Aug 03, 2020

Innate immune cells, epithelial cells, and many other cell types are capable of detecting infection or tissue injury, thus mounting regulated immune response. Inflammasomes are highly sophisticated an...

Aug 03, 2020

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) induces inflammatory responses through microglial activation and polarization towards a more inflammatory state that contributes to the deleterious secondary brain injury....

Aug 03, 2020

In response to the need to better define the natural history of emerging consciousness after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to better describe the characteristics of the condition commonly labeled P...

Aug 03, 2020

Cognitive impairment is a significant sequela of traumatic brain injury (TBI) especially blast induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI), which is characterized by rapid impairments of learning and memory...

Aug 03, 2020

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most frequent and severe form of MD. It firstly affects the skeletal muscles, causing severe disability, and subsequently the myocardium. The only two options ...

Aug 03, 2020

Myocardial fibrosis (MF) is considered a result of microvascular dysfunction in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their tissue inhibitors (TIMPs), c...

Aug 03, 2020

Traditional Chinese medicinal herb Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge(Danshen) and its components have been widely used to treat cardiovascular diseases for hundreds of years in China, including hypertension, ...

Aug 03, 2020

Delirium, the clinical expression of acute encephalopathy, is a common neuropsychiatric syndrome that is related to poor outcomes, such as long-term cognitive impairment. Disturbances of functional br...

Aug 03, 2020

This paper aims at examining the clinical characteristics of ischemic stroke patients with different levels of pre-stroke functional dependency, their long-term outcome, and determinants of five-year ...

Aug 03, 2020

To determine the impact of reported beta-lactam allergies on in-hospital mortality and other clinical outcomes in patients who presented with severe sepsis or septic shock.This single-center, retrospe...

Jul 30, 2020

Aim To evaluate the effect of empagliflozin on glycemia and renal filtration function in patients with stable ischemic heart disease (IHD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) who underwent a percutaneo...

Jul 30, 2020

 Aim      To evaluate the proportion of type 2 myocardial infarction (MI) in the structure of mortality at a multidisciplinary hospital; to describe major causes for MI development, and characte...

Jul 30, 2020

Neonatal early-onset sepsis (EOS) is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Accurate early diagnosis is crucial for prompt treatment and a better clinical outcome. We aimed to identify new biom...

Jul 30, 2020

We aimed to investigate the diagnostic value of microRNA-155 (miR-155) for acute lung injury (ALI)/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in patients with sepsis.In this prospective study, we used...

Jul 30, 2020

Skeletal muscle dysfunction in survivors of pneumonia disproportionately affects older individuals in whom it causes substantial morbidity. We found that skeletal muscle recovery was impaired in old c...

Jul 30, 2020

Developing countries continue to contribute significantly to the global burden of childhood mortality due to infectious diseases. Infections leading to diseases like diarrhoea, pneumonia and meningiti...

Jul 30, 2020

Patients with COVID-19 could present with gastrointestinal symptoms without fever or respiratory manifestations, which could be overlooked by health care providers. We aimed to evaluate the clinical c...

Jul 30, 2020

The burden of cardiovascular disease in women is being increasingly appreciated. Nevertheless, both clinicians and the general public are largely unaware that cardiovascular disease is the leading cau...

Jul 30, 2020

Patients without atrial fibrillation (AF) constitute approximately 75% of patients suffering thromboembolism and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), but evidence supporting risk stratification...

Jul 30, 2020

Aim To study clinical and anamnestic features and tactics of managing patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) in groups with different effectiveness of resuscitation procedures.Materials and me...