ISO 1133-2-2011-Plastics — Determination of the melt mass-flow rate (MFR) and melt volume flow rate (MVR) of thermoplastics — Part 2: Method for materials sensitive to time-temperature history and/or moisture
M.A. Habesoglu, D. Torun, Y.Z. Demiroglu, M. Karataslı, N. Sen, H. Ermis, Nurhan Ozdemir,
and F.O. Eyuboglu
ABSTRACT
Background. Hemodialysis patients are at high risk for tuberculosis, and a tuberculin
skin test (TST) is not usually helpful in detecting tuberculosis infection because of anergic
reactions. Prophylactic therapy against tuberculosis in dialysis patients is important to
enhance transplantation success. Herein we evaluated the value of TST in screening for
tuberculosis and analyzed any compounding factors that might affect the results of the test
in hemodialysis patients in an endemic area of Turkey.
Methods. A total of 187 (96 female, 91 male) patients were screened using a 2-step TST.
Test results were compared with clinical, radiologic, and laboratory data.
Results. None of the patients had active tuberculosis during the study and 55% had been
vaccinated against tuberculosis. After the first purified protein derivative (PPD) test,
55.1% of the patients showed a positive reaction, ultimately reaching a total of 68.4%
following the second test. Cumulative positive TST results were significantly correlated
with male gender (P .001, r .352), previous tuberculosis history (P .013, r .183)
positively, whereas with the ferritin level (P .001, r .233) negatively; but there were
no significant relationships between TST results and other data.
Conclusions. Impairment of delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction is frequent in dialysis
patients, but we observed high rates of positivity with the two-step TST which could be
attributed to tuberculosis being endemic in Turkey. Further comparative studies with more
specific diagnostic methods will be helpful to evalute the importance of TST positivity in
identifying tuberculosis-infected HD patients.
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Talking art 1
Encountering art 3
The urban body 7
SECTION 1
1 The future of art is urban 11
Seeing the street 11
Work/play 15
City-specific art 22
Relational art 27
Relational bodies 30
2 Relational writing 35
Spatial practice 35
Situated encounters 40
Writing art and the city 42
SECTION 2
3 Walking with Wentworth et al. 53
Talking the walk 53
Footprints 66
M¨unster footwork 75
4 London playing fields 97
Urban mobilisations 97
Running free 110
Art and play 125
5 Berlin, Vienna: Performing Holocaust memory 139
Not just a game 139
The silent ‘H’ word 152
Notes 167
Bibliography 181
Index 191
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