For this reason we consider interesting to perform a prospective follow-up study of patients who require a transplant to survive, studying their nutritional status and health-related quality of life.
We consider it to be of interest to carry out a prospective follow-up study of patients affected by chronic liver disease requiring a liver transplant to survive, study their nutritional status and health-related quality of life in a reference hospital for liver transplants at national level.
Camouflage design, on this month's cover, one of two surviving studies from Burchfield's military days, is a mix of abstract and realistic elements and like all his work reaches for more than meets the eye.
The results of macroscopic and culture examination of all surviving study animals are summarised in Table 1.
25 27 Among women who had contributed >1 pregnancy and live born child to the original NNIPS-2 trial, only the eldest surviving study child was defined a priori as being eligible for the current investigation.
These findings should be interpreted with caution as data were missing for over 40% of the surviving study patients who appeared to have fewer comorbidities than patients who responded to the questions.
All-cause mortality was the primary end-point of the Survival of Patients with Acute Heart Failure in Need of Intravenous Inotropic Support (SURVIVE) study in which levosimendan was compared to dobutamine [ 49].
The SURVIVE study includes hospitalised patients with ADHF, left ventricular ejection fraction ≤ 30% and clinical need for IV inotropic support.
The SURVIVE study is a multicentre, parallel-group, randomised, double-blind, double-dummy study in patients with ADHF comparing the efficacy of LS with that of DB.
This is in contrast to the SURVIVE study, where a similar proportion of patients experienced hypotension as an AE (16% for levosimendan and 14% for dobutamine).
