long term outcomes for upper extremity deep vein thrombosis

... calculation was performed, which calculated a sample size of 326 for both groups with a 95% confidence interval and a statistical power of 75% Endoscopic vein harvest was performed with VASOVIEW ... using Prism for Mac (GraphPad Inc, California, USA) Patients in whom endoscopic vein harvest was intended but who required conversion to an open procedure were included in the open vein harvest ... endoscopic vein harvesting and 182 had undergone open vein harvesting (Figure 1) The median length of follow-up in the open vein harvest (OVH) group was 37 ± months; and in the endoscopic vein harvest...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... no longer relevant This is a common problem in the total hip/knee replacement literature where long term outcomes are provided for prostheses no longer manufactured and surgical approaches no longer ... additional surgery long term This additional information should allow surgeons to provide realistic expectations for their patients regarding outcomes and should enhance the informed consent and ... performed) suggest that a longer -term look is needed to better understand the implications of our interventions The purpose of this study was to independently evaluate the long- term clinical outcomes...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... access to long- term care for those who need it through a system of targeted subsidies available to those who cannot afford to pay for it themselves The level of subsidies for public longterm care ... of value for money, the provinces should aim to free up hospital beds used by those waiting for home- or facility-based long- term care and thus eliminate the waiting lists for long- term care ... the use of long- term- care resources and the provision of acute- and primary-care services, and by making a greater effort to meet the demand for long- term care The provinces could, for example,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... WHO NEEDS AND USES LONG- TERM CARE? The long- term care population is diverse in terms of age and level of disability Of the estimated 12.8 million Americans reporting long- term care needs in 1995, ... who should pay for long- term care services through what mechanisms; how to design and deliver these services; and how to recruit, train, and retain a workforce to deliver long- term care services ... delivery, and workforce—and identifies some of the major demographic and policy trends that will affect the demand for, and supply of, long- term care in the future First I define long- term care, including...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 17:20

... goal-directed tasks for evaluating the potential of http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/6/1/15 UniTherapy software interfaced with the conventional force-reflecting joystick for upper- extremity stroke ... discharged from all forms of physical rehabilitation The upper extremity motor control portion of the Fugl-Meyer (UE-FM) assessment test was included as a tool to assess level of upperextremity motor ... Telehomecare Model for Optimizing Rehabilitation Outcomes J Telemed & E-Health 2004, 10:200-212 Hamilton BB, et al.: A uniform national data system for medical rehabilitation In Rehabilitation outcomes: ...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... clinical, immunologic and virologic outcomes in the first year of HAART comparable to those observed in developed countries [4-14] Little is known about the longer term outcomes of these large-scale ... submitting it for publication 20 We would like to thank all the staff at TLC for their unyielding efforts on behalf of the patients We would like to thank all of our patients, for their trust ... the clinic Data from 7536 (99.4%) patients was available for analysis (Table 1) Forty patients were excluded due to missing demographic information and seven because of errors in recorded dates...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... Abenhaim L: 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 ... 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 ... London; 1995:634-645 Hirsh J, Hoak J: Management of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism A statement for healthcare professionals Council on Thrombosis (in consultation with the Council on...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... duplicates with activation of the polymerase for 10 at 95°C and 40 cycles of two PCR steps, 95°C for 15 sec and 60°C for 60 sec One-step qRT-PCR was used for analysis of env transcript levels in ... total RNA was added in 25 μl of the reaction mixture and then incubated for 10 at 50°C for cDNA synthesis, for at 95°C for RTase inactivation and 35 cycles of two steps with 10 sec at 95°C and ... positive for the TVB* S1 allele that is susceptible for ALVE infection One sample could Figure Determination of the number of proviral integrations in different chicken populations Determination...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... discharged to long- term care institutions with the expectation that these patients would require care in these long- term care institutions indefinitely Of the 14% discharged to long- term care institutions, ... month outcomes from our study may be more similar to longer term outcomes in hospital systems commonly used in the USA, where patients are discharged from an acute care hospital to a long- term ... et al.: Long- term survival and functional capacity in cardiac surgery patients after prolonged intensive care Crit Care Med 2000, 28:3847-3853 Engoren M, Buderer NF, Zacharias A: Long- term survival...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... first-time episodes of deep vein thrombosis are caused by risk factors, including surgery, cancer, immobilisation, or admission for other reasons.5,6 Risk for first deep vein thrombosis seems to ... S, Stein PD, Patel KC, et al Upper extremity deep venous thrombosis Chest 2003; 163:1213e9 [183] Hingorani A, Ascher E, Lorenson E, et al Upper extremity deep venous thrombosis and its impact on ... the femoral vein using doppler ultrasound; the right side shows longitudinal section of the femoral vein 34 Deep Vein Thrombosis Fig Ultrasonography of the common femoral vein before the general...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 10:20

... department with suspected deep vein thrombosis (the EDITED study) J Thromb Haemost 2003, 1:645-651 Heim SW, Schetman JM, Siadaty MS, Phibrick JT: D-dimer testing for deep venous thrombosis: A metaanalysis ... Tousignant L, Sheiner NM: A prospective study comparing duplex scan and venography for diagnosis of lower -extremity deep vein thrombosis Cardiovasc Surg 1996, 4:505-508 Kim-Gavino CS, Vade A, Lim-Dunham ... of the first episodes of a venous thrombosis are spontaneous [5] Patients should be stratified into low, intermediate or high-risk categories before treating for a venous clot [6] A new evidence...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... in short -term or long- term morbidity or R147 Critical Care June 2004 Vol No Cook et al Figure Table Patient factors Patient factors affecting the clinical importance of deep venous thrombosis ... 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 Hemostasis and Thrombosis: ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... 0.02 DVT* Mortality * see text for explanation of difference in patient numbers between number of patients analyzed for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and mortality outcomes according to maximum red ... the theory that prolonged storage of RBCs lead to poor outcomes remains controversial [19] We suspect that poor outcomes associated with the transfusion of RBCs stored for a prolonged period may ... would be increased for patients transfused old RBCs Materials and methods This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA We performed a retrospective...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... prior surgeries for correction of TN is a negative prognostic factor for outcomes with BA surgeries Even though MVD is more invasive and requires longer hospitalizations, the long- term outcomes favor ... treatment for trigeminal neuralgia but few have compared percutaneous BA of the trigeminal ganglion with posterior fossa MVD [9,15] Our study is unique in that it compares the long- term outcomes ... therapeutic outcomes and attempts to determine which procedure produces the best therapeutic benefit for patients with TN Methods After obtaining approval from the institutional review board to perform...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... study on long term electrophysiological outcome and its impact on the QoL in a large patient group Study cohort: The number of patients lost in long term follow up is consistent with long- term surveys ... concerning the development of QoL in the long- term The published literature mainly deals with the electrophysiological long term results of RF ablation So far, QoL before and after ablation has not been ... morbidity, and quality of life after circumferential pulmonary vein ablation for atrial fibrillation: outcomes from a controlled nonrandomized long- term study J Am Coll Cardiol 2003; 42:185-197 Erdogan...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:44

... rate for obtaining removal efficiency of 80% for T-N and about 99% for NH4+-N, at the recycle ratio of 600% and C/N ratio of about was about m3/day, which means that about 2.3 days is proper for ... constant at about 2,200 mg/L for T-N and 2,000 mg/L for NH4+-N Effluent T-N under steady state condition was about 400 mg/L for the recycle ratio 400% and 330 mg/L for 600 % and declined to about ... Effects of Recycle Ratio 3.1 Nitrogen This test was performed for the effects of recycle ratio after about 50 days of stabilization period for sufficient adaptation of methanol to be inserted as...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... (Olympus, Tokyo, Japan) For immunocytochemistry, cells were fixed on ice with 4% PFA in NaCl ⁄ Pi for 10 min, incubated in methanol at )20 °C for 20 min, and rehydrated in NaCl ⁄ Pi For detection of ... cultured in EBM-2 basal medium with 0.5% serum for 24 h Cells were incubated with growth factors at 33 °C for 10 and harvested for analysis Tube formation of tsA58T-expressing endothelial cells ... University of Tokyo, Japan) for providing pCAG-Cre; Dr Ikuo Yana (Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan) for help in performing endothelial tube formation experiments This work...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 17:20

... short -term risk This "myopic demand'' for long- term bonds can be large when risk aversion is small, because long- term bonds have attractive Sharpe ratios Second, long- term investors may hold long- term ... conventional wisdom We show that investors may hold long- term bonds for two reasons First, if long- term bonds offer a term premium then investors may hold them for speculative purposes, to increase their ... bonds for hedging purposes Long- term bonds can finance a stable longrun consumption stream even in the face of time-varying short -term interest rates, and this is attractive to risk-averse long- term...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... fixed capital formation (percentages year-on-year) THE MEDIUMAND LONG- TERM GROWTH OUTLOOK FOR RUSSIA (as a percentage of GDP) 2003 2004 2005 trend growth based on Hodrick-Prescott filter for 1980-2005 ... medium to longer term In particular, the paper presents new evidence on how Russia’s oil price dependency has evolved over recent years It also discusses the country’s medium to longer term growth ... than a blessing in the longer -term – point to a more challenging growth outlook In addition, ECB Occasional Paper No 58 March 2007 INTRODUCTION Interest in Russia’s longer term economic prospects...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... PROVIDING AND PAYING FOR LONG- TERM CARE © OECD 2011 Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long- Term Care © OECD 2011 Executive Summary What will be the effects of growing need for long- term care? Chapters ... WANTED? PROVIDING AND PAYING FOR LONG- TERM CARE © OECD 2011 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ● Improving productivity in long- term care Pay -for- performance initiatives in long- term care are limited to a few ... PROVIDING AND PAYING FOR LONG- TERM CARE © OECD 2011 17 Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long- Term Care © OECD 2011 Summary and Conclusions Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long- Term Care The...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20