Skeletal muscle dysfunction in survivors of pneumonia disproportionately affects older individuals in whom it causes substantial morbidity. We found that skeletal muscle recovery was impaire...
Developing countries continue to contribute significantly to the global burden of childhood mortality due to infectious diseases. Infections leading to diseases like diarrhoea, pneumonia and...
Patients with COVID-19 could present with gastrointestinal symptoms without fever or respiratory manifestations, which could be overlooked by health care providers. We aimed to evaluate the ...
We aimed to determine a profile of ex vivo released cytokines in patients with stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP) and to assess the clinical utility of individual cytokines and their combinat...
Measuring the impact of care complexity on health outcomes, based on psychosocial, biological and environmental circumstances, is important in order to detect predictors of early deteriorati...
Critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) are at high risk of developing upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to GI stress ulceration (SU). The major independent risk fa...
The majority of the children with SARS-CoV-2 infection present with respiratory symptoms, hence various chest imaging modalities have been used in the management. Knowledge about the radiolo...
Fungal infections are on the rise, since the imunocompromised population is increasing due to AIDS/HIV, organ transplant and chemotherapy. Many environmental and pathogenic fungi are able to...
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) is a potentially life-threatening infection that occurs in immunocompromised individuals. The incidence can be as high as 80% in some groups but can be...
SARS-CoV-2 causes a phenotype of pneumonia with diverse manifestation, which is termed as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). An impressive high transmission rate allows COVID-19 conferring...
Hyaluronic acid (HA) based nanofibers (NFs) represented a novel class of bioactive wound dressings that have a vital role in wound management due to their unique properties as an extracellul...
The outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the current world health concern, presenting a public health dilemma with ascending morbidity and mortality rates exceeding any previou...
This document follows up on a 2017 revised international consensus on anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibodies (ANCA) testing in granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis and...
Clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (CADM) is a rare entity of dermatomyositis. As a rule, CADM presents without muscular involvement. Thus, the level of creatine kinase is most commonly...
Little is known as yet about the outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children being treated for cancer.We collected information on the clinical characteristics and outcomes of a cohort of 29 ...
To investigate the anxiety and depression levels of frontline clinical nurses working in 14 hospitals in Gansu Province, China, during this period.A cross-sectional survey was conducted onli...
This study aimed to compare the clinical outcomes of early and late surgical stabilization of rib fractures (SSRFs) in patients with flail chest. A retrospective analysis was performed ...
In December 2019, the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was initiated in Wuhan, now causing a worldwide pandemic. However, the experience in the very elderly patients is very l...
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified as responsible for the COVID-19 outbreak worldwide. Data on treatment are scare and parallels are made be...
As of April 17th, 2020, more than 2,190,010 COVID-19 cases with 147,010 deaths have been recorded worldwide. It has been suggested that a high mortality rate occurs in patients with severe d...
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