Nov 02, 2020

In December 2019, a pneumonia like illness was first reported in Wuhan-China caused by a new coronavirus named corona virus disease -2019 (COVID-19) which then spread to cause a global pandemic. Most ...

Nov 02, 2020

COVID-19, as a newly-emerged viral infection has now spread all over the world after originating in Wuhan, China. Pneumonia is the hallmark of the disease, with dyspnea in half of the patients and acu...

Nov 02, 2020

As an ongoing worldwide health issue, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been causing serious complications, including pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and multi-organ failu...

Nov 02, 2020

It has been widely reported that vitamin D deficiency is associated with Coronary heart disease (CHD), especially acute Myocardial infarction (MI). Many factors are responsible for reduced Left ventri...

Nov 02, 2020

Testosterone prescriptions have increased dramatically in recent decades, with increasing usage in men. Despite epidemiological associations reported high circulating concentrations of endogenous andr...

Nov 02, 2020

Although stroke management, primary and secondary preventions have been improved in China last decades, the trends and predictors of major vascular events after ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic...

Nov 02, 2020

Patients after traumatic injury continue to develop health care-associated infections. The aim of this review was to identify risk factors for developing hospital-acquired infection and sepsis in pati...

Nov 02, 2020

Cytokines are key mediators of immune responses to autoantigens, tumor antigens and foreign antigens including pathogens and transplant antigens. The cytokines are produced by a variety of immune and ...

Nov 02, 2020

We report the utilisation and impact of a novel triage-based electronic screening tool (eST) combined with clinical assessment to recognise sepsis in paediatric ED.An electronic sepsis screening tool ...

Nov 02, 2020

The World Health Organization predicts a striking rise in the burden of traumatic brain injury (TBI) burden in the next decades. A disproportionately large increase is predicted in low and middle inco...

Nov 02, 2020

It is crucial that dentists who treat traumatic dental injuries rule out concomitant brain injuries. Despite anatomic proximity, controversy exists regarding association between facial trauma and head...

Nov 02, 2020

Cardiac involvement with COVID-19 infection has become evident by elevated troponin, cardiac arrhythmias, ST segment elevation, myocarditis, fulminant heart failure, and sudden cardiac death. We aimed...

Nov 02, 2020

Covid-19 disease can involve any organ system leading to myriad manifestations and complications. Cardiovascular manifestations are being increasingly recognised with the improved understanding of the...

Nov 02, 2020

Rapid phosphoester hydrolysis of endogenous purine and pyrimidine nucleotides has challenged the characterization of the role of P2 receptors in physiology and pathology. Nucleotide phosphoester stabi...

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...