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Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000-17.

Aug 24, 2020

Universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities is an essential human right, recognised in the Sustainable Development Goals as crucial for preventing disease and improving human wel...

Simultaneous splenectomy improves outcomes after adult living donor liver transplantation.

Aug 24, 2020

Small-for-size graft (SFSG) syndrome is a main causes of graft loss in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Splenectomy (Spx) is an option to prevent this catastrophic complication, but its effe...

National, regional, and state-level pneumonia and severe pneumonia morbidity in children in India: modelled estimates for 2000 and 2015.

Aug 24, 2020

The absolute number of pneumonia deaths in India has declined substantially since 2000. However, pneumonia remains a major cause of morbidity in children in the country. We used a risk factor-based mo...

Incidence, management and outcome of respiratory syncytial virus infection in adult lung transplant recipients: a nine-year retrospective multicenter study.

Aug 24, 2020

To analyze functional outcome parameters according to antimicrobial treatments after respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-confirmed infection in adult lung transplant recipients.A 9-year retrospective mu...

Multiple versus fewer antiplatelet agents for preventing early recurrence after ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack.

Aug 24, 2020

Stroke is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Antiplatelet agents are considered to be the cornerstone for secondary prevention of stroke, but the role of using multiple antiplatelet...

Neurological Deterioration in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack.

Aug 24, 2020

To improve epidemiological knowledge of neurological deterioration (ND) in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) METHODS: In this prospective observational study, we captured ND prospectively in 2...

Impact of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Sepsis Core Measure on Antibiotic Use.

Aug 24, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a core measure sepsis (SEP-1) bundle in 2015. One element was initiation of broad-spectrum antibiotics within 3 hours of diagnosis. The...

Silver sulfadiazine loaded breathable hydrogel sponge for wound healing.

Aug 24, 2020

Objectives Patients with serious injury need special care and treatment to control the infection, as wound sepsis is one of the major causes of death. Silver sulfadiazine (SSD) is widely used as an an...

Aging influences in the blood-brain barrier permeability and cerebral oxidative stress in sepsis.

Aug 24, 2020

Sepsis is a set of serious manifestations throughout the body produced by an infection, leading to changes that compromise cellular homeostasis and can result in dysfunction of the central nervous sys...

Vision therapy: occlusion, prisms, filters and vestibular exercises for mild traumatic brain injury.

Aug 24, 2020

A number of treatment approaches have been advocated for visual complaints, particularly for persistent symptoms following mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). These include devices such as binasal occ...

Bibliometric Analysis of the Top 100 Most Cited Articles on Intraventricular Hemorrhage.

Aug 24, 2020

Intraventricular Hemorrhage (IVH) is a rare cause of intracranial bleeding across all age groups, with a dismal sequela in the majority of the affected population. The published literature on IVH is n...

Analysis of head acceleration events in collegiate-level American football: A combination of qualitative video analysis and in-vivo head kinematic measurement.

Aug 24, 2020

The contact nature of American football has made head acceleration exposure a concern. We aimed to quantify the head kinematics associated with direct helmet contact and inertial head loading events i...

Heart Failure Risk Distribution and Trends in the United States Population, NHANES 1999-2016.

Aug 24, 2020

Implementation of effective preventive interventions requires identification of high-risk individuals. We sought to define the distribution and trends of heart failure risk in the US population.We cal...

Characterization of the Progression from Ambulatory to Hospitalized Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.

Aug 24, 2020

Heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a heterogeneous syndrome. Some patients develop elevated filling pressures exclusively during exercise and never require hospitalization,...

Outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement for patients with severe aortic stenosis and concomitant aortic insufficiency: Insights from the TVT Registry.

Aug 24, 2020

Data regarding outcomes for patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) with concomitant aortic insufficiency (AI), undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) are limited. This study aimed...

Performance of a qualitative rapid chromatographic immunoassay to diagnose COVID-19 in patients in a middle-income country.

Aug 24, 2020

We evaluated a rapid chromatographic immunoassay (IgG/IgM antibodies) and an ELISA assay to diagnose COVID-19 in patient sat two Brazilian hospitals.A total of 122 subjects with COVID-19 were included...

Impact of Malnutrition on Hospitalization Outcomes for Older Adults Admitted for Sepsis.

Aug 20, 2020

Malnutrition is a major determinant of health outcomes among older adults' population. Our goal was to evaluate the impact of malnutrition on hospitalization outcomes for older adults who were admitte...

Prognosis and rescue therapy for sepsis-related severe thrombocytopenia in critically ill patients.

Aug 20, 2020

Sepsis is the most common critical disease with high mortality in intensive care unit. Platelet count (PC) frequently altered in sepsis patients and implicated in the pathogenesis of multi-organ failu...

Therapeutic plasma exchange for clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (CADM) associated with rapidly progressive interstitial pneumonia.

Aug 20, 2020

Patients with clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (CADM) with anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 antibody (anti-MDA5 Ab) frequently develop rapidly progressive interstitial pneumonia (R...

Atherogenic index of plasma predicts cerebrovascular accident occurrence in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis.

Aug 20, 2020

To investigate whether atherogenic index of plasma (AIP) at diagnosis is associated with the occurrence of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or coronary artery disease (CAD) in antineutrophil cytoplasmic...

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