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Nosocomial Infection Following Severe Traumatic Injury in Children.

Feb 28, 2020

Nosocomial infection is a common source of morbidity in critically injured children including those with traumatic brain injury. Risk factors for nosocomial infection in this population, however, are ...

Salt-inducible kinase 1 maintains HDAC7 stability to promote pathologic cardiac remodeling.

Feb 28, 2020

Salt inducible kinases (SIKs) are key regulators of cellular metabolism and growth, but their role in cardiomyocyte plasticity and heart failure pathogenesis remains unknown. Here, we showed that loss...

Safety and Pharmacokinetics of DS-1040 Drug-Drug Interactions With Aspirin, Clopidogrel, and Enoxaparin.

Feb 28, 2020

DS-1040, a novel low-molecular-weight inhibitor of activated thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor, is under development for the treatment of thromboembolic diseases including venous thromboembo...

Emergency department evaluation of chest pain among adult congenital heart disease patients.

Feb 28, 2020

Data regarding emergency department (ED) assessment of acute chest pain (CP) and incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) among adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) patients, relative to the non-conge...

Rationale and design for a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 study evaluating the safety and efficacy of the soluble guanylate cyclase stimulator praliciguat over 12 weeks in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (CAPACITY HFpEF).

Feb 28, 2020

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Exercise intolerance is the main symptom of HFpEF and is associated with a poor qual...

Four-year incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with atherosclerosis and atrial fibrillation.

Feb 28, 2020

There is a paucity of contemporary data assessing the implications of atrial fibrillation (AF) on major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in patients with or at high-risk for atherosclerotic diseas...

Effect of direct angioplasty therapy on acute middle cerebral artery occlusion with good leptomeningeal collateral.

Feb 28, 2020

The objective of this study was to investigate and discuss the effect of direct angioplasty therapy on acute middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) patients with good leptomeningeal collateral circul...

Cardiac glycoside digoxin ameliorates pro-inflammatory cytokines in PBMCs of rheumatoid arthritis patients in vitro.

Feb 28, 2020

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disorder characterized by hyperplasia of the synovial membrane along with persistent inflammation of joints. Earlier studies suggest the crucial role...

The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2 may be at least partially responsible for the respiratory failure of COVID-19 patients.

Feb 28, 2020

Following the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), another highly pathogenic coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2 (previously k...

[Clinical manifestations and late diagnosis of common variable immunodeficiency].

Feb 28, 2020

Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most frequent type of severe primary immunodeficiency (PID). Clinical manifestations of CVID occur at any age; nevertheless, they are more frequent betwe...

Radiological findings from 81 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study.

Feb 28, 2020

A cluster of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia caused by infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) were successively reported in Wuhan, Chin...

Variation in Practice Related to the Use of High Flow Nasal Cannula in Critically Ill Children.

Feb 28, 2020

To determine current management of critically ill children and gather views regarding high flow nasal cannula therapy and to evaluate research priorities for a large prospective randomized controlled ...

Clinical course and outcomes of critically ill patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a single-centered, retrospective, observational study.

Feb 28, 2020

An ongoing outbreak of pneumonia associated with the severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) started in December, 2019, in Wuhan, China. Information about critically ill patients with SARS...

Intestinal flora dysbiosis aggravates cognitive dysfunction associated with neuroinflammation in heart failure.

Feb 28, 2020

Cognitive dysfunction after heart failure (HF) is characterized by neuroinflammation, which plays an important role in the occurrence and development of cognitive dysfunction. Recent studies have show...

Comparing PCI Approaches for Cardiogenic Shock

Feb 25, 2020

Previous studies indicate that early revascularization appears to reduce mortality among patients with acute MI that is complicated by cardiogenic shock. Approximately 80% of MI patients with cardioge...

Susceptibility of rat steatotic liver to ischemia-reperfusion is treatable with liver-selective matrix metalloproteinase inhibition.

Feb 18, 2020

This study examined whether enhanced susceptibility of steatotic liver to I/R injury is due to impaired recruitment of bone marrow (BM) progenitors of LSECs (also called sprocs) with diminished repair...

Hypoxic-ischemic-related cerebrovascular changes and potential therapeutic strategies in the neonatal brain.

Feb 18, 2020

Perinatal hypoxic-ischemic (HI)-related brain injury is an important cause of morbidity and long-standing disability in newborns. The only currently approved therapeutic strategy available to reduce b...

Mitochondrial division inhibitor 1 disrupts oligodendrocyte Ca homeostasis and mitochondrial function.

Feb 18, 2020

Mitochondrial fission mediated by cytosolic dynamin related protein 1 (Drp1) is essential for mitochondrial quality control but may contribute to apoptosis as well. Blockade of Drp1 with mitochondrial...

Inhibition of MiR-122 Decreases Cerebral Ischemia-reperfusion Injury by Upregulating DJ-1-Phosphatase and Tensin Homologue Deleted on Chromosome 10 (PTEN)/Phosphonosinol-3 Kinase (PI3K)/AKT.

Feb 18, 2020

BACKGROUND Ischemia-reperfusion injury is caused by a blood reperfusion injury in ischemic brain tissue, and usually occurs in the treatment stage of ischemic disease, which can aggravate brain tissue...

Multistate, population-based distributions of candidate vaccine targets, clonal complexes, and resistance features of invasive Group B Streptococci within the US: 2015-2017.

Feb 18, 2020

Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a leading cause of neonatal sepsis and meningitis and an important cause of invasive infections in pregnant and nonpregnant adults. Vaccines targeting capsule polysaccha...

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