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Criteria, Processes and Determination of Competence in Basic Critical Care Echocardiography Training - a Delphi Process Consensus Statement by the Learning Ultrasound in Critical Care (LUCC) Initiative.

Sep 13, 2021

With the paucity of high-quality studies on longitudinal basic critical care echocardiography (BCCE) training, expert-opinion guidelines have guided BCCE training. However, existing guidelines lack pr...

Best Motor Response Predicts Favorable Outcome for "True" WFNS Grade V Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.

Sep 06, 2021

The universal application of ultra-early surgery for World Federation of Neurological Societies (WFNS) grade V aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) patients may lead to the increased implementati...

Mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosome microRNA as therapy for cardiac ischemic injury.

Sep 06, 2021

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are a significant cause of human health harm. In the past, stem cell therapy was reported to have functional defects, such as immune rejection, tumorigenicity, and infusi...

Risk factors of surgical mortality in patients with Clostridium difficile colitis. A novel scoring system.

Sep 06, 2021

The purpose of the study is to identify the risk factors of mortality and develop a risk scoring system in patients who underwent colectomy due to Clostridium difficile colitis (CD-C).Patient informat...

Combination of hepcidin with neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin for prediction of the development of sepsis-induced acute kidney injury.

Sep 06, 2021

The early prediction of the development of acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically ill patients with sepsis would facilitate early effective intervention. Recently, interest has focused on the biomark...

Characteristics of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients and Parameters Associated with Severe Pneumonia.

Sep 06, 2021

After the first case of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) was reported in China in December 2019, it caused a global pandemic, including Turkey.The aim of this study is to analyze the characteristic...

Psoriasis and its impact on the clinical outcome of patients with pulmonary embolism.

Sep 06, 2021

An increased risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE), comprising pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep venous thrombosis, has been reported in psoriasis patients. The impact of psoriasis on prognosis of VTE ...

Infectious complications of EBUS-TBNA: A nested case-control study using 10-year registry data.

Sep 06, 2021

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) has become a standard procedure, but little is known about its infectious complications. The aim of this study is to evalua...

Unexpected high level of severe events even in low-risk profile chest pain unit patients.

Sep 06, 2021

Early heart attack awareness programs are thought to increase efficacy of chest pain units (CPU) by providing live-saving information to the community. We hypothesized that self-referral might be a f...

High-Risk Percutaneous Coronary Intervention of Native Coronary Arteries Without Mechanical Circulatory Support in Acute Coronary Syndrome Without Cardiogenic Shock.

Sep 06, 2021

Widespread utilization of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) for high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains controversial, with a lack of randomized supporting evidence and associate...

Referral and participation in cardiac rehabilitation of patients following acute coronary syndrome; lessons learned.

Sep 06, 2021

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) after hospitalization for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) has shown to reduce mortality, readmissions, and improve quality of life. CR is recommended by international guideli...

[Microbiology of infections caused by dog and cat bites: A review].

Sep 06, 2021

Bites caused by pets constitute 5% of the traumatic injuries registered in the emergency services.To know the main infectious agents present in dog and cat bites, both individually and jointly, in hum...

Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum and Pneumothorax in Nonintubated COVID-19 Patients: A Multicenter Case Series.

Sep 06, 2021

BACKGROUND COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 has become a global pandemic. Diagnosis is based on clinical features, nasopharyngeal swab analyzed with real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain react...

Arthroplasty as a treatment for acute and quiescent septic arthritis in native hips.

Sep 06, 2021

The most feared complication in hip arthroplasty after septic arthritis is septic failure. It is considered that the two-stage treatment is the accepted treatment for acute septic hip arthritis. The o...

Improved outcome in children compared to adolescents and young adults after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant for acute myeloid leukemia: a retrospective study from the Francophone Society of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cell Therapy (SFGM-TC).

Sep 06, 2021

There are currently few data on the outcome of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in adolescents after allogeneic HSCT. The aim of this study is to describe the outcome and its specific risk factors for chi...

Image-guided volumetric-modulated arc therapy of total body irradiation: An efficient workflow from simulation to delivery.

Sep 06, 2021

Using multi-isocenter volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for total body irradiation (TBI) may improve dose uniformity and vulnerable tissue protection compared with classical whole-body field tec...

Therapeutic potential of nociceptin/orphanin FQ peptide (NOP) receptor modulators for treatment of traumatic brain injury, traumatic stress, and their co-morbidities.

Sep 06, 2021

The nociceptin/orphanin FQ (N/OFQ) peptide (NOP) receptor is a member of the opioid receptor superfamily with N/OFQ as its endogenous agonist. Wide expression of the NOP receptor and N/OFQ, both centr...

Effects of enzyme-based removal of collagen and elastin constituents on the biaxial mechanical responses of porcine atrioventricular heart valve anterior leaflets.

Sep 06, 2021

The leaflets of the atrioventricular heart valves (AHVs) regulate the one-directional flow of blood through a subtle coordination of the extracellular matrix components of the tissue, including collag...

Interpretable prediction of 3-year all-cause mortality in patients with heart failure caused by coronary heart disease based on machine learning and SHAP.

Sep 06, 2021

This study sought to evaluate the performance of machine learning (ML) models and establish an explainable ML model with good prediction of 3-year all-cause mortality in patients with heart failure (H...

The cost of the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A systematic review.

Sep 06, 2021

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an inflammatory condition of the lungs and is a common condition in adult intensive care units (ICU). The resources required and costs of care for pat...

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