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Biomechanical analysis of skull trauma and opportunity in neuroradiology interpretation to explain the post-concussion syndrome: literature review and case studies presentation.

Dec 10, 2020

Traumatic head injuries are one of the leading causes of emergency worldwide due to their frequency and associated morbidity. The circumstances of their onset are often sports activities or road accid...

Links between thrombosis and inflammation in traumatic brain injury.

Dec 10, 2020

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) continues to be a major healthcare problem and there is much to be explored regarding the secondary pathobiology to identify early predictive markers and new therapeutic t...

Role for histone deacetylation in traumatic brain injury-induced deficits in neuropeptide Y in arcuate nucleus: Possible implications in feeding behaviour.

Dec 10, 2020

Repeated traumatic events result in long-lasting neuropsychiatric ailments, including neuroendocrine imbalances. Neuropeptide Y (NPY) in the arcuate nucleus (Arc) is an important orexigenic peptide. H...

Meta-Analysis of the Usefulness of Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.

Dec 10, 2020

Catheter ablation improves clinical outcomes in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients with heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). However, the role of catheter ablation in HF with a pr...

Tracheostomy in the pediatric trisomy 21 population.

Dec 10, 2020

Tracheostomy in children is often performed to alleviate airway obstruction (AO) or to facilitate long-term ventilator support due to respiratory failure of various etiologies, such as heart failure, ...

The risk of cardiac events in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors: a nationwide Danish study.

Dec 10, 2020

The study aimed to estimate the risk of cardiac events in immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)-treated patients with lung cancer or malignant melanoma.The study included consecutive patients with lung ca...

Characterizing spatiotemporal progression and prediction of infarct lesion volumes in experimental acute ischemia using quantitative perfusion and diffusion imaging.

Dec 10, 2020

This study was conducted to explore the diagnostic value of arterial spin labeling (ASL) combined with diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) in characterizing the spatiotemporal progression of infarct lesi...

Atherosclerosis is associated with poorer outcome in non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia.

Dec 10, 2020

To evaluate whether abdominal atherosclerosis was associated with poorer outcome in a single-centre cohort of patients suffering from nonocclusive mesenteric ischemia (NOMI).From January 2009 to Decem...

Red and White Thrombus Characteristics in Patients Undergoing Carotid Endarterectomy.

Dec 07, 2020

The study aimed to compare the characteristics of red and white thrombi in patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy.The study was conducted in 81 patients with ischemic stroke who underwent carotid ...

Synovial fluid presepsin as a novel biomarker for the rapid differential diagnosis of native joint septic arthritis from crystal arthritis.

Dec 07, 2020

To investigate whether presepsin can be used as a novel biomarker to differentiate between native joint septic arthritis (NJSA) and crystal arthritis (CA).This study included 75 patients diagnosed wit...

The Use of Real-Time 3D Intraoperative Ultrasound "Angiography" in Localization and Occlusion Control of a Ruptured Mycotic Aneurysm: A Case Report.

Dec 07, 2020

 Infectious (mycotic) aneurysms are rare with high mortality and are most commonly found at the distal branches of the middle cerebral artery (MCA). Because aneurysms of the distal MCA are located d...

Low-dose Whole-lung Irradiation for COVID-19 Pneumonia: Final Results of a Pilot Study.

Dec 07, 2020

Radiotherapy (RT) -commonly employed in cancer management- has been considered as one of the potential treatments for COVID-19 pneumonia. Here, we present the results of the pilot trial evaluating low...

Myeloid arginase-1 controls excessive inflammation and modulates T cell responses in Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia.

Dec 07, 2020

Regulatory properties of macrophages associated with alternative activation serve to limit the exaggerated inflammatory response during pneumonia caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. Arginase-1...

Prevalence and Outcomes Associated with Vitamin D Deficiency among Indexed Hospitalizations with Cardiovascular Disease and Cerebrovascular Disorder-A Nationwide Study.

Dec 07, 2020

: According to past studies, recovery and survival following severe vascular events such as acute myocardial infarction and stroke are negatively impacted by vitamin D deficiency. However, the nationa...

Revacept, an Inhibitor of Platelet Adhesion in Symptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis: Design and Rationale of a Randomized Phase II Clinical Trial.

Dec 07, 2020

Patients with stroke or transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) and internal carotid artery stenosis harbor an increased risk of recurrent stroke especially within 2 weeks after the first event. In addition...

The missing acute coronary syndromes in the COVID-19 era.

Dec 07, 2020

To determine whether the number of patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes has reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic.Numbers of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) activations, ...

White Blood Cell Count is the most Reliable Test for the Diagnosis of Septic Arthritis after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. An observational study on 38 patients.

Dec 07, 2020

The purposes of this study were as follows: (1) to evaluate the diagnostic testing performance of synovial WBC count, PMN%, synovial glucose, synovial protein, synovial LDH and synovial CRP levels, as...

Effect of nurse-led, goal-directed lung physical therapy on prognosis of patients with sepsis caused by Acinetobacter baumannii pulmonary infection.

Dec 07, 2020

To investigate the role of nurse-led, goal-directed lung physical therapy on the prognosis of patients with sepsis caused by Acinetobacter baumannii pulmonary infection.Patients with sepsis caused by ...

Contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging highlights neurovasculature changes following experimental traumatic brain injury in the rat.

Dec 07, 2020

Neurovascular injury has been proposed as a universal pathological hallmark of traumatic brain injury (TBI) with molecular markers of angiogenesis and endothelial function associated with injury sever...

Inducing different severities of traumatic brain injury in Drosophila using a piezoelectric actuator.

Dec 07, 2020

Drosophila models have been instrumental in providing insights into molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration, with wide application to human disease. The brain degeneration associated with traumatic ...

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