Mar 23, 2020

Osteopontin (OPN) is evolving as a novel biomarker of injury, overall survival and renal outcome in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI), requiring renal replacement therapy.We perfo...

Mar 23, 2020

To determine if vitamin D status is affected in term neonates with early onset sepsis and its association with outcome.Study was done at a level 3 neonatal unit on 140 neonates. Term neonates with ear...

Mar 23, 2020

Collagen and fibrin engagement and activation of glycoprotein (GP) VI induces proteolytic cleavage of the GPVI ectodomain generating shed soluble GPVI (sGPVI). Collagen-mediated GPVI shedding requires...

Mar 23, 2020

Untreated sludge from small-scale on-site domestic wastewater treatment systems (septic tanks) was spiked with 20, 60 and 100 nm silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) to investigate Ag-NP behaviour in these...

Mar 23, 2020

Congenital Zika syndrome causes a spectrum of neurological symptoms with varying effects on function that require different therapeutic strategies. To date, this spectrum of effects and its clinical i...

Mar 23, 2020

To investigate the characteristics and clinical value of chest computed tomography (CT) images of novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP).Clinical data and CT images of 80 cases of NCP were collected. The c...

Mar 23, 2020

Postoperative pneumonia is the third most common complication in surgical patients. However, little is known regarding pneumonia after craniotomy, which is the most commonly performed surgery in the n...

Mar 23, 2020

Major abdominal procedures could induce dysfunction in the immune system and lead to postoperative immunosuppression. Sleep dysfunction is associated with impaired immune activity. However, the effect...

Mar 23, 2020

To investigate the differences of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and galectin-3 concentrations in lobar pneumonia and bronchopneumonia induced by mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) in...

Mar 23, 2020

In patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), mortality is directly related to time to reperfusion with guidelines recommending patients be delivered directly to centres for pri...

Mar 23, 2020

Cardiac power index (CPI) is an integrative hemodynamic measure of cardiac pumping capability and is the product of the simultaneously measured mean arterial pressure and the cardiac output. We assess...

Mar 23, 2020

Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Despite considerable improvements in diagnosis and treatment, little is known about the short-term and long-term prognosis after a first st...

Mar 23, 2020

The objective of this review is to synthesize the best available evidence for the diagnostic test accuracy of procalcitonin (PCT) compared to C-reactive protein (CRP) in diagnosing osteomyelitis (OM) ...

Mar 23, 2020

() is a leading cause of both healthcare-and community-associated infections globally, which result in severe disease and readily developing antibiotic resistance. Developing an efficacious vaccine a...

Mar 23, 2020

Capnocytophaga canimorsus, commonly transmitted by dog bites, can cause severe sepsis, and the mortality rate is very high. We experienced a case of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) complicate...

Mar 23, 2020

The Third International Consensus Definitions (Sepsis-3) define sepsis as life-threatening multi-organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Sepsis can progress to septic sh...

Mar 23, 2020

Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-EC) is one of the most frightening multidrug-resistant bacteria that usually causes sepsis. Herein we explored the benefits of nephrosto...

Mar 23, 2020

The mechanisms of aberrant circulating platelet behavior following injury remain unclear. Platelets retain megakaryocyte immature ribonucleic acid (RNA) splicing and protein synthesis machinery to alt...

Mar 23, 2020

Prevention of epilepsy is a great unmet need. Acute central nervous system (CNS) insults such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), cerebrovascular accidents (CVA), and CNS infections account for 15%-20% o...

Mar 23, 2020

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is largely non-preventable and often kills or permanently disables its victims. Because current treatments for TBI merely ameliorate secondary effects of the initial injur...