Cytokines and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
2. Reinecker HC, et al. Enhanced secretion of tumour necrosis factor-alpha, IL-6, and IL-1 beta by isolated lamina propria mononuclear cells from patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Clin…
Genetics of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Fig. 1.1 Associations of the IL12/IL23- and IL27-regulating genes with IBD in keeping with the TH1 and TH2/TH17 theory (Wang et al. 2010). Only the main proteins in these pathways…
Selected Infectious Disease Topics
(1) Department of Emergency Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Funny Bacteria Overview (Unfortunately, Not Really Funny, Just Peculiar!) First, to briefly review, bacteria come in three general…
General Infectious Disease Question and Answer Items
(1) Department of Emergency Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands When is toxoplasmosis typically transmitted to a fetus (under what conditions)? When the mother has a primary infection…
Infectious Disease Prevention Question and Answer Items
(1) Department of Emergency Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Many immunoglobulins used in prevention are now synthesized. Which ones come from pooled serum immunoglobulin, instead? (2) •…
Respiratory Mechanics in the Mechanically Ventilated Patient
and Katherine C. Clement10 (9) Arkansas Children’s Hospital, 800 Marshall Street, Little Rock, AR 72202, USA (10) Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of North Carolina, CB 7221, Chapel Hill,…
Automation of Weaning in Children
as a surrogate for blood gas PCO2, to decrease or increase ventilatory support. IntelliVent® also uses SpO2 to decrease or increase PEEP and FiO2. The two ECPs were studied in…
The Neonatal Neuromechanical Unit: Generalities of Operation
), which imply a proportionally large pulmonary ventilation (), achieved mostly by breathing at high rates. Indeed, fast breathing is a common characteristic of all newborn mammals. With respect to…
Mechanical Ventilation
and Sunil K. Sinha14 (13) Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, F4790 C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, University of Michigan Health System, 1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5254, USA (14) Paediatrics and Neonatal…
Classical Respiratory Monitoring
(5) Department of Respiratory Care, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Foundation, Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98105, USA Educational Goals Describe a basic understanding of the oxygen transport chain. Understand the various technologies…
