LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Aberrant expression of calcitonin gene-related peptide and its correlation with prognosis in severe childhood pneumonia

Tao, Baoqin; Jiang, Lei; Chen, Liang.

Clinics; 75 (), 2020

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the serum levels of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and the prognosis of pediatric patients with severe pneumonia. METHODS: Children diagnosed with severe pneumonia (n=76) were stratified into the survival (n=58) and n...

Calcitonina, Péptido Relacionado con Gen de Calcitonina/sangre, Péptido Relacionado con Gen de Calcitonina/genética, Péptido Relacionado con Gen de Calcitonina/metabolismo, Enfermedad Crítica, Neumonía/sangre, Neumonía/mortalidad, Pronóstico, Precursores de Proteínas/sangre, Curva ROC, Análisis de Supervivencia, Vasodilatadores/metabolismo

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Demographic and clinical characteristics of pulmonary arterial hypertension caused by schistosomiasis are indistinguishable from other etiologies

Mendes, Adriano Assis; Roncal, Carlos Guilhermo Piscoya; Oliveira, Flávio Roberto Azevedo de; Albuquerque, Eugênio Soares de; Góes, Gustavo Henrique Belarmino; Piscoya, Isabelle Cecília de Vasconcellos; Sobral Filho, Dário Celestino.

Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop; 53 (), 2020

Abstract INTRODUCTION: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a serious pulmonary circulation disease caused by several etiologies, including schistosomiasis. The present study retrospectively evaluated the clinical and hemodynamic characteristics of patients with schistosomal PAH (PAH-Sch) compared t...

Factor Natriurético Atrial/sangre, Biomarcadores/sangre, Persona de Mediana Edad, Ecocardiografía, Precursores de Proteínas/sangre, Hipertensión Arterial Pulmonar/sangre, Hipertensión Arterial Pulmonar/etiología, Estudios Retrospectivos, Esquistosomiasis/complicaciones, Factores Socioeconómicos

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Experimental study of peripheral-blood pro-surfactant protein B for screening non-small cell lung cancer

He, Yong; Jiang, Zhenjie; Tong, Fengzhi; Li, Mingwu; Yin, Xingru; Hu, Shixin; Wang, Linlin.

Acta cir. bras; 32 (7), 2017

Abstract Purpose: To evaluate the possibility of using peripheral-blood presurfactant protein B (Pro-SFTPB) for screening non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods: A total of 873 healthy volunteers and 165 lung cancer patients hospitalized in the Fifth People's Hospital of Dalian were tested Pro-SFT...

Biomarcadores de Tumor/sangre, Carcinoma de Pulmón de Células no Pequeñas/sangre, Carcinoma de Pulmón de Células no Pequeñas/diagnóstico, Estudios de Casos y Controles, Neoplasias Pulmonares/sangre, Neoplasias Pulmonares/diagnóstico, Tamizaje Masivo, Precursores de Proteínas/sangre, Proteínas Asociadas a Surfactante Pulmonar/sangre, Sensibilidad y Especificidad

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Predictive value of [-2]propsa (p2psa) and its derivatives for the prostate cancer detection in the 2. 0 to 10. 0ng/mL PSA range

Vukovic, I; Djordjevic, D; Bojanic, N; Babic, U; Soldatovic, I.

Int. braz. j. urol; 43 (1), 2017

ABSTRACT Introduction To assess predictive value of new tumor markers, precursor of prostate specific antigen (p2PSA) and its derivates-%p2PSA and prostate health index (PHI) in detection of patients with indolent and aggressive prostate cancer (PC) in a subcohort of man whose total PSA ranged from 2 t...

Biopsia, Estudios Transversales, Modelos Logísticos, Persona de Mediana Edad, Clasificación del Tumor, Valor Predictivo de las Pruebas, Próstata/patología, Antígeno Prostático Específico/sangre, Neoplasias de la Próstata/sangre, Neoplasias de la Próstata/patología, Precursores de Proteínas/sangre, Curva ROC, Valores de Referencia, Reproducibilidad de los Resultados, Estadísticas no Paramétricas

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