Critical Care General
Jul 30, 2020
Aim To study possible correlations between echocardiography (EchoCG) indexes and markers of myocardial fibrosis, procollagen I C-terminal propeptide (PICP) and procollagen III N-terminal pro...
Jul 30, 2020
Background Sleep disturbance and ventilator inefficiency are considered two of the most critical complications for general human wellbeing, particularly in elderly heart failure (HF) patients. Studies...
Jul 30, 2020
Tigertriever is a novel operator-adjustable clot retriever designed to enhance the operator's options to control the interaction of retriever and clot. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibil...
Jul 27, 2020
Prescriptions of off-label dosing non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) are common for Asian patients with atrial fibrillation (AF).To investigate the associations between inappropriate...
Jul 27, 2020
Pro-atrial natriuretic peptide (proANP) and pro-adrenomedullin (proADM) levels increase in acute heart failure and sepsis. After cardiac surgery, children may require increased support in the intensiv...
Jul 27, 2020
Tregs play a crucial role in modulating the inflammatory response and participated in the sepsis-related immune dysfunctions. However, little is known about the regulatory mechanisms by which Tregs ar...
Jul 27, 2020
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), an acute syndrome of systemic thrombus formation in microvasculatures throughout the body, can be induced by severe infections, e.g. sepsis. Anticoagulant...
Jul 27, 2020
We aimed to determine a profile of ex vivo released cytokines in patients with stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP) and to assess the clinical utility of individual cytokines and their combination as a b...
Jul 27, 2020
Measuring the impact of care complexity on health outcomes, based on psychosocial, biological and environmental circumstances, is important in order to detect predictors of early deterioration of inpa...
Jul 27, 2020
Critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) are at high risk of developing upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to GI stress ulceration (SU). The major independent risk factors for ...
Jul 27, 2020
Following major trauma, sepsis or surgery, some patients exhibit an impaired monocyte inflammatory response that is characterized by a decreased response to a subsequent bacterial challenge. To invest...
Jul 27, 2020
Bloodstream infection and sepsis are major causes of health loss worldwide, and it is important to identify patients at risk of developing and dying from these conditions. The single-nucleotide polymo...
Jul 27, 2020
Efforts to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing have coincided with increasing awareness of sepsis. We aimed to estimate the probability of sepsis following infection consultations in primary car...
Jul 27, 2020
Large-scale studies are required to better characterise traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to identify the most effective treatment approaches for TBI. However, evidence is scarce and mostly originates ...
Jul 27, 2020
To evaluate the effect of cognitive and physical rest on persistent post-concussive symptoms (PPCS) in a pediatric population.A prospective cohort study of 5-18-year-olds diagnosed with an acute concu...
Jul 27, 2020
Studies suggest that concussions may be related to increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and Alzheimer's Disease. Most neuroimaging studies show effect...
Jul 27, 2020
Evidence-based studies on endovascular approaches for childhood Takayasu arteritis(c-TA) are limited. This study presents the largest real-world scenario up-to-date for c-TA patients undergoing interv...
Jul 27, 2020
Heart failure (HF) causes pathological changes in multiple organs, thus affecting the pharmacokinetics of drugs. The aim of this study was to investigate the pharmacokinetics of candesartan in HF pati...
Jul 27, 2020
Anemia is very common in critical care patients, on admission (affecting about two-thirds of patients), but also during and after their stay, due to repeated blood loss, the effects of inflammation on...
Jul 27, 2020
This study sought to determine the impact of baseline chronic kidney disease (CKD) on in-hospital outcomes of transcatheter mitral valve repair with MitraClip (MC).MC is now an established treatment i...