Within the AD group, we used neuropsychological data to further characterize patients by clinical phenotypes.

A second aim was to characterize patients with DM with respect to severity of CHF.

Moreover, glutamate uptake activity might be an useful biomarker to characterize patients with benign prognosis.

This suggests that it could be possible to characterize patients responding to chemotherapy even before starting the treatment using customized microarray analysis.

Objectives: To characterize patients with diagnostic disagreement about ARDS among critical-care-trained physicians and compare them with patients with a consensus that ARDS developed.

The aims of this study were to characterize patients with pulmonary metastasis from gastric cancer and to determine the efficacy of surgical therapy.

We sought to examine the frequency of PP use at a large referral center and characterize patients with PAH who died without receiving PP.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of inadequate pain relief (IPR) among patients with symptomatic knee OA prescribed analgesic therapy and to characterize patients with IPR.

Characterizing patients at higher risk may allow the design of preventive measures.

We hypothesized that exhaled molecular profiling may discriminate well- characterized patients with ALS from controls.

Rather, increased quantity of acid reflux was the single factor most characterizing patients with Barrett's esophagus.

Conclusion: In well characterized patients with chronic HF, circulating miR-132 levels rise with the severity of HF.

By applying an unbiased metabolomics approach with sera retrospectively obtained from well- characterized patients, we defined biochemical and diagnostic differences between early Lyme disease and STARI.