... the use of steroids in
the treatment of SARS remain unanswered, including the
efficacy of this treatment, the appropriate timing of
initiation of treatment, and the dose and duration of
therapy.
Steroid ... ARDS.
Systemic steroids have been used in the treatment of
SARS based on the hypothesis that disease
manifestations are in part due to the h...
... debate: Octreotide has an important role in the
treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding of unknown origin?
Yaseen Arabi
1
, Bandar Al Knawy
2
, Alan N Barkun
3
and Marc Bardou
4
1
Intensive Care ... gastrointestinal bleeding
of unknown origin
Yaseen Arabi and Bandar Al Knawy
There is evidence to support the use of octreotide in variceal
and non-variceal upper GI bleeding (U...
... Laboratory, wood sam
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ples are prepared. The samples are scanned and the growth
ring patterns are characterized by image analysis [5]. The
widths of all growth rings and all latewood bands are ... than the drier
heartwood in the middle of the stem. The disc is then dried
and run again in the tomograph, providing an image of the
density of the dry wood...
... phenomena, for instance, in the theory
of quasiregular and quasiconformal mappings 1–3, in the generalized reaction-diffusion
theory 4, in the turbulent flow of a gas in porous medium and in the ... 498–505, 1996.
13 A. V. Lair and A. W. Shaker, “Classical and weak solutions of a singular semilinear elliptic problem,”
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Ap...
... plexity of the
in ammatory process: the shedding of membrane
IL-18Rα as a marker of enhanced proteolytic activity; the
activation and release of IL-18 by the in ammasome as a
marker of innate ... Matsunaga K, Sakazaki Y, Sawada M, Oda H, Takenaka S-I,
Imaoka H, Kinoshita T, Honda S, Ida S, Fukuda T -A, Aizawa H: Soluble
interleukin-18 receptor complex is a novel...
... Confirmation of
these findings could mark the beginning of the clinical use
of genotyping at an individual level as an adjunct to phar-
macotherapy for asthma and many other disorders.
Statistical power
Growing ... focusing
on a single SNP locus.
Several useful SNP databases are available on the World
Wide Web (see Table 1); these databases are constantly
updated and are...
... head mask.
Table 1 Summary of patients characteristics at
treatment start
Number of patients 45
Site Oral Cavity
Nasopharynx
Oropharynx
Hypopharynx
Larynx
Nasal Cavity and Paranasal
Sinuses
Other
7
3
16
1
10
6
2
Histology ... Volumetric-modulated arc radiotherapy for carcinomas of the
anal canal: A treatment planning comparison with fixed field IMRT.
Radiother Oncol 2009, 92:118...
... immunological
responsiveness.
The inflammatory network is exaggerated, synergistic, and
acts like a cascade. It includes mediators with autocrine and
paracrine actions, as well as cellular and intracellular
components ... more inflammatory
mediators and help modulate the inflammatory response?
Unfortunately, there is no direct evidence that increasing
the Q
UF
increases cytokine remov...
... patients with intracranial hemorrhage are
improved following administration of recombinant factor VIIa
(rFVIIa), and this treatment is routinely used in many centers
for treatment of intracranial ... life-sustaining treatments’.
Canadian courts recognize that life-sustaining medical
treatment may be withheld or withdrawn, and that treatment
may not always be in a patient’s...
... premortem clinical diagnoses and causes of death,
including the immediate cause of death and the underlying pri-
mary disease, were recorded. The autopsy diagnoses were
obtained from the final autopsy ...
discrepancies in critically ill cancer patients
Stephen M Pastores, Alina Dulu, Louis Voigt, Nina Raoof, Margarita Alicea and Neil A Halpern
Critical Care Medicine Service...