Apr 04, 2022

To examine outcomes and complications in patients receiving a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube on the same day of head and neck cancer (HNC) surgery versus later in hospitalization.The 2...

Apr 04, 2022

Septic arthritis (SA) is a dangerous condition that requires emergency treatment. Managed by culture-specific antibiotics, irrigation, and debridement (I&D), some patients require repeat surgical ...

Apr 04, 2022

Concussions are often neglected injuries that affect children and adolescents. Two physiological responses to a concussion are an ionic flux and an increased indiscriminate release of glutamate, which...

Apr 04, 2022

We examined whether post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is associated with measurable perturbations in gut microbiome.Adult Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to Lateral Fluid Percussion Injury (LFPI). PTE ...

Apr 04, 2022

A five-year-nine-month-old, male entire, miniature schnauzer presented for further investigation of pleural effusion. Echocardiography revealed a perforated membrane dividing the right atrium into two...

Mar 28, 2022

Early neurological deterioration (END) is an important factor that affects prognosis in patients with acute ischemic stroke. We explored the relationship between serum occludin levels after successful...

Mar 28, 2022

Myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) causes damage to coronary capillary endothelial barrier and microvascular leakage (MVL), aggravating tissue injury and heart dysfunction. However, the effective s...

Mar 28, 2022

A member of the ESKAPE family of pathogens, A. baumannii, is an opportunistic gram-negative multidrug-resistant bacterium. A. baumannii is a ubiquitous coccobacillus involved in various hospital-relat...

Mar 28, 2022

Streptokinase is an enzyme that can break down the blood clots in some cases of myocardial infarction (heart attack), pulmonary embolism, and arterial thromboembolism. Demand for streptokinase is high...

Mar 28, 2022

Allogenic blood transfusions can lead to immunomodulation. Our purpose was to investigate whether perioperative transfusions were associated with postoperative infections and any other adverse events ...

Mar 28, 2022

Intracranial pressure (ICP) includes the brain, optic nerve, and spinal cord pressures; it influences blood flow to those structures. Pathological elevation in ICP results in structural damage through...

Mar 28, 2022

There is little research with people who experience intellectual/developmental disabilities and imprisonment.The study linked health and correctional data to examine prevalence of intellectual/develop...

Mar 28, 2022

The outcomes of large-volume IVF administration to septic shock patients with comorbid congestive heart failure (CHF) and/or end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are uncertain and widely debated in the exis...

Mar 28, 2022

High flow nasal cannula (HFNC) therapy reduces effort of breathing in bronchiolitis, but the mechanisms are not understood. Theorized mechanisms include dead space washout and positive end-expiratory ...

Mar 24, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to investigate the relationship between patient hospitalization for COVID-19 ARDS vs ARDS from other causes and the risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)–relat...

Mar 21, 2022

Discharge of treated sewage effluent to rivers can degrade aquatic ecosystem quality, interacting with multiple stressors in the wider catchment. In predominantly rural catchments, the river reach inf...

Mar 21, 2022

The objective of this study was to assess the risk of arterial thrombosis in patients who harbor the allele burden ≥1% detected during workup for myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). We conducted a...

Mar 21, 2022

This study examined three methods for retrospectively identifying infection in emergency department (ED) patients: modified objective definitions of infection (MODI) from the CDC/NHSN, physician adjud...

Mar 21, 2022

Infection remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in hospital. As uncontrolled early infection may develop into systemic infection and eventually progress to sepsis, it is important to addres...

Mar 21, 2022

Benign metastasizing leiomyomatosis (BML) is a rare disease that typically occurs in women with a history of uterine leiomyomatosis. Benign metastasizing leiomyomatosis occurs more frequently in the l...