In their article in Expert Opinion On Investigational Drugs, the colleagues Arndt Vogel, Melanie Bathon and Anna Saborowski provide a critical comprehensive overview on immunotherapies clini...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is the most frequent infection in patients with cirrhosis causing significant mortality. Delay in SBP diagnosis is a serious problem. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic yield of Uri-Quick Clini-10SG® vs. Multistix 10SG® reagent strips in an Emergency Department. MATERIAL AND METHODS A prospective study of consecutive patients wi...

Reproducibility of reading "N-Multistix" dipsticks by a semi-automated urinalysis instrument (Ames' "Clini-Tek") has been described for artifically prepared samples. Glucose, ketone, urobilinogen, and nitrite showed high reproducibility (greater than 90%) for reading multiple samples at predetermined analyte concentrations. Determination of proteinuria showed the lowest proportion of false posi...

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Kidney Clini ica ca cal l l Re Re Rese se s ar ar a ch c c I I Ins ns nsti t tu tu ute te te

objective: interceptive contacts in complete denture cause some side effects. to our knowledge, however, no comprehensive reports exist on the prevalence of interceptive contacts after complete denture placement. the aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of interceptive contacts in inserted complete dentures and its associated factors. materials and methods: this cross sect...

The surgical approach to cutaneous melanoma patients with clinically uninvolved regional lymph nodes has been controversial. Although most patients with melanoma have no clini‐ cally palpable nodal disease at the time of presentation, some patients whose primary tumor increases in thickness, has ulceration, and shows a high mitotic rate histologically harbor clinically undetectable regional lym...

The application of electronic computers to medical problems offers roseate visions, which the experts are busily working towards. Even ordinary medical research workers and clini-cians are beginning to understand some of the possibilities, and a few of them are even beginning to think that these machines might be of help to them in their everyday work. Unfortunately, when they try to find out s...

Mixed bacterial toxins have been used in an ef fort to destroy malignant tumors in patients and animals since 1892, when Coley (13) initiated clini cal applications. No systematic study of the histopathologic effects of mixed bacterial toxins on ex perimental tumors has been found. Several good studies of changes elicited in tumors by products from single bacterial strains have been published (...