Critical Care General
Apr 20, 2020
CT reduction in favor of rapid sequence MRI to decrease pediatric radiation exposure has varied across institutions. We aim to understand national trends in CT and rapid sequence MRI usage, as well as...
Apr 20, 2020
Investigations of Alzheimer's disease (AD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and related brain disorders have provided extensive evidence for involvement of cathepsin B, a lysosomal cysteine protease, in...
Apr 20, 2020
The association of TBI with socioeconomic characteristics of patients has not been studied extensively. The objective of this study was to analyse the differences in injury characteristics and outcome...
Apr 20, 2020
Acute heart failure (AHF) patients with high troponin levels have a worse prognosis. High-sensitive troponin T (hs-TnT) has been used as a tool to stratify prognosis in many scales but always as a qua...
Apr 20, 2020
Prediction of outcome after stroke may help clinicians provide effective management and plan long-term care. We aimed to develop and validate a score for predicting good functional outcome available f...
Apr 20, 2020
The spectrum of ischemic heart diseases, encompassing acute myocardial infarction to heart failure, represents the leading cause of death worldwide. Although extensive progress in cardiovascular diagn...
Apr 20, 2020
Dapagliflozin, a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor, was shown in the DAPA-HF study to reduce the risk of worsening heart failure or death in symptomatic patients with left ejection fraction < 4...
Apr 20, 2020
The following chapter is focused on the impact of comorbidities on the effectiveness of vaccination in older persons. Relevant comorbidities are cardiovascular diseases like hypertension, coronary art...
Apr 20, 2020
Environmental noise exposure has been associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Recently, noise annoyance was shown to induce atrial fibrillation, which was accompanied by sign...
Apr 20, 2020
Adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) therapies are emerging as a promising approach to therapeutic angiogenesis. Therapeutic persistence and reduced primitive stem cell function following cell delivery...
Apr 15, 2020
Maintenance of functional arteriovenous dialysis grafts (AVG) is difficult secondary to low primary patency, need for re-interventions, and limited alternative dialysis access options. We assessed our...
Apr 15, 2020
Intracellular acidosis in the ischemic penumbra can contribute to further cell death, effectively enlarging the infarct core. Restoring the acid-base balance may enhance tissue survivability after cer...
Apr 15, 2020
GDF15 is frequently detected in patients suffering from various diseases, especially those associated with pro-inflammatory processes and/or metabolic disorders. Accordingly, sepsis, whose major compl...
Apr 15, 2020
Streptococcus pyogenes or group A streptococcus (GAS) is a human specific pathogen that annually infects over 700 million individuals. GAS strains of type emm28 are an abundant cause of invasive infec...
Apr 15, 2020
To define sepsis syndromes in high-HIV burden settings in the antiretroviral therapy (ART) era.We characterized a prospective cohort of adults presenting to a tertiary emergency department in Harare, ...
Apr 15, 2020
Sepsis is a grievous health concern with limited understanding of its precise etiology. Although studies on sepsis have implicated the Warburg effect (mitigation of mitochondrial oxidative phosphoryla...
Apr 15, 2020
To investigate the imaging features of emerging COVID-19 pneumonia on chest ultrasound (US), radiographs (CXR) and computed tomography (CT) examinations performed at admission and to provide a compreh...
Apr 15, 2020
The initial investigation by local hospital attributed the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to pneumonia with unknown cause that appeared like the 2003 severe acute respiratory syn...
Apr 15, 2020
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an emerging infectious disease that was first reported in Wuhan, China, and has subsequently spread worldwide. Clinical information on patients contracted with s...
Apr 15, 2020
Using Richardson and Davidson's model and the sciences of pharmacokinetics and clinical pharmacopsychology, this article reviewed the: (1) poor life expectancy associated with treatment-resistant schi...