page 40 (http://www.asm.org/ASM/files/CCPAGECONTENT/docfilename/00000...

Do you need it in English or Spanish?

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Isotope-coded affinity tags: http://www.nature.com/nrm/journal/v8/n8/glossary/nrm2208.htm...

ICAT = isotope-coded affinity tag”

one option, but ICAT is also an abbreviation for agglutination test...

good luck

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for liz: Come on, just because you find a reference on the Net, it doesn not mean that it´s relevant. Look at this link:www.herold-innere-medizin.de/pdf/khk.pdf
ICAT here is "intracoronary aspirational thrombectomy", but it does not mean that it is the answer to the question... I have to trust my MD gut feeling sometimes, too. We have too little context to give a very informed answer to this question.

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:j2PdfwEX-ikJ:www.infome...


Infarto total de la Circulación
anterior (ICAT): Los pacientes se
presentan con una combinación de
una disfunción cerebral superior
(disfasia,
discalculia, desorden
visuoespacial), defecto homónimo
de los campos visuales y déficit
sensitivo y/o motor ipsilateral de al
menos dos de estas tres áreas:
cara, brazo y pierna. Si la
conciencia esta alterada y no se
pueden explorar las funciones
mentales superiores se asume que
existe un déficit de las mismas.
Este término de ICAT implica que
ha habido isquemia en el territorio
superficial y profundo de la arteria
cerebral media. No distingue si ha
ocurrido infarto en el territorio de la
arteria cerebral anterior. Existe


http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:DnGzNNaoDlMJ:www.medico...

TACI (Total Anterior Cerebral Infarction, infarto completo de la circulación anterior) Constituye el 15% de los infartos cerebrales. La causa es más frecuentemente embólica.

· PACI (Partial Anterior Cerebral Infarction, infarto parcial de la circulación anterior) : es el más frecuente (35%). Las dos causas más frecuentes son el cardioembolismo y la aterosclerosis en proporción similar.

· LACI (Lacunar Infarction, infarto lacunar): la frecuencia es del 25%. La causa más común es la lipohialinosis asociada a hipertensión arterial así como microateromas.

· POCI (Posterior Circulation Infarction, infarto de la circulación posterior). Tiene una frecuencia del 25%. La causa más frecuente es la aterosclerosis.

TACI
TACI Total Anterior Circulation Infarct. ALL OF THESE:-; Higher Dysfunction. Dysphasia; Visuospatial. Homonymous Hemianopia; Motor / Sensory Deficit ...
www.sol.co.uk/r/rsmacwalter/strotype/tsld006.htm - 2k - Cached - Similar pages


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Mind you....
it is the ":15" afterwards that is bothering me....?

so perhaps a level 3...

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I say this because if the 15 is the quantity

this person would have been dead long ago, probably :-)

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Another ref:

CiNii - -0835-INTRACORONARY ASPIRATION THROMBECTOMY (ICAT) IN ...
- [ Translate this page ]
Japanese circulation journal · Vol.54, No.8(19900820) p. 952 ... ASPIRATION THROMBECTOMY (ICAT) IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (AMI) : ANGIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS ...
ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110002632312/ - 23k - Cached - Similar pages

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Difference between risk factors of anterior and posterior circulation strokes
Seyed Ali Mousavi*, Tahereh Hoseini*
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
The cerebrovascular diseases rank first in frequency and importance among all the neurological dis-
eases of adult life. It is important to understand the risk factors associated with stroke subtypes in order to improve pri-
mary and secondary preventative strategies. There is currently no information on the relationship of these stroke sub-
types with cerebrovascular risk factors. Clinicians have tended to view strokes occurring in the anterior circulation (AC)
and the posterior circulation (PC) as separate entities because the most common ischemic strokes occur in the AC, while
strokes occurring in the PC are the most severe. Furthermore, AC and PC strokes have different underlying pathogene-
sis, natural histories and potential responsiveness to interventions such as anticoagulation and risk factors. We sought to
explore differences between AC and PC strokes concerning their risk factors.
METHODS:
In this prospective descriptive study, we evaluated 250 patients; 125 had AC involvement and 125 had PC
involvement, and were referred to Alzahra and Noor University Hospitals and private clinics between January 2000 and
December 2004. Strokes in AC and PC were diagnosed by clinical and neuroimaging findings including brain CT
Scanning and MRI. Pre-stroke cerebrovascular risk factors for each patient recorded from previous and present evalua-
tions included hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia and smoking.


I think that

TACI

is now a distinct possibility

We could do with an M.D. in the house!

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Thank you for your comment Rita!

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OK, Dani. I hope you get a satisfactory answer.

Pity there is no way of contacting the original hospital/writer of the report...

Liz

Very late answer I know but I've just been looking for the term and came across this question.
I think it's the pack year calculation in English.

Anyway, this may be helpful to someone else in the future, I guess the deadline for the original asker may have been and gone by now!