Nov 12, 2020

There is a known association between need for transfusion and short-term outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. However, long-term data are lacking in the contemporary literature.All patient...

Nov 12, 2020

We have previously reported an association between high red blood cell distribution width (RDW) and mortality in septic and brain infarction patients. However, no association between RDW and mortality...

Nov 12, 2020

Resolution failure of exacerbated inflammation triggered by Influenza A virus (IAV) prevents return of pulmonary homeostasis and survival, especially when associated with secondary pneumococcal infect...

Nov 12, 2020

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in 2019 and disseminated around the world rapidly. Computed tomography (CT) imaging has been proven to be an important tool for screening, disease quantific...

Nov 12, 2020

The present report documents a patient harboring an alpha-synuclein p.A53T variant from a family presenting with autosomal dominant inheritance, including four patients clinically diagnosed with Parki...

Nov 12, 2020

Although symptoms and signs of COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) in children are milder than adults, there are reports of more severe cases which were defined as pediatric inflammatory multisystem s...

Nov 12, 2020

Sepsis is one of the most common reasons for hospitalization. This condition is characterized by systemic inflammatory response to infection. International definition of sepsis mainly points out a mul...

Nov 12, 2020

species are common causes of human infection. These Gram-positive, encapsulated bacterial pathogens infect diverse anatomic spaces, leading to infections including skin and soft tissue infection, end...

Nov 12, 2020

The newly highlighted research into programmed cell death (PCD), autophagy dependent cell death and pyroptotic cell death, has shown that these processes are both strongly correlated with the patholog...

Nov 12, 2020

L.P. Li, J.W. Liang and H.J. Fu. An update on the association between traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer's disease : focus on tau pathology and synaptic dysfunction. NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV REVXXX-XXX,202...

Nov 12, 2020

Resting heart rate is a risk factor of adverse heart failure (HF) outcomes; however, studies have shown controversial results. This meta-analysis evaluates the association of resting heart rate with m...

Nov 12, 2020

We investigated oxidative stress and RAAS biomarkers, as well as their association, in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients on optimized medical therapy, stratified by disease severity or by renal fun...

Nov 12, 2020

Exercise intolerance in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) or heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) results from both cardiac dysfunction and skeletal muscle weaknes...

Nov 12, 2020

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic poses extraordinary challenges. The tremendous number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in the United States has re...

Nov 12, 2020

Tranexamic acid (TXA) is an antifibrinolytic agent, which has shown an effect on reducing blood loss in many diseases. Many studies focus on the effect of TXA on cerebral hemorrhage, however, whether ...

Nov 12, 2020

The presence of COVID-19 infection may increase the risk of thrombotic events including ischemic strokes. Whilst a number of recent reports suggest that COVID-19 associated stroke tends to be severe, ...

Nov 09, 2020

During the SARS COV-2 pandemic, the vast majority of infected patients are showing symptoms related to lung damage. At pediatric ages, especially newborns, symptoms from other organ systems without re...

Nov 09, 2020

We investigate the clinical utility of the lactate/albumin (L/A) ratio as an early prognostic marker of ICU mortality in a large cohort of unselected critically ill patients.A retrospective single-cen...

Nov 09, 2020

The diffusion of electronic health records collecting large amount of clinical, monitoring, and laboratory data produced by intensive care units (ICUs) is the natural terrain for the application of ar...

Nov 09, 2020

This study was performed to determine the occurrence of ocular surface manifestations in patients diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronaviru...