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Dark chocolate is rich in flavonoids, bioactive micronutrients that increase the bioavailability of nitric oxide as well as decrease the rate in which nitric oxide is removed from the body. Through increasing the bioavailability of nitric oxide (NO) to bodily tissues, the tissues are better able to
Risk stratification is a key element in emergency medicine and there is great interest to identify and validate novel tools and parameters. These tools must be are easy to handle even in the emergency setting by emergency physicians and paramedics. The main challenge for these tools is to identify
Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury is a common problem in patients undergoing aortic clamping for vascular surgery and may lead to systemic inflammation and organ dysfunction. Increased production of pro-inflammatory molecules and oxidative stress induced by I/R are responsible for microvascular
The device under test was the Prizma which is a phone cover biometric device that includes reflectance oximetry. This device is a spot checker that requires the patient to hold their finger on the sensor during the measurement. The subjects were asked not to move during the study. In order to get
Diabetes is regarded by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a global epidemic, with the global diabetic population anticipated to exceed 500 million by 2020. In the UK there are over 3.5 million people who have diabetes with a growth rate exceeding 150,000 people per year. Diabetic Retinopathy
Periodontal disease disrupts soft tissue metabolism in the gingiva through a decrease in the production of collagen, the quality, and quantity of the connective tissue. The etiology and pathogenesis of chronic periodontitis are mostly revealed however, there are many dark points in the
Introduction Diabetes mellitus is an epidemic disorder, which in Denmark alone is affecting 320,000 patients. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most frequent long term complication to diabetes mellitus (1) and a feared cause of severe vision loss and blindness (2).
Proliferative diabetic retinopathy
Quantitative measurements of hepatic and cardiac iron by single-breath-hold MRI T2* will allow us to determine the value of this technique as a non-invasive method of monitoring liver and cardiac iron content. By obtaining T2 measurements, we will be able to compare two different techniques for
Subjects The study will be conducted under a protocol (number 4111/08) approved by the Ethics Committee of the Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul-Fundação Universitária de Cardiologia/Brazil. After giving their informed consent,the patients will participate in the study. None of the
Background
Sepsis is a highly heterogeneous disease state brought about by a dysregulated host response to systemic infection, with uncontrolled pro- and anti-inflammatory processes leading to collateral tissue injury and immune suppression.
Sepsis poses a significant health burden worldwide, with
Sepsis is a complex set of signs and symptoms caused by Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) to an infection. Sepsis-related mortality is directly proportional to the severity of organ dysfunction, and can be up to 80% in the case of septic shock.
Due to the pro-inflammatory response to
Rational As opposed to controlled mechanical ventilation, partial modes of assisted ventilation maintains a certain level spontaneous activity of respiratory muscles. As a consequence, assisted ventilation may contribute to prevents ventilator induced diaphragm dysfunction (1-3), improves gas
Introduction Sepsis is defined as a life-threatening event due to a dysregulated immune response to an infection. Blood purification techniques may be considered as a therapeutic weapon to front sepsis and septic shock.
The rationale of blood purification in sepsis is to modulate a dysregulated