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Treatment failure in tuberculosis [PDF]

European Respiratory Journal, 2006
Treatment of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection with 3 months of rifampicin/isoniazid is a major part of preventive TB programmes. The effectiveness of treatment of latent TB infection can only be assessed by rates of subsequent breakdown and there are few outcome data for this combination of rifampicin/isoniazid.
J R, Panickar, W, Hoskyns
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A Prospective Longitudinal Study of the Clinical Outcomes from Cryptococcal Meningitis following Treatment Induction with 800 mg Oral Fluconazole in Blantyre, Malawi [PDF]

, 2013
Introduction: Cryptococcal meningitis is the most common neurological infection in HIV infected patients in Sub Saharan Africa, where gold standard treatment with intravenous amphotericin B and 5 flucytosine is often unavailable or difficult to ...
A Loyse, AT Makadzange, BJ Park, Brigitte Denis, C Bekondi, Camilla Rothe, CF Schaars, CK Muzoora, David G. Lalloo, Derek J. Sloan, DK Lewis, E Milefchik, H Mayanja-Kizza, HM Hodkinson, JC Nussbaum, Jean Chikafa, JG Hakim, JN Day, JN Jarvis, JN Jarvis, Joep J. van Oosterhout, JR Perfect, K McCarthy, KA Johansson, Laboratory Evaluation and Standards, Mavuto Mukaka, N Longley, Nicholas A. Feasey, P Mwaba, Patrick Goodson, PG Pappas, PR Kisenge, Robert J. Wilkinson, Robert S. Heyderman, RS Heyderman, SB Gordon, T Bicanic, T Bicanic, T Heikinheimo, Theresa Allain, TJ Allain, Tom Harrison   +41 more
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The Akt pathway mediates the protective effects of myeloid differentiation protein 1 in pathological cardiac remodelling

ESC Heart Failure, 2021
Aims Myeloid differentiation protein 1 (MD1) was shown to ameliorate pressure overload‐induced cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis by negatively regulating the MEK–ERK1/2 and NF‐κB pathways.
Jianye Peng, Gaofeng Zeng, Peng Zhong, Guangji Wang, ChangCheng Lei, Guoping Tian, Jingsong Chen, Jianfeng Wu, Caijie Shen   +8 more
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Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure Defined by Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver Should Include Decompensated Cirrhosis

Frontiers in Medicine, 2021
Background and Aims: Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is an acute deterioration of chronic liver disease with high short-term mortality. The inclusion or exclusion of previously decompensated cirrhosis (DC) in the diagnostic criteria of ACLF defined
Manman Xu, Manman Xu, Ming Kong, Ming Kong, Pengfei Yu, Pengfei Yu, Yingying Cao, Fang Liu, Bing Zhu, Yizhi Zhang, Yizhi Zhang, Wang Lu, Wang Lu, Huaibin Zou, Huaibin Zou, Shaoli You, Shaojie Xin, Zhongping Duan, Zhongping Duan, Tao Han, Yu Chen, Yu Chen   +21 more
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High-dependency units play a key role in the treatment of a Chinese military patient who developed liver failure while abroad

Military Medical Research, 2019
High-dependency units (HDUs) provide high-level care to patients who suffer from single organ failure, with the exception of respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation; HDUs serve as an intermediary between general wards and Intensive Care ...
Chen Li, Hai-Bin Su, Xiao-Yan Liu, Li-Na Zhang, Jin-Hua Hu   +4 more
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Local treatment failure after globe-conserving therapy for choroidal melanoma. [PDF]

, 2013
Local treatment failure after globe-conserving therapy for choroidal melanoma is a surgical complication with significant morbidity to the vision and eye. Few reports in the literature have addressed this complication exclusively.
Chang, Melinda Y, McCannel, Tara A
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‘Hearts and minds’: association, causation and implication of cognitive impairment in heart failure [PDF]

, 2015
The clinical syndrome of heart failure is one of the leading causes of hospitalisation and mortality in older adults. An association between cognitive impairment and heart failure is well described but our understanding of the relationship between the ...
Cannon, Jane A., McMurray, John J.V., Quinn, Terry J.   +2 more
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Low lopinavir plasma or hair concentrations explain second-line protease inhibitor failures in a resource-limited setting. [PDF]

, 2011
In resource-limited settings, many patients, with no prior protease inhibitor (PI) treatment on a second-line, high genetic barrier, ritonavir-boosted PI-containing regimen have virologic ...
Arribas, Bangsberg, Barreiro, Berg, Carolina Malavazzi, Cassani, Delaugerre, El-Khatib, Eric Decloedt, Frost, Gandhi, Gardner, Gary Maartens, Gathe, Gert Uves van Zyl, Helen McIlleron, Huang, Jean B Nachega, Kosuge, Lize van der Merwe, Michele Zeier, Mo, Monica Gandhi, Peter Smith, Pujades-Rodriguez, Quiros-Roldan, Riddler, Thijs E van Mens, van Zyl, van Zyl, Yong Huang   +30 more
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Usefulness of serum thyroid-stimulation hormone (TSH) as a prognostic indicator for acute-on-chronic liver failure

Annals of Hepatology, 2015
Background and rationale for the study. To investigate thyroid function in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) caused by hepatitis B virus infection and to determine whether thyroid hormone levels can be used as prognostic markers for ...
Yichen Wu, Shaoli You, Hong Zang, Hongling Liu, Yuanli Mao, Panyong Mao, Bing Zhu, Jun Xu, Guoming Xie, Jingxia Guo, Dongze Li, Shaojie Xin, Zhihong Wan   +12 more
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Rolofylline, an adenosine A1−receptor antagonist, in acute heart failure [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Worsening renal function, which is associated with adverse outcomes, often develops in patients with acute heart failure. Experimental and clinical studies suggest that counterregulatory responses mediated by adenosine may be involved. We
Bloomfield, Daniel M, Cleland, John G F, Cotter, Gad, DeLucca, Paul, Dittrich, Howard C, Fu, Michael,, Givertz, Michael M, Mansoor, George A, Massie, Barry M, Metra, Marco, O'Connor, Christopher M, Ponikowski, Piotr, Salerno, Christina M, Teerlink, John R, Voors, Adriaan, Weatherley, Beth Davison   +15 more
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