Critical Care General
Nov 02, 2020
Low skeletal muscle mass is one of the components of sarcopenia. However, the prognostic impact of skeletal muscle mass on clinical outcomes in patients after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (T...
Nov 02, 2020
The clinical success rate of islet transplantation, namely independence from insulin injections, is limited by factors that lead to graft failure, including inflammation, acute ischemia, acute phase r...
Oct 29, 2020
Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) drives early and long-term damage to organs as well as compounding damage from acute transplant rejection and surgical trauma. IRI initiates an aggressive and prolong...
Oct 29, 2020
Thrombin is a key player in the coagulation cascade, and it is attracting much attention as a promotor of cellular injured signaling. In ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI), which is a severe complicati...
Oct 29, 2020
Chronic compression or ischemia of the spinal cord in the cervical spine causes a clinical syndrome known as cervical myelopathy. Recently, a new term "degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM)" was intr...
Oct 29, 2020
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multifactorial and heterogeneous autoimmune disease involving multiple organ systems and tissues. Lupus nephritis occurs in approximately 60% of patients with S...
Oct 29, 2020
Immune system suppression during critical care contributes to the risk of acquired bacterial infections with Pseudomonas (P.) aeruginosa. Repeated exposure to endotoxin can attenuate systemic inflamma...
Oct 29, 2020
This study focused on the Kuchikara Taberu Balance Chart (KTBC) as a tool for swallowing function evaluation. To clarify the relationship between videoendoscopic (VE) examination of swallowing functio...
Oct 29, 2020
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), involves several organs through participation of angiotensin-conversion enzy...
Oct 29, 2020
To understand the impact of COVID-19 on delivery and outcomes of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI). Furthermore, to compare clinical presentation and outcomes of patients with ST-segme...
Oct 29, 2020
Probiotic ingestion is associated with an increase in intestinal flora of useful bacteria, which contributes to the known protective effects it has on the intestinal barrier and thereby reducing infec...
Oct 29, 2020
Preterm Prelabor rupture of membranes (PPROM) accompanies 2-3% of all pregnancies and 1/3rd of all preterm deliveries leading to intraamniotic infection, postpartum infections, sepsis along with perin...
Oct 29, 2020
Sepsis is, worldwide, one of the leading causes of death among infants and children. Over the past two decades, mortality rates have declined due to advanced treatment options; however, the incidence ...
Oct 29, 2020
Optimizing blood pressure is an important target for intervention following pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI). The existing literature has examined the association between systolic blood pressure...
Oct 29, 2020
Objective Detection and early prediction of mental fatigue (i.e., shifts in vigilance), could be used to adapt neuromodulation strategies to effectively treat patients suffering from brain injury and ...
Oct 29, 2020
Previous researchers have examined factor structures for common concussion symptom inventories. However, they failed to discriminate between the acute (<72 hours) and subacute (3 days-3 months) per...
Oct 29, 2020
The purpose of this study was to identify predictors of initial hospitalization and describe the outcomes of high-risk patients hospitalized with influenza.Data were taken from the 5% national US Medi...
Oct 29, 2020
The biological mechanisms conveying the salutary effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy in heart failure remain elusive. We have recently developed a mouse model of heart failure with dyssynchro...
Oct 29, 2020
Coronary angiography (CAG) sometimes shows nonobstructive coronary arteries in patients with suspected angina or acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The high prevalence of nonobstructive coronary artery di...
Oct 26, 2020
With evidence indicating that a large area of myocardium is jeopardized by left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease, LMCA disease could be associated with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, which is s...