Critical Care General
Jun 04, 2020
Current guidelines recommend the use of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Data regarding warfarin sodium use compare...
Jun 04, 2020
Carotid revascularization, both endarterectomy (CEA) and transfemoral carotid artery stenting (TFCAS), are associated with an increased risk of adverse outcomes in patients >80 years of age. Transc...
Jun 04, 2020
Infection is a frequent cause of postoperative morbidity and mortality. The incidence, risk factors, and outcomes for postoperative infections remain poorly characterised.This is a secondary analysis ...
Jun 04, 2020
Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-positive USA300 clone is a highly pathogenic and global epidemic community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) clone. Athletes are particul...
Jun 04, 2020
Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response syndrome caused by infection. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) has been reported to induce inflammatory responses, and long non-coding RNA highly up-regulated in liv...
Jun 04, 2020
Enrolling traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients with an inability to provide informed consent in research is challenging. Alternatives to patient consent are not sufficiently embedded in European and ...
Jun 04, 2020
Traumatic brain injuries represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and road traffic crashes account for a significant proportion of these injuries. It is one of the leading ca...
Jun 04, 2020
The present study expands previous work on eye-hand decoupling deficits in youth with concussion history. It examines whether deficits can be linked to difficulties adapting to new task constraints or...
Jun 04, 2020
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have recently emerged as an important carrier for various genetic materials including microRNAs (miRs). Growing evidences suggested that several miRs transported by EVs we...
Jun 04, 2020
Although the CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc scoring systems are commonly used as measures of thromboembolic risk in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF), data are inconsistent as to their val...
Jun 04, 2020
Pathophysiology of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is highly complex. Bleeding from ruptured aneurysm causes increase in intracranial pressure that disrupts blood-brain barrier leading to in...
Jun 04, 2020
Bone marrow-derived cells contribute to tissue repair, but traffic of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs) is impaired in diabetes. We therefore tested whether HSPC mobilization with the CXCR4 ...
Jun 04, 2020
End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) causes bleeding diathesis; however, whether these findings are extrapolable to acute kidney injury (AKI) remains uncertain. We assessed whether AKI is associated with a...
Jun 04, 2020
Control of multiple cardiovascular (CV) risk factors reduces CV events in individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D).To investigate this association in a contemporary clinical trial population, including ...
Jun 01, 2020
Many neuroprotective approaches targeting neurons in animal models fail to provide benefits for the treatment of ischemic stroke in clinic and glial cells have become the targets in some basic studies...
Jun 01, 2020
Karst aquifers are extremely vulnerable to pollution, including from nitrate. This research advances a systematic evaluation of water quality dynamics and processes in a relatively pristine karst flow...
Jun 01, 2020
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) often occurs with sepsis. A scoring system has been used for the diagnosis of DIC, but the system included at least 4 parameters. The purpose of this study...
Jun 01, 2020
Urinary trypsin inhibitor (UTI), also known as ulinastatin, has been reported to protect multiple organs against inflammation- and/or injury-induced dysfunction. In the present study, we aimed to inve...
Jun 01, 2020
Baricitinib, is an oral Janus kinase (JAK)1/JAK2 inhibitor approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that was independently predicted, using artificial intelligence (AI)-algorithms, to b...
Jun 01, 2020
The aim was to identify the causing organisms and assess the association of procalcitonin (PCT) with bacterial pneumonia within 24-hours of intensive care unit admission (ICU-A) among lung transplant ...