Critical Care General
Jun 29, 2020
Shenfu injection (SFI) is a well-known Chinese herbal medicine widely used in the treatment of septic shock in China.The aims of this study are to investigate the protective effects of SFI on sepsis-i...
Jun 29, 2020
The effect of body-mass index (BMI) on the risk of infectious diseases admissions and mortality is unclear and is difficult to study given risks of confounding variables.We used genome-wide associatio...
Jun 29, 2020
Coccidioidal meningitis is a life-threatening condition and a diagnostic challenge in cases of chronic meningitis. It is associated to severe complications, like basal arachnoiditis, hydrocephalus, an...
Jun 29, 2020
COVID-19 carries a high risk of severe disease course, particularly in patients with comorbidities. Therapy of severe COVID-19 infection has relied on supportive intensive care measures. More specific...
Jun 29, 2020
Background Ischemic heart disease, particularly inferior wall myocardial infarction (IWMI), is a significant issue in cardiac health. It can further add up to the morbidity and mortality when it is as...
Jun 29, 2020
On March 13, 2020, the United States declared a national emergency in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Subsequently, states enacted stay-at-home orders to slow the spread ...
Jun 29, 2020
In heart attack, FSTL-1 is actively secreted by cardiomyocytes, accelerates growth of heart myofibrils and stimulates of vascular endothelial growth factor expression. The aim of this work was to inve...
Jun 29, 2020
40%-50% of this septic arthritis occurs in the knee, despite rapid medical surgical treatment, 24%-50% will have a poor clinical outcome. It is not clear which debridement technique, by arthrotomy or ...
Jun 29, 2020
On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organisation identified COVID-19, caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2, to be a global emergency. The risk factors already identified for developing complications from a...
Jun 29, 2020
Sepsis is recognized as a global public health problem, but the proportion due to hospital-acquired infections remains unclear. We aimed to summarize the epidemiological evidence related to the burden...
Jun 29, 2020
Posttraumatic epilepsy (PTE) is defined as recurrent and unprovoked seizures occurring >1 week after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Animal studies of PTE are lengthy and expensive. In this study, w...
Jun 29, 2020
A mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs to millions of people each year. Translational approaches to understanding the pathogenesis of neurological diseases and the testing of the effectiveness of ...
Jun 29, 2020
Animal models are critical for determining the mechanisms mediating traumatic brain injury-induced (TBI) neuropathology. Fluid percussion injury (FPI) is a widely used model of brain injury typically ...
Jun 29, 2020
Approximately 5% of patients with sarcoidosis will have cardiac involvement presenting with one or more of ventricular arrhythmias, conduction abnormalities, and heart failure. It is estimated that a...
Jun 29, 2020
For the year 2019, almost 25,000 published references can be found in PubMed when entering the search term "cardiac surgery." We used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Anal...
Jun 29, 2020
Clinical use of continuous electrocardiogram (cECG) for detecting atrial fibrillation (AF) after stroke is unclear. In a Danish nationwide cohort we described post-stroke time trends in outpatient cEC...
Jun 29, 2020
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNAs that do not encode for proteins and play key roles in the regulation of gene expression. miRNAs are involved in a comprehensive range of biological processes such as ...
Jun 29, 2020
We studied the prevalence of chronic non-communicable diseases (CND) in elderly and senile patients in conjunction with the syndrome of senile asthenia, the prevalence of sarcopenia depending on gende...
Jun 27, 2020
Smoking tobacco is the best-known risk factor for COPD risk factor, but recent data from a multitude of population-based observational studies show that only a minority of lifelong smokers develop COP...
Jun 25, 2020
Stroke is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Considerable experimental and clinical evidence suggests that both diabetes mellitus (DM) and post-stroke hyperglycemia are associated wit...