Mar 23, 2020

() is a leading cause of both healthcare-and community-associated infections globally, which result in severe disease and readily developing antibiotic resistance. Developing an efficacious vaccine a...

Mar 23, 2020

Capnocytophaga canimorsus, commonly transmitted by dog bites, can cause severe sepsis, and the mortality rate is very high. We experienced a case of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) complicate...

Mar 23, 2020

The Third International Consensus Definitions (Sepsis-3) define sepsis as life-threatening multi-organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Sepsis can progress to septic sh...

Mar 23, 2020

Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-EC) is one of the most frightening multidrug-resistant bacteria that usually causes sepsis. Herein we explored the benefits of nephrosto...

Mar 23, 2020

The mechanisms of aberrant circulating platelet behavior following injury remain unclear. Platelets retain megakaryocyte immature ribonucleic acid (RNA) splicing and protein synthesis machinery to alt...

Mar 23, 2020

Prevention of epilepsy is a great unmet need. Acute central nervous system (CNS) insults such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), cerebrovascular accidents (CVA), and CNS infections account for 15%-20% o...

Mar 23, 2020

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is largely non-preventable and often kills or permanently disables its victims. Because current treatments for TBI merely ameliorate secondary effects of the initial injur...

Mar 23, 2020

To examine recent traumatic brain injury (TBI) mortality changes among Americans aged 0-19 years by sex, age, urbanicity, state, and intent/causes of injury.TBI mortality per 100,000 population and ...

Mar 23, 2020

Dilatation of Virchow-Robin spaces (dVRS) have been described in the development of hydrocephalic syndromes. We report an unusual case of a Type III dVRS presenting as a mimic of normal pressure hydro...

Mar 23, 2020

Cannabinol (CBN) is a degradation product of the cannabis metabolite Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol. The CBN concentration in cannabis leaves ranges between 0.1 and 1.6% (w/w of dry weight); it increases as...

Mar 23, 2020

Left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) provide mechanical circulatory support for patients with advanced heart failure. Intracranial hemorrhage in this population represent a significant management ch...

Mar 23, 2020

The high burden of heart failure in nursing-home populations is due to advanced age and comorbidities. Heart failure is often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed in this population and therefore remains untre...

Mar 23, 2020

The Evaluation of pimobendan in dogs with cardiomegaly caused by preclinical myxomatous mitral valve disease (EPIC) study monitored dogs with myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD) as they developed c...

Mar 23, 2020

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is highly prevalent among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and also associated with unfavorable outcome. Anticoagulant therapy is the mainstep of management in such...

Mar 23, 2020

Atrial fibrillation (AF) has become a global epidemic and puts affected patients at high risk of adverse events. In this review we summarise the current evidence on risk factors and complications of A...

Mar 23, 2020

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) and ischemic digital lesions (DL) are two scleroderma vascular outcomes that in cross-sectional studies are associated with abnormalities in biomarkers of angiogenesis. The...

Mar 23, 2020

We aimed to assess the association between migraine headache and incident dementia.Migraine is a risk factor for white matter hyperintensities and ischemic stroke, which are both associated with incre...

Mar 22, 2020

Patients advised to continue ACE inhibitors/ARBs after researcher posits risk for severe COVID-19 infection FRIDAY, March 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Patients already prescribed angiotensin-conv...

Mar 20, 2020

To determine whether parapapillary choroidal microvasculature (PPCMv) density as measured by optical coherence tomography angiography differs between nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (N...

Mar 20, 2020

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid and dysfunctional tau protein in the brain along with the final development of dementia. Accumulation of amyloid in the brain was ob...