Critical Care General
Apr 20, 2020
Intraoperative fluorescence angiography (IOFA) with indocyanine green provides information on tissue perfusion that may help prevent an anastomotic leak (AL). The aim of this study was to assess the i...
Apr 20, 2020
Critical care risk scores can stratify mortality risk among cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) patients, yet risk score performance across common CICU admission diagnoses remains uncertain.We evaluate...
Apr 20, 2020
This case-control study aimed to evaluate the ability to use a panel of IL-31, IL-1ß and NLRP3 to differentiate sepsis from systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and to predict septic shock....
Apr 20, 2020
Dysphagia has a large impact on the society because it is a risk factor of malnutrition and aspiration pneumonia, and therefore, it is necessary to elucidate the entire mechanism of dysphagia. In this...
Apr 20, 2020
Since in vitro studies and a preliminary clinical report suggested the efficacy of chloroquine for COVID-19-associated pneumonia, there is increasing interest in this old antimalarial drug. In this ar...
Apr 20, 2020
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), synthesized by green methods with the property to kill microbes, are highly valuable in medical sciences. So, the current study was aimed at using the flower extract of W...
Apr 20, 2020
We describe organisms found in the respiratory tracts of a multicenter cohort of pediatric hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) recipients with respiratory failure.Twelve centers contributed up to 25 p...
Apr 20, 2020
The indices of population health exhibit tendency to deteriorate with age. The high level of morbidity, prevalence of chronic diseases, polymorbidity, atypical course of disease, continuous rehabilita...
Apr 20, 2020
Presepsin (or sCD14) has been identified as a protein whose levels increase specifically in the blood of patients with bacterial infections. In this study, we evaluated the clinical performance of sCD...
Apr 20, 2020
Congenital sensorineural hearing loss is a heterogeneous disorder; its etiological profile varies between populations. Pathogenic variants of GJB2 gene are the major cause of non-syndromic hearing los...
Apr 20, 2020
Pyoderma Gangrenosum (PG) is a rare auto-inflammatory disease, characterized by painful ulcerative skin-lesions often developing at sites of injury or surgery because of the typical pathergy phenomena...
Apr 20, 2020
The NOD-like receptor (NLR) family pyrin domain-containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasomes are intracellular protein complexes that orchestrate immune responses through mediating caspase-1 activation, which l...
Apr 20, 2020
Background Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a common cause of neonatal sepsis. GBS colonization of the newborn gastrointestinal tract (GIT) may be a critical precursor for late-onset infection. Assessme...
Apr 20, 2020
Early life stress (ELS) is a risk factor for many psychopathologies that happen later in life. Although stress can occur in cases of child abuse, studies on non-accidental brain injuries in pediatric ...
Apr 20, 2020
Elevated GSK-3 activity has been implicated in cognitive dysfunction associated with various disorders including Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, type 2 diabetes, traumatic brain injury, major depr...
Apr 20, 2020
CT reduction in favor of rapid sequence MRI to decrease pediatric radiation exposure has varied across institutions. We aim to understand national trends in CT and rapid sequence MRI usage, as well as...
Apr 20, 2020
Investigations of Alzheimer's disease (AD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and related brain disorders have provided extensive evidence for involvement of cathepsin B, a lysosomal cysteine protease, in...
Apr 20, 2020
The association of TBI with socioeconomic characteristics of patients has not been studied extensively. The objective of this study was to analyse the differences in injury characteristics and outcome...
Apr 20, 2020
Acute heart failure (AHF) patients with high troponin levels have a worse prognosis. High-sensitive troponin T (hs-TnT) has been used as a tool to stratify prognosis in many scales but always as a qua...
Apr 20, 2020
Prediction of outcome after stroke may help clinicians provide effective management and plan long-term care. We aimed to develop and validate a score for predicting good functional outcome available f...