Feb 04, 2020

BACKGROUND Lemierre's syndrome is a potential life-threatening disease commonly occurring in young, healthy individuals. It is often preceded by an oropharyngeal infection causing bacteremia. This may...

Feb 04, 2020

Brain injury has been recently understood to be a common occurrence among adults experiencing homelessness, resulting in the need for modifications to clinical practice in agencies serving this popula...

Feb 04, 2020

Medical respite programs provide a safe place for people experiencing homelessness to recover from an acute illness or injury. Many patients in respite programs have experienced a traumatic brain inju...

Feb 04, 2020

Occupational therapists have a long history of addressing community performance and participation challenges faced by individuals with complex, chronic conditions, including those with serious mental ...

Feb 04, 2020

There has been considerable public interest in the topic of traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a risk factor for development of late-life dementia. A review was performed on empirical studies examining t...

Feb 04, 2020

Fractional excretion of urea (FEUrea) is often used to understand the etiology of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients receiving diuretics. While FEUrea demonstrates diagnostic superiority over fract...

Feb 04, 2020

CONTEXT;: The left ventricular filling pressure (LVFP) is correlated to right atrial pressure (RAP) in heart failure.  We compared diagnostic value of the inferior vena cava (IVC) measurements to the...

Feb 04, 2020

Pathological cardiac hypertrophy is a classical hallmark of heart failure. At the molecular level, inhibition of histone deacetylase (HDAC) enzymes attenuate pathological cardiac hypertrophy in vitro ...

Feb 04, 2020

In patients with heart failure, fluid alteration and low muscle strength frequently coexist because of their reduced physical activity and sedentary behavior; however, few studies have evaluated the e...

Feb 04, 2020

The safety and efficacy of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition (ACEI) after heart transplantation (HT) is unknown. This study examined long-term clinical outcomes after ACEI in HT recipients.The ...

Feb 03, 2020

MONDAY, Feb. 3, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- An enhanced recovery after surgery program complemented by a preemptive pain management program is associated with a decrease in opioid prescriptions at discha...

Jan 31, 2020

FRIDAY, Jan. 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics has released the first national data on maternal mortality since 200...

Jan 30, 2020

Pancreatic static cold storage is the gold-standard method for pancreas preservation. Our main objective was to evaluate feasibility of hypothermic perfusion (HP) of non-human primates pancreases for ...

Jan 30, 2020

Uncontrolled donation after cardiac death (uDCD) has the potential to ameliorate the shortage of suitable lungs for transplantation. To date, no lung transplantation data from these donors is availabl...

Jan 30, 2020

This study sets out to establish the comparative contribution of PD-L1 expression by pulmonary endothelial cells (ECs) and/or epithelial cells (EpiCs) to the development of indirect acute lung injury ...

Jan 30, 2020

To determine the effect of two different feeding strategies on time to achieve full enteral feeding and the incidence of feeding intolerance in preterm infants with birth weight ≤1250 g. A prospe...

Jan 30, 2020

The resolution phase of acute inflammation is essential for tissue homeostasis, yet the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We demonstrate that resolution of inflammation involves interactions betwe...

Jan 30, 2020

Renal replacement therapy (RRT) is widely used in the treatment of septic acute kidney injury. However, little is known about how the adsorption properties of hemofilters used in RRT affect antibiotic...

Jan 30, 2020

The initial cases of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)-infected pneumonia (NCIP) occurred in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019 and January 2020. We analyzed data on the first 425 confirmed ca...

Jan 30, 2020

It is important to understand the risk of thromboembolism and bleeding in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) receiving direct oral anticoagulants; however, data on risk factors in Ja...