Introduction. Endothelial dysfunction (ED) makes a significant contribution to the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, changes vasomotor function (VF) in patients with reduction disease activity have not been studied enough. Objective – study VF RA and reduce activity, clarify role serological profile presence arterial hypertension (AH) formation dysfunction. Materials methods. ...

T he four major critical care societies in the United States—the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN), the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), the American Thoracic Society (ATS), and the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)—have united in their efforts to address the manpower shortage of health-care providers who care for the critically ill. This is one of the most ...

INTRODUCTION The revised shared epitope (SE) concept in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is based on the presence (S) or absence (X) of the SE RAA amino acid motif at positions 72 to 74 of the third hypervariable region of the various human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1 alleles. The purpose of this study was to investigate SE subtypes on the basis of the American College of Rheumatology 1987 revised cr...

In the January 2004 issue of CHEST, Drs. Irvin and Kaminsky1 wrote an editorial regarding the American Thoracic Society (ATS)/American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) statement on cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine in January of 2003.2 In their article, they point out that the data generated from CPET are easily...

A prospectus is a formal summary or brief of a proposed venture. The purpose of this document is therefore to present an overview of the current documentation available to support the economic value of clinical pharmacy services, and to propose a course of action for future documentation of such value based on need. Although much overlap often exists among clinical, distributive, and administra...

The outcomes of thromboprophylactic trials have been debated for decades. Recently, the 9th edition of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) evidence-based clinical practice guidelines based their strong recommendations only on patient-important outcomes. Practically, symptoms were considered the crucial element. Consequently, studies that primarily aimed at reducing venographic throm...

2004;126;4-6 Chest Lewis J. Rubin Clinical Practice Guidelines Hypertension: ACCP Evidence-Based Management of Pulmonary Arterial Executive Summary: Diagnosis and http://chestjournals.org and services can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information ). ISSN: 0012-3692. http://www.chestjournal.org/misc/reprints.shtml ( of the copyri...

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