Mar 20, 2020

Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP) can chronically relieve ischemic chest pain and improve the prognosis of coronary heart disease (CHD). Despite its role in mitigating heart complications, EEC...

Mar 20, 2020

Anaphylactic cardiovascular events constitute an underrated cause of medical emergencies in hospitalized patients. Coronary arteries and myocardium are targeted by anaphylactic mediators leading to ac...

Mar 20, 2020

In children with pneumonia, chest x-ray (CXR) is typically the first imaging modality used for diagnostic work-up. Repeated CXR or computed tomography (CT) are often necessary if complications such as...

Mar 20, 2020

Antibiotic stewardship (ABS) denotes structured and continuous measures to improve the quality of prescribing anti-infectives. The aim is to achieve optimal treatment results and to minimize undesirab...

Mar 19, 2020

THURSDAY, March 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) frequently have digestive symptoms, and those with digestive symptoms have a worse clinical outcome, according to...

Mar 18, 2020

Research indicates that adults with asthma as well as depression, anxiety, or both demonstrate higher asthma-related healthcare use, including emergency department (ED) visits. Naomi S. Bardach, MD, ...

Mar 18, 2020

Insulin autoimmune syndrome (IAS) is characterized by hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia with elevated anti-insulin antibodies. Most commonly observed in the Japanese population, elsewhere it is rare and a...

Mar 18, 2020

Renal ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) is a leading cause of acute kidney injury (AKI), a potentially fatal syndrome characterized by a rapid decline in kidney function. Excess production of superoxi...

Mar 18, 2020

Investigate 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25(OH)D) levels and the correlation with cardiovascular sequential organ failure assessment (CV-SOFA) and pediatric risk of mortality III (PRISM-III) scores in criti...

Mar 18, 2020

This work aims to investigate the function and mechanism of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) cytoskeleton regulator RNA (CYTOR) in myocardial injury induced by sepsis. The sepsis-induced myocardial injury...

Mar 18, 2020

Platelets have the highest bacterial contamination risk of all blood components, and septic transfusion reactions remain a problem. A good estimate of contamination rates could provide information abo...

Mar 18, 2020

To determine if baseline lipid levels contribute to the relationship between lipid levels during sepsis and outcomes.We conducted a retrospective cohort study at a tertiary-care academic medical cente...

Mar 18, 2020

During an outbreak of respiratory diseases including atypical pneumonia in Wuhan, a previously unknown β-coronavirus was detected in patients. The newly discovered coronavirus is similar to some β-c...

Mar 18, 2020

SinceDecember 2019, novelcoronavirus infected pneumonia emerged in Wuhan city and rapidly spread throughout China. In severe novel coronavirus pneumonia cases, the number of platelets, their dynamic c...

Mar 18, 2020

Evaluate effect and costs of pertussis vaccination at Vietnam national children's hospital.Pertussis cases were defined by positive laboratory tests of children under 5 years January 2015 - June 2018,...

Mar 18, 2020

Pneumonia is a common acute lower respiratory infection in children and elders. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have recently been uncovered to play important roles in pneumonia. However, the function and me...

Mar 18, 2020

The molecular and pharmacological manipulation of the endogenous redox system is a promising therapy to limit myocardial damage after a heart attack; however, antioxidant therapies have failed to full...

Mar 18, 2020

Background Dickkopf-1 and sclerostin have been implicated in atherosclerosis and vascular calcification. We aimed to quantify the association of their serum levels with incident cardiovascular disease...

Mar 18, 2020

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a known risk factor for atrial fibrillation (AF). However, it remains unclear whether OSA is independently associated with worse cardiovascular and neurological outcom...

Mar 18, 2020

is the main bacterial cause of respiratory infections in children and the elderly worldwide. Serotype replacement is a frequent phenomenon after the introduction of conjugated vaccines, with emerging...