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Economic analysis including long-term risks and costs of alternative diagnostic strategies to evaluate patients with chest pain
... Angiography; cTn-I: Troponin I; cTn-T: Tro- ponin T; ex-ECG: exercise electrocardiographyp; ex-Echo: exercise echocardiography; PhSE: pharmacologic stress echocardiography; ex-SPECT: exercise ...
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Natural Antioxidants as Efficient Preventive Agents Against Mycotoxicoses: Case of Citrinin Mycotoxin
... Since ancient times, man has used plants, either to feed or to heal himself. After many successive gropings over centuries, a first distinction has been made between edible and toxic plants. Accu- mulated empirical ...
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Detecting myocardial infarction in critical illness using screening troponin measurements and ECG recordings
... Since cTn is only released from damaged myocardial cells, elevated levels represent myocardial damage, which can plau- sibly increase the risk of death regardless of the ...of cTn elevation is vari- able in ...
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... Pancreatic carcinoma is one of the most frequent causes of cancer-related death worldwide (). As it has aggres- sive behaviour and high metastatic potential, the mor- tality rate of patients with pancreatic carcinoma is ...
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High sensitivity versus conventional troponin in the emergency department for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction
... conventional cTn; that is, we observed an increase in false-positive ...Conventional cTn is widely used and is recommended for the management of patients presenting with sus- pected ACS ...
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Output from the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network international postdoctoral fellowship for capacity building in HIV clinical trials
... the CTN initiated the international postdoctoral fellowship award to support the work of HIV researchers in resource-limited countries to build local capacity for HIV clinical trials ...
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Transport characteristics of guanidino compounds at the blood-brain barrier and blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier: relevance to neural disorders
... cerebral CTN clearance, and transpor- ter-mediated processes, at least in part via rOCT3, are involved in CTN efflux transport from the CSF at the BCSFB ...[51]. CTN, after intracerebral ...
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A sensitivity analysis of the Children's Treatment Network trial: a randomized controlled trial of integrated services versus usual care for children with special health care needs
... The propensity score (PS) is the probability of receiv- ing a treatment conditional on observed characteristics. Balancing on PS mimics randomization and produces comparable groups that are balanced on prognosis and ...
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Evaluation of the long lasting insecticidal net Interceptor LN: laboratory and experimental hut studies against anopheline and culicine mosquitoes in northeastern Tanzania
... the CTN washed to exhaus- tion, and therefore the LN fulfilled the WHOPES criterion of a long lasting insecticidal net ...a CTN washed to exhaustion as comparison arms to ensure that equivalence or ...
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A Constituency Parsing Tree based Method for Relation Extraction from Abstracts of Scholarly Publications
... proposed CTN achieve comparable performance with state-of- the-art learning-based methods in multiple ...corpus-level CTN, we further saw that key nodes in the networks based on the CV corpus are mainly ...
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High sensitivity troponoins and diagnosis of myocardial infarction
... enable cTn measurement with a high degree of analytical sensitivity with a low analytical imprecision at the low measuring range of cTn assays (coefficient of variation of < 10% at the 99th percentile ...
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Antibacterial Activity of Polypyrrole-Chitosan Nanocomposite: Mechanism of Action
... and CTN (2 ± 0.5 mm). The PPy-CTN nanocomposite exhibits a significant enhancement in antibacterial activity better than that of pristine PPy and ...
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CTN: Advancing Rural and Underserved Healthcare in California
... and I think when you look at the future of how healthcare will be delivered, particularly for the more routine medical condition don't require a high acuity physician or surgery or anything of that nature, you're ...
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Original Article N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide as a marker of blunt cardiac contusion in trauma
... troponin I (cTn-I), and cardiac troponin T (cTn-T) were used in previous studies to demonstrate the blunt cardiac contusion ...and cTn-I levels as a marker of BCC in blunt chest ...
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Addiction treatment trials: how gender, race/ethnicity, and age relate to ongoing participation and retention in clinical trials
... that CTN investigators have focused on recruitment and retention efforts appears to have paid off in better demographic representativeness of study samples of whites, African Americans, and ...
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Co-occurring amphetamine use and associated medical and psychiatric comorbidity among opioid-dependent adults: results from the Clinical Trials Network
... for these studies included 1257 randomized and nonrandom- ized opioid-dependent adults, ie, 126 in CTN 001, 251 in CTN 002, and 880 in CTN 003. Opioid-dependent adults who did not meet the ...
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Cost analysis of early discharge using combined copeptin/cardiac troponin testing versus serial cardiac troponin testing in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome
... departments. From the hospital perspective, this testing saves person staff time and reduces LOS in the ED/CPU. Therefore, the use of this testing may be a helpful strategy to handle over- crowding in the acute care ...
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Development of a chitosan based double layer-coated tablet as a platform for colon-specific drug delivery
... LXP was purchased from Kolon Life Science Inc (Gwacheon, South Korea). CTN (deacetylation degree 93%) was purchased from Boao Bioscience (Huazhou, China). CA was purchased from Samchun Chemical Co (Pyeongtaek, ...
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Interpretation and Use of Natriuretic Peptides in Non Congestive Heart Failure Settings
... In a prospective observational study of 100 patients pre- senting with chest pain, Brown, et al. had reported that mean BNP levels in patients with cardiac chest pain was significantly greater than that for patients with ...
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An individually-tailored multifactorial intervention program for older fallers in a middle-income developing country: Malaysian Falls Assessment and Intervention Trial (MyFAIT)
... Methods: Three hundred community-dwelling older Malaysian adults with a history of (i) two or more falls, or (ii) one injurious fall in the past 12 months will be recruited. Baseline assessment will include ...
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