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Effects Of Whole Body Vibration In Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - A Randomized Controlled Trial

2012

Summary Introduction To date endurance and strength training are established and evidence-based exercise methods in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). There is an unmet need for further research in new and complementary exercise modalities. Additional whole body vibration training during pulmonary rehabilitation may be such a new approach that has not yet been investigated in patients with COPD. Methods Eighty-two patients (65 ± 9 yrs, FEV 1 pred. 38 ± 11%, female 51%) with COPD in GOLD stage III to IV assessed for a 3-week inpatient multidisciplinary rehabilitation program were on top randomly assigned to one of two intervention groups: (1) 3 × 3 min of bilateral d…

The 2021 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Thymus and Mediastinum: What Is New in Thymic Epithelial, Germ Cell, and Mesenchymal Tumors?

2022

Abstract This overview of the fifth edition of the WHO classification of thymic epithelial tumors (including thymomas, thymic carcinomas, and thymic neuroendocrine tumors [NETs]), mediastinal germ cell tumors, and mesenchymal neoplasms aims to (1) list established and new tumor entities and subtypes and (2) focus on diagnostic, molecular, and conceptual advances since publication of the fourth edition in 2015. Diagnostic advances are best exemplified by the immunohistochemical characterization of adenocarcinomas and the recognition of genetic translocations in metaplastic thymomas, rare B2 and B3 thymomas, and hyalinizing clear cell carcinomas. Advancements at the molecular and tumor biolog…

ATR-FTIR spectroscopy as a quality control system for monitoring the storage of blood products

2021

Blood screening is a fundamental part of disease diagnosis and monitoring health. Attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy offers an innovative solution to streamlining the process, especially for multianalyte detection in aqueous samples. However, samples always undergo a storage phase before they are processed for testing and blood transfusion. In this study, we investigated the effect of standard storage procedures on the macromolecular composition of whole blood, and plasma collected in blood tubes for diagnostic purposes and initial screening of blood products. Periphery blood samples were collected from 10 volunteers and then stored for 14 days a…

Data for: Cambrian–Ordovician magmatism of the Ikh-Mongol Arc System exemplified by the Khantaishir Magmatic Complex (Lake Zone, south–central Mongol…

2017

Electronic Appendix 1 Materials and methods (unabridged version) Electronic Appendix 2 List of studied samples from the Khantaishir Magmatic Complex Electronic Appendix 3 Selected mineral analyses from the Khantaishir Magmatic Complex: (a) Amphibole (13 eCNK), (b) plagioclase, (c) biotite (Bt), orthopyroxene (Opx), clinopyroxene (Cpx) and olivine (Ol) Electronic Appendix 4 LA-ICP-MS analytical data for dated zircons from the Khantaishir Magmatic Complex Electronic Appendix 5 In situ Hf analytical data for dated zircons Electronic Appendix 6 Major-element analyses for rocks of the Khantaishir Magmatic Complex (wt. %) and CIPW normative compositions (Hutchison, 1975) Electronic Appendix 7 Tra…

2015

It has been shown that the mental fatigue induced by prolonged self-regulation increases perception of effort and reduces performance during subsequent endurance exercise. However, the physiological mechanisms underlying these negative effects of mental fatigue are unclear. The primary aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that mental fatigue exacerbates central fatigue induced by whole-body endurance exercise. Twelve subjects performed 30 min of either an incongruent Stroop task to induce a condition of mental fatigue or a congruent Stroop task (control condition) in a random and counterbalanced order. Both cognitive tasks (CTs) were followed by a whole-body endurance task (ET) cons…

Ganzkörper-Spiral-CT zur Primärdiagnostik polytraumatisierter Patienten unter Notfallbedingungen

1997

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of a fast whole body helical CT scanner for primary diagnosis in trauma patients. METHODS 27 severely injured patients (9 women, 18 men; mean age 43 years) were first examined with a helical CT scanner allowing for digital radiograms up to a length of 1024 mm and continuous helical scans of up to 70 seconds (slice thickness 3 to 10 mm, pitch factor up to 2). The primary CT diagnosis was verified either by x-ray after the CT examination or during the subsequent days, by abdominal ultrasound, by additional CT scans in the following days, and by clinical follow-up. RESULTS CT showed all clinically relevant injuries of the head, spine, ches…

Alone at home

2008

Recently there has been much public discussion about children spending long afternoons alone at home. It has been claimed that spending a lot of time alone makes children vulnerable to many kinds of risk behaviour, such as smoking, use of alcohol and drugs, depression and poor school performance. Concerns have also been voiced about children’s unsupervised television watching, playing of computer games and surfing on the Internet. Yet, do we actually know how long the times are that children do spend alone at home and what do they do during that time? The purpose of this paper is to study how much time youngsters in Finland spend alone at home, who are the youngsters who are alone and what …

Ruolo della RM whole body nell’identificazione di reperti incidentali in pazienti con linfoma.

2016

Scopo: Il dibattito in merito ai reperti incidentali sta divenendo emergente in molti settori radiologici, quali l’ambico cardiaco, addominale, neurologico, senologico, pediatrico, soprattutto con metodiche quali la RM e la TC. Lo scopo del nostro studio è stato di valutare l’utilità della Risonanza Magnetica Whole Body (RM-WB) nell’identificazione di reperti incidentali in pazienti con linfoma. Materiali e metodi: Sono state revisionate le RM-WB eseguite su 114 pazienti (65 maschi; età mediana 45,2 anni, range 15-86) con diagnosi istologica di linfoma (47 Hodgkin, 67 Non-Hodgkin). I reperti incidentali sono stati classificati in tre classi: non significativi (classe 1), moderatamente signi…

Confronto tra RM Whole Body, TC/PET e biopsia osteomidollare, nella valutazione dell’interessamento midollare in 104 pazienti con linfoma.

2016

Scopo: Parte della stadiazione dei linfomi prevede la valutazione dell'interessamento del midollo osseo (IMO) mediante biopsia osteo-midollare (BOM) [1]. Tuttavia, secondo le ultime linee guida, la BOM non è più indicata per lo studio dei linfomi di Hodgkin [2]. La TC/PET è la tecnica di imaging standard per la stadiazione dei linfomi FDG-avidi, mentre la TC è indicata nei pazienti con istotipi non FDG-avidi [1]. Molti studi hanno dimostrato affidabilità ed elevata accuratezza diagnostica della Risonanza Magnetica Whole Body (RM-WB) nella stadiazione dei linfomi [3,4]. Lo scopo del nostro studio è stato quello di confrontare RM-WB, TC/PET e BOM, nella valutazione dell’IMO in pazienti con li…

Osteonecrosi individuate mediante RM whole body in pazienti con Linfoma di Hodgkin trattati mediante BEACOPP.

2016

Scopo: Il trattamento del Linfoma di Hodgkin (LH) ha condotto al raggiungimento di elevati tassi di sopravvivenza [1]. Il protocollo ABVD (Doxorubicina, Bleomicina, Vinblastina e Dacarbazina) è stato considerato per molto tempo il regime chemioterapico standard nei pazienti con LH [2], grazie a una ben documentata efficacia e una scarsa tossicità. Molti studi hanno dimostrato la maggiore efficacia del protocollo BEACOPP (Bleomicina, Etoposide, Doxorubicina, Ciclofosfamide, Vincristina, Procarbazina, Prednisone) rispetto all'ABVD [3], al costo di una maggiore tossicità. L'osteonecrosi [ON] è una possibile complicanza della chemioterapia che può compromettere la qualità di vita del paziente, …