Critical Care General
Dec 21, 2020
Background Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for lower extremity arterial disease. Cilostazol expresses antiplatelet, anti-inflammatory, and vasodilator actions and improves the claudication i...
Dec 21, 2020
Cardiovascular events are a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. The risk of recurrence after a first cardiovascular event has been documented in the international literature, although no...
Dec 21, 2020
Cystoscopic placement of ureteric stents during colorectal surgery(CRS) may aid in the intraoperative identification of the ureters and thus prevent ureteric injury, but may also be associated with pr...
Dec 21, 2020
Sepsis is a severe systemic inflammatory response induced by infection. Innate immunity recognizes pathogen components such as lipopolysaccharides (LPS), and mediates the polarization of immune cells ...
Dec 21, 2020
SARS-CoV-2 infection generally begins in the respiratory tract where it can cause bilateral pneumonia. The disease can evolve into acute respiratory distress syndrome and multi-organ failure, due to v...
Dec 21, 2020
Although return to learn, exercise, and sports have evidence-based guidelines, there is limited research investigating return to driving after concussion. The purpose was to characterize and compare a...
Dec 21, 2020
Fast acquisition of a first computed tomography (CT) scan after traumatic brain injury (TBI) is recommended. This study is aimed at investigating whether the length of the period preceding initial CT ...
Dec 21, 2020
This study examined the antiepileptogenic potential of the antiseizure drug (ASD) levetiracetam (LEV) using the in vitro traumatized-slice and in vivo controlled cortical impact (CCI) models of trauma...
Dec 21, 2020
The natural history of penetrating aortic ulcers (PAU) and intramural hematomas (IMH) of the aorta is not well described. While repair is warranted for rupture, unremitting chest pain or growth, there...
Dec 21, 2020
There is paucity of data on cardiac rehabilitation (CR) enrollment and outcomes in women with heart failure (HF).In this retrospective analysis, we compared enrollment, adherence and outcomes between ...
Dec 21, 2020
Circadian rhythms follow a 24 h day and night cycle, regulate vital physiological processes, and are especially relevant to cardiovascular growth, renewal, repair, and remodeling. A recent flurry of ...
Dec 21, 2020
The optimal duration of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is under controversial. The aim of the present systematic review and meta-analysis was to evalua...
Dec 17, 2020
The aim of the study is to model amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (aEEG) utility to diagnose seizures in common clinical scenarios. Using reported neonatal seizure prevalence and aEEG ...
Dec 17, 2020
Human cases of acute profound hypoxic-ischemic (HI) injury (HII), in which the insult duration timed with precision had been identified, remains rare, and there is often uncertainty of the prior st...
Dec 17, 2020
Pulmonary endothelial permeability contributes to the high-permeability pulmonary edema that characterizes acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Circulating bone morphogeneic protein 9 (BMP9) is...
Dec 17, 2020
Survival rates for pediatric acute leukemia vary dramatically worldwide. Infections are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, and the impact is amplified in low and middle-income countries. Defi...
Dec 17, 2020
The vascular enlargement (VE) pattern differs from previously described imaging patterns for pneumonia. This study aimed to investigate the incidence, computed tomography (CT) characteristics, and dia...
Dec 17, 2020
Thrombin is increasingly recognized to be of importance for cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of thrombin generation variables in a cohort of patien...
Dec 17, 2020
Although asthma has been suggested as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), robust longitudinal evidence of this relationship is limited.Using Framingham Offspring Cohort data, we sought to ...
Dec 17, 2020
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with increased mortality, predictors of which are poorly characterized. We investigated the predictive power of the commonly used CHADS-VASc score (congestive he...