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The impact of mild traumatic brain injury on reading comprehension and eye movements: preliminary results.

Feb 14, 2022

Individuals who sustain a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) can suffer from executive function, working memory, and attention deficits, which can impact functional task performance, including reading...

Incidence, prevalence, and characteristics of heart failure among patients with multiple sclerosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Feb 14, 2022

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common neurological autoimmune disease. Although it primarily harms the central nervous system, other organs are liable to be affected by it as well. There is a gro...

A scale development study for evaluating the dietary behaviors of patients with heart failure.

Feb 14, 2022

Monitoring the dietary status of patients with heart failure (HF) and preventing malnutrition are of great importance in the prognosis of the disease.The study was conducted to develop a measurement t...

How Data-Driven and Data-Guided Methodologies Help Identify Contemporary Digital Heritage Topics and Trends?

Feb 10, 2022

For a study, it was determined that identifying trends and emerging and declining themes was an essential source of information for academic and innovative management in research and policies. Even th...

Association Between Preinfarction Angina and Culprit Lesion Morphology in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: An Optical Coherence Tomography Study.

Feb 07, 2022

Previous studies reported the cardiac protection effect of preinfarction angina (PIA) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We sought to identify culprit-plaque morphology and clinical o...

Evaluation of procalcitonin (PCT) as a marker of infection in early post living donated liver transplant period.

Feb 07, 2022

Procalcitonin (PCT) has been increasingly used as a biomarker of bacterial infection and as a tool to guide antimicrobial therapy. Despite its increased use, data in patients with solid organ transpla...

When your cat takes you to the ICU: Miller Fisher/ Guillain-Barré-overlap-syndrome caused by Pasteurella multocida infection resembling wound botulism.

Feb 07, 2022

Pasteurella multocida can cause serious soft tissue infections and, less commonly, septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, and sepsis especially in immunocompromised hosts. P. multocida can cause meningitis ...

Role of nitric oxide in convective and diffusive skeletal microvascular oxygen kinetics.

Feb 07, 2022

Progress in understanding physiological mechanisms often consists of discrete discoveries made across different models and species. Accordingly, understanding the mechanistic bases for how altering ni...

#VisualAbstract: Convalescent Plasma Ineffective at Improving Clinical Outcomes or Mortality in Non-Ventilated Patients With COVID-19

Feb 03, 2022

This meta-analysis found that treatment with COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP), compared to control group treatment, did not improve clinical outcomes, as measured by the World Health Organizat...

Eosinophil Cell Count Predicts Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit after Return of Spontaneous Circulation.

Jan 31, 2022

Eosinophils constitute 1%-5% of peripheral blood leukocytes, less in the presence of acute infections (referred to as eosinopenia). Studies indicate that eosinopenia can be used as a prognostic predic...

Phylogenetic analysis and antimicrobial susceptibility profile of uropathogens.

Jan 31, 2022

The uropathogens is the main cause of urinary tract infection (UTI). The aim of the study was to isolate bacteria from urine samples of UTI patients and find out the susceptibility of isolated bacteri...

Association of Sex With Stroke and Bleeding Risk of Apixaban and Rivaroxaban in Elderly Atrial Fibrillation Patients Using Propensity Score Weights.

Jan 31, 2022

Evidence from clinical trials suggests a differential effect of sex on the effectiveness and safety of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) for stroke prophylaxis in atrial fibrillation (AF).This popula...

Defining Clinical and Microbiological Nonresponse in Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia.

Jan 31, 2022

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a severe complication of mechanical ventilation, with mortality reduced most effectively by adequate early antibiotic treatment. The clinical and microbiologic...

Risk factors and prognosis of non-infectious pulmonary complications after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Jan 31, 2022

Non-infectious pulmonary complications (NIPCs) following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) are relatively rare, but frequently fatal. This study investigated the pre-transplant...

The Effectiveness of Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation on Traumatic Brain Injury.

Jan 31, 2022

Trigeminal nerve stimulation (TNS) is a promising strategy in treating diseases of the nervous system. In this study, the effects of TNS on traumatic brain injury (TBI) were investigated in a mouse mo...

Phonocardiography-based mitral valve prolapse detection with using fractional fourier transform.

Jan 31, 2022

Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP) is a common condition among people, which is often benign and does not need any serious treatment. However, this doesn't mean that MVP can't cause any problems. In malignan...

How I Do It: Stroke Volume Determination by Echocardiography.

Jan 31, 2022

A basic critical care echocardiography (CCE) examination places emphasis on 2D findings such as ventricular function, inferior vena cava size, and pericardial assessment, while generally excluding qua...

COVID-19 Surges Linked With Higher Rates of Non-COVID In-Hospital Mortality

Jan 26, 2022

“During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals observed precipitous declines in ED visits and inpatient admissions,” says Amber K. Sabbatini, MD, MPH, FACEP. “There were sudden reduc...

Posterior Circulation Alberta Stroke Program Early Computed Tomography Score (pc-ASPECT) for the Evaluation of Cerebellar Infarcts.

Jan 24, 2022

Patients with cerebellar ischemic stroke may be misdiagnosed and may exhibit a delayed time to acute stroke treatment compared with patients with anterior circulation ischemic stroke. The posterior ci...

Major Neurological Deficit Following Neck Hyperextension During Dental Treatment: Report of 2 Cases and Review of the Literature.

Jan 24, 2022

Medical literature has long reported the disastrous effects of neck hyperextension on posterior cerebral circulation. Hairdresser-related ischemic cerebrovascular event, also called beauty parlor synd...

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