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Patients With Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis Given Prednisolone Therapy Who Have High Circulating Levels Of Bacterial DNA are at Increased Risk for Developing Infections.
(2016-12)BACKGROUND & AIMS: Infections are common in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis (SAH), but little information is available on how to predict their development or their effects on patients. Prednisolone is advocated ... -
Patients' and kidney care team's perspectives of treatment burden and capacity in older people with chronic kidney disease: a qualitative study
(2020-12)Objective: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is often a multimorbid condition and progression to more severe disease is commonly associated with increased management requirements, including lifestyle change, more medication and ... -
Patients' attitudes towards cost feedback to doctors to prevent unnecessary testing: a qualitative focus group study
(2020-07)OBJECTIVES: There is a need to improve efficiency in healthcare delivery without compromising quality of care. One approach is the development and evaluation of behavioural strategies to reduce unnecessary use of common ... -
Patients' Use of a Home-Based Virtual Reality System to Provide Rehabilitation of the Upper Limb Following Stroke.
(2015-03)Background: A low-cost virtual reality system that translates movements of the hand, fingers, and thumb into game play was designed to provide a flexible and motivating approach to increasing adherence to home-based ... -
Pediatric Scaphoid Nonunions: A Case Series, Review of the Literature, and Evidence-Based Guidelines
(2020-02)Background Scaphoid fractures represent less than 3% of hand and wrist fractures in the pediatric population. Nonunions are very rare. We present a case series (n = 18) of nonunions in skeletally immature children and ... -
Peer assessment of professional behaviours in problem-based learning groups.
(2017)CONTEXT: Peer assessment of professional behaviour within problem-based learning (PBL) groups can support learning and provide opportunities to identify and remediate problem behaviours. OBJECTIVES: We investigated ... -
Pelvic Actinomyces israelii abscess: a differential diagnosis of a pelvic mass.
(2015-11)A 52-year-old woman was admitted to our district general hospital, with a rapidly growing, increasingly tender mass in the right iliac fossa, difficulty mobilising with a fixed flexion deformity of the right hip and 15 kg ... -
Pelvic mass associated with raised CA 125 for benign condition: a case report.
(2012-04)BACKGROUND: Raised CA 125 with associated pelvic mass is highly suggestive of ovarian malignancy, but there are various other benign conditions that can be associated with pelvic mass and a raised CA 125. CASE PRESENTATION: ... -
Percutaneous cholecystostomy as an alternative to cholecystectomy in high risk patients with biliary sepsis: a district general hospital experience
(2012)INTRODUCTION: Cholecystectomy is the standard treatment for patients with acute cholecystitis. However, percutaneous cholecystostomy (PC) is an alternative for patients at high risk for surgery. We present our five-year ... -
Perineural Invasion in Intramedullary Spinal Cord Metastasis
(2020-05)A woman in her late sixties was referred to the orthopaedic clinic with progressive lower limb weakness and gait disturbance. She was known to have breast cancer with pre-existing infiltrative disease in the left brachial ... -
Perioperative outcomes of cytoreductive nephrectomy in the UK in 2012.
(2015-12)To define the perioperative morbidity and 30-day mortality of cytoreductive nephrectomy (CN) using the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) nephrectomy dataset for 2012, the first year of public reporting of ... -
Perioperative Practices Concerning One Anastomosis (Mini) Gastric Bypass: A Survey of 210 Surgeons.
(2017-07)BACKGROUND: There is currently little evidence available on the perioperative practices concerning one anastomosis/mini gastric bypass (OAGB/MGB) and no published consensus amongst experts. Even the published papers are ... -
Peripheral and Autonomic Neuropathy in South Asians and White Caucasians with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Possible Explanations for Epidemiological Differences.
(2017-03)Objectives. To compare the prevalence of diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) and that of cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) between South Asians and White Caucasians with type 2 diabetes and to explore reasons for observed ... -
Peripheral insulin resistance does not correlate with cerebral glucose metabolic rate in non-diabetic alzheimer's patients
(2018)Background: Type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD) and several studies have shown that insulin signalling is impaired in AD brain. Progressive brain hypometabolism is a hallmark of AD and can be evaluated ... -
Peritoneal dialysis has optimal intradialytic hemodynamics and preserves residual renal function: Why isn't it better than hemodialysis?
(2018-10)Rates of cardiovascular mortality are disproportionately high in patients with end stage kidney disease receiving dialysis. However, it is now generally accepted that patient survival is broadly equivalent between the two ... -
Peritoneal dialysis is not associated with myocardial stunning.
(2011-01)BACKGROUND: Hemodynamic changes during hemodialysis can precipitate subclinical myocardial ischemia, which over time contributes to the development of cardiac failure and is associated with a poor prognosis. Peritoneal ... -
Peritoneal tuberculosis presenting as recurrent peritonitis secondary to treatment with intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin in a patient receiving peritoneal dialysis.
(2015-02)Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is an established treatment for high-risk superficial bladder cancer [Morales A, Eidinger D, Bruce AW. Intracavitary Bacillus Calmette-Guérin in the treatment of superficial ... -
Persistent cortical blindness following posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) as a complication of COVID-19 pneumonia
(2021-01)The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic emerged in China in December 2019. Since then, there have been growing reports of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases with neurological ... -
The personal impact of covid-19 on trainees
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