Jun 22, 2020

Clinical manifestations of COVID-19 vary from asymptomatic virus shedding, non-specific pharyngitis, to pneumonia with silent hypoxia and respiratory failure. Dendritic cells and macrophages are senti...

Jun 22, 2020

We aimed to investigate the optimal timing of invasive coronary angiography and subsequent intervention in non-ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) patients.We examined the impact...

Jun 22, 2020

Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in December 2019 from Wuhan, China. It typically presents with mild upper respiratory tract infection symptoms and may have life threatening complications,...

Jun 22, 2020

We propose the concept that administration of an unrelated live attenuated vaccine, such as MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), could serve as a preventive measure against the worst sequelae of coronavirus...

Jun 22, 2020

Sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia contributed 81% of 5·9 million under-5 deaths and 77% of 2·6 million stillbirths worldwide in 2015. Vital registration and verbal autopsy data are mainstays for the...

Jun 22, 2020

The new zoonotic coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) responsible for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a new strain of coronavirus not previously seen in humans and which appears to come from bat species. It ori...

Jun 22, 2020

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is induced by the immediate physical disruption of brain tissue. TBI causes disruption of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and brain edema. In the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) o...

Jun 22, 2020

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of elderly trauma admissions. Previous research identified that each minute delay to TBI diagnosis was associated with a 2% mortality increase, delayi...

Jun 22, 2020

Andexanet alfa, a novel anticoagulation reversal agent for Factor Xa inhibitors, was recently approved. Traumatic intracranial hemorrhage presents a prime target for this drug. The ANNEXA-4 study esta...

Jun 22, 2020

Left bundle branch area pacing (LBBAP) was reported to improve cardiac function by correcting complete left bundle branch block (CLBBB). Our study aimed to compare the efficacy of LBBAP and biventricu...

Jun 22, 2020

The assessment of left ventricular (LV) function in the setting of mitral stenosis (MS) has been critically examined for decades. Accurate assessment of aberrations in diastolic function is important ...

Jun 22, 2020

Elderly cryptogenic ischemic stroke (IS) patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) have a high risk of recurrent IS (RIS) compared to other stroke subtypes. In young ESUS patients, di...

Jun 22, 2020

Apart from its known actions as a pulmonary vasodilator, nitric oxide (NO) is a key signal mediator in the neonatal brain. Despite the extensive use of NO for pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH), its ...

Jun 22, 2020

Recent major clinical trials of the use of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors in patients with type 2 diabetes have shown that they reduce three-point major adverse cardiovascular event...

Jun 18, 2020

Intra-articular (IA) antibiotic usage is prevalent in equine practice. However, recent emergence of antimicrobial resistance prompts re-evaluation of antibiotic selection, particularly when used proph...

Jun 18, 2020

Since the outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pneumonia, thousands of patients with fever or cough were flocked into fever clinic of designated hospitals in Wuhan, China. To date, no data ...

Jun 18, 2020

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is increasingly common in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Relatively little is known about factors that drive S. maltophilia infection. We evaluated the utilit...

Jun 18, 2020

We describe our experience with three pregnant women with novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who required mechanical ventilation. Recent data suggest a mortality of 88% in nonpregnant patients ...

Jun 18, 2020

Protamine use in carotid endarterectomy has been shown to be associated with fewer perioperative bleeding complications without higher rates of thromboembolic events. However, the effect of protamine ...

Jun 18, 2020

In the context of recently updated strategies of pressure management, there is a paucity of evidence on the effect of diastolic blood pressure (DBP) level on adverse events among stroke patients. Thi...