Mar 23, 2020

To examine recent traumatic brain injury (TBI) mortality changes among Americans aged 0-19 years by sex, age, urbanicity, state, and intent/causes of injury.TBI mortality per 100,000 population and ...

Mar 23, 2020

Dilatation of Virchow-Robin spaces (dVRS) have been described in the development of hydrocephalic syndromes. We report an unusual case of a Type III dVRS presenting as a mimic of normal pressure hydro...

Mar 23, 2020

Cannabinol (CBN) is a degradation product of the cannabis metabolite Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol. The CBN concentration in cannabis leaves ranges between 0.1 and 1.6% (w/w of dry weight); it increases as...

Mar 23, 2020

Left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) provide mechanical circulatory support for patients with advanced heart failure. Intracranial hemorrhage in this population represent a significant management ch...

Mar 23, 2020

The high burden of heart failure in nursing-home populations is due to advanced age and comorbidities. Heart failure is often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed in this population and therefore remains untre...

Mar 23, 2020

The Evaluation of pimobendan in dogs with cardiomegaly caused by preclinical myxomatous mitral valve disease (EPIC) study monitored dogs with myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD) as they developed c...

Mar 23, 2020

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is highly prevalent among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and also associated with unfavorable outcome. Anticoagulant therapy is the mainstep of management in such...

Mar 23, 2020

Atrial fibrillation (AF) has become a global epidemic and puts affected patients at high risk of adverse events. In this review we summarise the current evidence on risk factors and complications of A...

Mar 23, 2020

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) and ischemic digital lesions (DL) are two scleroderma vascular outcomes that in cross-sectional studies are associated with abnormalities in biomarkers of angiogenesis. The...

Mar 23, 2020

We aimed to assess the association between migraine headache and incident dementia.Migraine is a risk factor for white matter hyperintensities and ischemic stroke, which are both associated with incre...

Mar 22, 2020

Patients advised to continue ACE inhibitors/ARBs after researcher posits risk for severe COVID-19 infection FRIDAY, March 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Patients already prescribed angiotensin-conv...

Mar 20, 2020

To determine whether parapapillary choroidal microvasculature (PPCMv) density as measured by optical coherence tomography angiography differs between nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (N...

Mar 20, 2020

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid and dysfunctional tau protein in the brain along with the final development of dementia. Accumulation of amyloid in the brain was ob...

Mar 20, 2020

Recommended time to start administration of first dose antibiotics for sepsis patients is 60 minutes from time 0. Institution-specific data revealed that only one-quarter of severe sepsis patients wer...

Mar 20, 2020

Esophageal perforations are difficult to diagnose and have a high mortality rate. Cervical esophageal perforations (CEPs) are the second most common anatomic type of esophageal perforations and are mo...

Mar 20, 2020

To investigate methods of antibiotic duration minimization and their effect on mortality and infectious complications in critically ill patients.A systematic search of PubMed, Embase (via Ovid), clini...

Mar 20, 2020

Background Timely diagnosis of pediatric sepsis remains elusive. We estimated the risk of potentially missed pediatric sepsis in US emergency departments (EDs) and determined factors associated with i...

Mar 20, 2020

Radiologic characteristics of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infected pneumonia (NCIP) which had not been fully understood are especially important for diagnosing and predicting prognosis. We retr...

Mar 20, 2020

Nosocomial pneumonia is one of the leading entities of nosocomial infections in Germany and worldwide with invasive ventilation being one of the major risk factors. However nosocomial pneumonia withou...

Mar 20, 2020

We report a case of a 72-year-old woman who presented with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). However, coronary angiography showed unobstructed arteries while echocardiography (ECHO) showed s...