Jul 13, 2020

To investigate the anxiety and depression levels of frontline clinical nurses working in 14 hospitals in Gansu Province, China, during this period.A cross-sectional survey was conducted online between...

Jul 13, 2020

Recently heart failure (HF) has been found to be a new dementia risk factor, nevertheless their relations in patients following HF decompensation remain unknown. We sought to investigate whether a scr...

Jul 13, 2020

Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) production upon reperfusion of ischemic tissue initiates the ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury associated with heart attack. During ischemia, succinate accu...

Jul 13, 2020

The aim of this study was to characterize the clinical safety profile of transendocardial injection catheters (TIC) reported in the published literature.Transendocardial delivery is a minimally invasi...

Jul 13, 2020

Monocytic human leukocyte antigen DR (mHLA-DR) expression levels have been reported to be a marker of immunosuppression and a predictor of sepsis and mortality. There is, however, scant data regarding...

Jul 13, 2020

Increases in cardiac troponin (cTn) indicative of myocardial injury are common in patients with COVID-19 and associated with adverse outcomes such as arrhythmias and death. These increases are more li...

Jul 13, 2020

Sepsis, a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) caused by infection, is a major public health concern with limited therapeutic options. Infection disturbs the homeostasis of host, resulting i...

Jul 13, 2020

To evaluate the association between post-concussive symptomatology and heading in professional soccer players, overcoming the bias of self-reported exposure, we evaluated several clinical neuropsychia...

Jul 13, 2020

Secondary traumatic brain injury (TBI) consequences continue multiple cascades of biochemical reactions caused by initial neurotrauma and one of the important pathogenetic processes is mitochondrial d...

Jul 13, 2020

We designed this study to evaluate whether controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score was valuable in predicting outcome of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI).Clinical and laboratory data of...

Jul 13, 2020

There is a high prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with heart failure presented for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). It remains unclear whether an atrial lead should be implant...

Jul 13, 2020

CKD-HF patients suffer excess hospitalization and mortality, often under-treated with life-prolonging medications due to fear of worsening renal function and hyperkalaemia. Yet, role of inter-discipli...

Jul 13, 2020

Redo cardiac surgery carries an inherent risk for adverse short-term outcomes and worse long-term survival. Strategies to mitigate these risks have been numerous, including initiation of cardiopulmona...

Jul 13, 2020

The Chinese stroke emergency map (SEM) was implemented in 2017 to reduce prehospital and hospital delays for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients suitable for intravenous recombinant tissue plasminoge...

Jul 13, 2020

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has become an important therapy in patients with heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). The effect of diabetes on long-term outco...

Jul 09, 2020

The present study aimed to compare the assessment of volume preservation and perioperative outcomes during partial nephrectomy (PN), according to the surface-intermediate-base (SIB) score.This prospec...

Jul 09, 2020

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak accelerates worldwide, it is highly significant to evaluate sex-specific clinical characteristics and outcomes, that may affect public health polici...

Jul 09, 2020

 This study aimed to compare the clinical outcomes of early and late surgical stabilization of rib fractures (SSRFs) in patients with flail chest. A retrospective analysis was performed on patient...

Jul 09, 2020

In December 2019, the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was initiated in Wuhan, now causing a worldwide pandemic. However, the experience in the very elderly patients is very limited, wh...

Jul 09, 2020

The Gram negative pathogen Capnocytophaga canimorsus is a frequent commensal in the oral cavity of cats and dogs. Although the bacterium is generally considered harmless, infections in humans can occu...