Critical Care General
Sep 14, 2020
Sepsis-associated encephalopathy (SAE) is a clinical syndrome of brain dysfunction secondary to sepsis, which is characterized by long-term neurocognitive deficits such as memory, attention, and execu...
Sep 14, 2020
The global health pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is placing a huge strain on UK hospitals. Early studies suggest that patients can deteriorate quickly after admission to hospital. The...
Sep 14, 2020
An outbreak of E-cigarette or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI) with significant morbidity and mortality was reported in 2019. While most patients with EVALI report vaping tetrahydroca...
Sep 14, 2020
The aim of this study was to investigate if CT performed in the early disease phase can predict the course of COVID-19 pneumonia in a German cohort.All patients with RT-PCR proven COVID-19 pneumonia a...
Sep 14, 2020
Serum antibody markers have been increasingly identified not only for cancer and autoimmune diseases but also for atherosclerosis-related diseases such as acute ischemic stroke (AIS), acute myocardial...
Sep 14, 2020
Standards for reporting and analyzing adherence to medical therapy have recently improved due to international consensus efforts. If applied to clinical trial research in patients with stroke, these i...
Sep 14, 2020
People who inject drugs (PWID) commonly experience harms related to their injecting, many of which are consequences of modifiable drug use practices. There is currently a gap in our understanding of h...
Sep 14, 2020
Patients with HIV are more likely to require a total hip arthroplasty (THA) because of an increase in life expectancy and complications with HIV. The purpose of this study is to describe the mid-te...
Sep 14, 2020
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes 10-20% of acquired epilepsy, which typically develops within 2 years post-injury with poorly understood mechanisms. We investigated the location, severity, evolut...
Sep 14, 2020
Developing appropriate concussion prevention and management paradigms in middle school (MS) settings requires understanding parents' general levels of concussion-related knowledge and attitudes. This ...
Sep 14, 2020
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and messenger RNAs (mRNAs) play an important role in central nervous diseases; however, the exact expression and co-expressed profiles in human traumatic brain injury (T...
Sep 14, 2020
Lopinavir-ritonavir combination is being used for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection. A low dose of ritonavir is added to other protease inhibitors to take advantage of potent inhibition of cytochr...
Sep 14, 2020
Risk stratification in chronic systolic heart failure (HF) is critical to identify the patients who may benefit from advanced therapies. We aimed identifying new biomarkers to improve prognosis evalua...
Sep 14, 2020
Amebiasis is a rare condition in developed countries but epidemiologically growing. Clinical manifestation may range from asymptomatic to invasive disease, amoebic liver abscess being the most common ...
Sep 14, 2020
Endurance training improves aerobic fitness and cardiac function in individuals with heart failure. However, the underlying mechanisms are not well characterized. Exercise training could therefore act...
Sep 10, 2020
Bronchopleural fistula (BPF) after lung cancer surgery is a life-threatening complication and often needs two-stage closure after fenestration. Although one-stage closure of BPF is challenging, it wou...
Sep 10, 2020
To determine whether giant cell arteritis (GCA) patients with the typical pattern of cranial ischemic manifestations and those with the extracranial large-vessel-vasculitis (LVV)-GCA phenotype exhibit...
Sep 10, 2020
Since SARS-CoV-2-based disease (COVID-19) spreads as a pandemic, the necessity of a highly sensitive molecular diagnosis that can drastically reduce false negatives reverse transcription PCR (rtPCR) r...
Sep 10, 2020
Zoonotic coronaviruses have emerged as a global threat by causing fatal respiratory infections. Given the lack of specific antiviral therapies, application of human convalescent plasma retaining neutr...
Sep 10, 2020
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) increases the risk of mortality during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) episodes, and some reports have underlined the high incidence and severity of this infection in ...