Mar 07, 2022

We report a case of a 59-year-old man with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/ acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) who developed multiple small-vessel strokes during the immune reconstitution ph...

Mar 07, 2022

The strategy of targeting virulence factor has received great attention as it barely develops bacterial resistance. Sortase A (SrtA) and caseinolytic peptidase P (ClpP), as important virulence factors...

Mar 07, 2022

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Laboratory methods are central to prosthetic joint infection (PJI) diagnosis. Most research teams focus on detection of specific inflammatory markers, causative pathogens, or on a...

Mar 07, 2022

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In these settings, accurate patient prognostication is both difficult and essential for high-quality p...

Mar 07, 2022

Despite multiple trials comparing rate with rhythm control, there is no consensus on optimal management of first-detected atrial fibrillation (AF).We analyzed current patterns of care for first-detect...

Feb 28, 2022

This study aimed to describe the prevalence of hypoxic-ischemic brain injury (HIBI) on head CT (HCT) obtained within two hours of return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) care in the Emergency Departm...

Feb 28, 2022

Proarrhythmic risk of conventional anti-arrhythmic agents is linked to unintended modulation of membrane voltage dynamics. We have demonstrated that the anti-fibrillatory effect of azumolene is mediat...

Feb 28, 2022

Listeria monocytogenes is a psychrotrophic food-borne pathogenic bacterium that causes listeriosis. Due to its unusual adaptation, an ability to grow at extended temperatures ranging from 4 to 45 °C...

Feb 28, 2022

Drug-induced interstitial lung disease (DIILD) is a form of interstitial lung disease resulting from exposure to drugs causing inflammation and possibly interstitial fibrosis. Antineoplastic drugs are...

Feb 28, 2022

Contemporary practices for hemodynamically supported high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention (HRPCI) have evolved over the last decade. This study sought to compare outcomes of the prospective, m...

Feb 28, 2022

Surgery is performed in 50-70% of Crohn's disease (CD) patients, and its main risk is surgical site infection (SSI). The microbiota has been extensively assessed in CD but not as a potential risk fact...

Feb 28, 2022

Psychological comorbidity, the co-occurrence of mental health disorders, is more often the rule than the exception among individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Research shows that prev...

Feb 28, 2022

Damage control strategies in resuscitation and (fracture) surgery have become standard of care in the treatment of severely injured patients. It is suggested that damage control improves survival and ...

Feb 28, 2022

Overt left ventricular (LV) dysfunction and congestive heart failure are known entities in Takayasu arteritis (TA). Subclinical LV dysfunction may develop in these patients despite normal LV ejection ...

Feb 28, 2022

Autologous cardiac cell therapy is a promising treatment for combating the right ventricular heart failure (RVHF) that can occur in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). However, autologous ce...

Feb 28, 2022

Asthma exacerbations can be life-threatening, with 25,000 to 50,000 cases a year requiring admission to intensive care in the United States. Appropriate triage of life-threatening asthma is dependent ...

Feb 21, 2022

Recent studies showed that intraoperative indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence imaging-guided surgery helped evaluate organ perfusion. Whereas whether the gastric remnant can be preserved after distal...

Feb 21, 2022

In recent years, dioxanes and dioxolanes have been intermittently detected in water environment and have caused several offensive drinking water odor incidents worldwide. In this study, the co-occurre...

Feb 21, 2022

The purpose of this study was to analyze the prevalence and significance of incidental findings on computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) studies and to assess the diagnostic yield of CTPA i...

Feb 21, 2022

To determine if the choice of methodological elements affects the results in continuity of care studies.This is a retrospective cohort study. The association between continuity of care and clinical ou...