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Review of complications of angioplasty reported within the 1st 24 h of the procedure revealed llBt more patients with than without antecedent aneina had n-occlusion of the infarct-rdaled artery (5.7% vs. 2.2%, p = O.S08) or reinfarcdon (6.1% vs. 2.4%, p 0.007) (Fig.
For sites using selected hospitals, completeness of reporting was estimated collectively for persons diagnosedwithAIDS atthe selectedhospitals.
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection was defined as a fourfold rise in antibody, CMV inclusion body or positive culture.
Categories of low, medium, high and very high risk were defined by categorizing the prognostic index and simplified risk score into quartiles based on the study sample.
Tables3 and4presentthepatientrisk factorssignificantlyrelatedto adverseoutcome in a logistic regression analysis.
Cineangiograms were recorded at 60 frames/s through a lens with a focal length of 135 mm and with an X-ray field of 15 cm.
For women, the base year included costs of prevalent hip and spine fractures, which were estimated by an iterative process.
We excluded countries in which no workers were classified as exposed to SO2 , as well as workers with unknown SO2 exposure status.
From the respondents, a stratified random sample of adults was selected to undergo full clinical examination.
Acute Response Evaluation The change in FEV1, FVC, and dyspnea score at the time of initial follow-up was determined for all patients whose initial follow-up visits were within 1 year of surgery.
Main outcome measures-The number of clinical responses to factors arising from the antenatal booking history according to method of taking the history.
Main outcome measures-The analytical quality of the immunoturbidimetric myoglobin assay and a comparison between the myoglobin assay and creatine kinase and creatine kinase MB for diagnostic sensitivity and performance.
Cyclosporine dose was adjusted according to renal function and serum cyclosporine level, which was maintained at the trough level of 300 to 500 ng/ml during the first 3 months after transplantation and 200 to 300 ng/ml 1 year after transplantation.
In this comparison we attempted to evaluate whether or not differences in patient identification procedures would result in differences in baseline demographic, patient presentation, process of care and outcome calculated in each database.
Patients in group 1 were from the following diagnostic groups: major postoperative vascular surgery (n 9); major postoperative maxillofacial/ENT surgery (n 9); elective oesophagectomy (n 9); major emergency general surgery (n 35); primary cardiac diagnoses (n 9); primary respiratory failure  British Journal of Anaesthesia Noble et al.
The codes used were 428.0, 402.91, 404.93, 428.1, 402.11, 398.91, 404.91, 404.13, 402.01, 404.03, 404.11, 404.01 and 428.9. This method of case selection defined a group of patients whose primary diagnosis was CHF, irrespective of procedures performed.
A CTFC _40 was used to identify patients with depressed reperfusion, as opposed to patients with a CTFC lt;40, as described previously (11).
In this derivation set, we evaluated by visual inspection the association of the continuous variables with the outcome to check for assumptions of linearity.
Parameter estimates from the nonlinear regressions were used to calculate the changes in costs of initiating treatment for depression with other antidepressants in comparison with bupropion SR. For instance, to calculate the cost difference of initiating patients on fluoxetine vs. bupropion SR, we first obtained average total predicted payments for all study patients, assuming that the entire sample was started on fluoxetine, by using the formula: Next, we assumed that the full sample was started on bupropion SR and obtained the average total predicted cost by setting the value of the fluoxetine dummy in the above formula to zero.
Pain was considered to be present if the patient reported chest, back, neck, or abdominal pain at follow-up visits.
Of the 729 records (94%) with sufficient information available to verify MI, 85% had MIs that met the study criteria.
These include reliability, three groups was in the blood pressure levels.
Other than excluding patients with congenital or valvular heart disease, patients with underlying active inflammatory disease such as systemic lupus erythematosus and malignancy, all non-diabetic CAPD patients were included into the study.
Perioperative cardiac complications were defined as occurring within 30 days of surgery or during the hospital admission.
Coordinators attend a half-day training course and are provided with a reference manual that includes case report form field definitions and examples of correct responses.
Relative contraindications included age gt; 75 years, severe anxiety, severe depression, or CO2 retention with resting Paco 2 gt; 55 mm Hg.
Statistical significance was defined as p lt; 0.05 for all analyses.
An example would be a previously undetected ASD in a patient with Ebstein anomaly that would have been visualized by the surgeon during routine inspection of the atrium before tricuspid valve repair and thus did not change the surgery.
The prevalence of chronic bronchitis is taken from a large national study of GP consultations, and this information allowed us to identify our population of interest [1].
Definitions Myocardial infarction was defined as new Q-waves on the electrocardiogram or elevation of CK or CK-MB.
0 The coefficient of variation for analytic reproducibility of the measured concentrations ranged from 2-1%to 10-9%.7 The cataract cases were identified by linking the data from the health examinations with the Finnish hospital discharge register kept by the National Board of Health.
In the model, a cohort is followed as it transitions from a healthy state to a healthy, fracture, or dead state, using 1year cycles.
Ofthese, approximately 34 000 patients had only received a single prescription for an NSAID during this period, making their consumption of NSAIDS ambiguous.
Complete heart block was defined as a third-degree atrioventricular block when no atrial activity was conducted to the ventricles (16)and a ventricular rate of _50 beats/min.
Statistical analyses We used logistic regression analyses to estimate the prevalence odds ratios (POR) of congenital abnormalities, preterm birth (gestational age lt;37 weeks), and low birth weight (lt;2500 g) associated with penicillin V exposure, adjusted for maternal age, birth order and smoking.
Local anesthetic (1% lidocaine) was infiltrated at the access site.
ACR levels of 34 g/mol or more were defined as __vert_ albuminuria, corresponding to 300 mg albumin/g creatinine or more.
The diagnosis of myocardial infarction was established in the presence of characteristic symptoms, typical pattern on ECG and elevated cardiac enzymes, or by the appearance of a definite new wall motion abnormality on echocardiography, MRI or left ventricular angiography, in association with changes in ECG.
Subclinical CVD was defined for subjects without prevalent CVD at baseline as: ankle-arm index (AAI) _0.9, common carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) in upper quintile (gt;1.20 mm), maximum carotid stenosis _50%, major ECG abnormality (ventricular conduction defect, major Q-wave abnormalities, left ventricular hypertrophy, isolated ST-T wave abnormalities, atrial fibrillation, first degree AV block, or left ventricular ejection fraction borderline or abnormal (20).
The following variables were correlated with the presence or absence of PPE and wound infection: gestational age, severe pregnancy-induced hypertension (Davey and MacGillivary s definition),7 gestational diabetes mellitus,8 previous cesarean sections, fetal distress, perinatal mortality (anteparturn, intrapartum, and postpartum death), postpartum anemia (hemoglobin level of less than 10 g/dl), an Apgar score of -lt;3 at minute and -lt;7 at 5 minutes, and instrumental delivery by forceps or vacuum extraction.
Patients were ascribed to one of three groups: probable wound infection, non-specific wound pain and slight discharge, or miscellaneous.
Complete remission was defined by meeting all of the following criteria: normal bone marrow morphology with lt;5% blasts, resolution of previously abnormal cytogenetics, no evidence of extramedullary leukemia, and an absolute neutrophil count (ANC) _500/L and platelet count _140,000/L. Additionally, organ function needed to be adequate, as demonstrated by the presence of the following: bilirubin lt;1.5 mg/dL, alkaline phosphatase and aspartate transaminase less than twice the upper limit of normal, creatinine lt;2.0 mg/dL, cardiac ejection fraction _40%, and a carbon monoxide diffusion capacity gt;50%.
After discharge from the hospital, MI was defined by the occurrence of new Q waves in two or more contiguous electrocardiographic leads or an elevation of creatine kinase or its MB isoenzyme to more than twice the upper limit of normal.
Samples found to be repeatedly reactive were subjected to specific antibody neutralization (HBsAg Confirmatory, Abbott Laboratories), a previously described in-house immunoblot assay for anti-HIV9 or recombinant immunoblot assay (HCV RIBA-I, Ortho Diagnostics Systems), as appropriate.
Failure of thrombolysis was defined as continued chest pain with ST segment elevation more than 120 min after the initiation of thrombolytic therapy.
British Hypertension Society grading is determined by the percentage of differences _5, _10 and _15 mmHg, the device needing to obtain grade A/B for both systolic and diastolic measurements to be recommended (Table 2) . Furthermore, criteria set by the AAMI require the mean to be within 5 mmHg and the standard deviation to be within 8 mmHg for recommendation.
Therefore, as in the study by Silber and colleagues [1], this validation sample describes the natural history of neutropenia.
To assess whether the management of asthma had improved over the period of study results were analysed by x2 testing for discrete variables with Yates s correction for small numbers, when appropriate, and t tests for numerical data.
An IUGR birth was defined as one whose birth weight fell below the 10th percentile, by gender and gestational week, for live births in the Czech Republic (1991-1993) (17).
Among the 3013 other patients, dose estimation was not possible for 182 patients due to insufficient information, radiotherapy outside of a study treatment centre or irradiation of arms for which the positioning was unclear (Table 2).
These were calculated using a Cox proportional hazards survival model incorporating smoking, diabetes mellitus, nitrate consumption, angina pectoris, family history of CHD, widowhood, age, diastolic blood pressure and total/HDL (high density lipoprotein) cholesterol ratio, as previously reported (13).
All diagnosis types (including most responsible diagnosis, primary diagnosis, secondary diagnoses, and complications) are requested, and charts are reviewed.
Cardiogenic shock was defined as maximal systolic pressure lt;90 mm Hg for at least 30 min, unless treated with inotropes or intra-aortic balloon pump insertion, or pump failure as manifested by a cardiac index lt;2.2 liter/min per m2 and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure gt;18 mm Hg.
To assess the significance of differences between means of continuous variables, among the matched pairs, we used the paired ttest procedure.
Patients did not undergo angioplasty if they appeared unlikely to benefit from angioplasty: if the infarct-related vessel was small, contained a stenosis of less than 70% or could not be identified.
Variables we abstracted included patient sex, age, race (African American, white, other), smoking history (never, previous, current), history of diabetes, access type (prosthetic graft, simple AVF, or venous transposition AVF), and history of previous access.
Approximately two thirds of the women scoring .30would be expected to meet diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder.29 For descriptive purposes, the observed CES-D means for each cohort overall and by selected characteristics are provided at the outset (Table 2).
The Utah BVR assisted in the coding ofall death certificates according to the ICD-9 (17).
Our institution is a tertiary care facility dealing with all kinds of gynaecological care from assisted reproduction (180 IVF cycles per year) to outpatient (950 operations) and major surgery (1020 patients each year), including a gynaecological oncology service, and it is part of a general hospital complex having a surgical/medical intensive care unit.
Recoarctation was defined when the arm-leg blood pressure difference was greater than 20 mm Hg or if a gradient of more than 25 mm Hg was noted by means of transthoracic echocardiography, the presence of a diastolic tail to the continuous wave Doppler signal in the descending aorta, or both.
The diagnosis of hypertension was based on JNC VI criteria 12 as a blood pressure _140 mm Hg systolic, _90 mm Hg diastolic, or the current use of anti-hypertensive drug treatment.
Names of potential subjects were gathered from the logs of the Emergency Department (ED) and Urgent Care Clinic, pharmacy printouts of prescriptions for albuterol, records of patients on home oxygen, and appointments to Chest Clinic.
Design Retrospective analysis of audit data recorded by the Medical Data Index (MDI) computer system for all patients undergoing emergency appendicectomy in one year; subsequent analysis of their hospital notes and notes held by their general practitioners for patients identified by a questionnaire who had consulted their general practitioner for a wound complication.
All MIs were reviewed and classified by the Central Classification Committee; a creatine kinase-MB fraction (CK-MB) exceeding normal or, if no CK-MBs were available, a total CK greater than twice normal was considered evidence of infarction (1).
The SCr was higher by definition in group R2 (median, 2.6 mg/dL) than in group R1 (median, 1.5 mg/dL), but more patients in group R2 also had a history of congestive heart failure (CHF; P =.01), coronary artery bypass surgery (CAB; P =.044), or diabetes mellitus (P =.01).
Methods A few potentially contaminated homes were identified by reviewing limited notes found in the applicator s home, but the majority of the potentially contaminated sites were identified through self-report from residents to local health officials.
In summary, in this population of 1666 ICU patients ventilated for gt; 48 hours, we have demonstrated that clinically important gastrointestinal bleeding is associated with a significant increase in attributable mortality (full range of RRs, 1-4) and length of ICU stay (approximately 4-8 days).
We calculated odds ratios for each pollutant in relation to asthma hospitalization after adjustment for three weather conditions: daily maximum and minimum temperature and average relative humidity.
The mean pressure was calculated according to the following formula: [systolic pressure + 2(diastolic pressure)]/3. Values were obtained from either the sole office visit during which blood pressure was recorded or the most recent office visit during which blood pressure was recorded.
This study suggests that people with IHD and accompanying CHF and/or ARR constitute a sensitive subgroup in relation to the effects of criteria ambient air pollutants associated with motor vehicle combustion.
Postoperative data included length of mechanical support and ventilation, cardiac intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital lengths of stay, the need for early reoperation and mortality.
Methods Study design The LIPID study enrolled 9,014 patients with an acute MI or hospitalization for unstable angina between 3 and 36 months before study entry.
Clinical events, including death, predischarge HF (presence of new symptoms of dyspnea and/or edema, with one or more of ventricular gallop rhythm, pulmonary crepitations, elevated venous pressure and/or radiologic evidence of left ventricular failure) and later readmissions for HF (similarly defined), were recorded for a mean follow-up period of two years.
Simultaneous aortic replacement and renal artery revascularization: The influence of preoperative renal function on early risk and late outcome
On-site chart abstraction was used to collect information about medical utilization, including mental health treatment, drug therapy, and diagnoses.
Each vessel studied was assigned a score from 0 to 3 on the basis of the tightest degree of stenosis present in the vessel, according to the reporting standards of the Joint Vascular Societies Council.
Transmyocardial laser revascularization was performed through a left anterolateral thoracotomy without cardiopulmonary bypass using an 800-W CO2laser (The Heart Laser, PLC Medical Systems, Inc., Milford, Massachusetts).
For most patients who were asymptomatic, CEA was performed if there were at least 80% stenosis of the ICA or 60% to 79% stenosis of the ipsilateral ICA in the presence of an ICA occlusion on the contralateral side.
To determine statistical significance we calculated the 95% confidence intervals for each risk factor in the model.
Patients received intravenous sedation consisting of 0.075 - 0.2 mg midazolam/kg.
However, it was also deemed of interest to compare survival from onset of symptoms in all patients (n = 115).
These tests were performed in the laboratory of Dr. Kimberling using established markers for the PKD-1 and PKD-2 genes 4 . During their two-day hospital stay, the children had multiple blood pressure measurements obtained (mean 14, range 2 to 20); these were taken on the dominant arm with an automatic device (Dynamap; Critikon, Inc., Tampa, FL, USA) in the sitting position using a cuff appropriate for the child s upper arm circumference.
2) cTn-I gt;0.6 ng/ml and/or cTn-T gt;0.03 ng/ml, which correspond to the lowest levels with lt;10% imprecision or coefficient of variation for these assays (16).
First, before primary antibodies were added, the slides were preincubated for ten minutes at room temperature with blocking-biotin system (Dako, Trappes, France).
In Jackson, 46% of eligible subjects participated; approximately 65% participated in the other three centers.
Preterm births (<37 weeks gestation) were excluded from this analysis because of the differences in factors affecting fetal growth (15).
Inquiry 27:225-233, F Beebe, J., Lubitz, J., and Eggers, P.: Using Prior Utilization Information to Determine Payments for Medicare Enrollees in HMOs.
The primary hypothesis of the study was that intensive blood pressure control would prevent the development and/or progression of diabetic nephropathy.
The diagnosis of an AMI was made based on the presence of at least two of the following three criteria: 1) chest pain suggestive of myocardial ischemia lasting 30 min or longer, 2) enzymatic evidence of acute myocardial necrosis, as demonstrated by a rise in creatine kinase levels with the creatine kinase isoenzyme__yocardial band (CK-MB) fraction being greater than 5%, 3) new electrocardiographic change which included development of Q waves or ST/T changes lasting 48 h or longer.
The previously correlation between serum VEGF levels and platelet count (Banks et al, 1998; FuhrmannBenzakein et al, 2000) prompted us to measure VEGF concentration on either plasma or serum in 30 unselected CLL Binet stage A patients.
In patients with bilateral disease, the clinically worse limb was considered for all analyses, each patient thus was included only once in the calculations.
Based upon an estimated standard deviation of 91 min for the time from EMS arrival to fibrinolytic, a sample size of 340 patients and at least as many controls was calculated to provide 99% power to detect a difference of 30 min.
Heart rate recovery was defined as the difference between heart rate at peak exercise and 1 min into a recovery cool-down period; a value of _12 beats/min was abnormal (8).
After termination of the dialysis, the venous needle remained inserted, and postdialysis blood samples were drawn after flushing of the venous line.
The groups of children studied were all those aged 2 years or 5 years on the first day of the quarter analysed (an average of 6600 and 6400 children, respectively).
The effects of pravastatin on hospital admission in hypercholesterolemic middle-aged menAppendix West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study
obstructive pulmonary disease or renal dysfunction), type of prosthesis, a history of preoperative coneestive hean failure, concomitant coronary artery bypass surgery, concomitant aortic reeureitation, radiologie hean size and cardiac rhythni.
For breast cancer, therapeutic options are dependent upon the stage of the disease at presentation, the age and menopausal status of the patient, and the hormone-receptor status of the tumour.
SPARCS is an agency of the New York State Department of Health which, by law, incorporates information or all patients hospitalized in acute care facilities from various sources including the uniform bill and uniform discharge abstract submitted by hospitals.
Two departments which had attendance registers to enable identification of subjects and where accident and emergency medical records were All cases of head injury Indication for skull x ray or admission
Monitoring and recording patients discomfort clearly need to be improved if the quality of anaesthesia is to be properly evaluated.
Among the postmenopausal women, those who consumed, on average, 27 g of alcohol/d experienced an odds ratio (OR) of 1.76 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.14-2.71] for ER-positive/PR-positive breast cancer relative to women who reported no alcohol consumption.
Patients were randomly selected for this study from the national population of ESRD patients in the Medicare ESRD registry using a two-stage cluster sampling procedure.
Life-table analyses36 were used to examine outcome related to single characteristics.
Process of care was determined by searching the principal procedure code and up to 14 secondary procedure codes for each patient.
The Marmara region, a densely populated and highly industrialized area, is located in the northwestern part of the country, and includes some major cities, such as Adapazari, Glck (the epicenter of the disaster), Kocaeli, Yalova, stanbul, and Eski_ehir, with a total number of inhabitants of approximately 20,000,000 7 . All of these cities are situated close to the North-Anatolian Fault Zone, which has been the location of many catastrophic earthquakes during the last century 8 . In the affected cities, many multistory buildings completely collapsed during the primary event, while multiple aftershocks following the initial shock caused a complete collapse of many of the partially destroyed buildings.
Each encounter was coded by the physician at the time of consultation with up to 11 diagnosis codes.
One other patient was excluded because time interval between the initial surgery and the restaging procedure was more than six months, and another patient was excluded because of insufficiency of data for analysis.
Eligible patients with N1 disease were offered neoadjuvant therapy on protocol.
Study outcomes The average scores of patients on each of the 8 scales of the SF-36 were used for descriptive comparisons between subgroups of patients.
Atropine was given intravenously at the discretion of the clinician conducting the test when the heart rate response appeared to be inadequate.
To obtain estimates of 10-year survival free of valve-related morbidity in selected age groups where several groups contained fewer than 10 patients, log curve fitting was used 16 (Fig.
MATERIALS AND METHODS Study subjects Initial cohort was established in 1991 and is for an ongoing study on the risk factors for chronic diseases, including hypertension and diabetes in Seoul, Korea.
The short-term postoperative improvement was defined as the FEV1 measured closest to 6 months following surgery.
Indeed, in our cohort, all patients were younger than 15 years old at the time of irradiation, and thus the time since first cancer and the attained age were too closely related.
The research nurse also reviewed the patient s hospital record after the interview to determine the occurrence of adverse events as recorded by ward staff.