Dec 10, 2020

Current treatments for pneumonia (PNA) are focused on the pathogens. Mortality from PNA-induced acute lung injury (PNA-ALI) remains high, underscoring the need for additional therapeutic targets. Clin...

Dec 10, 2020

There is a paucity of literature about tissue granulomas in transplant patients.To characterize the clinicopathologic features of granulomas in this population and develop a clinically judicious appro...

Dec 10, 2020

We investigated the cardiovascular complications and mortality rates of patients with diabetes in South Korea. The rates of hospitalization due to cardiovascular complications and mortality were analy...

Dec 10, 2020

Introduction Perioperative medication in cardiac surgery recommends β-blockers' use but it is not clear if its prescription should be started before or after cardiac surgery. Objectives To determine ...

Dec 10, 2020

Owing to their resistance to an important class of antibiotics, the prevention and treatment of carbapenem-resistant (CR)/non-susceptible Gram-negative (GN) infections has become an important public h...

Dec 10, 2020

Menstrual blood-derived stromal cells (MenSCs) are emerging as a strong candidate for cell-based therapies due to their immunomodulatory properties. However, their direct impact on innate immune popul...

Dec 10, 2020

Treatment of tricompartimental osteoarthritis (OA) using customized instruments and implants for cruciate-retaining total knee arthroplasty. Use of patient-specific instruments and implants (ConforMIS...

Dec 10, 2020

Traumatic head injuries are one of the leading causes of emergency worldwide due to their frequency and associated morbidity. The circumstances of their onset are often sports activities or road accid...

Dec 10, 2020

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) continues to be a major healthcare problem and there is much to be explored regarding the secondary pathobiology to identify early predictive markers and new therapeutic t...

Dec 10, 2020

Repeated traumatic events result in long-lasting neuropsychiatric ailments, including neuroendocrine imbalances. Neuropeptide Y (NPY) in the arcuate nucleus (Arc) is an important orexigenic peptide. H...

Dec 10, 2020

Catheter ablation improves clinical outcomes in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients with heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). However, the role of catheter ablation in HF with a pr...

Dec 10, 2020

Tracheostomy in children is often performed to alleviate airway obstruction (AO) or to facilitate long-term ventilator support due to respiratory failure of various etiologies, such as heart failure, ...

Dec 10, 2020

The study aimed to estimate the risk of cardiac events in immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)-treated patients with lung cancer or malignant melanoma.The study included consecutive patients with lung ca...

Dec 10, 2020

This study was conducted to explore the diagnostic value of arterial spin labeling (ASL) combined with diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) in characterizing the spatiotemporal progression of infarct lesi...

Dec 10, 2020

To evaluate whether abdominal atherosclerosis was associated with poorer outcome in a single-centre cohort of patients suffering from nonocclusive mesenteric ischemia (NOMI).From January 2009 to Decem...

Dec 07, 2020

The study aimed to compare the characteristics of red and white thrombi in patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy.The study was conducted in 81 patients with ischemic stroke who underwent carotid ...

Dec 07, 2020

To investigate whether presepsin can be used as a novel biomarker to differentiate between native joint septic arthritis (NJSA) and crystal arthritis (CA).This study included 75 patients diagnosed wit...

Dec 07, 2020

 Infectious (mycotic) aneurysms are rare with high mortality and are most commonly found at the distal branches of the middle cerebral artery (MCA). Because aneurysms of the distal MCA are located d...

Dec 07, 2020

Radiotherapy (RT) -commonly employed in cancer management- has been considered as one of the potential treatments for COVID-19 pneumonia. Here, we present the results of the pilot trial evaluating low...

Dec 07, 2020

Regulatory properties of macrophages associated with alternative activation serve to limit the exaggerated inflammatory response during pneumonia caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. Arginase-1...