NHS screening for AAA is routinely offered to men aged 65 and over, who are at greatest risk of having an abdominal aortic aneurysm, defined as when the abdominal aorta reaches a diameter at least 1.5 times the normal size, or greater than 3 cm in total. Screening for AAA is not ...
Provides information on an abdominal ultrasound which is a test to check for bulging blood vessels. Description of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA); Accuracy of ultrasound in detecting AAA; Factors considered by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in recommending abdominal ultrasound.Simon...
We recommend that those clinical laboratories without molecular set-up can use the Rapidec Carba NP test for routine screening of carbapenemases in imipenem/meropenem-resistant Acinetobacter sp. Carbapenemases among Acinetobacter species isolated from NICU of a tertairy care hospital in Karachi We used ...
Professor Elio Riboli said this could lead to widespread screening for many different types of cancers, which is not possible using existing techniques. His team will work with SomaLogic to analyze 15,000 blood samples from people who had developed cancer, comparing them with 10,000 samples from...
The Cognitive Assessment Screening Test (CAST) is a self-administered paper-and-pencil test that can be used to screen geriatric patients for dementia. The test is composed of three one-page sections; Part A has 10 simple questions; Part B has five more demanding questions, and Part C has...
Background: Due to lack of evidence of Internet addiction( IA) in Japan, we investigated IA and examined the utility of the Japanese version of the Internet Addiction Test( JIAT) for screening for IA in adolescents. Method: 299 college students were divided into two groups (Internet Addiction...
Waist circumference as a screening tool for the identification of adolescents with the metabolic syndrome phenotype Objectives. Most published definitions of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in children and adolescents include increased waist circumference (WC) in their cri... M Bitsori,M Linardakis,M ...
摘要: The article reports on the essentiality of the promising performance of the Cytosponge test for Barrett's oesophagus to be the foundation of a screening programme in primary care in Great Britain.年份: 2010 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 ...
Different testing strategies were used to fulfil various aims, e.g. full population screening programmes to break infection chains and studies such as the Real-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) study for high-quality, real-time surveillance. Their strategies characteristics and costs di...
These patients appear to have mutations in the UBE3A gene [20, 21], and UBE3A mutation screening has to be per- formed in methylation-normal AS patients. Monaghan et al. [22] have recently calculated that a diagnostic approach beginning with methylation studies becomes increasingly economical ...