Prospective comparison of helical CT of the abdomen and pelvis without and with oral contrast in assessing acute abdominal pain in adult Emergency Departme... Purpose This prospective study compares the agreement of nonenhanced helical computed tomography (NECT) with oral contrast-enhanced computed ...
Simon, a 76-year-old man with a two-year history of type 2 diabetes, sought a private endocrinology consultation because of ongoing symptoms of weight loss and fatigue. He also reported loss of appetite but denied polyuria and polydipsia. There had been no significan...
Evens E, Otieno-Masaba R, Eichleay M, McCarraher D, Hainsworth G, Lane C, et al. Post-abortion care services for youth and adult clients in Kenya: A comparison of services, client satisfaction and provider attitudes. J Biosoc Sci. 2014;46:1–15. PubMed Alabi O, Odimegwu CO, De-...
Clinical guidelines for the use of unattended portable monitors in the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea in adult patients. Portable Monitoring Task Force of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 3, 737–747. PubMed Google Scholar Crespo, C. J., Loria,...
Quality of life outcomes of combination zalcitabine-zidovudine, saquinavir-zidovudine, and saquinavir-zalcitabine-zidovudine therapy for HIV-infected adult... This double-blind study evaluated treatment with zalcitabine-zidovudine, saquinavir-zidovudine, or saquinavir-zalcitabine-zidovudine on the health-related...
Compared with normative data, these subgroups had clinically significant levels of anxiety; the average STAI score in the elevated anxiety subgroup (mean = 47.4) was similar to that of adult neuropsychiatric patients diagnosed with anxiety (approxi- mately = 48). In addition, the average POMS ...
Of the adult cohort, 84 (55.6%) participants were male and 67 (44.4%) were female. Three women (2.1%) were pregnant and five (5.2%) reported to be menstruating and not formally included in analysis of haematuria. Table 1 Number of participants by study site and cohort age with egg-...
We observed decrease in subjective rest pain in all patients irrespective of the arms they belonged to. This may partially be explained by the sufficient concomitant analgesics administered; however, the intake of analgesics was not analyzed objectively. We included patients with diabetes mellitus type...
Abdominal and pelvic painEmergency medicineThe purpose of our study was to retrospectively evaluate the prevalence and clinical relevance of positive abdominal and pelvic CT findings for patients 65 years of age and older, when compared with all other scanned adult Emergency Department (ED) patients,...
Ulcerative colitis symptoms vary in severity and frequency and include frequent stools, diarrhea, blood in stool, abdominal pain, fever, weight loss and anemia. Ulcerative colitis patients may also experience extra intestinal manifestations such as arthritis and dermatological or ocular manifestations. In...