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BMC Public Health
December 2021
School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, No. 1 Yixueyuan Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 400016, China.
Background: The aim of this study was to provide recommendations for reducing the impact of hepatitis B infection on patients with chronic hepatitis B by describing their experiences during the diagnosis process.
Methods: We conducted face-to-face interviews with 50 hepatitis B patients recruited by convenient sampling from an infectious diseases department of a teaching hospital in Chongqing, China from July to August 2019. Thematic analysis framework included interviewees' social demographic characteristics, diagnosis approach, signs and symptoms before diagnosis, feelings after diagnosis, and doctor's instructions.
Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging
January 2021
NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Investigating commonalities in underlying pathology of cognitive dysfunction and negative symptoms in schizophrenia is important, as both are core features of the disorder and linked to brain structure abnormalities. We aimed to explore the relationship between cognition, negative symptoms and brain structure in schizophrenia. A total of 225 patients with Schizophrenia spectrum disorder and 283 healthy controls from the Norwegian Thematically Organized Psychosis (TOP) cohort were included in this study.
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April 2018
Department of Rheumatology, Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University, Shanghai 200030, China.
to investigate the clinical characteristics and disease activity in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients with hyperuricemia. Laboratory tests, magnetic resonance imaging, disease activity and functional index of AS patients from Fudan University Zhongshan Hospital were collected. test, square test were applied to investigate the difference between AS patients with hyperuricemia and AS patients with normal serum uric acid in clinical characteristics and disease activity in AS patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNihon Rinsho
July 2013
Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University.
IL-6 plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of RA. Tocilizumab (TCZ) is a humanized monoclonal antibody to IL-6 receptor, and is now the only biological agent targeting IL-6. The main indication of TCZ for RA patients is those who has been resistant to DMARDs including MTX.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTransplant Proc
October 2011
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland.
Introduction: Following kidney transplantation, septic complications are the leading causes of therapeutic failure including recipient death or graft removal. The serum creatinine level is one of the earliest metrics of kidney metabolic function. We examined the influence of graft infection on serum creatinine levels in kidney recipients.
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