Jul 30, 2020

The burden of cardiovascular disease in women is being increasingly appreciated. Nevertheless, both clinicians and the general public are largely unaware that cardiovascular disease is the leading cau...

Jul 30, 2020

Patients without atrial fibrillation (AF) constitute approximately 75% of patients suffering thromboembolism and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), but evidence supporting risk stratification...

Jul 30, 2020

Aim To study clinical and anamnestic features and tactics of managing patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) in groups with different effectiveness of resuscitation procedures.Materials and me...

Jul 30, 2020

Melioidosis is caused by Gram-negative bacterium . Clinical presentation can vary from pneumonia, sepsis and multi-focal abscess formation. The aim of this study was to systemically review the cardiac...

Jul 30, 2020

While emergent pancreatic resection for trauma has been previously described, no large contemporary investigations into the frequency, indications, and outcomes of emergent pancreatectomy (EP) seconda...

Jul 30, 2020

Use of distal femur replacement implants in advanced bone defects after multiple bone-damaging revision surgery on the knee joint.Advanced femoral bone defects (AORI IIb and III defects) in revision ...

Jul 30, 2020

Sports-related concussion (SRC) is a complex and heterogeneous injury with psychological, cognitive and functional consequences. Advances in diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) allow sensitive...

Jul 30, 2020

Current clinical guidelines provide a unitary approach to manage sport-related concussion (SRC), while heterogeneity in the presentation of symptoms suggests that subtypes of SRC may exist. We systema...

Jul 30, 2020

Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are a significant health problem, impacting millions of people every year. Although emerging evidence suggests that the composition of the gut microbiome is altered aft...

Jul 30, 2020

Aim      To evaluate trends in beta-blocker prescribing and incidence of possible reasons for beta-blocker administration, including arterial hypertension (AH), atrial fibrillation (AF), ischemic...

Jul 30, 2020

Aim      To study possible correlations between echocardiography (EchoCG) indexes and markers of myocardial fibrosis, procollagen I C-terminal propeptide (PICP) and procollagen III N-terminal pro...

Jul 30, 2020

Background Sleep disturbance and ventilator inefficiency are considered two of the most critical complications for general human wellbeing, particularly in elderly heart failure (HF) patients. Studies...

Jul 30, 2020

Tigertriever is a novel operator-adjustable clot retriever designed to enhance the operator's options to control the interaction of retriever and clot. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibil...

Jul 27, 2020

Prescriptions of off-label dosing non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) are common for Asian patients with atrial fibrillation (AF).To investigate the associations between inappropriate...

Jul 27, 2020

Pro-atrial natriuretic peptide (proANP) and pro-adrenomedullin (proADM) levels increase in acute heart failure and sepsis. After cardiac surgery, children may require increased support in the intensiv...

Jul 27, 2020

Tregs play a crucial role in modulating the inflammatory response and participated in the sepsis-related immune dysfunctions. However, little is known about the regulatory mechanisms by which Tregs ar...

Jul 27, 2020

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), an acute syndrome of systemic thrombus formation in microvasculatures throughout the body, can be induced by severe infections, e.g. sepsis. Anticoagulant...

Jul 27, 2020

We aimed to determine a profile of ex vivo released cytokines in patients with stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP) and to assess the clinical utility of individual cytokines and their combination as a b...

Jul 27, 2020

Measuring the impact of care complexity on health outcomes, based on psychosocial, biological and environmental circumstances, is important in order to detect predictors of early deterioration of inpa...

Jul 27, 2020

Critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) are at high risk of developing upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to GI stress ulceration (SU). The major independent risk factors for ...