Medication use evalution

We have evaluated the activity of acid aspartic protease in 195 strains of Candida isolated from the oral cavity of three groups of patients. The first group comprised patients with cancer of the larynx qualified for surgery, the second- patients with neoplastic disease ( Hodgkin s disease, lymphoma, acute granulocytic leukaemia, lymphatic leukaemia, lung cancer, multiple myeloma, stomach cancer, breast cancer) who were not treated, the third group- patients with neoplastic diseases treated by chemotherapy...

Effective treatment of chronic illness requires active engagement of patients in managing their own conditions. This research explores the influence of provider support for self-management on patients' performance of self-care activities, a widely presumed but under-studied relationship, particularly among underserved populations. We surveyed an ethnically diverse, primarily low-income sample of 956 patients (or parents of pediatric patients) with diabetes or asthma in 17 outpatient teaching settings across the country...

We studied the biocompatibility of the carbon composites and polyethylene materials with and without collagen or collagen and proteoglycan cover. We used the in vitro technology to study the adhesion of model cells evalution, their metabolic activity and the production of TNF-alpha as a cytokine model. Under in vivo condition, the biocompatibility of tested polymers were studied in the implantation experiment, subcutaneously in the interscapular region in the laboratory rat. We have found in the in vitro assay favorable proliferation and the smallest production of pro-inflammatory TNF-alpha cytokine in cells adherent to the hydrophobic polyethylene material coated with biological macromolecules...

Recurrent urinary tract infections, vesicoureteral reflux and enuresis in children want a detailed urologic evalution which often makes - in addition to obvious urinealysis, urine culture, excretory urography and voiding cystourethrography-extended diagnostics necessary including an urethral calibration to definitely exclude a distal urethral stenosis, and a cystoscopy under general anesthesia in order to reveal abnormalities of shape and placement of the ureteral orifice (e.g. lateral placement, "stadium", "horseshoe" or "golf-hole" shape)...

The ACTA-Scanner has virtually unlimited potential in the evalution of any part of the body. The usefulness of the technique has already been shown in the appraisal of pathologies of the brain and cerebrospinal fluid cavities. The orbits and the eyeballs, the facial sinuses, and skull base lesions have also been elucidated. Tumors of the larynx, pharynx, thyroid, and parathyroid; lymphomas; and pathology of the spine and spinal cord are well within the reach of this new diagnostic methodology. Lung pathologies, such as emphysema, pneumonias, neoplasms, infarctions, pleural effusions and granulomatous diseases, and mediastinal pathology represent a challenging complex of lesions to be appraised by ACTA-scanning...

The problem of the malignant potential of neoplastic colonic polyps is being, in large measure, resolved by newly derived techniques. Now most polyps may be removed endoscopically using the fiberoptic colonoscope. The largest world experience is at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, where over 2000 polyps have been endoscopically removed without a single death and with but one complication requiring operative intervention. Laparotomy is now reserved for polyps not suitable for endoscopic resection or where a question of residual cancer exists...

Placebo can be defined as "a therapeutic effect, drug or non-drug, or a part of it which, in the condition being treated, objectively does not have any specific pharmacodynamic action." Even today when powerful drugs are available placebo is important and present in therapy. Effective therapeutic agents are also sometimes used as placebo, mostly inadvertently. In clinical pharmacological investigations placebos are used deliberately to discriminate the pharmacodynamic action of drugs from psychic and other factors which can influence the objective of the drug evalution...

The clinical application of prolonged monitoring by the combined EEG and videotape recording of patients was evaluted. This test was found to be useful in diagnosing epileptic seizures in patients in whom both the history and diurnal EEG studies were unhelpful, and it assisted with the accurate classification of seizure types. It enabled seizure focus lateralisation in medically intractable epileptic who were being evaluated for surgery, and it also provided an objective estimate of minor seizure frequency...

We evaluted measurement of urinary 4-hydroxyphenyl acetic acid as a potential screening method for small-bowel disease and bacterial overgrowth syndromes in 360 unselected acutely ill infants and children. Control data were obtained on 120 healthy children, ages 1.5 to 15 years, from a general medical practice, 48 healthy infants, ages one to five years, from local day nurseries, and 150 healthy babies, ages less than one to eight days. Comparative data were from 300 acutely ill hospitalized babies and children, ranging in age from less than one day to 15 years and without clinical evidence for small-bowel disease and bacterial overgrowth syndrome...

For a 10-month period a top-vented closed urinary drainage system was evaluted and compared to a conventional bag-vented drainage system. The study involved random assignment of either system to all adult patients who required urinary catheterization. Criteria for exclusion included acute or chronic genitourinary tract infection and surgical interference with bladder function. The end point of the study was removal of any part of the system after at least 24 hours or a positive urine culture (greater than 10,000 colonies per ml...

Aerosolized terbutaline sulfate at a dose of 0.50 mg has been shown to produce significant bronchodilation in patients with reversible airway disease. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of 0.50 mg terbutaline aerosol used on a regular dosage schedule over a six-week period. Sixteen ambulant patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with a component of reversible airway disease were evaluated. The patients were tested at two-week intervals during a six-week period. The patients abstained from all bronchodilatory medications for at least 10 hours prior to the time of evaluation...