conclusions: rsbi and apache ii score in patients with copd exacerbation are of the ability to predict niv requirement, as a predicting factor of non-invasive ventilation requirement. results: patients requiring niv included 43.9 % of all studied patients. rsbi and apache ii score with sensitivity of 94.8 %, (cut off point = 110) and 72 % (cut off point = 14) respectively, had high diagnostic s...

abstractneuroimaging allows noninvasive evaluation of the anatomy, physiology, and function of the brain. it is widely used for diagnosis, treatment planning, and treatment evaluation of neurological disorders as well as understanding functions of the brain in health and disease. neuroimaging modalities include x-ray computed tomography (ct), magnetic resonance imaging (mri), single photon emis...

background: immunochromatographic based rk39 antibody detection test became popular for the diagnosis of vis­ceral leishmaiasis (vl) because of high sensitivity, rapidity, easy to interpret, and cost effectiveness. however, false positive result after complete cure of the patients is the major limitation with this test. the aim of the study to access the usefulness of non-invasive samples i.e. ...

conclusions patients with chronic hepatitis c and with a ciscun ≤ 1 had a very low rate of cirrhosis while those with a ciscun = 4 had a high risk of cirrhosis. patients with ciscun = 2 or 3 had an intermediate rate of cirrhosis, and therefore needed to perform a liver biopsy to receive a reliable diagnosis. results we enrolled 249 patients who had complete laboratoristic data, and sufficient l...

nephrotic syndrome is the commonest glomerular disease. typical symptoms could be proteinuria, low serum albumin and oedema. the mechanism of proteinuria in nephrotic syndrome is a defective glomerular filtration barrier. renal biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosis of nephrotic syndrome currently which is invasive and based on histopathological features, therefore it seems to be necessary to...

abstract objective: to determine the correlation between blood gas parameters and central venous pressure (cvp) in patients suffering from septic shock. m e t h od s : forty adult patients with diagnosis of septic shock who were admitted to the emergency department (ed) of shohadaye tajrish hospital affiliated with shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, and met inclusion and exclusion ...

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