Nov 16, 2020

Few studies are looking at the usefulness of lung ultrasound combined with inferior vena cava (ultrasound strategy) in the particularly challenging diagnosis of acute heart failure (AHF) in elderly dy...

Nov 16, 2020

Dyads receiving palliative care for advanced heart failure are at risk for the loss of feeling safe, experienced as a fractured sense of coherence, discontinuity in sense of self and relationships, an...

Nov 16, 2020

Nearly half of the heart failure (HF) patients have been classified as HF with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (HFpEF) and the prevalence has been increasing over time. The subject of thi...

Nov 16, 2020

We aim to report 3 cases of central nervous system (CNS) vasculitides, in which high-resolution magnetic resonance vessel wall imaging (HR-VWI) findings were instrumental in the diagnosis and manageme...

Nov 16, 2020

Prediction of aspiration pneumonia development in at-risk patients is vital for implementation of appropriate interventions to reduce morbidity and mortality. Unfortunately, studies utilizing a compre...

Nov 12, 2020

In acute ischemic stroke, patient outcomes can be improved by first-pass successful recanalization of the occluded vessel. This study investigated whether microcatheter position could influence the su...

Nov 12, 2020

Despite failure of "The EC/IC Bypass Study Group" to demonstrate effectiveness in minimizing future stroke events, STA-MCA bypass remains an essential treatment for complex giant intracranial aneurysm...

Nov 12, 2020

There is a known association between need for transfusion and short-term outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. However, long-term data are lacking in the contemporary literature.All patient...

Nov 12, 2020

We have previously reported an association between high red blood cell distribution width (RDW) and mortality in septic and brain infarction patients. However, no association between RDW and mortality...

Nov 12, 2020

Resolution failure of exacerbated inflammation triggered by Influenza A virus (IAV) prevents return of pulmonary homeostasis and survival, especially when associated with secondary pneumococcal infect...

Nov 12, 2020

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in 2019 and disseminated around the world rapidly. Computed tomography (CT) imaging has been proven to be an important tool for screening, disease quantific...

Nov 12, 2020

The present report documents a patient harboring an alpha-synuclein p.A53T variant from a family presenting with autosomal dominant inheritance, including four patients clinically diagnosed with Parki...

Nov 12, 2020

Although symptoms and signs of COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) in children are milder than adults, there are reports of more severe cases which were defined as pediatric inflammatory multisystem s...

Nov 12, 2020

Sepsis is one of the most common reasons for hospitalization. This condition is characterized by systemic inflammatory response to infection. International definition of sepsis mainly points out a mul...

Nov 12, 2020

species are common causes of human infection. These Gram-positive, encapsulated bacterial pathogens infect diverse anatomic spaces, leading to infections including skin and soft tissue infection, end...

Nov 12, 2020

The newly highlighted research into programmed cell death (PCD), autophagy dependent cell death and pyroptotic cell death, has shown that these processes are both strongly correlated with the patholog...

Nov 12, 2020

L.P. Li, J.W. Liang and H.J. Fu. An update on the association between traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer's disease : focus on tau pathology and synaptic dysfunction. NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV REVXXX-XXX,202...

Nov 12, 2020

Resting heart rate is a risk factor of adverse heart failure (HF) outcomes; however, studies have shown controversial results. This meta-analysis evaluates the association of resting heart rate with m...

Nov 12, 2020

We investigated oxidative stress and RAAS biomarkers, as well as their association, in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients on optimized medical therapy, stratified by disease severity or by renal fun...

Nov 12, 2020

Exercise intolerance in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) or heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) results from both cardiac dysfunction and skeletal muscle weaknes...