Characterization of cyclic alternating pattern in infants with laryngomalacia.

Objective: Cyclic alternanting pattern (CAP) has been considered a marker of sleep instability in children. The aim of this study was to evaluate the CAP in infants with laryngomalacia.

Material And Methods: CAP were quantified in 15 infants with laryngomalacia (mean age 167.

Psychological profile and disease-coping strategies of patients on the waiting list for liver transplantation.

Aim: To determine the psychological characteristics of patients on the liver transplant waiting list; to analye the implications of the patient's psychological profile on coping with the disease.

Material And Methods: Study population: patients on the liver transplant waiting list. Psychological-profile: Socio-personal history; Mini Mental State Examination; Brief-Symptom Inventory of psychopathological problems; International Neuropsychiatric Interview; Family APGAR questionnaire; Social Support Questionnaire.

[A score to predict medical emergencies in hospitalized patients].

Background: The medical alert system (MAS) was created for the timely handling of clinical decompensations, experienced by patients hospitalized at the Medical Surgical Service (MSS) in a private clinic. It is activated by the nurse when hemodynamic, respiratory, neurological, infectious or metabolic alterations appear, when a patient falls or complains of pain. A physician assesses the patient and decides further therapy.

Is the ASVAB ST composite score a reliable predictor of first-attempt graduation for the U.S. Army operating room specialist course?

The U.S. Army Operating Room Specialist (68D) Course provides first class medical technician training to U.

[Esophageal tuberculosis].

Primary esophageal tuberculosis is virtually non-existent and there are few cases described of secondary esophageal tuberculosis. Esophageal tuberculosis should be suspected in patients with dysphagia, positive test results for tuberculin, active pulmonary disease or mediastinal adenopathies. Endoscopic or x-ray images could be indistinguishable from esophageal carcinomas, hence a diagnosis can prevent wrong treatments.

Thyrotropin-releasing hormone regulates the diurnal variation of pyroglutamyl aminopeptidase II activity in the male rat adenohypophysis.

Objective: Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) is inactivated in the extracellular compartment by pyroglutamyl aminopeptidase II (PPII), a narrow specificity ectopeptidase present in the brain and in the lactotrophs of the adenohypophysis. TRH and various hypothalamic/paracrine agents regulate the activity of PPII on the surface of adenohypophyseal cells in primary culture. The activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis presents circadian variations including an increase of serum thyrotropin levels in the early hours of the day.