Filter by
Lung RADS: Potential Drawbacks and Need for Revision
Lung cancer screening using low dose CT scan reduces lung cancer specific and overall mortality in high risk patients. A significant limitation of lung cancer screening is the false positive rates. The American College of Radiology Lung Imaging Reporting and Data System (Lung-RADS)was designed to standardize reporting of low dose lung cancer screening scans and also to decrease the false posit…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Autoimmune diseases and HIV infection : A cross-sectional study
To describe the clinical manifestations, treatments, prognosis, and prevalence of autoimmune diseases (ADs) in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. All HIV-infected patients managed in the Infectious Diseases Department of the Lyon University Hospitals, France, between January 2003 and December 2013 and presenting an AD were retrospectively included.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Epidemiology of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases in a French Nationwide H…
HIV infection and inflammatory and autoimmune diseases (IAD) are both related to immune dysfunction (1,2). Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) and immunodeficiency induced by HIV itself may favor or prevent the development of different IAD (1,2). Indeed, the prevalence of some autoantibodies, such as antinuclear antibodies is high and up to 3 times greater than in a healthy population
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Imaging of Occupational Lung Disease
Occupational lung disease refers to a variety of disorders that affect the lungs following inhalation of dusts or chemical antigens in a vocational setting. Despite the safety standards established by health organizations, occupational lung disease represents one of the most common work-related illnesses. Occupational lung diseases are responsible for approximately 70% of all deaths from occup…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Circulating Testosterone as the Hormonal Basis of Sex Differences in Athletic…
Elite athletic competitions have separate male and female events due to men’s physical advantages in strength, speed, and endurance so that a protected female category with objective entry criteria is required. Prior to puberty, there is no sex difference in circulating testosterone concentrations or athletic performance, but from puberty onward a clear sex difference in athletic performance…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Levobupivacaine for labor analgesia
Combined spinal‑epidural analgesia has become the preferred technique for labor analgesia as it combines the benefits of both spinal analgesia and flexibility of epidural catheter. Study was carried out with the primary aim to compare levobupivacaine and ropivacaine with fentanyl in terms of onset and duration of sensory block and to know maternal and fetal outcome
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Implicit and Explicit Memory Following Surgical Anesthesia
Paired associates were presented to 25 surgical patients following the induction of anesthesia by thiopental, vecuronium, and isoflurane. Postoperative testing (immediately or after two weeks) showed no free recall for the list; nor was there significant cued recall or recognition, compared to ,a matched control list.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
A global vision for the British Journal of Anaesthesia
Welcome tomy first issue as the 12th Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Anaesthesia. Although many may be surprised by the selection of an American to lead a historically British journal, this development reflects the evolution of the BJA as the premiere international journal in anaesthesia. As Professor Jennie Hunter noted in her review of the early history of the BJA, I am not even its…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Volume 100: basic sciences in the British Journal of Anaesthesia
Basic sciences in anaesthesia, and more specifically basic science papers published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA), provoke widely differing responses. To begin by being provocative, and honest, we have all heard our colleagues (and maybe yourself ) question the place of this type of material in the official journal of your medical Royal College
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Is There Any Correlation Between Lactate And Base Excess In Septic Shock Pati…
Clinical, hemodynamics and perfusion variable are important tools in identify instable patients and guide therapy. Increased arterial lactate and decreased base excess (BE) have been shown to be predictive of depth of shock and severity of injury
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography