Critical Care General
May 05, 2020
Scientific literature is reviewed supporting a "consequence of war syndrome (CWS)" in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn soldiers. CWS constituents include chronic p...
May 05, 2020
A 13-year-old female white-crowned pionus () was examined because of seizures 22 months after it was treated for a traumatic brain injury (TBI) characterized by vision loss, hemiparesis, nystagmus, ci...
May 05, 2020
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a common condition with many potential acute and chronic neurological consequences. Standard initial radiographic evaluation includes noncontrast head CT scanning to ra...
May 05, 2020
Anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA), a very rare congenital cardiac anomaly, is associated with a high mortality rate among infants who are not diagnosed or treated in a ...
May 05, 2020
To study the effects of Yixintai pills on myocardial cell apoptosis in rats with adriamycin (ADR)-induced heart failure (HF) and the mechanism of action.Sixty healthy male Wistar rats randomly were di...
May 05, 2020
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common inherited monogenic disease with a prevalence of 1/500 in the general population, representing an important cause of arrhythmic sudden cardiac death (SCD)...
May 05, 2020
Normal cardiac contractile and relaxation function are critically dependent on a continuous energy supply. Accordingly, metabolic perturbations and impaired mitochondrial bioenergetics with subsequent...
May 05, 2020
Growth differentiation factor (GDF) 11 levels decline with aging. The age-related loss of GDF 11 has been implicated in the pathogenesis of a variety of age-related diseases. GDF11 supplementation rev...
May 05, 2020
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a major healthcare challenge contributing to high morbidity and mortality. Treatment options are still limited, mainly due to insufficient understanding of the underlying p...
May 05, 2020
The value of myocardial single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in pre-transplant evaluation of kidney transplant recipients is controversial. We assessed whether myocardial SPECT predicts ...
May 01, 2020
No real therapeutic modality is currently available for Acute kidney injury (AKI) and if any, they are mainly supportive in nature. Therefore, developing a new therapeutic strategy is crucial. Mitocho...
May 01, 2020
Upper gastrointestinal obstruction (UGIO), obstruction occurring at the level of the stomach or duodenum, represents only about 5% of bowel obstructions. As with other bowel obstructions, timely diagn...
May 01, 2020
Compliance with sepsis bundles is associated with better outcomes, but information to support structural actions that might improve compliance is scarce. Few studies have evaluated bundle compliance i...
May 01, 2020
Fluid and vasopressor management in septic shock remains controversial. In this randomized controlled trial, we evaluated the efficacy of dynamic measures (stroke volume change during passive leg rais...
May 01, 2020
Severe acute stressors are known to trigger mood disorders in humans. Sepsis represents one such stressor, and survivors often suffer long term from psychiatric morbidity. We hypothesized that sepsis ...
May 01, 2020
Soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2r) level is used as a diagnostic tool in hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). However, evidence supporting its use among adults is inadequate.We conducted a r...
May 01, 2020
While elderly patients are at high risk of fatality, research concerning COVID-19 has largely been done on clarifying the clinical features. As such, the present work aims to identify risk factors for...
May 01, 2020
The aim of this study was to analyse the epidemiological impact of murine typhus in patients who required hospitalization in the National Health System (SNS) in Spain between 1997 and 2015.Murine typh...
May 01, 2020
Novel coronavirus (NCoV-19), also known as SARS CoV-2, is a pathogen causing an emerging infection that rapidly increases in incidence and geographic range, is associated with the ever-increasing morb...
May 01, 2020
Low infection and case-fatality rate has been so far observed in Taiwan. One of major success is attributed to making a better use of big data analytics in efficient contacting tracing and management ...