diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis

... incidence of death from MOF was increased in the patients transfused RBCs of increased compared with decreased age, 11 of 47 (22%) vs of 47 (6%), respectively (P = 0.02) The mean (± standard error of ... between the transfusion of old RBCs and increased risk of sepsis, MOF, and death in all types of critically ill patients [2527,32,41,42] However, a consistent criticism of some of these studies is ... units of RBCs, DVT, and in-hospital mortality was increased with the transfusion of old RBCs when compared with a group of patients of similar severity of injury who were transfused RBCs of decreased...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... Long-term outcomes after deep vein thrombosis: postphlebitic syndrome and quality of life J Gen Intern Med 2000, 15:425-9 Line BR: Pathophysiology and diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis Semin Nucl ... References 10 11 12 13 14 15 Deep Vein Thrombosis: Health Factsheet from the British United Provident Association [http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/ fact_sheets/mosby_factsheets /deep_ vein_ thrombosis. html] Kahn ... Evaluation of therapeutic compression stockings in the treatment of chronic venous insufficiency Dermatol Surg 1999, 25:116-20 Kistner RL, Eklof B, Masuda EM: Diagnosis of chronic venous disease of the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Noninvasive diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis in postoperative patients Semin Thromb Hemost 2001, 27:3-8 29 Sonaglia F, Rossi R, Agnelli G: End points in studies on the prevention of deep vein thrombosis ... P: Accuracy of clinical assessment of deep- vein thrombosis Lancet 1995, 345:1326-1330 27 Kearon C, Salzman EW, Hirsh J: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, and natural history of venous thrombosis In ... Guy F, Mitchell M, Gray L, Clement C, Robinson KS, Lewandowski B: Value of assessment of pretest probability of deep- vein thrombosis in clinical management Lancet 1997, 350:1795-1798 26 Wells PS,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... 2.13.7 mm) This decreased to a median vein diameter of 1.6 mm (IQR, 1.32.8 mm) after application of a stocking, whereas vein diameter Risk Factors of Deep Vein Thrombosis increased from 2.6 to 2.9 ... of diagnosis of PE The rate of pregnancy-associated DVT was higher among women aged 35 to 44 years than in younger women The rate of pregnancyassociated DVT among black Risk Factors of Deep Vein ... incidence and case-fatality rates of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism: the Worcester DVT Study Arch Intern Med 1991; 151: 93338 Risk Factors of Deep Vein Thrombosis 19 [10] Kyrle PA, Minar...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 10:20

... 1993, 166:211-215 Kyrle PA, Eichinger S: Deep vein thrombosis The Lancet 2005, 365:1163-1174 Scarvelis D, Wells PS: Diagnosis and treatment of deep vein thrombosis CMAJ 2006, 175:1087-1092 Anderson ... symptoms of deep vein thrombosis: Diagnosis with venous duplex scanning J of Vascular Surgery 1977, 25:658-662 Maksimovic Z, Cvetkovic S, Markovic M, Perisic M, Colic M, Putnik S: Differential diagnosis ... Mitchell M, Lewandowski B, Flowerdew G: Management of patients with suspected deep vein thrombosis in the emergency department: combining use of a clinical diagnosis model with D-dimer testing J Emerg...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... observations offer important information in an otherwise unknown topic such as that of left ventricular thrombosis in surgical patients; hence, the hypothesis of the high rates of left ventricular ... [14] Although all of our patients showed increased procoagulant activity, it was generally difficult to explain the origin of the cardiovascular thrombi The nature of the thrombi (soft, mobile and ... the consequences of thrombus dislodgement into the bloodstream The sensitivity of TTE for detecting left ventricular thrombosis ranges between 92% and 95%, with specificity of 86% to 88% [17]...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... significant Role of D-dimer test in the diagnosis of CVT: D-dimer had an important role in the diagnosis of CVT, at the cut off of D-dimer concentration ≥ 302 µg/L the diagnosis of CVT reached ... sinus 14.04 Deep cerebral veins 7.02 Internal jugular veins 8.77 Cortical veins 23 40.35 ≥ veins had blood clots 41 71.93 Comment: The location of cerebral veins mostly affected by thrombosis ... superfical cerebral veins, deep cerebral veins and posterior fossa veins 1.1.3 Pathogenesis of cerebral venous thrombosis Causes of CVT are diverse According to the hypothesis of Rudolf Vichow:...

Ngày tải lên: 21/10/2014, 21:52

... the diagnosis of human brucellosis? Enferm Infec Microbiol Clin 2001;19:202-5 Araj GF Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, not Agglutination, is the test of choice for the diagnosis of serodiagnosis ... an important role in the diagnosis of brucellosis Main antigenic structure which is imported in the diagnosis of brucellosis is the smooth lipopolysaccharide structure of the antigen cell surface ... J Evaluation of Brucellacapt for the diagnosis of human brucellosis Journal of Infection 2004; 49: 102–108 Clavijo E, Diaz R, Anguita A, Garcia A, Pinedo A, Smith HL Comparison of a Dipstick...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:56

... since none of them alone is useful for the majority of the BC and none of them is specific for cancer or breast tissues No biomarker has been suggested to date for the early diagnosis of BC (24) ... were transferred to a data processor and software capable of analyzing univariate statistical analysis (ProteinChip Data Manager Software) Mass calibrations of all spectra were performed internally ... 23–71; mean age 39.1) Complex protein profiles of sera of 27 women with BC, 24 women with benign breast disease and 37 healthy women were obtained by SELDI-TOF MS analyses using IMAC30-NI beams...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15

... [7, 8] Early diagnosis of CRC is therefore of great importance Currently the sensitivity of the single biomarker based CRC diagnosis is low and complicated with a high probability of ‘false-positives’ ... based on a first pass of signal-noise ratio of and a minimum peak threshold of 20% of all spectra This process was completed with a second pass of peak selection at 0.2% of the mass window, and ... calculated as the ratio of the 42 number of correctly classified diseased samples to the total number of diseased samples Specificity was calculated as the ratio of the number of negative samples...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... of Hepatology, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), and of Current Hepatitis Reports, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of ... University of Paris and Pasteur Institute, France Jean-Michel Pawlotsky, MD, PhD, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Paris XII and the Director of the Department of Virology, of INSERM ... Professor at the University of Paris XII and a member of the Department of Virology and of INSERM Unit U635 at the Henri Mondor University Hospital in Créteil, France He focuses on teaching, diagnosis...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 09:56

... is the appearance of serum markers of HBV infection that establishes the diagnosis of the disease Of these, HBsAg is considered to be the sentinel marker for the confirmation of acute infection ... patient serological profiles fall outside of classical patterns Some key advantages and disadvantages of HBV DNA testing are presented in Table Current HBV DNA assays make use of differing technologies ... necessary should the rate of emergence of resistance and the impact of such mutations turn out to be clinically relevant for therapy management Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Resistance HBV is...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:41

... provide indirect evidence of ocular infection [4] Moreover, it’s important to highlight that FRET PCR is able to detect the presence of T gondii DNA on a small amount of 136 sample as it was in ... experience (

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:01

... imaging technique (SENSE factor of 2) Imaging time of DWI was 90 s for 20 slices Detection of uterine malignancy The ADC values of uterine cancers are lower than of normal tissue On the other hand, ... usefulness of DWI for the detection of metastatic bone tumor Current status and future directions of DWI for gynecological diseases Figure 12 shows a decision-making diagram in the MRI diagnosis of gynecological ... They showed that the ADC value of the 752 Table DWI studies with ADC values in ovarian diseases Authors of Study Year of Publication Journal Tumour & Tissue (no of subjects) b-values Moteki et...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... the diagnosis of smear-negative tuberculosis is reached in some of the sampled countries Clinical peer review, or discussion of the case by a clinical team, was used to establish the diagnosis of ... range of variation in the recommended number of courses and duration of the antibiotic treatment in the sampled countries Duration of the antibiotic treatment ranged from days to 28 days The use of ... programme recommendations of selected countries for diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis Sputum and blood cultures Sputum culture is the gold standard for the diagnosis of tuberculosis and...

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Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... available for comparison of the performance of the individual tests, an analysis of results was done using a variety of standards Efficiency of microscopy, culture and PCR in terms of sensitivity, specificity, ... with past history of tuberculosis ! with symptom complex Table 2: Summary : Final diagnosis of tuberculosis patients Tuberculosis patients Diagnostic review Final diagnosis of TB patients Description ... al Utility of nucleic acid amplification techniques for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in sub-saharan Africa Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2001; 5: 364-369 Rattan A PCR for diagnosis of tuberculosis:...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... For a number of reasons, one of which is the influence of the training programme of NTI, the findings of this study should be considered illustrative of methodology of assessment of integrated ... differences of NTI technician Thus, neither under -diagnosis nor overdiagnosis was a ‘serious problem’ in out of the centres Of the remaining centres, underdiagnosis was substantial in two and overdiagnosis ... methods of assessment also: (i) Assessment based upon the results of examination of duplicate and that of the reexamination of the centre smears (Method 2) (ii) Assessment based upon the result of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... Department of Otorhinolaryngology University of Helsinki and Dr Maija Hytönen Department of Otorhinolaryngology University of Helsinki Reviewed by: Professor Emeritus Heikki Puhakka Department of Otorhinolaryngology ... University of Tampere and Docent Jukka Luotonen Department of Otorhinolalaryngology University of Oulu Dissertation opponent Professor Jouko Suonpää Department of Otorhinolaryngology University of Turku ... continue after diagnosis of URI Parents’ suspicion of AOM has been a more reliable predictor of AOM than have most signs and symptoms, with a sensitivity of 71% and specificity of 80% (Kontiokari...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 13:20

... evaluated for the diagnosis of smear-negative PTB in the same setting Using LJ culture as the base-line test, this study evaluated in-house PCR for rapid diagnosis of smear-negative Page of PTB in a ... Medicine, School of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda 3Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health ... test for diagnosis of tuberculosis Indian J Med Microbiol 2005, 23(1):29–33 doi:10.1186/1756-0500-5-487 Cite this article as: Nakiyingi et al.: Evaluation of in-house PCR for diagnosis of smear-negative...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20