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INTRODUCTION & STATE-OF-ART Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is the most common autosomal recessive lethal disorders affecting 1 in 2.500 newborns among Caucasians. CF lung disease reflects a failure in the capacity of airway epithelia to normally hydrate their surface. Poor hydration of airways surfaces leads
Over one million infants are born to HIV-1-infected women every year in Sub Saharan Africa. In Zimbabwe, annual births stand at 379,000 with approximately 48,000 infants being born every year to HIV-1-infected women on lifelong highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Concerns have been
1.1. Introduction.
Multidrug resistance towards gram-negative pathogens has been increasing dramatically over the last decades. Due to insufficient discovery of drugs acting on novel targets, re-examination of older compounds, such as temocillin, for which resistance is still low, has proven to be
Upon admission of the patients to the hospital, demographic and physiological data will be collected including waist circumference and BMI. A set of baseline laboratory tests will be done for each patient including: glucose level, Hba1c, lipid profile, creatinine level, liver enzymes and micro
After approval from Institutional Ethics Committee, patients not responding adequately to oral anti-diabetic agents were recruited from Medicine out patient department (OPD) with the help of treating physician. Patient were first screened for serum homocysteine/vitamin B12 level along with all
PROCEDURES DURING PREGNANCY
During the first antenatal care visit the mother will have a gestational dating ultrasound to determine the accurate gestational age. During all antenatal care visits information about the mother will be collected as part of standard obstetric care:
- Ethnicity
- Age
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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
- To study GH-IGF1 axis in children with CML having short stature following Imatinib therapy.
- To administer growth hormone therapy to children with CML on Imatinib in remission having GH deficiency.
STUDY DESIGN: It is an interventional, non-randomized study. STUDY GROUP: one
-Background and study aims
ABO-incompatible living donor kidney transplantation offers the possibility to expand the donor pool by approximately 30%. A variety of different desensitization protocols were shown to enable successful transplantation across major ABO barriers. In this context, apheresis
In recent years there has been particular interest in ketamine-propofol for sedation of patients who are candidates for short minimally invasive surgical procedures. In some centers in Canada and the U.S. is, in fact, the first choice of sedation in the ED. There are also publications of their
Patients may be screened for study entry when they have persistent disease despite standard therapy as defined in the inclusion criteria. At that stage a search will be done of the available lines. Lines were generated from HSCT donors who consented to the use of CTLs not required for their
BACKGROUND
Fluid resuscitation is a very common treatment in the ICU, and every day a thousands of critically ill patients are treated around the world with crystalloids or colloids to correct hypovolaemia (1, 2). A wide diversity of fluids is available, and new products are coming in the very near
Study Design: A six week, open-label, flexible dosing study using quetiapine. Subjects who qualify at Screening will then proceed to the baseline visit. If all inclusion and exclusion criteria are met, subjects will be administered quetiapine at the baseline visit. Enrollment will be 15 subjects.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To assess progression-free survival (PFS) measured at 16 weeks following initiation of once daily continuous oral therapy with OSI-774 in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To assess objective response rate, rate and duration of