Patients with a moderate DLI should be treated with corticosteroids at a dose equivalent to 0.5–1.0 mg/kg/day of prednisolone (PSL), depending on the suspected drug and condition of the patient, in addition to discontinuation of the suspected drug. Treatment at the initial dose should be cont...
With advances in image acquisition and analysis, various techniques have been developed to improve accuracy and decrease acquisition time for CT. One of the limitations of CT is soft tissue discrimination, which can limit the evaluation of fibrotic tissue from normal regions. To overcome this limitat...
Additional history reveals that the patient has never been diagnosed with asthma but had episodes of wheezing during hospitalizations, with unclear response to a bronchodilator. On physical examination, he was found to have diminished breath sounds in the lung bases. Given this history of wheezing, ...
Material and methods Design, setting, and participants The validation study was conducted in a sample of 228 adult patients diagnosed with respiratory disease, COPD, interstitial lung disease (ILD), OSA, cystic fibrosis (CF), or other conditions with respiratory involvement such as neuromuscular disea...
704 normal images that were collected from multiple centers in South Korea. A subset of 577 participants out of 5485 were chosen for the nodule dataset. Within one year, 48 out of 5485 participants were diagnosed with cancer. Of those, 34 had visible malignant nodules and 14 had no visible...
Critical care, like many healthcare areas, is under a dual assault from significantly increasing demographic and economic pressures. Intensive care unit (ICU) patients are highly variable in response to treatment, and increasingly aging populations mean
Although the duration of arthritis did not affect cIMT values (p = 0.74), all patients with increased cIMT were diagnosed long enough to be treated with biologic therapy, specifically adalimumab (p = 0.091). Additionally, there was no effect of JIA subtypes on the cIMT results (p = 0.489)...
Minute walk and also patrols our two acres. It is very sad to see our best friends slowly Decline. My black lab Sammy just passed, he was 13 years old. He had a tumor on his spleen which was diagnosed 6 months before we had him put to sleep. I made him a promise at that ti...
Critical care, like many healthcare areas, is under a dual assault from significantly increasing demographic and economic pressures. Intensive care unit (ICU) patients are highly variable in response to treatment, and increasingly aging populations mean
This, coupled with the many different factors that can trigger RA, may explain why this disease is not treated successfully, with continued high incidence. Now the range of drugs is extensive, and nevertheless has its negative sides. Namely, side effects such as nausea, headaches, fatigue, ...