... tried different treatments with antihistaminics, doxepin and corticosteroids In April 2005, we began cyclosporine at doses of 200 mg per day with good response initially Despite of oral contraception ... receptor associated with successful treatmentofchronic idiopathic urticaria with omalizumab Clin Mol Allergy 2011, 9(1):2 Spector SL, Tan RA: Effect of omalizumab on patientswithchronic urticaria ... are responsible of the final version of the manuscript All authors approved the final version of the manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Received:...
... adequate tool for measuring painin about two thirds of the patientsin our ICU However, the VAS could be used in only 75 of 113 patients, in particular inpatientswith intact comprehension and ... scores of ICU patients at rest and without painful stimuli In the ideal study design in which different pain scoring systems in the ICU are compared, the pain scores in the absence and presence of ... Behavioral Pain Scale should be used only in conjunction with the NRS nurse to measure pain levels in the absence of painful stimuli measuring pain AB and DT participated in revising the manuscript...
... prevent health -care workers from providing basic paincare (66) Managing pain starts with recognizing and assessing pain Therefore, planning pain assessment as an integral element ofpain management ... Breakthrough pain is characterized as a temporary increase in the severity ofpain over and above the pre-existing baseline pain level, e.g if a child is taking pain medicines and has good pain control with ... Common types ofpain experienced by infants with HIV include headache, oral cavity pain, abdominal pain, neuromuscular pain, chest pain, earache, odynophagia (pain while swallowing), myalgia...
... rates of consumption of IVIG in the world, and the consumption rate has been increasing annually over the past decade[16,17] Escalating cost, increasing demand for an expanding number of indications, ... Improvements with Immune Globulin Intravenous, 10% Caprylate/Chromatography Purified (IGIV-C) inChronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) [abstract M-3] In 133rd Annual Meeting of the ... Strengers PF, Jennekens FG, Busch HF: Intravenous immunoglobulin treatmentinpatientswithchronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: a double blind, placebo controlled study J Neurol...
... 24) ofchronic neck pain sufferers, including neck pain intensity, neck function, disability and its overall influence on quality of life Methods A randomised, controlled single-blinded preliminary ... period is a clinically useful finding in this chronicpain cohort To better understand the dose response characteristics of ENAR more frequent measurements of pain, treatment times and treatment ... device combines Western electrical biofeedback with Eastern energy medicine This preliminary study investigated the response of people with non-complicated chronic neck pain (NCCNP) to two treatments...
... on stroke incidence There are insufficient data in medical ICU patients, but in CTS patients it is clear that the stroke incidence is increased inpatientswith AF Besides AF, a proinflammatory ... stroke in CTS patients [131] Postoperative AF doubles the risk compared withpatients without AF, despite the use of aspirin [22,32,131,132] AF is an independent risk factor for stroke in non-ICU patients ... stroke incidence of medical ICU patientswith AF Owing to the proinflammatory state, this incidence is probably higher than in other patientswith AF On the other hand, there is also an increased,...
... monotherapy The effect of longer treatment as a principal can be seen in the initial studies with interferon monotherapy in which the SVR increased from 6% with months oftreatment to 12% with 12 months ... Gitlin N, Muther KD Sustained viral response with peginterferon alpha 2a and ribavirin inpatientswithchronic hepatitis C who were non-responders to peginterferon alpha 2b and ribavirin In: ... developing of a non-invasive evaluation of liver function using the quantitative liver-spleen scan and the treatmentofchronic hepatitis C He was involved in many of the early studies (since 1989)...
... controlling for persistent low back pain and extremity pain well-recognized problem in terms of determining true complication rates Despite numerous clinical studies investigating the incidence ofchronic ... site pain, including administration of local anesthesia with or without narcotics, as separate injections or as an infusion [13] Postoperative injection of long-acting anesthetic (e.g., bupivacaine ... postoperative painin the acute period, and addition of morphine appears to have an added benefit [14,15] Use of an indwelling catheter to administer a continuous infusion of anesthetic in the early...
... successful treatment education and advocacy is remembering our own dignity as human beings and taking hold of the power of that truth Taking careof our feelings is as important as understanding and treatment ... example of how governments are willing to invest huge financial resources in systems when faced with the threat of global instability We submit that the health of the global poor, including people with ... challenge the paucity of opportunities for people with HIV through its "Treat, Train and Retain" initiative, echoing the important lead of UNESCO/EI-EFAIDS in supporting teachers living with HIV [18]...
... levels of significance,and least squares means of the variables remaining in the logistic model for the incidence of ovarian cysts in Holstein Friesian cattle diagnosed withchronic clinical ... consequently an early increase in the progesterone levels could result in an increased susceptibility to uterine infections [20] or in a prolonged calving to conception interval [28] In this study, ... clinical results in this study In conclusion, we have found associations between the clinical signs ofchronic endometritis and the incidence of ovarian cysts In addition, a positive effect of...
... systematic review of 15 RCTs involving 1,025 patientswithchronic non-malignant pain found a mean decrease inpain intensity in most studies of at least 30%, with a comparable effect size in both neuropathic ... mechanisms ofchronicpain differ from those of acute pain Although peripheral tissue injury is undoubtedly important for the initiation and maintenance of arthritic pain, more central factors, involving ... finding of increased areas of punctate hyperalgesia inpatientswith RA after topical application of capsaicin is in accord with increased excitability of spinal neurons in this condition [5] Clinically,...
... On the day of the procedure, which was carried out in an operating room, a slow intravenous infusion of g of cefazolin was started, and the patient was placed in a prone position with pillows ... was able to discontinue use of morphine All outcome measures ofpain and quality of life were positively affected by the treatment She reported improvement in her quality of life, which she characterized ... role in the progression to malignancy inpatientswith NF-1 [30] Chronic headaches are among the most common neurological manifestations of NF-1 In a hospital-based series of 158 patients with...
... satisfactory healing process of the morselised graft is seen at the acetabular bed The structural autograft remains in its initial place held with one screw rotated deformity She had been walking with great ... and knee stiffness with concomitant severe hip arthritis She had fallen in her house while walking On clinical examination, the leg was in fixed flexion with adduction and internal rotation X-rays ... A cup was then inserted in a press fit manner, basing the initial stability on the periphery of the cup After an additional small incision at the fracture site, the fracture was initially reduced...
... satisfactory healing process of the morselised graft is seen at the acetabular bed The structural autograft remains in its initial place held with one screw rotated deformity She had been walking with great ... and knee stiffness with concomitant severe hip arthritis She had fallen in her house while walking On clinical examination, the leg was in fixed flexion with adduction and internal rotation X-rays ... A cup was then inserted in a press fit manner, basing the initial stability on the periphery of the cup After an additional small incision at the fracture site, the fracture was initially reduced...
... treated withchronic hepatitis B patients Shanghai Jiao Tong University school of medicine 2009 Yang JN: A comparison of curative effect between telbivudine and lamivudine inpatientswithchronic ... Effect of telbivudine vs lamivudine at the end of one-year treatment on CK elevation Figure 13 Effect of telbivudine vs lamivudine at the end of two-year treatment on CK elevation Page of 11 Zhao ... Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: is blinding necessary? Control Clin Trials 1996, 17:1-12 Cai W: Efficacy and its influent factors of telbivudine or lamivudine treated...
... expression of FcεRI prior to treatmentwith omalizumab After the first 14 days of treatment, there was an approximate 80% decrease in the expression of the high affinity IgE receptor that was maintained ... during treatmentwith omalizumab Prior to treatmentwith omalizumab and after consent was obtained, peripheral blood was obtained from the patient and from a control subject with no history of ... placed on ice, processed within three hours on the same day of collection and analyzed using dual staining flow cytometry to measure baseline expression of FcεRI on the surface of blood basophils (Figure...
... the rate of overall treatment success was higher in non-ICU patients receiving micafungin than those receiving liposomal amphotericin B In ICU patients, overall treatment success rates inpatients ... Critical Care Vol 13 No Dupont et al Introduction Invasive Candida infections occur more often inpatients housed inside rather than outside an intensive care unit (ICU) [1,2], with reported rates of ... underline the importance of the APACHE II score as a prognostic indicator of clinical outcome inpatients receiving antifungal therapy in both the ICU and the non-ICU setting 10 • 11 Competing interests...
... ethics committee, and written, informed consents were obtained from the patients or their next of kin Processing of clinical samples LRT samples of all patients included in this study were taken once ... overfitting, yielding spurious findings, which made a large 95% CI for OR in our analysis Increasing the sample size and collecting more IBPA cases in a further study may avoid this kind of limitation ... Garrino M, Delos M, Gonzalez M, Evrard P, Glupczynski Y, Installe E: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patientswith invasive pulmonary aspergillosis: benefits of intensive care? Intensive Care...