congestive heart failure stable chronic heart failure patients

... of patients with chronic heart failure European Journal of Heart Failure 2001, 3(6):723-30 36 Pugh LC, Havens DS, Xie S, Robinson JM, Blaha C: Case management for elderly persons with heart failure: ... mortaility among patients with congestive heart failure Archives of Internal Medicine 1999, 159(3):257-61 33 Gattis WA, Hasselblad V, Whellan DJ, O’Connor CM: Reduction in heart failure events ... Dahlstrom U: Nurse-led heart failure clinics improve survival and self-care behaviour in patients with heart failure: results from a prospective, randomised trial European Heart Journal 2003, 24(11):1014-23...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... limited to patients with advanced heart failure and NYHA III functional class and may therefore not be readily generalizable to patients with a milder or a more severer degree of heart failure Furthermore, ... in heart failure patients with normal QRS duration By characterizing mechanical interventricular dyssynchrony, which was commonly found to be associated with intra-LV dyssynchrony in heart failure ... right-left Int J Med Sci 2008, 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 heart sequential cardiac resynchronization in patients with heart failure, chronic atrial fibrillation, and atrioventricular nodal block...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2012, 11:32

... different chronic diseases using the EQ-5D and showed that chronic cardiopathies carry a similar Table Weighted score for each quality of life (QOL) domain in patients with stroke, congestive heart failure ... individuals’ quality of life is significantly greater in comparison to patients with congestive heart failure and caregivers Patients with stroke, despite minor deficits, suffer from significant ... (stroke, congestive heart failure and caregivers) Proportion (%) of abnormal responses in EQ-5D domains of mobility, pain, self-care, anxiety/depression and usual activities between patients...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... máu - Khả co thắt tim (myocardial contractility): tùy thuộc vào hệ giao cảm beta - Tần số tim (heart rate) - yếu tố, preload, afterload khả co thắt tim xác định thể tích tim bóp (stroke volume) ... volume) gia tăng - Nhưng LVEDP gia tăng thêm thể tích tim bóp trái lại gia tăng 7/ THẼ AFTERLOAD VÀ HEART RATE THÌ SAO? - AFTERLOAD: - công mà tâm thất phải thực để thắng áp lực (pressure work) - ... SỐ TIM : - Bởi cung lượng tim = thể tích tim bóp x tần số tim ( cardiac output = stroke volume x heart rate), tần số tim yếu tố quan trọng cung lượng tim - Lúc tần số tim nhanh, đủ thời gian để...

Ngày tải lên: 13/07/2014, 20:20

... cyclosporine was continued in 4/6 patients, tacrolimus in 2/3 patients, sirolimus in 2/4 patients, mycophenolic mofetil in 3/5 patients and azathioprine in 3/4 patients Evaluation of Safety General ... standarization of nomenclature in the diagnosis of heart and lung rejection: Heart Rejection Study Group The International Society for Heart Transplantation J Heart Lung Transplant 1990, 9:587-93 Koestner ... marrow suppression occurred in all patients Three patients experienced transient leukocytopenia of < 3.5 thousand/mm3 (range, 1.4 - 3.1 thousand/mm3) and five patients experienced transient thrombocytopenia...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... myocardial revascularization Ninety eight patients underwent OPCAB, while thirty nine patients had ONCAB/BH technique Patients with combined procedure and those patients who initially underwent off-pump ... (3%) 0.025 Chronic Kidney Disease (15%) 11 (11%) 0.126 Recent Angioplasty (15%) 17 (17%) 0.884 Myocardial Infarction 26 (67%) 65 (66%) 0.600 Heart Failure 12 (31%) 52 (53%) 0.241 Unstable Angina ... among our group of patients was related to the impaired left ventricular function Other factors contributing to the mortality of patients were the preoperative association of heart failure and myocardial...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... in patients with COPD: associations with clinical parameters Thorax 2007, 62(7):595-601 Drummond MB, Dasenbrook EC, Pitz MW, Murphy DJ, Fan E: Inhaled corticosteroids in patients with stable chronic ... prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: GOLD executive summary Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2007, 176(6):532-555 Barr RG, Bourbeau J, Camargo CA, Ram FS: Tiotropium for stable chronic obstructive ... article as: Kliber et al., The effects of long-acting bronchodilators on total mortality in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Respiratory Research 2010, 11:56 Page 13 of 13...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:21

... with steatosis and their diagnostic values in hepatic fibrosis Patients and methods Patients A total of 204 HBeAg-negative CHB patients were recruited from the Research and Therapy Center for ... Hospital from May 2005 to March 2009 Most patients did not drink alcohol, and alcohol consumption in the remaining patients was less than 20g/day These patients were divided in two groups according ... features of HBeAg-negative CHB patients with or without hepatic steatosis, so as to evaluate the predictors of clinical and pathological characteristics in these patients with steatosis and their...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:48

... consecutive series of newly diagnosed patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia Br J Haematol 2008, 141:607-614 Dearden C: Disease-specific complications of chronic lymphocytic leukemia Hematology ... Results were considered significant if P < 0.05 Results and Discussion Characterization of CLL patients All patients enrolled in this study were in a very early stage of disease (Rai stage 0, Binet ... are shown in Table The analysis of biological prognostic factors showed (58%) patients with mutated IgVH, (50%) patients with 13q14 To exclude the potential confounding effect of tumor DNA derived...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... 'passive' CFS patients in a proportion of 75% versus 25% respectively [8] Fluctuating active patients generally show infrequent bursts of activity followed by extreme exhaustion, whereas passive patients ... especially important that passive patients are being recognized correctly, as they not recover when they receive the protocol for active patients [7,11] When active patients accidentally receive ... effective for passive CFS patients as the original protocol is for pervasively active CFS patients [10] Therefore it is now being used in clinical practice for passive CFS patients Now in order to...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... of 146 patients had one or more of the assessed outcomes at one year The distribution of patients by outcome is depicted in Figure Forty patients (10.4%) had all three outcomes Only seven patients ... VAS (mm) patients had two to four swollen joints (oligoarthritis), and 108 (28.1%) patients presented with polyarthritis Twenty-four (16%) patients in the persistent arthritis group, (3%) patients ... first year, compared with 33 patients with persistent synovitis, whereas 45 (12%) patients were prescribed DMARD therapy without a RA diagnosis Although 68 (17.7%) patients had a RA diagnosis...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... crisis; CP: chronic phase;CML :Chronic Myelogeneous Leukemia were divided into three groups: chronic phase (CP), accelerated phase (AP) and blast crisis (BC) In addition, 38 CML-CP patients were ... the transcript levels of Hh and its receptors in patients with CML in chronic phase, accelerated phase and blast crisis The levels of Shh mRNA in patients of CML-CP were obviously lower than that ... treating chronic phase CML patients, imatinib will unlikely provide a cure to these patients Several reports indicate that discontinuation of imatinib treatment even in patients who have already...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... donors Patients, materials, and methods Patient samples 20 patients with newly diagnosed CML (12 male and female, aged 17-63 years) were recruited in this study (table 1) All were Ph + patients ... human chronic myeloid leukemia cells Hematology 2007, 12(6):497-503 Kim JG, Sohn SK, Kim DH, Baek JH, Lee NY, Suh JS: Clinical implications of angiogenic factors in patients with acute or chronic ... in patients with acute myeloid leukemia Leuk Lymphoma 2005, 46(6):885-91 10 Kaneta Y, Kagami Y, Tsunoda T, Ohno R, Nakamura Y, Katagiri T: Genomewide analysis of gene-expression profiles in chronic...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21

... and the road to a cure for chronic myeloid leukemia Blood 2007, 110:2242-2249 Cang S, Liu D: P-loop mutations and novel therapeutic approaches for imatinib failures in chronic myeloid leukemia ... TP: Selecting optimal second-line tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy for chronic myeloid leukemia patients after imatinib failure: does the BCR-ABL mutation status really matter? Blood 2009, 114:5426-5435 ... E, et al: Impact of baseline BCR-ABL mutations on response to nilotinib in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia in chronic phase J Clin Oncol 2009, 27:4204-4210 18 Shah NP, Nicoll JM, Nagar...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... characters of all patients are described in (table 1) Out of the 155 examined chronic HCV patients, only patients (3.9%) had OBI Comparison between OBI/HCV dually infected and HCV monoinfected patients ... cross sectional study, patients were divided into two groups according to their HBV DNA status: Group I: Patients having HBV DNA positivity (dually infected patients) Group II: Patients negative for ... prevalence of OBI in Egyptian chronic HCV patients, and to clarify its role as a cause of non-response of those patients to the standard of care Peg-IFN/RBV therapy Patients and methods The ethical...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:20

... YF: Thymalfasin (thymosin-alpha 1) therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis B J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2004, 19(Suppl 12):73-75 Leung N: Treatment of chronic hepatitis B: case selection and duration ... alpha-1 in Japanese patients with chronic hepatitis B;results from a randomized clinical trial J Viral Hepat 2005, 12:300-306 Chien RN, Liaw YF: Thymalfasin for the treatment of chronic hepatitis ... in patients with chronic hepatitis B Chinese Journal Infectious Disease 2003, 21:217-220 Liang J, Xu LC, Xu CY: Clinical Observation of Lamivudine combined with Thymosinα1 in Treatment of Patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... YF: Thymalfasin (thymosin-alpha 1) therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis B J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2004, 19(Suppl 12):73-75 Leung N: Treatment of chronic hepatitis B: case selection and duration ... alpha-1 in Japanese patients with chronic hepatitis B;results from a randomized clinical trial J Viral Hepat 2005, 12:300-306 Chien RN, Liaw YF: Thymalfasin for the treatment of chronic hepatitis ... in patients with chronic hepatitis B Chinese Journal Infectious Disease 2003, 21:217-220 Liang J, Xu LC, Xu CY: Clinical Observation of Lamivudine combined with Thymosinα1 in Treatment of Patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... 14 steroidnaïve allergic asthma patients; 16 patients, treated with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) with stable allergic asthma; and 16 ICS-treated patients with unstable allergic asthma Asthma was ... from patients with steroid-naïve asthma, p < 0.05 + Values significantly different from patients with stable, ICS-treated asthma, p < 0.05 Δ Values significantly different from patients with unstable, ... 1) Eotaxin-1 levels were elevated in patients with unstable ICS-treated asthma compared with ICS-treated stable asthma (p = 0.03) and steroid-naïve asthma patients (p = 0.009) We observed a tendency...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... = 7) Clinical diagnosis Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 12 Ischemic heart disease Heart failure Chronic liver disease Patients and methods Chronic renal failure Patients We prospectively ... prospective studies in trauma patients, in surgical patients, in septic patients, and in mixed populations of critically ill patients [8,13,18,26] Our hypothesis states that patients without signs of ... previous disease of a vital organ, defined as compensated or prior congestive cardiac failure, previous clinical indication of ischemic heart disease (previous myocardial infarction, ST–T depression...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... Sixty-nine patients with chronic stable heart failure for six consecutive months were enrolled at the Cardiology Unit of the Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Rome out of 210 patients admitted ... in patients with chronic heart failure Using the bioinformatic analysis from the http://www pubgene.org program, we showed, in Figure that the molecules newly associated with chronic heart failure ... with congestive heart failure Heart 2002, 88:296-7 Boerrigter G, Costello-Boerrigter LC, Burnett JC Jr: Natriuretic peptides in the diagnosis and management of chronic heart failure Heart Fail Clin...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20