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Prospective study to optimize the health of patients with TIAS (transient ischemic attack) and stroke admitted to the Hamad General Hospital.

Jul 20, 2020

Recurrent ischemic strokes (IS) make up to one-third of all strokes. Nine out of 10 strokes are due to modifiable risk factors. Thus, it seems that standard management strategies of modifiable risk fa...

Methodologies for pragmatic and efficient assessment of benefits and harms: Application to the SOCRATES trial.

Jul 20, 2020

Standard approaches to trial design and analyses can be inefficient and non-pragmatic. Failure to consider a range of outcomes impedes evidence-based interpretation and reduces power. Traditional appr...

Self-reported snoring patterns predict stroke events in high-risk patients with obstructive sleep apnea: post-hoc analyses of the SAVE study.

Jul 20, 2020

The relation of snoring to risks of stroke and other major cardiovascular (CV) events is uncertain.We aimed to determine associations of snoring patterns and major CV events in relation to the obstruc...

COVID-19 as part of the hyperferritinemic syndromes: the role of iron depletion therapy.

Jul 20, 2020

SARS-CoV-2 infection is characterized by a protean clinical picture that can range from asymptomatic patients to life-threatening conditions. Severe COVID-19 patients often display a severe pulmonary ...

Clinical Manifestations and Outcomes of Critically Ill Children and Adolescents with COVID-19 in New York City.

Jul 20, 2020

To describe the clinical manifestations and outcomes of critically ill children with coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) in New York City.Retrospective observational study of children 1 month to 21 year...

Annexin A3 in sepsis: novel perspectives from an exploration of public transcriptome data.

Jul 20, 2020

According to publicly available transcriptome datasets, the abundance of Annexin A3 (ANXA3) is robustly increased during the course of sepsis; however, no studies have examined the biological signific...

Dendritic Arbor complexity and Spine Density Changes after Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Neuroprotective Treatments.

Jul 20, 2020

Traumatic brain injury has been described as the signature affliction of recent military conflicts and repetitive TBIs, particularly associated with military and athletic activities, typically result ...

Guanosine Protects Against Behavioural and Mitochondrial Bioenergetic Alterations after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.

Jul 20, 2020

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) constitutes a heterogeneous cerebral insult induced by traumatic biomechanical forces. Mitochondria play a critical role in brain bioenergetics, and TBI induces several co...

Regeneration of the Rotator Cuff Tendon-to-Bone Interface using Umbilical Cord-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Gradient Extracellular Matrix Scaffolds from Adipose Tissue in a Rat Model.

Jul 20, 2020

Regeneration of the gradient structure of the tendon-to-bone interface (TBI) is a crucial goal after rotator cuff repair. The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of a biomimetic hydr...

Doxycycline decreases amyloidogenic light chain-induced autophagy in isolated primary cardiac myocytes.

Jul 20, 2020

Immunoglobulin light chain (AL) cardiac amyloidosis is characterized by extracellular deposition of amyloid fibrils in the heart and is potentially fatal. Untreated, it manifests clinically as heart f...

Therapeutic Effects of Simultaneous Delivery of Nerve Growth Factor mRNA and Protein via Exosomes on Cerebral Ischemia.

Jul 20, 2020

Stroke is the leading neurological cause of death and disability all over the world, with few effective drugs. Nerve growth factor (NGF) is well known for its multifaceted neuroprotective functions po...

The prognostic role of mid-range ejection fraction in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.

Jul 20, 2020

There is a paucity of studies investigating the impact of mid-range ejection fraction (mrEF) on clinical outcomes, including ventricular arrhythmias, in ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STE...

The peripheral immune response in hyperglycemic stroke.

Jul 20, 2020

Hyperglycemia is common in acute ischemic stroke patients and is associated with poor clinical outcome. However, aggressive reduction of post-stroke hyperglycemia did not improve clinical outcome, sug...

Modifiable lifestyle factors and heart failure: A Mendelian randomization study.

Jul 20, 2020

Lifestyle factors may be important targets in the prevention of heart failure. The current knowledge on the relationship between lifestyle factors and heart failure originates mostly from observationa...

Neonatal neuroimaging and neurophysiology predict infantile onset epilepsy after perinatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.

Jul 16, 2020

To evaluate the accuracy of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) grade, and neonatal neurophysiological and neuroimaging measures for predicting development of infantile spasms syndrome (IS) or other...

Mechanisms of Antimicrobial and Anti-Endotoxin Activities of a Triazine-Based Amphipathic Polymer.

Jul 16, 2020

TZP4 is a triazine-based amphipathic polymer designed to mimic the amphipathic structure found in antimicrobial peptides. TZP4 showed potent antimicrobial activity comparable to melittin against antib...

Burkitt Lymphoma in the Modern Era: Real World Outcomes and Prognostication Across 30 US Cancer Centers.

Jul 16, 2020

We examined adults with untreated Burkitt lymphoma (BL) from 2009-2018 across 30 US cancer centers. Factors associated with progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were evaluated in ...

Noninvasive Ventilation Use in Critically Ill Patients with Acute Asthma Exacerbations.

Jul 16, 2020

Non-invasive ventilation decreases the need for invasive mechanical ventilation and mortality among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease but has not been well studied in asthma.To asses...

Tackling the cytokine storm in COVID-19, challenges, and hopes.

Jul 16, 2020

The outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the current world health concern, presenting a public health dilemma with ascending morbidity and mortality rates exceeding any previous viral sp...

2020 international consensus on ANCA testing beyond systemic vasculitis.

Jul 16, 2020

This document follows up on a 2017 revised international consensus on anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibodies (ANCA) testing in granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis and focuses o...

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