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Disease Progression in COPD Patients Classified as Gold D According to Gold 2011 or Gold 2017 in the Real-Life Daccord Study

2019

Heterogeneity Of Lung Ventilation In COPD Patients And Healthy Adults Determined By Electrical Impedance Tomography

2011

[PTCA or bypass-surgery in patients with renal failure and diabetes - pro surgery].

2002

2214Prevalence and severity of coronary disease in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia hospitalized for an acute myocardial infarction: data …

2019

Abstract Aim Individuals with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) are at high risk of early myocardial infarction (MI). However, coronary artery disease (CAD) burden of FH remains not well described. From a large database of a regional registry of acute MI, we aimed to address prevalence of FH and severity of CAD. Methods Consecutive patients hospitalized with MI in a multicentre database from 2001–2017 were considered. An algorithm, adapted from Dutch Lipid Clinic Network criteria, was built upon 4 variables (LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) and lipid lowering agents, premature and family history of CAD) to identify FH probabilities. Results Among the 11624 patients included in the surv…

Trial on the Possibility to Assess the Static and Dynamic Balance in the Elderly with Diseases on the Level of the Supporting Joints

2019

The study aims to identify human walking disorders, proposing a model to solve these disorders, regardless of what caused them. Material and method Clinical and somatometric tests, pedometric investigations and sensors were used. An outpatient trial was conducted for a period of 6 weeks with a frequency of application of the recovery program of 3 times / week. For this study, there were 21 patients over the age of 65 years, which were divided into two groups: the witness group in which 11 patients had upper limb and / or spine disorders, and the control group with 10 patients with degenerative diseases in the knees and ankles. The tests were applied to both groups following the demographic …

Resumption of Ventilation at the End of Obstructive Sleep Apneas is not Determined by Diaphragmatic Fatigue

1988

In patients affected by obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) a progressive increase of the force developed by the respiratory muscles is usually observed during the occlusive phase before upper airway patency is resumed (Onal and Lopata, 1986).

Personal health promotion through personalized health technologies — Nuadu experience

2009

Poor lifestyles — overweight, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, sleep deprivation, and stress — are significant risk factors to chronic illnesses, which cause majority of the health care costs. Hence, behavioral change towards healthy lifestyles is one of the keys to health care cost containment. Personal health systems (PHS) offer tools to support behavioral change. As health risks, personal needs and preferences vary from an individual to another, personalization of the PHS is needed. In Nuadu project we have developed a PHS integrating several different personal health technologies. This system was studied in a large (N=354) randomized controlled trial where employees with several hea…

Consensus statement of the European Group on Graves' orbitopathy (EUGOGO) on management of GO.

2008

Summary of consensus a. All patients with GO should (Fig. 1):Be referred to specialist centers;Be encouraged to quit smoking;Receive prompt treatment in order to restore andmaintain euthyroidism.b. Patients with sight-threatening GO should be treatedwith i.v. GCs as the first-line treatment; if the responseis poor after 1–2 weeks, they should be submitted tourgent surgical decompression.c. The treatment of choice for moderate-to-severe GO isi.v. GCs (with or without OR) if the orbitopathy isactive;surgery(orbitaldecompression,squintsurgery,and/or eyelid surgery in this order) should beconsidered if the orbitopathy is inactive.d. In patients with mild GO, local measures and anexpectant strate…

THU0715-HPR Stratified exercise therapy by physical therapists in primary care is feasible in patients with knee osteoarthritis

2018

Background There is strong evidence that exercise therapy is effective in reducing pain and activity limitations in knee osteoarthritis (OA), but effect sizes are low to moderate. Stratified exercise therapy tailored to clinically relevant subgroups of patients is expected to optimise treatment effects in a cost-effective manner. Objectives This study aimed to explore the feasibility of a newly developed model of stratified exercise therapy in primary care. Methods A mixed method design was used, consisting of an uncontrolled pretest-posttest design and a process evaluation. Eligible patients visiting a participating primary care physical therapist (PT) were included. Based on our model, pa…

An Assessment of Radiologic Discrepancies in Patients with Paranasal Sinus Disease

1992

The importance of computerized tomographic (CT) imaging of the paranasal sinuses in patients with chronic or recurring sinusitis is well documented. Nevertheless, the accuracy and reliability of this examination is not absolute. In this study of 80 cases, a considerable percentage of CT scans (57.5%) failed to detail accurately the extent of pathology in the sinus cavities. In 39 cases the extent of disease was underestimated using CT, and in seven cases it was overestimated. Discrepancies in pathology were encountered most commonly in the posterior ethmoid sinus. In our opinion, the primary role of CT in the assessment of patients with paranasal sinus disease is to detail precisely the co…