Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a lifelong autoimmune inflammatory disease of unknown origin. An early diagnosis RA could improve the outcome. Several autoantibodies have been found in patients. Objective: To evaluate incidence against Sjögren's syndrome antigen A (SSA) and double-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (dsDNA) patients to detect association between their presence severity mark...

The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education issued revised standards (Standards 2007) for professional programs leading to the Doctor of Pharmacy degree in July 2007. The new standards require colleges and schools of pharmacy to provide pharmacy practice experiences that include direct interaction with diverse patient populations. These experiences are to take place in multiple practice en...

OBJECTIVE Current clinical trials are investigating the role of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) versus sublobar resection for patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) and marginal pulmonary function tests (M-PFTs). We compared the outcomes of patients undergoing lobectomy with M-PFTs characterized by 2 accepted M-PFT criteria. METHODS A total of 1,259 consecutive patient...

SAN FRANCISCO – A proposed new definition of acute respiratory distress syndrome describes categories based on mild, moderate, or severe hypoxemia that correlate increasing severity with significantly increased mortality or increased time on mechanical ventilation among survivors. The draft definition, created under a consensus process by an international panel of experts, was refined by empiri...

Let K denote a field and let V denote a vector space over K with finite positive dimension. We consider a pair of linear transformations A : V → V and A∗ : V → V that satisfy the following conditions: (i) each of A,A∗ is diagonalizable; (ii) there exists an ordering {Vi} d i=0 of the eigenspaces of A such that A ∗Vi ⊆ Vi−1+Vi+Vi+1 for 0 ≤ i ≤ d, where V−1 = 0 and Vd+1 = 0; (iii) there exists an...

2004;126;14S-34S Chest Douglas C. McCrory, Terry A. Fortin and James E. Loyd Michael McGoon, David Gutterman, Virginia Steen, Robin Barst, Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines : ACCP * Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Screening, Early Detection, and Diagnosis of http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/content/126/1_suppl/14S.full.html services can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The o...

CD0-type spaces were firstly introduced by Yu. A. Abramovich and A. W. Wickstead in [1] and [2] and further investigated by S. Alpay and Z. Ercan in [3]. CD0-type spaces deserve to be called Abramovich–Wickstead spaces, or briefly AW -space as in [4], since they mainly stem from the works of Yu. A. Abramovich and A. W. Wickstead. In this note we construct a new type AW -space and call it CDr 0 ...