Critical Care General
Oct 08, 2020
Catheter ablation is an effective treatment for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF). However, little is known how healthcare utilization and cost change after ablation in thi...
Oct 08, 2020
To investigate whether elevated serum levels of sTWEAK (soluble tumor necrosis factor-like inducer of apoptosis) might be involved in a higher frequency of symptomatic hemorrhagic transformation (HT) ...
Oct 05, 2020
To describe a method of analysis for understanding the health care process, enriched with information on the clinical and profile characteristics of the patients. To apply the proposed technique to an...
Oct 05, 2020
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is the most common complication of sepsis with a high mortality rate. In this study, we focus on the renal injury caused by the immune response of renal tubular epithelial ce...
Oct 05, 2020
To report the successful treatment of septic nonunion in two dogs with large segmental defects secondary to long-bone fractures by using a novel human placenta-derived matrix (hPM) as adjunct to fixat...
Oct 05, 2020
The circadian clock is a collection of endogenous oscillators with a periodicity of ∼24 hours. Recently, our understanding of circadian rhythms and their regulation at genomic and physiologic scales...
Oct 05, 2020
Although patients with severe immunodeficiency and hematological malignancies has been considered at highest risk for invasive fungal infection, patients with severe pneumonia due to influenza, and se...
Oct 05, 2020
The Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Policy constituted a multidisciplinary expert committee to provide evidence-based recommendation for the use of antibacterial therapy in hospitalized adults with ...
Oct 05, 2020
Mycoplasma pneumoniae is currently the most commonly detected bacterial cause of childhood community-acquired pneumonia in several countries. Of note, clonal expansion of macrolide-resistant ST3 occur...
Oct 05, 2020
"SOS teeth" are defined as the first priority teeth for treatment, that have distinct cavitation reaching the pulp chamber or only root fragments are present. These are teeth with severe morbidity, th...
Oct 05, 2020
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is known to be associated with several co-occurring conditions. We aimed at exploring multimorbidity patterns associated with CKD, as well as the impact of physical perfor...
Oct 05, 2020
The aim of this review was to examine the existing evidence about interventions proposed for the treatment of clinical chorioamnionitis, with the goal of developing an evidence-based contemporary appr...
Oct 05, 2020
In the future, payers may not cover unplanned 90-day emergency room (ER) visits or readmissions after elective lumbar spine surgery. Prior studies using large administrative databases lack granularity...
Oct 05, 2020
The number of different antimicrobial recommendations between hospital trusts for the same indication in England is unknown.We aimed to evaluate the heterogeneity of antimicrobial recommendations for ...
Oct 05, 2020
Dysnatremia is common in severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients and may contribute to mortality. However, serum sodium variability has not been studied in TBI patients. We hypothesized that such...
Oct 05, 2020
Worldwide elderly traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients tend to become an increasing burden to the society. Thus, a faster and less expensive way of evaluating TBI victims is needed. In the present st...
Oct 05, 2020
Previous literature demonstrates increased mortality for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) with transfer to a Level II versus Level I trauma center. Our objective is to determine the effect of the most rec...
Oct 05, 2020
New hypertension and heart failure guidelines recommend that systolic blood pressure (SBP) in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and hypertension be lowered to <13...
Oct 05, 2020
β-blockers are recommended for heart failure (HF) patients but their benefit in the dialysis population is uncertain. β-blockers are heterogeneous including with respect to their removal by hemodial...
Oct 05, 2020
A 69-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with right hemiparesis and global aphasia. Perfusion computed tomography imaging revealed ischemic penumbra in the middle cerebral artery territory. Angi...