticosteroids in septic patients has continued for over 30 years Two metaanalyses in ... groups [8] There is ongoing debate in the literature as to the usefulness of this corticotropin stimulation test in so-called ‘relative adrenal insufficient’ patients, although it may be of prognostic ... newer, yet preliminary, The patient described in the present scenario is improving in all aspects of organ failure, but remains catecholamine dependent A thorough examination and review of his management...
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Báo cáo y học: "Pro/con clinical debate: Antibiotics are important in the management of patients with pancreatitis with evidence of pancreatic necrosis" ppt
... used intravenous and enteral antibiotics (including amphotericin) to achieve decontamination of the gastrointestinal tract for the purpose of possibly decreasing bacterial inoculation of the necrotic ... no difference in the rate of infection of pancreatic necrosis [4] Pooling of the data from these 183 patients by Bosscha and colleagues in a meta-analysis resulted in a group of 95 patients treated ... selective decontamination of the digestive tract Selective decontamination is attractive as it may allow the use of prophylaxis without the risk of inducing superinfections through the use of long-term...
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Báo cáo y học: " Pro/Con Debate: Does recombinant factor VIIa have a role to play in the treatment of patients with acute nontraumatic hemorrhage" ppt
... associated with off-label use of FVIIa, the majority occurring in trauma patients However, MedWatch is a database for voluntary reporting of observed complications, and therefore the incidence of complications ... Stein Dr Rizoli presents accurate and important information concerning the off-label use of rFVIIa The clinical situation presented, however, is more akin to the coagulopathy seen in trauma, in ... (upper gastrointestinal bleeding) without any evidence for the drug’s efficacy and safety The first issue is the off-label use After a single successful report of off-label use of recombinant FVIIa...
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Báo cáo y học: "Nitrogen washout/washin, helium dilution and computed tomography in the assessment of end expiratory lung volume" docx
... obtained increasing the FiO2and the EELV obtained decreasing the FiO2 The x axis shows the mean of the two measurements and the difference between the EELV measured by increasing FiO2 and the ... Accuracy of the nitrogen washin/washout technique (a) The relation between the EELV measured by increasing the FiO2 as a function of the Accuracy of the nitrogen washin/washout technique EELV obtained ... obtained decreasing FiO2 The EELV obtained increasing the FiO2 was -56 + 1.0078 multiplied by the EELV obtained decreasing the FiO2 (r2 = 0.84, p < 0.0001) (b) The Bland-Altman plot of the EELV measurement...
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Báo cáo y học: " Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the staging and evaluation of treatment response in a patient with Castleman''''s disease: a case report" pps
... drafting the manuscript AC was involved in reviewing the literature and proofreading the manuscript VA approved the final manuscript Consent Written informed consent was obtained from the patient ... Competing interests Authors' contributions The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests EP is the senior author and was involved in collecting patient details, reviewing the literature ... literature and final proofreading of the manuscript AS was involved in collecting Figure FDG-PET/CT transaxial views of the left iliac lymph node FDG-PET/CT transaxial views of the left iliac...
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Risk Factors Affecting the Development of Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in Household Contacts of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis pptx
... the number of male patients was higher in the index cases, but the number of female patients was higher in contacts determined active disease In our opinion, the reason of this findings were that ... presence of cavity in the chest radiograph of index case increased the frequency of TB in household contacts In our country, Kolsuz et al found the frequency of TB in close contact of TB cases ... [7] Chee et al detected a rate of 0.9% TB patients in investigation of 5699 close contacts of 1374 index case in Singapore [8] In their study which they detected TB in 36 children younger than years...
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Báo cáo y học: "Proteinase-3 as the major autoantigen of c-ANCA is strongly expressed in lung tissue of patients with Wegener’s granulomatosis" pptx
... issue the WG specimens have in common is the upregulation of PR-3 throughout the whole specimen The upregulation of PR-3 in the lung of WG patients may therefore reflect the selected organ injury, ... expressing granulocytes, most of the infiltrating PR-3 expressing cells were macrophages One explanation for the occurrence of PR-3-positive macrophages in inflammatory tissue is the invasion of ... to study the expression pattern of PR-3 in other organs or tissues that are involved in the manifestation pattern of WG [26] Schwarting et al showed the in vitro expression of PR-3 mRNA in tubular...
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Báo cáo y học: "A novel approach to measure the contribution of matrix metalloproteinase in the overall net proteolytic activity present in synovial fluids of patients with arthritis" pptx
... microspheres, thereby minimizing interference with debris (Figure 1a, left panel) The NPA in the clinical sample is then obtained by measuring the mean fluorescence intensity resulting from the loss of ... confirmed using recombinant MMPs (Figure 4a) When testing the activity using SF of patients with RA, we found that while the percentage of inhibition of the NPA in the presence of inhibitor III rarely ... simply the presence of proteases, in patients during the course of their disease and under the influence of treatment This may represent a sine qua non to achieve clinical success in the development...
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Báo cáo y học: "F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography for the diagnosis of Takayasu''''s arteritis in stroke: a case report" pptx
... distribution of the inflammation in the walls of the aorta and carotid arteries This method offers the advantages of early detection of disease activity and the global assessment of the arterial system in ... activity in the arterial wall [7] The cutoff point of maximal SUV for the diagnosis of vascular inflammation was estimated to be 1.3 with a sensitivity for TA of 90.9% and a specificity of 88.8% ... We have described the case of a young man in whom stroke was the initial presentation of TA From a clinical point of view, aortitis most often presents as a vague syndrome of malaise, fever,...
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Báo cáo y học: " Aberrant splicing of the hRasGRP4 transcript and decreased levels of this signaling protein in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells in a subset of patients with rheumatoid arthritis" pdf
... correspond to the C-terminal half of the CDC25-like catalytic domain in the signaling protein[1] The second most frequent isoform was variant which results in the loss of 69 of these same amino acids ... protein levels This finding would open a new insight in the field of monocyte-lineage cell biology and of the diseases where this lineage cells play a prominent role In the latter part of the ... numbers of macrophages, only one of the lung-derived dbESTs in the data base originated from the hRasGRP4 gene In support of these dbEST data, the levels of the RasGRP4 transcript in the mouse...
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The study on characteristics of the image and value of ultrasound, computed tomography in the diagnosis and follow up of hepatobiliary f
... formed during migration of the parasite; and they can be detected as nodular tracts or tunnels on imaging 4.2 VALUE OF US AND CT FINDINGS COMBINED EOSINOPHILS IN DIAGNOSING FASCIOLIASIS 215 patients ... grapes in shape In our opinion, migration of flukes in liver parenchyma caused necrosis and inflammation to create tunnels 4.1.2.4 The structure of the lesions on US and CT The structure of the ... consists of 89 patients uninfected fascioliasis 3.2.1 Value of US findings combined eosinophils in diagnosing fascioliasis 3.2.1.1 Selecting a logistic regression model based variables: 11 Eosinophils...
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