Feb 10, 2020

Data indicate that many healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) result from the use of medical devices, such as indwelling vascular and urinary catheters, accounting for about 25% of all HAIs. The eff...

Feb 10, 2020

To analyze (1) associations between postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) after CABG and long-term cardiovascular outcome, (2) whether associations were influenced by AF during follow-up, and (3) i...

Feb 07, 2020

“In 2016, the Sepsis-3 task force proposed the quick SOFA (qSOFA) score (2 or more of the following: hypotension, elevated respiratory rate, or altered mental status) as a bedside tool to efficientl...

Feb 04, 2020

Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) have frequent infectious complications requiring nephrotoxic medications, necessitating monitoring of renal function. Although adult studies have suggested that cyst...

Feb 04, 2020

We examined factors associated with follow-up blood cultures (FU-BCs) in patients with monomicrobial gram-negative bloodstream infection (GN-BSI), and investigated impact of FU-BCs on therapeutic mana...

Feb 04, 2020

BACKGROUND Lemierre's syndrome is a potential life-threatening disease commonly occurring in young, healthy individuals. It is often preceded by an oropharyngeal infection causing bacteremia. This may...

Feb 04, 2020

Brain injury has been recently understood to be a common occurrence among adults experiencing homelessness, resulting in the need for modifications to clinical practice in agencies serving this popula...

Feb 04, 2020

Medical respite programs provide a safe place for people experiencing homelessness to recover from an acute illness or injury. Many patients in respite programs have experienced a traumatic brain inju...

Feb 04, 2020

Occupational therapists have a long history of addressing community performance and participation challenges faced by individuals with complex, chronic conditions, including those with serious mental ...

Feb 04, 2020

There has been considerable public interest in the topic of traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a risk factor for development of late-life dementia. A review was performed on empirical studies examining t...

Feb 04, 2020

Fractional excretion of urea (FEUrea) is often used to understand the etiology of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients receiving diuretics. While FEUrea demonstrates diagnostic superiority over fract...

Feb 04, 2020

CONTEXT;: The left ventricular filling pressure (LVFP) is correlated to right atrial pressure (RAP) in heart failure.  We compared diagnostic value of the inferior vena cava (IVC) measurements to the...

Feb 04, 2020

Pathological cardiac hypertrophy is a classical hallmark of heart failure. At the molecular level, inhibition of histone deacetylase (HDAC) enzymes attenuate pathological cardiac hypertrophy in vitro ...

Feb 04, 2020

In patients with heart failure, fluid alteration and low muscle strength frequently coexist because of their reduced physical activity and sedentary behavior; however, few studies have evaluated the e...

Feb 04, 2020

The safety and efficacy of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition (ACEI) after heart transplantation (HT) is unknown. This study examined long-term clinical outcomes after ACEI in HT recipients.The ...

Feb 03, 2020

MONDAY, Feb. 3, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- An enhanced recovery after surgery program complemented by a preemptive pain management program is associated with a decrease in opioid prescriptions at discha...

Jan 31, 2020

FRIDAY, Jan. 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics has released the first national data on maternal mortality since 200...

Jan 30, 2020

Pancreatic static cold storage is the gold-standard method for pancreas preservation. Our main objective was to evaluate feasibility of hypothermic perfusion (HP) of non-human primates pancreases for ...

Jan 30, 2020

Uncontrolled donation after cardiac death (uDCD) has the potential to ameliorate the shortage of suitable lungs for transplantation. To date, no lung transplantation data from these donors is availabl...

Jan 30, 2020

This study sets out to establish the comparative contribution of PD-L1 expression by pulmonary endothelial cells (ECs) and/or epithelial cells (EpiCs) to the development of indirect acute lung injury ...