ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME AND ACUTE LUNG INJURY IN A TRAUMA POPULATION WITH AND WITHOUT LONG BONE FRACTURES

Acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute lung injury in a trauma population with and without long bone fractures

Introduction: Trauma is the leading cause of death in persons under the age of 45.Recovery in patients who survive initial trauma are frequently complicated by sequelae of injury that increases susceptibility to infection and inflammation.Uncontrolled inflammation can advance into life-threatening organ failure, including acute respiratory distress

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On the Use and Abuse of Literature for Life

The essay aims to Lipstick develop an argument about plots of love and desire in bourgeois modernity.taking the cue from two sample novels: Sentimental education by Flaubert and Lolita by Nabokov.The theoretical framework regards the relationship between literature and experience, little girls hoodie between perception and its written expression, s

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Searching for the majority: algorithms of voluntary control.

Voluntary control of information processing is crucial to allocate resources and prioritize the processes that are most important under a given situation; the algorithms underlying such control, however, are often not clear.We investigated possible algorithms of control for the performance of the majority function, in Lipstick which participants se

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Neopterin and Cellular Immune Activation in Active Gynaecological Cancer: Significant Correlation Between Neopterin and Circulating Number of HLA-DR Expressing Lymphocytes

Urine concentrations of neopterin, a marker for the activation of cellular immunity, were determined concomitantly with a large panel of hematological and immunological variables on 24 women with gynaecological cancers (12 uterine cervix, 5 endometrium, 7 ovary).There were 14 women investigated at first diagnosis of carcinoma, and 10 women were stu

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