Critical Care General
Apr 28, 2020
To evaluate outcome assessment of percutaneous balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) in different flow and gradient patterns of severe aortic stenosis (AS).The mean pressure gradient reduction after BAV ...
Apr 28, 2020
The effects of ER stress on protein secretion by cardiac myocytes are not well understood. In this study, the ER stressor thapsigargin (TG), which depletes ER calcium, induced death of cultured neonat...
Apr 28, 2020
Post-implantation syndrome (PIS) is the clinical and biochemical expression of an inflammatory response following endovascular aneurysm repair, with a reported incidence ranging from 2-100%. Although ...
Apr 28, 2020
The echocardiography working group of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine recognized the need to provide structured guidance for future CCE research methodology and reporting based on a sy...
Apr 28, 2020
Transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) has been shown to have half the rates of transient ischemic attack (TIA), stroke and death compared to transfemoral carotid artery stenting (TFCAS). Succes...
Apr 28, 2020
A seven-year-old, spayed female, domestic longhair cat was referred for management of a sudden aortic thromboembolism (ATE). Echocardiography showed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with severe left atrial...
Apr 28, 2020
The development of postoperative pneumonia following cardiac surgery is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. However, seasonal variation as a risk factor for the development of postope...
Apr 28, 2020
To compare the results of concomitant femoropopliteal and infrapopliteal percutaneous angioplasty / stenting (PTA/S) with distal bypass graft surgery (BGS) in patients with chronic limb-threatening is...
Apr 24, 2020
A rare disease of unknown etiology, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterized by progressive, irreversible scarring of the lung interstitium leading to a reduction in respiratory function a...
Apr 20, 2020
An accurate biomarker for metabolic acidosis at birth is needed. Our aims were to investigate the link between umbilical artery pCO and the risk for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) and to compar...
Apr 20, 2020
Intraoperative fluorescence angiography (IOFA) with indocyanine green provides information on tissue perfusion that may help prevent an anastomotic leak (AL). The aim of this study was to assess the i...
Apr 20, 2020
Critical care risk scores can stratify mortality risk among cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) patients, yet risk score performance across common CICU admission diagnoses remains uncertain.We evaluate...
Apr 20, 2020
This case-control study aimed to evaluate the ability to use a panel of IL-31, IL-1ß and NLRP3 to differentiate sepsis from systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and to predict septic shock....
Apr 20, 2020
Dysphagia has a large impact on the society because it is a risk factor of malnutrition and aspiration pneumonia, and therefore, it is necessary to elucidate the entire mechanism of dysphagia. In this...
Apr 20, 2020
Since in vitro studies and a preliminary clinical report suggested the efficacy of chloroquine for COVID-19-associated pneumonia, there is increasing interest in this old antimalarial drug. In this ar...
Apr 20, 2020
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), synthesized by green methods with the property to kill microbes, are highly valuable in medical sciences. So, the current study was aimed at using the flower extract of W...
Apr 20, 2020
We describe organisms found in the respiratory tracts of a multicenter cohort of pediatric hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) recipients with respiratory failure.Twelve centers contributed up to 25 p...
Apr 20, 2020
The indices of population health exhibit tendency to deteriorate with age. The high level of morbidity, prevalence of chronic diseases, polymorbidity, atypical course of disease, continuous rehabilita...
Apr 20, 2020
Presepsin (or sCD14) has been identified as a protein whose levels increase specifically in the blood of patients with bacterial infections. In this study, we evaluated the clinical performance of sCD...
Apr 20, 2020
Congenital sensorineural hearing loss is a heterogeneous disorder; its etiological profile varies between populations. Pathogenic variants of GJB2 gene are the major cause of non-syndromic hearing los...