Jun 25, 2020

Critically ill patients 10 times more likely to develop arrhythmia Among Covid-19 patients admitted to a large academic hospital, those admitted to ICUs were 10 times more likely than other patient...

Jun 25, 2020

Patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are more prone to systemic inflammation and pathological clotting, and many may develop deep vein thrombosis (DVT) as a result of this dys...

Jun 25, 2020

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) and major bleeding in primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) patients are not well described. We identified 992 PCNSL patients using the California Cancer Registr...

Jun 25, 2020

The impact of pharmacologic prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing neurosurgical intervention remains uncertain. We reviewed the efficacy and safety of pharmacologic compared wi...

Jun 25, 2020

Humanin is a member of a new family of peptides that are encoded by short open reading frames within the mitochondrial genome. It is conserved in animals and is both neuroprotective and cytoprotective...

Jun 25, 2020

Corticosteroids are widely used in pediatric cardiac surgery to blunt systemic inflammatory response and to reduce complications; nevertheless, their clinical efficacy is uncertain.To determine whethe...

Jun 25, 2020

Macrophages and neutrophils are primary leukocytes involved in the inflammatory response to myocardial infarction (MI). While interleukin (IL)-4 is an in vitro anti-inflammatory stimulus, the MI myoca...

Jun 25, 2020

Pharmacological interventions reducing myocardial ischemia and reperfusion (I/R) injury include the administration of anesthetics. Both sevoflurane as well as propofol have been shown to elicit cardia...

Jun 25, 2020

SARS-CoV-2 causes high mortality risk in older patients. This study aims to characterize the clinical features of older and younger SARS-CoV-2 infected patients.A total of 239 patients were divided in...

Jun 25, 2020

 We sought to determine if there is an association between fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) levels and a history of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in women with and without metabolic dysfunc...

Jun 25, 2020

To explore the experiences and perceptions of gestational diabetes mellitus reported by women within online parental-support forums and, specifically, to analyse what women say about a diagnosis of ge...

Jun 25, 2020

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is carbohydrate intolerance first recognised during pregnancy and associated with complications for mothers and babies. Probiotics are naturally occurring micro-org...

Jun 25, 2020

Furosemide is approved in full term neonates to treat edema associated with congestive heart failure, cirrhosis and renal diseases. It is often administered off-label in premature neonates, to treat r...

Jun 25, 2020

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality with little effective medical treatment currently available. Nitric oxide (NO) is crucially involved in organ perfusi...

Jun 25, 2020

Atherosclerosis is the main pathology behind most cardiovascular diseases. It is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by the formation of lipid-rich plaques in arteries. Atherosclerotic plaque...

Jun 25, 2020

The ease of breeding, low cost of maintenance, and relatively short period for developing atherosclerosis make rodents ideal for atherosclerosis research. However, none of the current models accuratel...

Jun 25, 2020

Atrial flutter (AFL) is one of the most common arrhythmias present in clinical practice, both for the GPs and cardiologist practice. After atrial fibrillation (AF) is second the most common supraventr...

Jun 25, 2020

With the rising number of COVID-19 cases, global health resources are strained by the pandemic. No proven effective therapies or vaccines for this virus are currently available. In order to maximize t...

Jun 25, 2020

Several risk factors contribute to dementia, but the role of obesity remains unclear. This study investigated whether increased body weight or central obesity were associated with a higher risk of dev...

Jun 22, 2020

The use of perioperative thromboprophylaxis in urological surgery is common but not standardized.To characterize international practice variation in thromboprophylaxis use in urological surgery.We con...