Mar 09, 2020

Prior studies have documented racial/ethnic disparities in the United States for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) outcomes. One factor cited as a potential mediator is unequal access to care. We sought t...

Mar 09, 2020

Mechanisms initiated by traumatic brain injury (TBI), leading to the development of progressive secondary injury are poorly understood. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have a proposed role in orchestrating the pos...

Mar 09, 2020

Abusive head injuries in infants may be occult but clinically or forensically important. Data conflict regarding yield of neuroimaging in detecting occult head injuries in infants evaluated for physic...

Mar 09, 2020

Concussion symptoms typically resolve within 7-10 days, but 10%-25% of patients do not fully recover. They can develop post-concussion syndrome (PCS), which includes sleep abnormalities such as obstru...

Mar 09, 2020

Our aim was to develop a high-quality, mobile cone-beam CT (CBCT) scanner for point-of-care detection and monitoring of low-contrast, soft-tissue abnormalities in the head / brain, such as acute intra...

Mar 09, 2020

To evaluate the incidence of severe potassium disturbances during barbiturate coma therapy in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), and the characteristics of these patients.The study com...

Mar 09, 2020

Atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF) with non-reduced left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) present a diagnostic overlap. In this paper, we analyze differences in biomarkers between patie...

Mar 09, 2020

Different variables are playing a role in prognosis of acute heart failure.Our purpose was to create and validate a risk score to predict mortality in patients with a first episode of acute heart fail...

Mar 09, 2020

Heart failure is a major health problem worldwide with a significant morbidity and mortality rate. Although studied extensively in animal models, data from patients at the compensated disease stage ar...

Mar 09, 2020

To evaluate the accuracy of compressed sensing (CS) cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) in the classifications of heart failure (HF). One hundred and fifty-four patients underwent 3 T CMR...

Mar 09, 2020

Vepoloxamer (VEPO), a rheologic agent, repairs damaged cell membranes, thus inhibiting unregulated Ca entry into cardiomyocytes. This study examined the effects of i.v. infusion of VEPO on LV function...

Mar 09, 2020

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for aorto-ostial chronic total coronary occlusion (CTO) can be a particularly challenging lesion subset. The aim of this study was to analyze the technical asp...

Mar 09, 2020

There is a scarcity of literature exploring the consequences of Failure To Extubate (FTE) and Delayed Reintubation (DRI) in spine surgery. While it is reasonable to believe that patients who FTE or un...

Mar 09, 2020

MONDAY, March 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In an executive summary of a new guideline from the Society of Critical Care Medicine, published in the March issue of Critical Care Medicine, a set of eviden...

Mar 04, 2020

Excitotoxicity mediated by the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) is believed to be a primary mechanism of neuronal injury following stroke. Thus, many drugs and therapeutic peptides were developed...

Mar 04, 2020

The outcome of mitral valve (MV) repair for chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) is suboptimal, due to the high recurrence rate of moderate or severe mitral regurgitation (MR) during follow-up....

Mar 04, 2020

Acute-on-chronic mesenteric ischemia (ACMI) refers to acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) developing in a patient displaying typical symptoms of chronic mesenteric ischemia (CMI). Delayed treatment can ca...

Mar 04, 2020

Several decades of research provides compelling evidence that exposure to air pollution causes various diseases. Time series studies in Europe and the USA examined the short term effects on mortality ...

Mar 04, 2020

Evidences has suggested that in the early life the innate immune system presents plasticity and the time and dose-adequate stimuli in this phase may program long-lasting immunological responses that p...

Mar 04, 2020

Few data are presently available on Gram-negative bacilli septic thrombosis (GN-ST) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients.Retrospective case-control study (matched 1:3) performed on ICU patients with ...