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Highly sensitive and label-free digital detection of whole cell E. coli with Interferometric Reflectance Imaging.

May 12, 2020

Bacterial infectious diseases are a major threat to human health. Timely and sensitive pathogenic bacteria detection is crucial in bacterial contaminations identification and preventing the spread of ...

The emerging role of lung ultrasound in COVID-19 pneumonia.

May 12, 2020

In the last decades lung ultrasound (LUS) has become of crucial importance in the evaluation and monitoring of a widely range of pulmonary diseases. One of the major benefits which favours this examin...

Cognition in the First Year After a Minor Stroke, Transient Ischemic Attack, or Mimic Event and the Role of Vascular Risk Factors.

May 12, 2020

Cognitive impairment following a minor stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) is common; however, due to diagnostic difficulties, the prevalence and underlying cause of impairment remain poorly de...

Association between unrealistic comparative optimism and self-management in individuals with type 2 diabetes: Results from a cross-sectional, population-based study.

May 12, 2020

Unrealistic comparative optimism (UO), as the erroneous judgement of personal risks to be lower than the risks of others, could help explain differences in diabetes self-management. The present study ...

Beta blocker rebound phenomenon is important, but we do not know its definition, incidence or optimal prevention strategies.

May 12, 2020

The aim of this review is to analyze whether there is a need for scientific information about the beta blocker (BB) rebound phenomenon; whether such information is available; and, if it is, how detail...

mRNA expression disturbance of complement system related genes in acute arterial thrombotic and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation patients.

May 12, 2020

This study aimed to compare the characteristics of mRNA expression of genes in complement system between acute arterial thrombotic patients and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) patients.Twenty acu...

Clinical Features and Outcomes of 98 Patients Hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Daegu, South Korea: A Brief Descriptive Study.

May 12, 2020

Although some information on the epidemiology of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and a few selected cases has been reported, data on the clinical characteristics and outco...

Monocyte distribution width enhances early sepsis detection in the emergency department beyond SIRS and qSOFA.

May 12, 2020

The initial presentation of sepsis in the emergency department (ED) is difficult to distinguish from other acute illnesses based upon similar clinical presentations. A new blood parameter, a measureme...

Is the use of RAS inhibitors safe in the current era of COVID-19 pandemic?

May 12, 2020

Antihypertensive drugs are one of the most widely used pharmacologic agent in the world and it is predominantly used in the elderly subjects. Pneumonia is the most common cause of death in the extreme...

Deubiquitinase Inhibitor b-AP15 Attenuated LPS-Induced Inflammation via Inhibiting ERK1/2, JNK, and NF-Kappa B.

May 12, 2020

b-AP15 is a deubiquitinase (DUB) inhibitor of 19S proteasomes, which in turn targets ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase 5 (UCHL5) and ubiquitin-specific peptidase 14 (USP14). Nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κ...

Clinical course of severe and critical COVID-19 in hospitalized pregnancies: a US cohort study.

May 12, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on healthcare systems around the world with 3.0 million infected and 208,000 resultant mortalities as of this writing. Information regarding infection in pregna...

An Update on the Complexity and Importance of Accurately Diagnosing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Comorbid Traumatic Brain Injury.

May 12, 2020

As awareness for diagnosing and screening patients for trauma has grown, more effective evidence-based treatments are available to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Despite these gains, sev...

Chemoprophylaxis and Venous Thromboembolism in Traumatic Brain Injury at Different Trauma Centers.

May 12, 2020

Patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) are at an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Because of concerns of worsening intracranial hemorrhage, clinicians are hesitant to start V...

Early Anti-Xa Assay-Guided Low Molecular Weight Heparin Chemoprophylaxis Is Safe in Adult Patients with Acute Traumatic Brain Injury.

May 12, 2020

This study evaluated the safety of early anti-factor Xa assay-guided enoxaparin dosing for chemoprophylaxis in patients with TBI. We hypothesized that assay-guided chemoprophylaxis would be comparable...

Best Practices for Adapting and Delivering Community-Based Yoga for People with Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States and Canada.

May 12, 2020

Emerging benefits of yoga for traumatic brain injury (TBI) suggest that broader accessibility to community-based yoga programming is important. This cross-sectional, mixed methods study sought to iden...

SEQUIN Multiscale Imaging of Mammalian Central Synapses Reveals Loss of Synaptic Connectivity Resulting from Diffuse Traumatic Brain Injury.

May 12, 2020

The brain's complex microconnectivity underlies its computational abilities and vulnerability to injury and disease. It has been challenging to illuminate the features of this synaptic network due to ...

Combining Nanomaterials and Developmental Pathways to Design New Treatments for Cardiac Regeneration: The Pulsing Heart of Advanced Therapies.

May 12, 2020

The research for heart therapies is challenged by the limited intrinsic regenerative capacity of the adult heart. Moreover, it has been hampered by the poor results obtained by tissue engineering and ...

Video Consultations Between Patients and Clinicians in Diabetes, Cancer, and Heart Failure Services: Linguistic Ethnographic Study of Video-Mediated Interaction.

May 12, 2020

Video-mediated clinical consultations offer potential benefits over conventional face-to-face in terms of access, convenience, and sometimes cost. The improved technical quality and dependability of v...

Effect of Icd Implantation on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Cardiac Amyloidosis. A Systematic Review and Meta-Anaylsis.

May 12, 2020

Cardiac amyloidosis is associated with a high rate of sudden cardiac death (SCD). Whether implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) use in such patients prevents SCD is uncertain. This study assess...

Investigating gene-microRNA networks in atrial fibrillation patients with mitral valve regurgitation.

May 12, 2020

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is predicted to affect around 17.9 million individuals in Europe by 2060. The disease is associated with severe electrical and structural remodelling of the heart, and increas...

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