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Outcome of patients with acute myeloid leukemia and pulmonary infiltrates requiring invasive mechanical ventilation-a retrospective analysisChristian Rabe
Department of Medicine, University of Bonn, Germany
J Crit Care 19:29-35. 2004..To assess the prognosis of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and pulmonary infiltrates requiring mechanical ventilation...
Severe respiratory failure due to diffuse alveolar hemorrhage: clinical characteristics and outcome of intensive careChristian Rabe
Medical ICU, Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, D 53105 Bonn, Germany
J Crit Care 25:230-5. 2010..The aim of this study was to characterize patients and report outcome of diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) requiring intensive care unit support...
[Clinical outcome of a cohort of 63 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma treated with octreotide]C Rabe
Medizinische Klinik I, University of Bonn, Germany
Z Gastroenterol 40:395-400. 2002..The patients' median survival was 9 months (Okuda stage I 16 months, stage II 9 months, stage III 4 months). In conclusion, octreotide treatment did not result in markedly prolonged survival in this retrospective series of 63 patients...
Keeping central venous lines open: a prospective comparison of heparin, vitamin C and sodium chloride sealing solutions in medical patientsChristian Rabe
Department of Medicine I, University of Bonn, Sigmund Freud Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
Intensive Care Med 28:1172-6. 2002..The present study was designed to test the effectiveness of this approach and to compare the efficiency of sealing solutions...
Biliary metal stents and air embolism: a note of cautionC Rabe
Department of Medicine I, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Endoscopy 38:648-50. 2006..It is likely that the large diameter of metal stents and the potential for these stents to lacerate venous structures facilitate the entry of air into the venous circulation, an event which may have life-threatening consequences...
Does intubation really equal death in cirrhotic patients? Factors influencing outcome in patients with liver cirrhosis requiring mechanical ventilationChristian Rabe
Department of Medicine I, University of Bonn, Sigmund Freud Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
Intensive Care Med 30:1564-71. 2004..This study examines parameters both of chronic liver disease and of acute illness with regard to their influence on outcome in mechanically ventilated cirrhotic patients...
[Malaria in the emergency room. Results of the emergency treatment of 137 patients with symptomatic malaria]C Rabe
Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I, Universitatskliniken Bonn
Dtsch Med Wochenschr 130:145-9. 2005..To assess characteristics and outcome of emergency patients with acute malaria...
Acute hepatitis induced by an Aloe vera preparation: a case reportChristian Rabe
Department of Medicine, Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Koeln Kalk, Germany
World J Gastroenterol 11:303-4. 2005..Aloe vera, plant extracts of Aloe barbadensis miller, is widely used in phytomedicine. The first case of acute hepatitis due to this compound was described...
An independent evaluation of modern prognostic scores in a central European cohort of 120 patients with hepatocellular carcinomaChristian Rabe
Department of Medicine I, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 15:1305-15. 2003..We therefore tested the ability of several newer scores to predict survival in comparison to the Okuda score in a European cohort of HCC patients...
Effective angiostatic treatment in a murine metastatic and orthotopic hepatoma modelEsther Raskopf
Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Bonn, Germany
Hepatology 41:1233-40. 2005..The data support the value of VEGF blockade as an effective target for HCC treatment...
Clinical characteristics and outcome of a cohort of 101 patients with hepatocellular carcinomaC Rabe
Sigmund Freud Str. 25, D 53105 Bonn, Germany
World J Gastroenterol 7:208-15. 2001..Reflecting the high proportion of advanced stage tumors in our patients, the median survival was poor. Patients who received active therapy had a longer survival...
Molecular mechanisms of hepatitis B virus-associated liver cancerC Rabe
Department of Medicine I, University of Bonn, Germany
Dig Dis 19:279-87. 2001..They also alter mechanisms of apoptosis and interfere with nucleotide excision repair of damaged DNA. Together with an influence on cellular signaling, these mechanisms may favor the cell's clonal expansion...
Cirrhotic patients with or without hepatocellular carcinoma harbour AFP-specific T-lymphocytes that can be activated in vitro by human alpha-fetoproteinP Hanke
Dept of Medicine I, University of Bonn, Germany
Scand J Gastroenterol 37:949-55. 2002..This study suggests that immunopreventive vaccination of cirrhotic patients rather than immunotherapeutic vaccination of HCC patients may be preferable...
Establishment of an orthotopic tumour model for hepatocellular carcinoma and non-invasive in vivo tumour imaging by high resolution ultrasound in miceVolker Schmitz
Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
J Hepatol 40:787-91. 2004..In this study we established an orthotopic tumour model for hepatocellular carcinoma and evaluated a non-invasive high resolution ultrasound technique for diagnosis and follow-up of intrahepatic HCC...
Invasive fungal infections in neutropenic enterocolitis: a systematic analysis of pathogens, incidence, treatment and mortality in adult patientsMarcus Gorschlüter
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Germany
BMC Infect Dis 6:35. 2006..Fungi have also been reported, but their practical relevance remains unclear. The guidelines do not address concrete treatment recommendations for fungal neutropenic enterocolitis...
Combination of systemic thioacetamide (TAA) injections and ethanol feeding accelerates hepatic fibrosis in C3H/He mice and is associated with intrahepatic up regulation of MMP-2, VEGF and ICAM-1Miroslaw Kornek
Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Bonn, Germany
J Hepatol 45:370-6. 2006..Fibrosis development was associated with elevated ICAM-1 expression. CONCLUSIONS: Taken together, TAA/EtOH application was suitable to induce liver fibrosis characterized by typical bio-markers in C3H/He...
Plasminogen fragment K1-5 improves survival in a murine hepatocellular carcinoma modelVolker Schmitz
Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Bonn, Sigmund Freud Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
Gut 56:271-8. 2007..The prognosis of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains poor, and new alternative treatments are needed...
Dexamethasone, high-dose cytarabine, and cisplatin in combination with rituximab as salvage treatment for patients with relapsed or refractory aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphomaUlrich J M Mey
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Germany
Cancer Invest 24:593-600. 2006..With a median follow-up of 24.9 months, median overall and progression-free survivals were 8.5 and 6.7 months, respectively. Immunochemotherapy with rituximab and DHAP proved to be feasible and effective in this patient population...
DHAP in combination with rituximab vs DHAP alone as salvage treatment for patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: a matched-pair analysisUlrich J M Mey
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Germany
Leuk Lymphoma 47:2558-66. 2006..However, differences with regard to complete remission rates failed to reach statistical significance, thereby necessitating further evaluation of the role of combined immunochemotherapy in this patient population...
Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage in a systemic lupus erythematosus patient successfully treated with rituximab: a case reportCordula M Nellessen
, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I--Allgemeine Innere Medizin, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, D-53127 Bonn, Germany
Nephrol Dial Transplant 23:385-6. 2008
Prevention of paracentesis-induced circulatory dysfunction: midodrine vs albumin. A randomized pilot studyBeate Appenrodt
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Liver Int 28:1019-25. 2008..Vasoconstrictors, e.g. terlipressin, may also prevent PICD. The aim was to compare the less expensive vasoconstrictor midodrine, an alpha-adrenoceptor agonist, with albumin in preventing PICD...
Pseudomembranous and obstructive Aspergillus tracheobronchitis - optimal diagnostic strategy and outcomeSelcuk Tasci
Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Bonn, Germany
Mycoses 49:37-42. 2006..Prognosis of PMATB and OATB remains poor. Microscopy of respiratory specimens is the most sensitive tool to confirm the diagnosis. The characteristic appearance of the disease makes it possible to start antifungal therapy immediately...
Is detection of bacterial DNA in ascitic fluid of clinical relevance?Beate Appenrodt
Departments of aInternal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 22:1487-94. 2010..However, the clinical relevance of this finding is ill-defined especially compared with the standard diagnostics for detection of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP). Furthermore, other DNA tests have not been sufficiently evaluated...
Treatment of metastatic colorectal carcinomas by systemic inhibition of vascular endothelial growth factor signaling in miceVolker Schmitz
Medizinische Klinik I, Sigmund Freud Str 25, Bonn 53105, Germany
World J Gastroenterol 11:4332-6. 2005..Here, we tested a recombinant adenovirus, AdsFlt1-3, that encodes an antagonistically acting fragment of the VEGF receptor 1 (Flt-1), for systemic antitumor effects in pre-established subcutaneous CRC tumors in mice...
Successful transplantation of a liver from a donor with fatal ethylene glycol poisoningMartin Wolff
Department of Surgery, University of Bonn, Germany
Liver Transpl 11:990-2. 2005
Increased urotensin II plasma levels in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertensionJorg Heller
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Sigmund Freud Strasse 25, D 53105 Bonn, Germany
J Hepatol 37:767-72. 2002..We therefore investigated the role of Urotensin II (U II), a newly described peptide reported to be a vasoconstrictor in the central arterial compartment and a vasodilator in the splanchnic vasculature...
Effective antitumour mono- and combination therapy by gene delivery of angiostatin-like molecule and interleukin-12 in a murine hepatoma modelVolker Schmitz
Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Int J Colorectal Dis 20:494-501. 2005..We applied an experimental approach employing two recombinant adenoviral vectors (Ad) that express interleukin-12 (IL-12) and angiostatin-like molecule (K1-3) respectively to a subcutaneous hepatoma model in mice...
[Long-term outcome of intrapleural fibrinolytic therapy via small-bore catheter drainage in the management of complicated parapneumonic effusion and empyema-a case series]Selcuk Tasci
Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II, Universitatsklinikum, Bonn
Med Klin (Munich) 100:181-5. 2005..Intrapleural fibrinolytic therapy (IFT) has been established, besides video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS), in the management of PPE and PE. Combination of IFT and small-bore catheter drainage has previously not been investigated...
Prognostic impact of renal impairment and sodium imbalance in patients undergoing transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunting for the prevention of variceal rebleedingMichael Schepke
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Digestion 67:146-53. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: In compensated patients undergoing TIPS due to variceal bleeding, renal impairment indicates a poor prognosis. Portal hemodynamic parameters are not predictive of survival in TIPS patients...
Chromocolonoscopy detects more adenomas than white light colonoscopy or narrow band imaging colonoscopy in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer screeningR Hüneburg
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Germany
Endoscopy 41:316-22. 2009..It was the aim of the present study to assess the detection rate of polypoid lesions by comparing chromocolonoscopy with standard white light colonoscopy and narrow-band imaging (NBI) colonoscopy...
Altered expression of TGF-beta receptors in hepatocellular carcinoma--effects of a constitutively active TGF-beta type I receptor mutantAnnemarie Musch
Department of Medicine I, University of Bonn, Germany
Digestion 71:78-91. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Decreased TGF-betaRII protein expression might cause TGF-beta resistance in a subset of clinical HCCs. Stable transfection with CA TGF-betaRI reverses this in HuH-7 cells without increasing invasiveness...
Increased VEGF levels induced by anti-VEGF treatment are independent of tumor burden in colorectal carcinomas in miceV Schmitz
Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital, Bonn, Germany
Gene Ther 13:1198-205. 2006....
Goodpasture's syndrome with massive pulmonary haemorrhage in the absence of circulating anti-GBM antibodies?Matthias Alexander Hellmann
Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I, Universitatsklinikum Bonn, Germany
Nephrol Dial Transplant 21:526-9. 2006
Recovery from ultra-high dose organophosphate poisoning after "in-the-field" antidote treatment: potential lessons for civil defenseJan Wilko Schrickel
Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
J Emerg Med 37:279-82. 2009..We believe that in cases of mass poisonings--for example, terrorist activity--therapy must be available on the scene as soon as possible. This also may require decentralized antidote storage...
Requirements for adeno-associated virus-derived non-viral vectors to achieve stable and site-specific integration of plasmid DNA in liver carcinoma cellsRobin Steigerwald
Department of Virus Research, Max Plank Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Digestion 68:13-23. 2003..A novel two-plasmid system capable of achieving stable and site-specific gene transfer in hepatoma cells is introduced...
Accumulation of 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine adducts in HBx recombinant HepG2 cells and HBx transgenic miceRalph Gehrke
Department of Virus Research, , Martinsried, Germany
Digestion 70:117-26. 2004..This could reflect a direct inhibitory interaction of HBx with cellular repair mechanisms. Alternatively, this may be an effect of an increased generation of reactive oxygen intermediates through HBx...
