BACKGROUND: Phenytoin has very challenging pharmacokinetic properties. To prevent its toxicity and ensure efficacy, continuous therapeutic monitoring is required. It is hard to get a simple, accurate, rapid, easily available, economical and highly se...
Indian journal of medical microbiology
Jan 1, 2017
BACKGROUND: Humoral immune responses in cytomegalovirus (CMV) are not studied well. Pre-transplant CMV immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody levels (Pre-Tx IgG) could influence the occurrence of post-transplant CMV infections.
Zhurnal voprosy neirokhirurgii imeni N. N. Burdenko
Jan 1, 2017
UNLABELLED: A high blood D-dimer level is often diagnosed in patients with malignant brain glioma (MBG), with 24% of these patients being detected with deep vein thrombosis of the leg and/or pulmonary embolism (PE). The cause of an elevated blood D-d...
Revista Brasileira de terapia intensiva
Jan 1, 2017
OBJECTIVES: To define the frequency of cytomegalovirus disease among kidney transplant patients in an intensive care unit in which this complication was suspected and to identify predisposing factors and their possible impact on clinical outcome.
JSLS : Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
Jan 1, 2017
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In addition to general advantages of laparoscopic over open surgery, such as better cosmesis and faster recovery, laparoscopic liver surgery offers specific advantages. Improved liver function and potentially earlier postop...
OBJECTIVE: The differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) and other conditions, such as essential tremor and drug-induced parkinsonian syndrome or normal aging brain, represents a diagnostic challenge. I-FP-CIT brain SPET is able to contribut...
OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the impact of pre-therapeutic hematopoiesis on survival, hematotoxicity (HT) and number of Radium (Ra) treatments in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Shokuhin eiseigaku zasshi. Journal of the Food Hygienic Society of Japan
Jan 1, 2017
In November 2015, a patient presented with symptoms of toxicity after eating whole boiled samples of the scavenging gastropod Nassarius (Alectrion) glans "Kinshibai" in Nagasaki. This food poisoning case was the third recorded in Japan. The case was ...
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