Critical Care General
Oct 01, 2020
Examine the association of patient and direct-care staff beliefs about patients' capability to increase independence with activities of daily living (ADLs) and the probability of successful discharge ...
Oct 01, 2020
Until recently, both the purpose of the biological need for sleep and the mechanism by which the central nervous system eliminated metabolic waste products were unknown. The glymphatic system is the r...
Oct 01, 2020
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a chronic pathology responsible for cognitive disorders impacting outcome. Global clinical outcome several years after TBI may be associated with anatomical sequelae. A...
Oct 01, 2020
We aimed to compare the outcomes of combined surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) to concurrent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with percu...
Oct 01, 2020
Oral anticoagulation (OAC) substantially reduces stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) at risk for stroke. Whether non-vitamin K-dependent oral anticoagulants (NOACs) improve OAC use i...
Oct 01, 2020
Relatively poor survival and differentiation performance of umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (ucMSCs) limits its application of transplantation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the c...
Oct 01, 2020
Inter-hospital transfer for ischemic stroke is an essential part of stroke system of care. This study aimed to understand the national patterns and outcomes of ischemic stroke transfer.This retrospect...
Oct 01, 2020
Elevated neutrophil count is associated with higher risk of major adverse cardiac events including myocardial infarction and early development of heart failure. Neutrophils contribute to cardiac damag...
Oct 01, 2020
In this study, we investigated the spontaneous neural plasticity on the contralateral side in hypertensive rats, including the expression of nerve growth factors (synaptophysin [SYN] and growth-associ...
Sep 28, 2020
Caveolin-1 (Cav-1) is an important modulator for adult neurogenesis in post stroke brain repair but its underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. In the present study, we report that endothelial Cav-...
Sep 28, 2020
- Space-occupying cerebellar ischemic strokes (SOCS) often lead to neurological deterioration and require surgical intervention to release pressure from the posterior fossa. Current guidelines recomme...
Sep 28, 2020
As the number of patients with left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation has been increasing, treatment of LVAD-related ischemic stroke is becoming a critical issue. We sought to clarify the ...
Sep 28, 2020
Globally, large numbers of children die shortly after birth and many of them within the first 4 wk of life. This study aimed to determine the trends, patterns and causes of neonatal mortality in hospi...
Sep 28, 2020
Pattern-recognition receptors including Toll-like receptors (TLRs) recognize invading pathogens and trigger an immune response in mammals. Here we show that mammalian ste20-like kinase 1/serine/threon...
Sep 28, 2020
Standard coagulation parameters are used to guide prophylactic blood product transfusion prior to invasive procedures in cirrhotic patients despite limited high-quality evidence.We aimed to describe c...
Sep 28, 2020
Steroid-refractory chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGvHD) is a therapeutic challenge. Sclerotic skin manifestations are especially difficult to treat. We conducted a randomized phase-2 clinical tri...
Sep 28, 2020
We describe clinical and laboratory findings in 35 patients tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction on nasopharyngeal swab experiencing one or multiple syncop...
Sep 28, 2020
Critically ill COVID-19 patients have a clear pattern of inflammation and hypercoagulable state. The main aim of the study was to evaluate the outcome of severe COVID-19 patients basing on prothrombot...
Sep 28, 2020
Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is characterized by typical fibromyxomatous changes in the mitral leaflet tissue with superior displacement of one or both leaflets into the left atrium. An echocardiogram ...