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Critical Care General

Monocyte distribution width enhances early sepsis detection in the emergency department beyond SIRS and qSOFA.

May 12, 2020

The initial presentation of sepsis in the emergency department (ED) is difficult to distinguish from other acute illnesses based upon similar clinical presentations. A new blood parameter, a measureme...

Is the use of RAS inhibitors safe in the current era of COVID-19 pandemic?

May 12, 2020

Antihypertensive drugs are one of the most widely used pharmacologic agent in the world and it is predominantly used in the elderly subjects. Pneumonia is the most common cause of death in the extreme...

Deubiquitinase Inhibitor b-AP15 Attenuated LPS-Induced Inflammation via Inhibiting ERK1/2, JNK, and NF-Kappa B.

May 12, 2020

b-AP15 is a deubiquitinase (DUB) inhibitor of 19S proteasomes, which in turn targets ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase 5 (UCHL5) and ubiquitin-specific peptidase 14 (USP14). Nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κ...

Clinical course of severe and critical COVID-19 in hospitalized pregnancies: a US cohort study.

May 12, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on healthcare systems around the world with 3.0 million infected and 208,000 resultant mortalities as of this writing. Information regarding infection in pregna...

An Update on the Complexity and Importance of Accurately Diagnosing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Comorbid Traumatic Brain Injury.

May 12, 2020

As awareness for diagnosing and screening patients for trauma has grown, more effective evidence-based treatments are available to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Despite these gains, sev...

Chemoprophylaxis and Venous Thromboembolism in Traumatic Brain Injury at Different Trauma Centers.

May 12, 2020

Patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) are at an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Because of concerns of worsening intracranial hemorrhage, clinicians are hesitant to start V...

Early Anti-Xa Assay-Guided Low Molecular Weight Heparin Chemoprophylaxis Is Safe in Adult Patients with Acute Traumatic Brain Injury.

May 12, 2020

This study evaluated the safety of early anti-factor Xa assay-guided enoxaparin dosing for chemoprophylaxis in patients with TBI. We hypothesized that assay-guided chemoprophylaxis would be comparable...

Best Practices for Adapting and Delivering Community-Based Yoga for People with Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States and Canada.

May 12, 2020

Emerging benefits of yoga for traumatic brain injury (TBI) suggest that broader accessibility to community-based yoga programming is important. This cross-sectional, mixed methods study sought to iden...

SEQUIN Multiscale Imaging of Mammalian Central Synapses Reveals Loss of Synaptic Connectivity Resulting from Diffuse Traumatic Brain Injury.

May 12, 2020

The brain's complex microconnectivity underlies its computational abilities and vulnerability to injury and disease. It has been challenging to illuminate the features of this synaptic network due to ...

Combining Nanomaterials and Developmental Pathways to Design New Treatments for Cardiac Regeneration: The Pulsing Heart of Advanced Therapies.

May 12, 2020

The research for heart therapies is challenged by the limited intrinsic regenerative capacity of the adult heart. Moreover, it has been hampered by the poor results obtained by tissue engineering and ...

Video Consultations Between Patients and Clinicians in Diabetes, Cancer, and Heart Failure Services: Linguistic Ethnographic Study of Video-Mediated Interaction.

May 12, 2020

Video-mediated clinical consultations offer potential benefits over conventional face-to-face in terms of access, convenience, and sometimes cost. The improved technical quality and dependability of v...

Effect of Icd Implantation on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Cardiac Amyloidosis. A Systematic Review and Meta-Anaylsis.

May 12, 2020

Cardiac amyloidosis is associated with a high rate of sudden cardiac death (SCD). Whether implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) use in such patients prevents SCD is uncertain. This study assess...

Investigating gene-microRNA networks in atrial fibrillation patients with mitral valve regurgitation.

May 12, 2020

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is predicted to affect around 17.9 million individuals in Europe by 2060. The disease is associated with severe electrical and structural remodelling of the heart, and increas...

Improving exercise capacity and quality of life using non-invasive heart failure treatments: evidence from clinical trials.

May 12, 2020

Endpoints of large-scale trials in chronic heart failure have mostly been defined to evaluate treatments with regard to hospitalizations and mortality. However, patients with heart failure are also af...

Regional Planning for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Allocation During Coronavirus Disease 2019.

May 12, 2020

Health systems confronting the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic must plan for surges in ICU demand and equitably distribute resources to maximize benefit for critically ill patients and th...

Use of Tocilizumab for COVID-19-Induced Cytokine Release Syndrome: A Cautionary Case Report.

May 12, 2020

Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in late December 2019 in Wuhan, China. Since then, COVID-19 has become a pandemic affecting more than 1.5 million people worldwide. Patients with COVI...

Anti-inflammatory therapy for preventing stroke and other vascular events after ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack.

May 12, 2020

An increasing body of evidence suggests that inflammation plays a key role in stroke, in particular stroke of atherosclerotic origin. Anti-inflammatory medications are a widely heterogeneous group of ...

Iatrogenic Coronary Artery Compromise Post Non-Coronary Cardiac Surgery in Patients With Normal Coronaries.

May 05, 2020

Unexpected events in cardiac surgery may increase morbidity and mortality. We present rare complications related to coronary arteries in non-coronary cardiac surgery in adults and pediatrics.We retros...

Bim expression modulates the pro-inflammatory phenotype of retinal astroglial cells.

May 05, 2020

Apoptosis of neurovascular cells, including astroglial cells, contributes to the pathogenesis of diseases in which neurovascular disruption plays a central role. Bim is a pro-apoptotic protein that mo...

Proteomic and metabolomic characterization of cardiac tissue in acute myocardial ischemia injury rats.

May 05, 2020

The pathological process and mechanism of myocardial ischemia (MI) is very complicated, and remains unclear. An integrated proteomic-metabolomics analysis was applied to comprehensively understand the...

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