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 ...

Mar 04, 2020

Sepsis remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the neonatal population, and at present, there is no unified definition of neonatal sepsis. Existing consensus sepsis definitions within pa...

Mar 04, 2020

The carcass of a 15-year-old female Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) was retrieved from the Port River near Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The animal was emaciated with five thick nylon fi...

Mar 04, 2020

The increasing number of cases of confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in China is striking. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between chest CT findings and the clinical c...

Mar 04, 2020

is a waterborne pathogen that causes a severe form of pneumonia called Legionnaires' diseases, which is normally acquired by inhalation of aerosols containing originating from natural and man-made w...

Mar 04, 2020

Acute respiratory distress syndrome following an acute lung injury (ALI) is a life threatening inflammatory condition predominantly characterized by vascular protein leakage, neutrophil recruitment an...

Mar 04, 2020

Myocardial infarction (MI) as a term for a heart attack happens due to reduced blood flow to heart myocardium and lack of oxygen supply caused by plaques in the interior walls of coronary arteries. Wi...

Mar 04, 2020

Aggressive fluid resuscitation has been extensively discussed after the establishment of fluid creep phenomenon as a morbidity and mortality factor in burn children. Sepsis is currently the leading ca...

Mar 04, 2020

At present, early detection of spinal osteomyelitis is a challenge. Patients may present with non-specific symptoms and diagnostic imaging studies may be obtained for seemingly unrelated complaints. P...

Mar 04, 2020

Here, we outline the case of a US Veteran's Health Administration (VA) patient with a history of recent bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement (AVR) and recent intravenous drug use (IVDU) who was foun...

Mar 04, 2020

We evaluated the clinical manifestations and outcomes of nocardiosis, a rare opportunistic infection that occurs in patients with nephrotic syndrome.The records of NS patients with nocardiosis in a si...

Mar 04, 2020

Dengue infection causes dengue fever (DF) and dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome (DHF/DSS). CD4 Foxp3 Tregs are expanded in patients during dengue infection, and appear to be associated wi...

Mar 04, 2020

Sleep is increasingly recognizes as a crucial component to rapid and successful rehabilitation, especially from traumatic brain injuries (TBI). Assessment of longitudinal patterns of sleep in a hospit...

Mar 04, 2020

Acute alcohol intoxication is universally considered a risk factor for traumatic brain injury (TBI), therefore an indication for head CT scan. There is no evidence in the literature for this attitude....

Mar 04, 2020

More than 200 million American adults and children participate in organized physical activity. Growing awareness has highlighted that concussion, especially when repeated, may be associated with prolo...