Le paludisme peut-il entraîner des complications graves ?
Oui, le paludisme peut causer des complications comme l'anémie sévère et le coma.
PaludismeComplications
#3
Comment gérer les complications transfusionnelles ?
La gestion inclut l'arrêt de la transfusion et le traitement des symptômes.
Réactions transfusionnellesTraitement médical
#4
Les complications sont-elles fréquentes avec le système Duffy ?
Les complications sont rares mais peuvent survenir en cas d'incompatibilité.
Système DuffyComplications médicales
#5
Quelles sont les conséquences d'une infection par le paludisme ?
Les conséquences incluent des défaillances organiques et des troubles neurologiques.
PaludismeConséquences
Facteurs de risque
5
#1
Quels sont les facteurs de risque pour le paludisme ?
Les facteurs incluent vivre dans des zones endémiques et ne pas utiliser de protection.
PaludismeFacteurs de risque
#2
Les groupes sanguins rares sont-ils à risque ?
Oui, les groupes sanguins rares peuvent avoir un risque accru d'incompatibilité.
Groupes sanguinsRisque transfusionnel
#3
Les antécédents transfusionnels augmentent-ils le risque ?
Oui, des antécédents transfusionnels peuvent augmenter le risque de réactions.
Antécédents médicauxRéactions transfusionnelles
#4
Les femmes enceintes sont-elles à risque avec Duffy ?
Oui, les femmes enceintes peuvent avoir des complications liées au système Duffy.
GrossesseSystème Duffy
#5
Les voyageurs sont-ils à risque de paludisme ?
Oui, les voyageurs vers des zones à risque doivent prendre des précautions.
VoyagePaludisme
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Medical Director of the Nordic Reference Laboratory for Genomic Blood Group Typing and Senior Consultant at the Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Office of Medical Services, Region Skåne; Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the Division of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, and Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Medicine, Lund University.
Immunohematology, Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Office for Medical Services , Akutgatan 8, SE-22185, Lund , Sweden.
Department of Pathology, Hale Building for Transformative Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Rm 8002L, 60 Fenwood Rd, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. wlane@bwh.harvard.edu.
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. wlane@bwh.harvard.edu.
Associate Professor, Division of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, and Technical Director of Immunohematology Laboratories, Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Office for Medical Services, Lund, Sweden.
To explore the influencing factors that restrict the exercise behavior of children and adolescents, investigate the effect of subjective exercise experience on exercise behavior, and reveal the mediat...
The Subjective Exercise Experience Scale (SEES), Exercise Commitment Scale (ECC), and Physical Exercise Rating Scale (PARS-3) were used to conduct a questionnaire survey on 600 children and adolescent...
(1) Among children and adolescents, boys' exercise commitment and exercise behavior were significantly higher than girls', and there was no significant gender difference in subjective exercise experie...
The exercise behavior of children and adolescents was not only directly affected by subjective exercise experience, but also affected by the mediating effect of exercise commitment, and maintaining a ...
The incidence of musculoskeletal disorders affecting bones, joints, and muscles is dramatically increasing in parallel with the increased longevity of the worldwide population, severely impacting on t...
Both the skeletal muscle and the bone are involved in a complex crosstalk determining, in part through tissue-specific and inflammatory/immune released factors, the occurrence of musculoskeletal disor...
It is well known that exercise increases cognitive function. However, the environment in which the exercise is performed may be just as important as the exercise itself. Time spent in natural outdoor ...
Accumulating research demonstrates that acute exercise can enhance long-term episodic memory. However, it is unclear if there is an intensity-specific effect of acute exercise on long-term episodic me...
Physical activity had been reported among doctors-in-training, with very few focusing on attending doctors. This study aimed to evaluate the physical activity, particularly exercise, of Thai doctors a...
Thai doctors who participated in the hospital's CSR service, which was conducted between Feb 14, 2022, to Oct 31, 2022, were verbally informed along with an information sheet about this parallel study...
The median age of 1187 doctors was 45.0 years. Slightly over half were female (55.4%) or worked ≤ 40 hours/week (55.3%). The presence of illnesses was found in 55.9%, irregular health surveillance in ...
Only 30% of Thai doctors had a high level of exercise. The significant independent factors for low-level exercise were younger age, female, working load, irregular health surveillance, and no/ low fib...
Long-term exercise intolerance and functional limitations are common after an episode of acute pulmonary embolism (PE), despite 3 to 6 months of anticoagulation. These persistent symptoms are reported...
Recent studies indicate that acute exercise, whether aerobic exercise (AE) or resistance exercise (RE), improves cognitive function. However, the effects on cognitive function of combined exercise (CE...
Within-subject design with counterbalancing....
Fifteen healthy men with a sedentary lifestyle in the previous three months were recruited. The participants were assessed for muscular fitness after performing four upper body exercises for a 10-repe...
Acute CE led to a significantly shorter response time compared to SC (...
A single session of moderate-intensity CE improved response time in the SCWT, comparable to RE. CE shows promise for enhancing cognitive function, warranting further research on its benefits and other...
Maladaptive exercise (i.e., driven and/or compensatory exercise) is common in binge-spectrum eating disorders (EDs; e.g., bulimia nervosa, binge ED) and associated with adverse treatment outcomes. Alt...
We used latent profile analysis (LPA) to identify pre-exercise affective profiles of 661 exercise episodes among 84 individuals with binge-spectrum EDs and examined associations between LPA-identified...
A two-profile solution best fit our data: Profile 1 (n = 174), 'positive affectivity,' and Profile 2 (n = 487), 'negative affectivity.' Episodes in the 'negative affectivity' profile were more likely ...
Results support two phenotypes of exercise episodes, and differential associations of these phenotypes with adaptive and maladaptive motivations for exercise....
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a frequent complication in COPD and it is associated with decreased exercise capacity and poor prognosis. We hypothesized that even in COPD patients without significant ...
Consecutive COPD patients with clinically indicated right heart catheterization and resting mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mPAP) < 25 mmHg and age- and sex-matched controls with the same limits of ...
We included n = 26 COPD patients (female/male: 16/10, 66 ± 11 yr, FEV...
Even in the absence of significant PH at rest, COPD patients reveal characteristic abnormalities in pulmonary hemodynamics during exercise, which may represent an important exercise-limiting factor....