Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a common infection associated with high morbimortality and a highly deleterious impact on patients' quality of life and functionality. We comprehensivel...
To evaluate the population pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of teicoplanin in elderly critically ill patients with pneumonia for optimal dosages.Fifteen critically ill patients (9 men)�...
The clinical indications of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in immunosuppressed patients are not clear. This study aimed to analyse the effectiveness of ECMO and to identify the r...
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Long-term maintenance steroid therapy (MST) is frequently required for repeated relapses of cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP); however, the optimal minimal dose has not been clarified. ...
A 60-year-old female was admitted to internal medicine with a painful left knee after a fall and pneumonia. She had undergone a primary cemented left total knee arthroplasty in 2019 and ...
The unbalanced translocation der (1;7)(q10;p10) is a characteristic cytogenetic abnormality observed in myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). A 63-year-old man presented to our hospital with fever...
Secondary spontaneous pneumothorax (SSP) is occasionally observed in elderly patients suffering from diffuse lung diseases. The purpose of this study was to analyze the outcomes of surgical ...
A ventilator bundle is an effective preventive strategy against the development of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). However, in clinical practice ventilator bundle implementation is po...
To compare early and medium-term outcomes between robotic and sternotomy approaches for mitral valve replacement (MVR). Clinical data of 1393 cases who underwent MVR between January 2014 and...
The objective of this study was to identify the pathogen spectrum of community acquired pneumonia in people living with HIV (PLWH), and to compare it with a matched HIV negative group in ord...
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), a kind of nanomaterial, are widely used in battery electrodes and composite materials, but the adverse effects associated with their accumulation in t...
Pathogenic bacteria residing inside cells could cause disruption of cellular metabolic balance. Therefore, basing on high oxidative stress response of the intracellular bacteria infected mic...
To analyze the clinical characteristics and prognosis of adenovirus infection after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. A total of 26 patients with adenovirus infection adm...
Higher frequencies of inflammatory adverse effects of clozapine have been reported in Japan. As the international titration protocol for Asians has set slower dose titration than the Japanes...
Serratia marcescens (SM) may cause nosocomial outbreaks in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU). We describe an outbreak of SM in a NICU and propose additional prevention and control recomme...
To compare clinical outcomes in patients with severe pneumonia according to the diagnostic strategy used.In this retrospective, nested, case-control study, patients with severe pneumonia who...
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia beyond the neonatal period is not uncommon. Its diagnosis in infancy and early childhood poses a challenge owing to different clinical presentation ranging fr...
Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) are common in children. We developed machine learning models to predict pediatric ARI pathogens at admission.We included hospitalized children with respir...
Methotrexate (MTX) is an anchor drug in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Frailty is the intermediate condition between being healthy and disabled, and can lead to negative health ...
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