Critical Care General
Dec 24, 2020
We describe the characteristics and short-term prognosis of in-patients with diabetes and COVID-19 admitted to a Belgian academic care center.We retrospectively reviewed the data on admission from pat...
Dec 24, 2020
Thrombosis has emerged as an important complication of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), particularly among individuals with severe illness. However, the precise incidence of thrombotic events rema...
Dec 24, 2020
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. This study aims to identify specific lab markers, complications, and treatments that ...
Dec 24, 2020
Clostridium difficile is one of the most common healthcare-associated infections. Pseudomembranous colitis is a serious complication of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) after septic surgery and a...
Dec 24, 2020
The new concept of thrombosis associated with an inflammatory process is called thromboinflammation. Indeed, both thrombosis and inflammation interplay one with the other in a feed forward manner ampl...
Dec 24, 2020
Pre-season testing is often used to establish baseline scores for post-concussion interpretation. However, pre-season testing can be time-intensive and cost-prohibitive, in which case normative data m...
Dec 24, 2020
Return-to-play following sport-related concussion(SRC) requires authorized clearance from a healthcare provider(HCP). Variability in HCPs and facilities where athletes seek care may influence return t...
Dec 24, 2020
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 3.8 million concussions occur in the United States each year. Concussion symptoms can negatively impact the academic performance of adoles...
Dec 24, 2020
Color Doppler is a widely used ultrasound imaging method for assessing mitral regurgitation (MR) in clinical practice. Nevertheless, color Doppler-based grading of the MR jet has been rarely considere...
Dec 24, 2020
Cardiac involvement in amyloidosis is associated with a poor prognosis. Data on the burden of arrhythmias in patients with cardiac amyloidosis (CA) during hospitalization is lacking. We identified the...
Dec 24, 2020
Major depressive disorder is associated with pro-inflammatory markers, such as cytokines TNF-alpha, IL-6, IL-1ß, and C-reactive protein. Galectin-3 is a novel emerging biomarker with pro-inflammatory...
Dec 24, 2020
More and more reports had observed the thrombosis in severe COVID-19 cases. The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence of thromboembolism in mild/ moderate COVID-19. All of the patients had n...
Dec 24, 2020
Revascularization by pharmacological and/or endovascular treatment is an effective therapy for acute ischemic stroke caused by artery occlusion. In the context of malignant middle cerebral artery infa...
Dec 24, 2020
Inhalation of nitric oxide (NO) exerts selective pulmonary vasodilation. Nitric oxide also has an antimicrobial effect on a broad spectrum of pathogenic viruses, bacteria and fungi.The aim of this stu...
Dec 21, 2020
To report six consecutive patients with confirmed coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) who underwent Transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasonography evaluation for cerebral microemboli in the setting of sus...
Dec 21, 2020
Studies have demonstrated that oxidaive stress-induced apoptosis may be the main pathogenic mechanism of renal ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. Theaflavin, a polyphenolic compound extracted from bla...
Dec 21, 2020
To determine incidence and severity of acute kidney injury (AKI) within 7 days of sepsis evaluation and to assess AKI duration and the association between AKI and 30-day mortality. Retrospective, mat...
Dec 21, 2020
Phase I clinical trials have established low-dose, whole-lung radiotherapy (LD-RT) as safe for patients with COVID-19-related pneumonia. By focally dampening cytokine hyperactivation, LD-RT may improv...
Dec 21, 2020
To describe clinical features and outcomes of a case series of adult tetanus which could be of great importance, illustrating still inadequacies in confronting this preventable disease.This study retr...