Mar 30, 2020

Coronary artery disease (CAD) patients had a higher risk of first-ever stroke than general population even when they were on antiplatelet treatment. It was unknown whether more potent antiplatelet inh...

Mar 30, 2020

Although hemodialysis-hypersensitivity reactions have various causes, only a few cases of hypersensitivity to acetate dialysate accompanied by fever have been reported. We present the case of a 69-yea...

Mar 30, 2020

Evidence indicates that the use of severe sepsis and septic shock (SS/SS) treatment bundles is associated with lower mortality when compared with no use. However, delivering successful SS/SS bundles c...

Mar 29, 2020

Review shows vitamin C can shorten the duration of mechanical ventilation by an average of 25 percent The administration of vitamin C shortens the length of mechanical ventilation in critically i...

Mar 25, 2020

WEDNESDAY, March 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Certain types of EpiPens and their generic counterparts may fail or delay injection of lifesaving epinephrine for severe allergic reactions, the U.S. Food...

Mar 23, 2020

The objective of this study is to investigate the use of PET-CT scan with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) as a method to predict outcomes in patients with Takayasu arteritis (TAK), as well as to anal...

Mar 23, 2020

Functional tricuspid regurgitation (FTR) is defined as abnormal systolic tricuspid leakage with normal valve structures, and its prognostic role and management in patients with left-heart valve diseas...

Mar 23, 2020

Osteopontin (OPN) is evolving as a novel biomarker of injury, overall survival and renal outcome in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI), requiring renal replacement therapy.We perfo...

Mar 23, 2020

To determine if vitamin D status is affected in term neonates with early onset sepsis and its association with outcome.Study was done at a level 3 neonatal unit on 140 neonates. Term neonates with ear...

Mar 23, 2020

Collagen and fibrin engagement and activation of glycoprotein (GP) VI induces proteolytic cleavage of the GPVI ectodomain generating shed soluble GPVI (sGPVI). Collagen-mediated GPVI shedding requires...

Mar 23, 2020

Untreated sludge from small-scale on-site domestic wastewater treatment systems (septic tanks) was spiked with 20, 60 and 100 nm silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) to investigate Ag-NP behaviour in these...

Mar 23, 2020

Congenital Zika syndrome causes a spectrum of neurological symptoms with varying effects on function that require different therapeutic strategies. To date, this spectrum of effects and its clinical i...

Mar 23, 2020

To investigate the characteristics and clinical value of chest computed tomography (CT) images of novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP).Clinical data and CT images of 80 cases of NCP were collected. The c...

Mar 23, 2020

Postoperative pneumonia is the third most common complication in surgical patients. However, little is known regarding pneumonia after craniotomy, which is the most commonly performed surgery in the n...

Mar 23, 2020

Major abdominal procedures could induce dysfunction in the immune system and lead to postoperative immunosuppression. Sleep dysfunction is associated with impaired immune activity. However, the effect...

Mar 23, 2020

To investigate the differences of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and galectin-3 concentrations in lobar pneumonia and bronchopneumonia induced by mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) in...

Mar 23, 2020

In patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), mortality is directly related to time to reperfusion with guidelines recommending patients be delivered directly to centres for pri...

Mar 23, 2020

Cardiac power index (CPI) is an integrative hemodynamic measure of cardiac pumping capability and is the product of the simultaneously measured mean arterial pressure and the cardiac output. We assess...

Mar 23, 2020

Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Despite considerable improvements in diagnosis and treatment, little is known about the short-term and long-term prognosis after a first st...

Mar 23, 2020

The objective of this review is to synthesize the best available evidence for the diagnostic test accuracy of procalcitonin (PCT) compared to C-reactive protein (CRP) in diagnosing osteomyelitis (OM) ...