Mar 15, 2021

Both the Nuclear factor-erythroid 2 p45-related factor 2 (Nrf2)/heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) antioxidant pathway and Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptor protein 3 (NLRP3) pathway ...

Mar 15, 2021

Evaluate the impact of an emergency critical care center (EC3) on the admissions of critically ill patients to a critical care medicine unit (CCMU) and their outcomes.This was a retrospective before/a...

Mar 15, 2021

With the continued transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) throughout the world, identification of highly suspected COVID-19 patients remains an urgent priority. I...

Mar 15, 2021

To assess the effect of different frequencies of ventilator circuit changes in neonates and children through a systematic review and meta-analysis.(1) "No routine change of ventilator circuit (unless ...

Mar 15, 2021

Lung ultrasound (LUS) and lung ultrasound score (LUSS) have been successfully used to diagnose neonatal pneumonia, assess the lesion distribution, and quantify the aeration loss. The present study des...

Mar 15, 2021

The Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) bacterium is responsible for many opportunistic infections such as sepsis, and a multidrug-resistant (MDR) clone sequence type (ST) 307 has recently begun to ...

Mar 15, 2021

A strain of Alcaligenes faecalis A12C (A. faecalis A12C) isolated from Argyrosomus regius is a probiotic in fish. Previous experiments showed that A. faecalis A12C had inhibitory effects on the growth...

Mar 15, 2021

To compare clinical characteristics and outcomes of infants born to COVID-19 to non COVID-19 mothers at delivery in a community hospital in Queens, New York.Case-control study conducted March 15 to Ju...

Mar 15, 2021

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) leads to high mortality rate. We aimed to identify the key cytokines favoring TBI repair and found that patients with TBI with a better outcome robustly increased concentr...

Mar 15, 2021

Proton therapy allows to avoid excess radiation dose on normal tissues. However, there are some limitations. Indeed, passive delivery of proton beams results in an increase in the lateral dose upstrea...

Mar 15, 2021

Microglia-induced neuroinflammation is one of the main characteristics of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Presently, we aim to investigate the role of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) KCNQ1 overlapping tran...

Mar 15, 2021

Allograft rejection following heart transplantation (HTx) is a serious complication even in the era of modern immunosuppressive regimens and causes up to a third of early deaths after HTx. Allograft r...

Mar 15, 2021

Ejection fraction (EF) is still widely used to categorize heart failure (HF) patients but has limitations. Global longitudinal strain (GLS) has emerged as a new prognosticator in HF, independent of EF...

Mar 11, 2021

We report on two living donors of explanted hearts while receiving heart transplantation that tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on the day of donation, although clinically asymptomatic. They underwent he...

Mar 11, 2021

The gold standard for organ preservation before transplantation is static cold storage, which is unable to fully protect suboptimal livers from ischemia/reperfusion injury. An emerging alternative is ...

Mar 11, 2021

Circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) released by damaged cells causes inflammation and has been associated with the progression of sepsis. One proposed strategy to treat sepsis is to scavenge this inflam...

Mar 11, 2021

The role of medical thoracoscopy in the treatment of pleural infections is increasingly being recognized. This study was done to assess the role of medical thoracoscopy in the management of carefully ...

Mar 11, 2021

It is unclear whether the association between vasopressor dose and mortality is affected by duration of administration. We examined whether prognostication in septic shock is feasible through the use ...

Mar 11, 2021

To investigate whether tracheostomy placement in infants requiring high ventilator pressure is safe and effective.Case series with chart review.Tertiary children's hospital.Fifty ventilator-dependent ...

Mar 11, 2021

SARS-CoV-2 is a coronavirus that causes a disease which can leads to a severe form of fatal pneumonia. At december 2020 in Italy, more than 2 million people have contracted the virus and 78,755 people...