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Administration of tranexamic acid during total shoulder arthroplasty is not associated with increased risk of complications in patients with a history of thrombotic events.

Aug 20, 2020

Tranexamic acid (TXA) has been shown to reduce blood loss and transfusion risk in various orthopedic surgeries including shoulder arthroplasty. However, concerns still exist regarding its use in patie...

Effect of Ascorbic Acid, Corticosteroids, and Thiamine on Organ Injury in Septic Shock: The ACTS Randomized Clinical Trial.

Aug 20, 2020

The combination of ascorbic acid, corticosteroids, and thiamine has been identified as a potential therapy for septic shock.To determine whether the combination of ascorbic acid, corticosteroids, and ...

Obstetric outcomes of pregnancy complicated by urolithiasis: a retrospective cohort study.

Aug 20, 2020

Objectives Evaluate the association between urolithiasis during pregnancy and obstetric outcomes outside the context of urological intervention. Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study of si...

Programing of an Intravascular Immune Firewall by the Gut Microbiota Protects against Pathogen Dissemination during Infection.

Aug 20, 2020

Eradication of pathogens from the bloodstream is critical to prevent disseminated infections and sepsis. Kupffer cells in the liver form an intravascular firewall that captures and clears pathogens fr...

The weakness of fragility index exposed in an analysis of the traumatic brain injury management guidelines: A meta-epidemiological and simulation study.

Aug 20, 2020

To perform fragility index (FI) analysis on the evidence that forms the basis of the guidelines for the management of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), and develop a deeper understanding of the pit...

Hospitalised infants due to falls aged less 12 months in New South Wales from 2002 to 2013.

Aug 20, 2020

Falls are the most common injury mechanism of children <12 months in Australia. We aimed to determine the prevalence of hospital admission following a fall among New South Wales (NSW) infants and...

Predictors and outcomes of heart transplantation utilizing donors with different brain death mode: A propensity-score matching study from China.

Aug 20, 2020

Heart transplantation (HTx) of brain-dead donors in China has not been reported, not to mention analysis of donors with different brain death mechanisms. The present study aimed to compare clinical ou...

Cognitive test results are associated with mortality and rehospitalization in heart failure: Swedish prospective cohort study.

Aug 20, 2020

We aimed to search for associations between cognitive test results with mortality and rehospitalization in a Swedish prospective heart failure (HF) patient cohort.Two hundred and eighty-one patients h...

Role of AMP-activated protein kinase on cardio-metabolic abnormalities in the development of diabetic cardiomyopathy: A molecular landscape.

Aug 20, 2020

Cardiovascular complications associated with diabetes mellitus remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality across the world. Diabetic cardiomyopathy is a descriptive pathology that in absence o...

Systems pharmacology reveals the multi-level synergetic mechanism of action of Ginkgo biloba L. leaves for cardiomyopathy treatment.

Aug 20, 2020

Cardiomyopathy is a common cause of heart failure and may lead to increased risk of sudden cardiac death, lacking simple, safe and effective treatment strategies due to unclear pathogenesis. Ginkgo bi...

Inpatient Palliative Care Utilization in Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Temporal Trends, Predictors and Outcomes.

Aug 20, 2020

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive disease associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Despite the negative impact of PAH on quality of life and survival, data on utilizat...

Higher Risk of Urinary Tract Infections in Renal Transplant Recipients Receiving Pentamidine Versus Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) for Pneumocystis Pneumonia Prophylaxis.

Aug 20, 2020

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common infectious complications among renal transplant patients. Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) is routinely used as first-line prophylaxis ag...

Traumatic reticuloperitonitis combined with embolic pneumonia and hepatitis as unusual symptoms of foreign body syndrome in a Holstein bull.

Aug 20, 2020

Traumatic reticuloperitonitis combined with embolic pneumonia and hepatitis is unusual signs of foreign body syndrome in cattle. A 4-year-old Holstein bull presented decreased appetite, dry cough, pro...

Serum vitamin D, vitamin D binding protein levels and leukocyte vitamin D receptor gene expression in patients with ischaemic stroke.

Aug 17, 2020

To investigate the possible contributions of serum 25 hydroxyvitamin D and vitamin D binding protein levels along with leukocyte vitamin D receptor gene expression in patients with ischaemic stroke.Th...

[Primarily application of Ilizarov microcirculation reconstruction technique for chronic wounds in post-traumatic ischemia limbs].

Aug 17, 2020

To evaluate the treatment results of Ilizarov microcirculation reconstruction technique for chronic wounds in the post-traumatic ischemia limbs.Between January 2016 and July 2019, 7 cases of chronic w...

[Clinical study on treatment of chronic infection of foot and ankle with lower extremity ischemic diseases by tibial transverse transport combined with antibiotic embedded bone cement].

Aug 17, 2020

To study the effectiveness of tibial transverse transport combined with the antibiotics embedded bone cement in the treatment of chronic infection of foot and ankle with lower extremity ischemic disea...

The protective effect and mechanism of lentinan on acute kidney injury in septic rats.

Aug 17, 2020

This study aimed to investigate the protective effect and mechanism of lentinan (LNT) on acute kidney injury (AKI) in septic rats.A total 72 male SD rats were randomly divided into 6 groups with 12 ra...

Mismatch between circulating cytokines and spontaneous cytokine production by leukocytes in hyperinflammatory COVID-19.

Aug 17, 2020

The disease COVID-19 has developed into a worldwide pandemic. Hyperinflammation and high levels of several cytokines, for example, IL-6, are observed in severe COVID-19 cases. However, little is known...

Laboratory test alterations in patients with COVID-19 and non COVID-19 interstitial pneumonia: a preliminary report.

Aug 17, 2020

Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is the greatest pandemic in modern history. Laboratory test alterations have been described in COVID-19 patients, but differences with other pneumonias have been poor...

[Expert consensus on prevention and treatment strategies for osteonecrosis of femoral head during the prevention and control of novel coronavirus pneumonia (2020)].

Aug 17, 2020

Novel coronavirus pneumonia is a new type of respiratory infectious disease that has rapidly spread in many countries or regions around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) named it "coronav...

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