Aim: To establish symptoms, lung function and to evaluate subsequent exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) during a year after virus-induced COPD exacerbations.
Materials And Methods: Patients hospitalized with viral (=60), bacterial (=60) and viral-bacterial (=60) COPD exacerbations were enrolled to single-center prospective observational study. COPD was diagnosed according spirography criteria.
The work carried out an empirical analysis of the impact on the level of vitality of the parameters of the socio-economic situation of elderly people based on the data of a sociological survey. The modeling of the study of the influence included the choice of variables taking into account the criterion of the complexity of the measured parameters. The empirical basis for the study was the results of a survey (n=400) of elderly people living in cities and rural areas of the Tomsk region.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To investigate the clinical course and outcomes of sympathetic ophthalmia (SO) and correlate these with the nature of the inciting event and the number of vitreoretinal (VR) procedures undergone by patients.
Design: A retrospective case review.
Subjects: All patients diagnosed with SO who had been treated or monitored at a single center over a 15-year period.
Purpose: To investigate microperimetry testing of retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator gene (RPGR)-associated retinopathy in a cohort of children and adults.
Design: Prospective observational case series.
Methods: The coefficient of repeatability and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) of mean sensitivity (MS) were calculated for mesopic microperimetry.