Oct 08, 2020

Wound infection in burn patients is common and impacts outcomes. There is no objective method to diagnose infection at point of care (PoC). Early diagnosis prevents progression to sepsis. Diagnostic s...

Oct 08, 2020

As of 15 August 2020, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been reported in >21 million people world-wide and is responsible for more than 750,000 deaths. The occurrence of acute kidney injury (...

Oct 08, 2020

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of disability worldwide. TBI is a highly heterogeneous disease, which makes it complex for effective therapeutic interventions. Cluster analysis has bee...

Oct 08, 2020

Characterizing the high-strain-rate and high-strain mechanics of soft materials is critical to understanding the complex behavior of polymers and various dynamic injury mechanisms, including traumatic...

Oct 08, 2020

To develop a measure of global functioning after moderate-severe TBI with similar measurement precision but a longer measurement range than the FIM.Phase 1: Retrospective analysis of 5 data sets conta...

Oct 08, 2020

Interatrial block (IAB) and abnormal P-wave terminal force in lead V1 (PTFV1) are electrocardiographic (ECG) abnormalities that have been shown to be associated with new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF)...

Oct 08, 2020

This study aimed to explore the role of peritoneal ultrafiltration (UF) in cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) patients for fluid and metabolic control.Peritoneal UF is safely and efficiently used for the mana...

Oct 08, 2020

Catheter ablation is an effective treatment for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF). However, little is known how healthcare utilization and cost change after ablation in thi...

Oct 08, 2020

To investigate whether elevated serum levels of sTWEAK (soluble tumor necrosis factor-like inducer of apoptosis) might be involved in a higher frequency of symptomatic hemorrhagic transformation (HT) ...

Oct 05, 2020

To describe a method of analysis for understanding the health care process, enriched with information on the clinical and profile characteristics of the patients. To apply the proposed technique to an...

Oct 05, 2020

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is the most common complication of sepsis with a high mortality rate. In this study, we focus on the renal injury caused by the immune response of renal tubular epithelial ce...

Oct 05, 2020

To report the successful treatment of septic nonunion in two dogs with large segmental defects secondary to long-bone fractures by using a novel human placenta-derived matrix (hPM) as adjunct to fixat...

Oct 05, 2020

The circadian clock is a collection of endogenous oscillators with a periodicity of ∼24 hours. Recently, our understanding of circadian rhythms and their regulation at genomic and physiologic scales...

Oct 05, 2020

Although patients with severe immunodeficiency and hematological malignancies has been considered at highest risk for invasive fungal infection, patients with severe pneumonia due to influenza, and se...

Oct 05, 2020

The Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Policy constituted a multidisciplinary expert committee to provide evidence-based recommendation for the use of antibacterial therapy in hospitalized adults with ...

Oct 05, 2020

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is currently the most commonly detected bacterial cause of childhood community-acquired pneumonia in several countries. Of note, clonal expansion of macrolide-resistant ST3 occur...

Oct 05, 2020

"SOS teeth" are defined as the first priority teeth for treatment, that have distinct cavitation reaching the pulp chamber or only root fragments are present. These are teeth with severe morbidity, th...

Oct 05, 2020

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is known to be associated with several co-occurring conditions. We aimed at exploring multimorbidity patterns associated with CKD, as well as the impact of physical perfor...

Oct 05, 2020

The aim of this review was to examine the existing evidence about interventions proposed for the treatment of clinical chorioamnionitis, with the goal of developing an evidence-based contemporary appr...

Oct 05, 2020

In the future, payers may not cover unplanned 90-day emergency room (ER) visits or readmissions after elective lumbar spine surgery. Prior studies using large administrative databases lack granularity...