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--- 1 EMCA ---
AN - Accession number & update
0046381487 20070101.
TI - Title
Evaluation of a real-time PCR assay for malaria diagnosis in
Patients from Vietnam and in returned travellers.
SO - Source
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and
Hygiene, {Trans-R-Soc-Trop-Med-Hyg}, May 2007, vol. 101, no. 5,
p. 422-428, 22 refs, CODEN: TRSTA, ISSN: 0035-9203.
Publisher: Elsevier.
AU - Author(s)
VoThi-Kim-Duy, Bigot-Patricia, Gazin-Pierre, Sinou-Veronique, De-
Pina-Jean-Jacques, Huynh-Dinh-Chien, Fumoux-Francis, Parzy-
Daniel.
IN - Author affiliation
D. Parzy: Universite de la Mediterranee, EA 864, IFR 48,
Marseille, France.
Email: d.parzy@free.fr.
AB - Abstract
Real-time PCR diagnosis of malaria has advantages over
traditional microscopic methods, especially when parasitaemia is
low and when dealing with mixed infections. We have developed a
new real-time PCR with specific genes in each Plasmodium species
present only in one copy to identify the four pathogenic
Plasmodium spp. for humans. The sensitivity was less than 25
parasites/mul. No cross-hybridisation was observed with human DNA
or among the four Plasmodium spp. Using LightCycler /sup ®/ PCR
and conventional microscopy, we compared the diagnosis of malaria
in patients from Vietnam and in returned European travellers with
suspicion of malaria. In patients from Vietnam with suspicion of
malaria, one mixed infection was observed by PCR only; the
remaining data (54 of 55 patients) correlated with microscopy. In
79 patients without symptoms, low parasitaemia was detected in 7
samples by microscopy and in 16 samples by PCR. In returned
travellers, PCR results were correlated with microscopy for all
four species in 48 of 56 samples. The eight discrepant results
were resolved in favour of real-time PCR diagnosis. This new
real-time PCR is a rapid, accurate and efficient method for
malaria diagnosis in returned travellers as well as for
epidemiological studies or antimalarial efficiency trials in the
field. © 2006 Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
DE - Descriptors
MALARIA*;
REAL-TIME-POLYMERASE-CHAIN-REACTION*.
ARTICLE;
BLOOD-SAMPLING;
CONTROLLED-STUDY;
DIAGNOSTIC-ACCURACY;
DIAGNOSTIC-VALUE;
DNA;
HUMAN;
MAJOR-CLINICAL-STUDY;
MICROSCOPY;
NONHUMAN;
NUCLEOTIDE-SEQUENCE;
PARASITEMIA;
PLASMODIUM;
PLASMODIUM-FALCIPARUM;
PLASMODIUM-MALARIAE;
PLASMODIUM-OVALE;
PLASMODIUM-VIVAX;
SENSITIVITY-AND-SPECIFICITY;
SYMPTOM;
TRAVEL;
VIET-NAM.
DS - Gene data
GENBANK-AB074973-B;
GENBANK-AJ413249-B;
GENBANK-AY423076-B;
GENBANK-S69014-B.
DM - Device manufacturer
Roche-Applied-Science ( Germany).
DN - Device tradenames
LightCycler (Roche Applied Science, Germany).
LG - Language
English.
LS - Language of summary
English.
PT - Publication type
Journal, Article.
CP - Country of publisher
Netherlands.
AV - Availability
Publisher item identifier: S0035920306003087.
DO - Digital object identifier
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trstmh.2006.09.004>.
YR - Publication year
2007.
DT - Publication date
20070000.
ED - Entry date
Date created: 20070314.
--- 2 EMCA ---
AN - Accession number & update
0043232127 20060101.
TI - Title
Balloon-assisted percutaneous vertebroplasty in patients with
osteoporotic compression fractures - First results.
TT - Title in original lang.
Ballonassistierte perkutane vertebroplastie bei patienten mit
osteoporotischen wirbelkörperkompressionsfrakturen - Erste
ergebnisse.
SO - Source
RoFo Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Rontgenstrahlen und der
Bildgebenden Verfahren, {RoFo-Fortschr-Geb-Rontgenstr-
Bildgebenden-Verfahren}, February 2006, vol. 178, no. 2, p. 207-
213, 30 refs, CODEN: RFGVE, ISSN: 1438-9029.
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag.
AU - Author(s)
Schulte-Bernhard-Ulrich, Brücher-D, Trompeter-M, Remy-C,
Reimer-P.
IN - Author affiliation
B.U. Schulte: Zentralinstitut für Bildgebende Diagnostik,
Städtisches Klinikum Karlsruhe, Moltkestr. 90, 76133 Karlsruhe,
Germany.
Email: Bernhard.Schulte@Klinikum-Karlsruhe.com.
AB - Abstract
Purpose: To determine the feasibility, efficacy and safety of
balloon-assisted percutaneous vertebroplasty (BA-VP) in patients
with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (VCFs).
Materials and Methods: In 47 patients (29 women, 18 men; mean
age: 70 years and 4 months) with severe VCFs, 66 BA-VPs were
performed via a unipedicular access. After initial puncture
(under combined fluoroscopy and CT guidance) of the vertebral
body (VB), the needle was retraced by 1.5 cm, and a 12-mm Fogarty
balloon catheter was introduced and inflated using 2-4 ml diluted
contrast media (CM). After the subsequent removal of the catheter
and repositioning of the needle, vertebroplasty was performed.
Results: The mean volume of PMMA injected was 4.4 ml (2.5 - 7.2
ml). Pain reduction (measured by the Visual Analogue Scale) was
achieved in 95% of the patients, dropping from on average 8.0
preinterventionally to 2.2 after a mean follow-up of 8 months. A
reduction of the pain relieving medication was achieved in 68% of
the cases and patient activity improved markedly. No severe or
clinically relevant complications were observed. Cement leakage
occurred by filling of epidural and paravertebral veins in
9.1 and 6.1% of the cases, respectively. Leakage into the
paravertebral soft tissues was seen in 3.0% of the patients and
to the adjacent disc space in 10.6% of the cases. Conclusion:
Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty are currently used to treat
osteoporotic VCFs but show either a comparatively high leakage
rate or are rather complex and expensive. Balloon-assisted
vertebroplasty seems to combine advantages from both methods and
is effective, safe and comparatively inexpensive. © Georg Thieme
Verlag KG Stuttgart.
DE - Descriptors
COMPRESSION-FRACTURE*;
CONTRAST-MEDIUM*;
OSTEOPOROSIS*;
PERCUTANEOUS-VERTEBROPLASTY*.
AGED;
ARTICLE;
CEFTRIAXONE;
CLINICAL-ARTICLE;
COMPUTER-ASSISTED-TOMOGRAPHY;
DEVICE;
FEMALE;
FLUOROSCOPY;
HUMAN;
KYPHOPLASTY;
MALE;
MEPIVACAINE;
MIDAZOLAM-MALEATE;
PATIENT-SAFETY;
PETHIDINE;
PRIORITY-JOURNAL.
MF - Manufacturer
Astra-Zeneca (Germany); Aventis (Germany); Hoffmann-La-Roche
(Germany).
TN - Tradenames
dolantin (Aventis, Germany); dormicum (Hoffmann La Roche,
Germany); rocephin (Hoffmann La Roche, Germany); scandicain
(Astra Zeneca, Germany).
DM - Device manufacturer
lemaitre-vascular ( USA); Siemens ( Germany); ziehm ( Germany).
DN - Device tradenames
Embolectomy Catheter (lemaitre vascular, USA); Exposcop (ziehm,
Germany); Sensation 16 (Siemens, Germany); Somatom Plus Classic
(Siemens, Germany).
LG - Language
German.
LS - Language of summary
English; German.
PT - Publication type
Journal, Article.
CP - Country of publisher
Germany.
DO - Digital object identifier
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2005-858829>.
YR - Publication year
2006.
DT - Publication date
20060000.
ED - Entry date
Date created: 20060220.
--- 3 EMCA ---
AN - Accession number & update
0046276814 20070101.
TI Title
Comparison of four methods for premature ventricular contraction
and normal beat clustering.
CF - Conference information
Computers in Cardiology, 2005, Lyon, France, 25 September 2005 -
28 September 2005.
SO - Source
Computers in Cardiology, {Comput-Cardiol}, 2005, vol. 32, p.
921-924, article number: 1588258, 24 refs, CODEN: COCAD, ISSN:
0276-6574.
Issue title: Computers in Cardiology, 2005, ISBN: 0780393376,
9780780393370.
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Computer Society.
AU - Author(s)
Bortolan-G, Jekova-I, Christov-I.
IN - Author affiliation
G. Bortolan: Institute of Biomedical Engineering ISIB - CNR,
Corso Stai Uniti, 4, 35127 Padova, Italy.
Email: bortolan@isib.cnr.it.
AB - Abstract
The learning capacity and the classification ability for normal
beats and premature ventricular contractions clustering by four
classification methods were compared: neural networks (NN), K-th
nearest neighbour rule (Knn), discriminant analysis (DA) and
fuzzy logic (FL). Twentysix morphology feature parameters, which
include information of amplitude, area, specific interval
durations and measurement of the QRS vector in a VCG plane, were
defined. One global and two local learning sets were used. The
local classifiers achieved better accuracies because of their
good adaptability to the patients, while the capacity of the
global classifier to process new records without additional
learning was expectedly balanced by lower accuracies. NN assure
the best results (high and balanced indices for specificity and
sensitivity) using one of the local learning set, while the Knn
provides the best results with the other local learning set.
Using the global learning set DA and the FL methods perform
better than the NN and Knn. © 2005 IEEE.
DE - Descriptors
HEART-VENTRICLE-EXTRASYSTOLE*.
CLASSIFICATION;
CLASSIFIER;
DISCRIMINANT-ANALYSIS;
FUZZY-LOGIC;
LEARNING;
MORPHOLOGY;
PATIENT;
SENSITIVITY-AND-SPECIFICITY;
VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY.
LG - Language
English.
LS - Language of summary
English.
PT - Publication type
Conference-Proceeding, Conference-Paper.
CP - Country of publisher
USA.
DO - Digital object identifier
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CIC.2005.1588258>.
YR - Publication year
2005.
DT - Publication date
20050000.
ED - Entry date
Date created: 20070226.
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