Apr 11, 2022

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is known as a sudden episode of kidney injury, which happens suddenly within a few hours or a few days. Quercetin (3,3',4',5,7-pentahydroxyflavone) is a flavonoid found in pl...

Apr 11, 2022

Late-onset postoperative pneumonia (LOPP) after esophagectomy is poorly understood. This study was designed to clarify the features and risk factors for this event. Patients who underwent esophagectom...

Apr 11, 2022

Poor oral health is a risk factor for aspiration pneumonia (AP), especially in elderly patients at risk of oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD). In Portugal, available tools to screen oral problems in nursing...

Apr 11, 2022

For patients with oral anticoagulants (OAC) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), European guidelines have recently changed their recommendations to dual antithrombotic therapy (DAT; P2...

Apr 11, 2022

The aim of this study was to determine whether: (1) the quick Sequential (Sepsis-related) Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) and National Early Warning Score (NEWS) clinical prediction tools alone, (2) ...

Apr 11, 2022

Presepsin, a biomarker discovered in Japan, has been clinically applied as a diagnostic aid for sepsis. Recently, however, it has been reported that presepsin levels are elevated in patients with seve...

Apr 11, 2022

The latest literature review on partner relationships following traumatic brain injury (TBI), conducted a decade ago, discussed solely quantitative work and noted significant knowledge gaps. The curre...

Apr 11, 2022

Native Americans have a higher incidence and prevalence of stroke and the highest stroke-related mortality among race-ethnic groups in the United States. We aimed to analyze trends in the ischemic str...

Apr 11, 2022

High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) therapy reduces the effort of breathing in patients with bronchiolitis, but the mechanisms are not understood. Theorized mechanisms include dead space washout and positi...

Apr 04, 2022

Although several studies have investigated the long-term association of respirable particulate matter (PM ≤ 10 µm) with the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI), this association is inconcl...

Apr 04, 2022

To examine outcomes and complications in patients receiving a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube on the same day of head and neck cancer (HNC) surgery versus later in hospitalization.The 2...

Apr 04, 2022

Septic arthritis (SA) is a dangerous condition that requires emergency treatment. Managed by culture-specific antibiotics, irrigation, and debridement (I&D), some patients require repeat surgical ...

Apr 04, 2022

Concussions are often neglected injuries that affect children and adolescents. Two physiological responses to a concussion are an ionic flux and an increased indiscriminate release of glutamate, which...

Apr 04, 2022

We examined whether post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is associated with measurable perturbations in gut microbiome.Adult Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to Lateral Fluid Percussion Injury (LFPI). PTE ...

Apr 04, 2022

A five-year-nine-month-old, male entire, miniature schnauzer presented for further investigation of pleural effusion. Echocardiography revealed a perforated membrane dividing the right atrium into two...

Mar 28, 2022

Early neurological deterioration (END) is an important factor that affects prognosis in patients with acute ischemic stroke. We explored the relationship between serum occludin levels after successful...

Mar 28, 2022

Myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) causes damage to coronary capillary endothelial barrier and microvascular leakage (MVL), aggravating tissue injury and heart dysfunction. However, the effective s...

Mar 28, 2022

A member of the ESKAPE family of pathogens, A. baumannii, is an opportunistic gram-negative multidrug-resistant bacterium. A. baumannii is a ubiquitous coccobacillus involved in various hospital-relat...

Mar 28, 2022

Streptokinase is an enzyme that can break down the blood clots in some cases of myocardial infarction (heart attack), pulmonary embolism, and arterial thromboembolism. Demand for streptokinase is high...

Mar 28, 2022

Allogenic blood transfusions can lead to immunomodulation. Our purpose was to investigate whether perioperative transfusions were associated with postoperative infections and any other adverse events ...