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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Outcome of Immunosuppressive Therapy with Helicobacter pylori Eradication Therapy in Patients with Chronic Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura.
We initiated this study to investigate whether combining Helicobacter pylori eradication with immunosuppressive therapy provides an additional benefit to patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) that has relapsed or has ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Treatment Outcomes with CHOP Chemotherapy in Adult Patients with Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis.
The objective of the current study was to investigate the treatment outcomes for the use of cyclophosphamide, adriamycin, vincristine, and prednisolone (CHOP) chemotherapy in adult patients with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). Seventeen HLH patients older than ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Prognostic Impact of Peripelvic Fat Invasion in pT3 Renal Pelvic Transitional Cell Carcinoma.
Renal pelvic transitional cell carcinoma (TCC), which invades beyond muscularis into peripelvic fat or the renal parenchyma, is diagnosed as stage pT3 despite its structural complexity. We evaluated the prognostic impact of peripelvic ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Nomograms for Prediction of Disease Recurrence in Patients with Primary Ta, T1 Transitional Cell Carcinoma of the Bladder.
We developed nomograms to predict disease recurrence in patients with Ta, T1 transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. Thirty-eight training hospitals participated in this retrospective multicenter study. Between ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Association of vascular endothelial growth factor gene polymorphisms with susceptibility and clinicopathologic characteristics of colorectal cancer.
Since vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is known to be a potent pro-angiogenic factor, we evaluated the potential association of two VEGF gene polymorphisms (-634G>C and 936C>T) with the susceptibility ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Prognostic Significance of HER2 Gene Amplification According to Stage of Breast Cancer.
It is well known that the amplification of the HER2 gene is closely associated with poor prognosis of breast cancer. However, there is controversy about the clinical significance of HER2 according to lymph node ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Atelectasis Induced by Thoracotomy Causes Lung Injury during Mechanical Ventilation in Endotoxemic Rats.
Atelectasis can impair arterial oxygenation and decrease lung compliance. However, the effects of atelectasis on endotoxemic lungs during ventilation have not been well studied. We hypothesized that ventilation at low volumes below functional ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Boosted Reaction on Two-Step Tuberculin Skin Test among Military Personnel in South Korea, a Setting with an Intermediate Burden of Tuberculosis and Routine Bacille Calmette-Guerin Vaccination.
This study was performed to estimate the rate of boosted reaction in the two-step tuberculin skin test (TST) and to ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Surgical treatment of pulmonary diseases due to nontuberculous mycobacteria.
Although the treatment of pulmonary diseases due to nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) requires the long-term use of antibiotics in combination, the treatment success rates are unsatisfactory. We evaluated the clinical characteristics and surgical outcomes of 23 patients with ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Atopy may be an important determinant of subepithelial fibrosis in subjects with asymptomatic airway hyperresponsiveness.
The bronchial pathology of asymptomatic airway hyperreponsiveness (AHR) subjects is not well understood, and the role of atopy in the development of airway remodeling is unclear. The aim of this study ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
The Clinical Efficacy of GOCA Scoring System in Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
To explore the following hypotheses: 1) Gas exchange, Organ failure, Cause, Associated disease (GOCA) score, which reflects both general health and the severity of lung injury, would be a better mortality predictor ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Surgical management of mechanical valve thrombosis: twenty-six years\' experience.
In the present study, the authors investigated the management of mechanical valve thrombosis (MVT). From January 1981 through March 2006, 2,908 mechanical valve replacements were performed in 2,298 patients at our institution. Twenty (0.87%) patients presented with ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Effect of Intracoronary Shunt on Right Ventricular Function During Off-pump Grafting of Dominant Right Coronary Artery with Poor Collateral.
Although numerous studies have validated the efficacy of intracoronary shunt on reducing left ventricular dysfunction during off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery (OPCAB), there is lack of evidence ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Impact of glutathione s-transferase m1 and t1 gene polymorphisms on the smoking-related coronary artery disease.
Glutathione S-transferase (GST) plays a key role in the detoxification of xenobiotic atherogen generated by smoking. To analyze the effect of GSTM1/T1 gene polymorphisms on the development of smoking-related coronary artery ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
The Impact of Initial Treatment Delay Using Primary Angioplasty on Mortality among Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction: from the Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry.
The impact of treatment delays to reperfusion on patient mortality after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Hepatitis C Virus Infection in a Hemodialysis and Kidney Transplant Patient: An Eight Year Follow-up Report.
We report our experience in the management of a hemodialysis (HD) patient who acquired hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection while on dialysis, and subsequently received a kidney transplant. The potential ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Progression of hepatitis C infection in a renal transplant recipient: a case report.
We present a patient with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection who developed chronic active hepatitis (CAH) after renal transplantation. Alpha-interferon (a-IF) therapy was administered in view of deteriorating liver biochemistry. Liver histology at ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Hepatitis C in dialysis patients.
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major health problem in hemodialysis patients. Identified risk factors include duration on dialysis and blood transfusion. A more important risk factor contributing to the high prevalence of anti-HCV, particularly in the developing countries, could ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Hepatitis C virus: molecular virology and its implications for serologic diagnosis.
Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) has been identified as the major etiological agent of parenterally-transmitted non-A non-B hepatitis. The virus has been cloned recently and completely or partially sequenced. Molecular analysis of the HCV genome indicates ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Impact of hepatitis C virus infection on kidney transplant outcome.
One hundred and forty kidney transplant recipients were evaluated to study the impact of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection on patient and graft outcome. There .were 98 males arid 42 females with a mean age of ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Hepatitis C associated chronic liver disease in renal transplant recipients.
Infection with Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is emerging as a major cause of morbidity and mortality in renal transplant recipients. We studied three hundred and forty stable renal transplant recipients on follow-up in our transplant clinic. ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
The effect of chemical and heat disinfection of the hemodialysis machines on the spread of hepatitis C virus infection: a prospective study.
Seventeen of our 42 regular hemodialysis (HD) patients (40.5%), and six of our 16 patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) (37%) were found ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
The annual incidence of seroconversion of antibodies to the hepatitis C virus in the hemodialysis population in saudi arabia.
A mail survey was conducted involving 102 hospital-based active hemodialysis (HD) centers in Saudi Arabia to assess the annual incidence of seroconversion of antibodies against the hepatitis ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Liver enzymes and protein electrophoretic patterns in hemodialysis patients with antibodies against the hepatitis C virus.
One hundred and forty nine patients with end-stage renal disease on regular hemodialysis were screened for antibodies against hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). The overall ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Hepatitis C virus infection among dialysis patients in United arab emirates.
To evaluate the incidence of positivity of anti-hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) antibodies in the hemodialysis (HD) patients, and the impact of isolation of the anti-HCV positive patients, we studied 262 HD patients in our unit ...
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