respiratory infections in patients with cancer

... candidemia in cancer patients, the overall 30-day mortality was 39%, with increased mortality occurring in older patients, in patients with poorly controlled malignancy, and in cases in which Candida ... However, echinocandins have not been evaluated as initial therapy for invasive aspergillosis Significant interest has been noted in combina-tion antifungal therapy pairing an echinocandin with either ... not receiving colony growth factor support and in pa-tients receiving mucotoxic regimens consisting of cy-tarabine plus anthracyclines This finding is consistent with the bowel being a principal

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2017, 19:28

... was higher in patients with alveolitis than in patients without (p = 0.038) Modified Rodnan skin score > 14 [9] was observed in 8 (50.0%) patients with alveolitis and in 5 (19.2%) without alveolitis ... autoantibodies when compared to patients without alveolitis (Table 4) Diffuse skin involvement was present in 12 (75.0%) patients with alveolitis: patients with diffuse skin involve-ment and ground glass ... involving up to 25% of the lobe, 3-honeycombing involving 25–49% of the lobe, 4- honey-combing involving 50–75% of the lobe, 5- honeycomb-ing involvhoneycomb-ing > 75% of the lobe for interstitial

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... pathway activity in three subgroups of patients: SLE patients with one or more major infections, patients with SLE who experienced minor infections only, and SLE patients without any infections (Figure ... following subgroups were considered: SLE patients with one or more major infections versus SLE patients without major infections, SLE patients with one or more major infections versus patients ... obtain information on documented infections since diagnosis of SLE Major infections were defined as infections requiring hospital admission and intravenous administration of antibiotics In total,

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... whereas patients in stage 2 did In addition, only the patients in stage 2 experienced improvements in eating and drinking due to HPN Eating and drinking can still be heavily limited in patients ... Another nota-ble finding within the 'Activities and Participation'-com-ponent is that patients in stage 1 did not consider eating and drinking as relevant, whereas patients in stage 2 did Of ... General interpersonal interactions d720 Complex interpersonal interactions x Particular interpersonal interactions Trang 8As described before, patients in stage 1 did not reporteating and drinking

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... treatment with TNF antagonists may reduce the incidence of emerging opportunistic infections. 51 52 Vaccinations (Table 2) Vaccines are certainly underutilised in patients with IBD. In the USA, in 2005, ... in the case of lymphopenia, CD4 lymphocyte count c C-reactive protein c Urine analysis in patients with a history of urinary tract infection, and urinary symptoms c VZV serology in patients without ... bacterial infections. 87–91 PCT has not been formally tested in IBD patients with suspected infections, and cannot be recommended in routine practice. Nevertheless, given the promising interest in this

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:45

... screening of nutri-tional status of older patients in all clinical settings [ 27 ]. For patients with cancer, the use of MNA-SF is recom-mended by medical oncology societies for older patients with ... point in patients of any age with any type of cancer and anticancer therapy were included Studies with a cross-sectional design and those not using MNA-assessed nutritional status for predicting ... party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material If material is not included in the article's

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2020, 02:54

... of diagnosis and totally uninformed of diagnosis in cancer patients Trang 9Risk of bias in included studiesIncluded studies were assessed for risk of bias using the ROBINS-I assessment tool For ... from totally informing cancer patients of diagnosis See Table 3 for detailed information Physical function No difference in scores was observed between totally in-formed and uninin-formed of ... and totally uninformed of diagnosis in cancer patients Fig 8 Forest plot of Economic difficulty between totally informed of diagnosis and totally uninformed of diagnosis in cancer patients Trang

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2020, 05:23

... effects [4,5] Opti-mizing the quality of life of patients with cancer, during and after treatment, is an evolving field Helping cancer patients strengthen their ability to cope with their diag-nosis ... February 2017, cancer patients receiving chemother-apy infusions or follow-up cancer care were recruited to participate in art therapy sessions Patients meeting the following inclusion criteria ... Primary endpoints included post-intervention changes from baseline in the 4 VAS metrics Results: Through a reasonable pilot sample (n = 50), 44% had breast cancer, 22% gastrointestinal cancers, 18%

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 01:39

... rectosigmoid colon and gastric cancer in SIT patients To our knowledge, this paper is the first report of double primary malignancies associated with colon cancer in patients with SIT in Korea Case presentation ... distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Trang 2Double primary malignancies associated with colon Cancer in patients with Situs Inversus Totalis: Two ... colon cancer ranges from 0.5 to Trang 63.6% (8) According to Galiatsatos et al (9), 41 cases of malignancy in patients with situs abnormalities including SIT and situs ambiguus were found in the

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:21

... consistent with other results showing no benefit in povidone-iodine use for prevention of wound infection [29]. Conclusion In summary the basic aspects of TRD in patients with gas- trointestinal cancer ... Surgical Oncology Open Access Research Taurolidine reduces the tumor stimulating cytokine interleukin-1beta in patients with resectable gastrointestinal cancer: a multicentre prospective randomized ... Povidone-iodine lavage is commonly used abdominal disinfectant. In our study the subcutaneous wound infec- tion rate was higher in the povidone-iodine group com- pared to the TRD group. These findings

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... with Irinotecan drug eluting beads with liver dominant hepatic metastasis after failing standard chemotherapy b) Overall Survival of patients treated with Irinotecan drug eluting beads with liver ... FOLFOX in 35 patients, FOLFIRI in 15, Avastin in 37 patients, and other biologics in 9, with 2 patients receiving hepatic directed radiotherapy The extent of liver involvement was 57% were <25%, ... for improving survival and achieving local control in patients with liver metastases from colorectal cancer[24] Two hundred and seven patients with liver metastases from colorectal cancer were

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... techniques in recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma is feasible and yields encouraging results in terms of local control and overall survival in patients with acceptable toxicity in patients with less ... regarding the distribution of dose to organs at risk see table 3 Regular follow-up examinations took place in our institution or in the referring centers including at least clinical examination ... our experience with intensity-modulated or stereotactic reirradiation in patients suffering from recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma Patients and Methods: The records of 17 patients with recurrent

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... anti-tumour activities in human prostate cancer in vivo and in vitro. Although in vitro data indicated that the combination of COX-2 inhibition and radiation was not associated with an increased toxicity, ... providing informed consent Further inclusion criteria were normal levels of hemoglobin, leukocytes, platelets, creatinine, urea, GGT, AP, AST, ALT, bilirubine, creatinine clearance > 50 ml/min ... radiotherapy without treatment break In all cases the intake of celecoxib started at the first day of radiotherapy in the morning Within 2 weeks after commencing treatment 2 of the 22 included patients

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... Inter- fraction interval in patients with stage III non-small-cell lung cancer treated with hyperfractionated radiation therapy with or without concurrent chemotherapy: final results in 536 patients. ... radiotherapy was combined with concom- itant cisplatin and in 26 cases with 2 courses of neo-adju- vant cisplatin and gemcitabin. In total 49 patients received radiotherapy without chemotherapy. ... start on Thursday) in 21 patients, in five patients the treat- ment was interrupted for acute side effects and in three patients the reason for interruption was not clear. In 5 patients the OTT

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... or angina; carcinomatous meningitis; or uncontrolled infection Patients with a history of brain metastases, or another uncontrolled primary cancer were ineligible All patients signed an Informed ... among patients with advanced lung cancer Methods: This cross-sectional and case control study was conducted in 84 patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer in a hospital setting for the patients ... for a linear increasing or decreasing trend and subsequently determining the probability that the slope of the best-fitting line is different from zero Using the same technique, the cosinor method

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... cal-culated, including C-reactive protein [37] Joints were examined for swelling and tenderness by a single trained examiner The extent of radiographic joint damage was assessed at the baseline visit ... demonstrating internal validity Within each category of symptoms, multiple symptoms were associated with any PFT abnormality but no single symp-tom resulted in AUC > 0.63, indicating that individual ... respiratory involve-ment is identified as the second leading cause of mortality in patients with RA Pulmonary disease in RA patients may not be routinely sought by rheumatologists and internists in the

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:21

... proved to be highly discriminating in distinguishing lung cancer patients from healthy controls, but breath analyses can be affected by both clinical and analytical confounding variables [9]. The ... studies have included mixed groups of patients with primary small or non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and lung metastases, and did not compare VOC levels in lung cancer patients with those in asymptomatic ... levels were higher in NSCLC patients than in the control non-smok- ers and COPD patients, which suggests its potential use- fulness in screening procedures (probably in combination with other relevant

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... marker in patients with community-acquired infections. Methods Patients suspected of having infections/sepsis and admitted to a department of internal medicine were included in the study in a prospective ... differences in HMGB1 levels between the following groups: non-infected patients, infected patients without SIRS, patients with sepsis, and patients with severe sepsis (Table 3; Figure 1). When all infected ... inducing acute lung injury and produc- tion of pro-inflammatory cytokines/mediators in the lungs; pro- moting translocation in the gut; inducing arthritis and joint inflammation; affecting heart

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... described in Methods, we computed a continuous prognostic score (PS) based on the grouping defined in the training set A Cox proportional hazards model on the training set (CoxTrain) using PS to ... protein synthesis machinery including phosphory-lated S6 ribosomal protein and 4EBP1, a group with overexpression of stromal markers including collagen VI, CD31 and caveolin1, and a group defined ... 168) in two cohorts of patients with primary breast cancer A score was constructed using ordinal logistic regression to quantify the probability of recurrence in the training set and tested in

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... ventilation in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) a prospective, clinical trial was performed involving 12 adult patients with ARDS treated in the surgical intensive care unit in ... findings underscore the need to ensure an adequate intravascular volume status before attempting RMs Although venous return was maintained, the RMs, by inducing lung inflation, most probably increased ... assessed by the Tei index was even improved compared with baseline settings Left ventricular function at OL-PEEP was comparable with baseline In order to explain these findings, we hypothesise

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20