AAPT Diagnostic Criteria for Chronic Sickle Cell Disease Pain [PDF]
, 2017 Pain in sickle cell disease (SCD) is associated with increased morbidity, mortality, and high health care costs. Although episodic acute pain is the hallmark of this disorder, there is an increasing awareness that chronic pain is part of the pain ...
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Kinematic Locomotion Changes in C57BL/6 Mice Infected with Toxoplasma Strain ME49
Microorganisms, 2019 Chronic infection with the intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii produces an accumulation of cysts in the brain and muscle, causing tissue damage. The cysts in the brain motor regions affect some kinematic locomotion parameters in the host.
María de la Luz Galván-Ramírez +7 more
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Chronic illness as biographical disruption.
Sociology of Health and Illness, 1982 The paper is based on semi-structured interviews with a series of rheumatoid arthritis patients. Chronic illness is conceptualised as a particular type of disruptive event.
M. Bury
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.In vivo IL‐10 produced by tissue‐resident tolDC is involved in maintaining/inducing tolerance. Depending on the agent used for ex vivo tolDC generation, cells acquire common features but prime T cells towards anergy, FOXP3+ Tregs, or Tr1 cells according to the levels of IL‐10 produced. Ex vivo‐induced tolDC were administered to patients to re‐establish/
Konstantina Morali +3 more
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From acute to chronic pain: tapentadol in the progressive stages of this disease entity [PDF]
, 2017 OBJECTIVE: Chronic pain is now recognized as a neural disease, which results from a maladaptive functional and structural transformation process occurring over time. In its chronic phase, pain is not just a symptom but also a disease entity.
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Differences in Swedish and Australian medical student attitudes and beliefs about chronic pain, its management, and the way it is taught [PDF]
, 2018 Background and aims: Medical students receive training in the management of chronic pain, but the training is often suboptimal. Considering that the basis for physician’s knowledge is their medical education, it is important to explore the attitudes and
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Characterising acute and chronic care needs: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
Nature CommunicationsChronic care manages long-term, progressive conditions, while acute care addresses short-term conditions. Chronic conditions increasingly strain health systems, which are often unprepared for these demands.
GBD 2019 Acute and Chronic Care Collaborators
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Why Human Papillomavirus Acute Infections Matter
Viruses, 2017 Most infections by human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are `acute’, that is non-persistent. Yet, for HPVs, as for many other oncoviruses, there is a striking gap between our detailed understanding of chronic infections and our limited data on the early stages ...
Samuel Alizon +2 more
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FoxO1 signaling in B cell malignancies and its therapeutic targeting
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.FoxO1 has context‐specific tumor suppressor or oncogenic character in myeloid and B cell malignancies. This includes tumor‐promoting properties such as stemness maintenance and DNA damage tolerance in acute leukemias, or regulation of cell proliferation and survival, or migration in mature B cell malignancies.
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Erratum: Evans M, Grams ME, Sang Y, et al., for the Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium. Risk factors for prognosis in patients with severely decreased GFR. Kidney Int Rep. 2018;3:625-637. [PDF]
, 2018 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2018.01.002.]
Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium
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