BACKGROUND Poor sleep quality (SQ) is common after solid organ transplantation; however, very little is known about its natural history. We assessed the changes in SQ from pre- to 3 years post-transplant in adult heart, kidney, liver and lung recipients included in the prospective nation-wide Swiss Transplant Cohort Study. We explored associations with selected variables in patients suffering p...

BACKGROUND A hallmark of congestive heart failure (CHF) is the elevation of the cardiac natriuretic peptides (NPs), which have natriuretic, renin-inhibiting, vasodilating, and lusitropic properties. We have reported that chronic subcutaneous (SQ) administration of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) in experimental CHF improves cardiorenal function. Vasopeptidase inhibitors (VPIs) are single molecu...

conclusions with improving some factors and qol of patients on hd, we can promote sq in these patients that it might lead to reduction in length of hospital stay. results the mean age of patients was 54.4 ± 17.1 years and 39.7% of patients were > 60 years old. the majority of our patients had poor sq (60.6%). patients with diabetes mellitus were significantly more likely to have poor quality of...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have been approved for patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), regardless of histology. However, histologic subtypes of NSCLC may influence treatment outcomes of ICIs. We conducted this meta-analysis to investigate if there is difference in survival benefits of ICIs between squamous (SQ) and non-squamous (non-SQ) NSCLC. We searched PubMed, ...

values in A. This justifies the choice of the backward and forward terminology above. We denote by, respectively, F(C, f) and B(C, f) the set of Fand Bcomplete abstractions of C for f . It is worth noting that in general F(C, f) 6⊆ B(C, f) and F(C, f) 6⊆ B(C, f), namely Band F-completeness are incomparable notions. Example 1. Let Sign be the simple abstraction of 〈℘(Z),⊆〉 for analysing integer ...

We compared vascular and hormonal responses to teprotide (SQ 20,881) and captopril (SQ 14,225) in patients with normal renin essential hypertension given a 10 mEq sodium diet. In 10 patients receiving SQ 20,881, significant changes occurred in diastolic blood pressure (DBP, -13 +/- 2.5 mm Hg), angiotensin II (-7.1 +/- 2.1 pg/ml), and plasma renin activity (PRA, +6.6 +/- 1.9 ng/ml/hr) (p < 0.01 ...

INTRODUCTION Prostacyclin analogs are Food and Drug Administration-approved therapies for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension and can be administered by inhalational, intravenous (IV), or subcutaneous (SQ) routes. Because there are limited data to guide the transition between SQ to IV prostacyclin analogs, we describe our experience. METHODS We performed a retrospective review of...