Oct 05, 2020

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is known to be associated with several co-occurring conditions. We aimed at exploring multimorbidity patterns associated with CKD, as well as the impact of physical perfor...

Oct 05, 2020

The aim of this review was to examine the existing evidence about interventions proposed for the treatment of clinical chorioamnionitis, with the goal of developing an evidence-based contemporary appr...

Oct 05, 2020

In the future, payers may not cover unplanned 90-day emergency room (ER) visits or readmissions after elective lumbar spine surgery. Prior studies using large administrative databases lack granularity...

Oct 05, 2020

The number of different antimicrobial recommendations between hospital trusts for the same indication in England is unknown.We aimed to evaluate the heterogeneity of antimicrobial recommendations for ...

Oct 05, 2020

Dysnatremia is common in severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients and may contribute to mortality. However, serum sodium variability has not been studied in TBI patients. We hypothesized that such...

Oct 05, 2020

Worldwide elderly traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients tend to become an increasing burden to the society. Thus, a faster and less expensive way of evaluating TBI victims is needed. In the present st...

Oct 05, 2020

Previous literature demonstrates increased mortality for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) with transfer to a Level II versus Level I trauma center. Our objective is to determine the effect of the most rec...

Oct 05, 2020

New hypertension and heart failure guidelines recommend that systolic blood pressure (SBP) in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and hypertension be lowered to <13...

Oct 05, 2020

β-blockers are recommended for heart failure (HF) patients but their benefit in the dialysis population is uncertain. β-blockers are heterogeneous including with respect to their removal by hemodial...

Oct 05, 2020

A 69-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with right hemiparesis and global aphasia. Perfusion computed tomography imaging revealed ischemic penumbra in the middle cerebral artery territory. Angi...

Oct 05, 2020

We evaluated whether the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic was associated with changes in the pattern of acute cardiovascular admissions across European centres.We set-up a mult...

Oct 05, 2020

During the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a reduction in hospital admissions for acute myocardial infarction. This manuscript presents the analysis of Google Trends meta-data and shows a marked spik...

Oct 05, 2020

Bilateral optic disc edema (ODE) with preserved visual function is typically a result of papilledema, but the causes of this finding in the absence of raised intracranial pressure have not been system...

Oct 01, 2020

 Sepsis is a major cause of neonatal mortality. The gold standard for diagnosis is blood culture which suffers from low sensitivity and huge turn-around time. Flow cytometry has been extensively app...

Oct 01, 2020

This study aims to develop and test a new computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) scheme of chest X-ray images to detect coronavirus (COVID-19) infected pneumonia.CAD scheme first applies two image preprocessi...

Oct 01, 2020

Positive pivotal trials followed by guideline endorsement can be a major driver of change in US national medical practice patterns. We therefore analyzed national trends in the use and outcomes of mec...

Oct 01, 2020

Infectious bronchopneumonia is a lower respiratory tract disease with major economic consequences in dairy calves. Thoracic radiography (TR) and thoracic ultrasonography (TUS) are two imaging diagnost...

Oct 01, 2020

The impact of continuing parenteral nutrition (PN) in patients who develop blood stream infections (BSI) while receiving PN is largely unknown. Adult patients admitted to a large academic center ove...

Oct 01, 2020

As transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) continues its rapid growth as a treatment approach for aortic stenosis, costs associated with TAVI and its burden to healthcare systems will assume gr...

Oct 01, 2020

Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is associated with high morbidity. Among all complications, infections, in particular if hospital-acquired, could represent an important cause of death in SAH patients. T...