May 24, 2021

A Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy (HJ) is the preferred method for repairing bile duct injuries (BDIs). The American College of Surgeons (ACS) established the National Surgical Quality Improvement Progr...

May 24, 2021

Patients in haemodynamic shock are in need for an intensive care treatment. Invasive haemodynamic monitoring is state of the art for these patients. However, evolved, non-invasive blood pressure monit...

May 24, 2021

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread around the world. Differentiation between pure viral COVID-19 pneumonia and secondary infec...

May 24, 2021

Patients recovering from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may not return to a pre-COVID functional status and baseline levels of healthcare needs after discharge from acute care hospitals. Since th...

May 24, 2021

Severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is strongly related to interstitial pneumonia with frequent development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The role of corticosteroids (CS) treat...

May 24, 2021

Sepsis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients that have sustained a severe burn injury. Early detection and treatment of infections improves outcomes and understanding changes in th...

May 24, 2021

The severity and mortality from COVID-19 infection vary among populations. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and predictors of mortality among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 i...

May 24, 2021

Traumatic brain injury and stroke result in hemiplegia, hemiparesis, and asymmetry in posture. The effects are mostly contralateral; however, ipsilesional deficits may also develop. We here examined w...

May 24, 2021

Myeloablative conditioning regimens decrease the risk of relapse in pediatric patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT) for hematologic malignancies, but cause significan...

May 24, 2021

Post-traumatic headache is a common sequela of traumatic brain injury and is classified as a secondary headache disorder. In the past 10 years, considerable progress has been made to better understand...

May 24, 2021

We aimed to construct and validate a risk assessment model to identify risk factors for heart failure (HF) in patients with Takayasu's arteritis (TAK).Three hundred sixty-five patients with TAK were r...

May 24, 2021

Beta-blockers and inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system improve survival and reduce morbidity in people with heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF); a ...

May 24, 2021

Endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) is an invasive procedure, globally most often used for the monitoring of heart transplant (HTx) rejection. In addition, EMB can have an important complementary role to the ...

May 20, 2021

The poor translational success rate of preclinical stroke research may partly be due to inaccurate modelling of the disease. We provide data on transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (tMCAO) exper...

May 20, 2021

Wound care is a multidisciplinary field with significant economic burden to our healthcare system. Not only does wound care cost the US healthcare system $20 billion annually, but wounds also remarkab...

May 20, 2021

Endothelial cell pyroptosis is a novel cause of endothelial dysfunction in sepsis. Reticulocalbin-2 (RCN2) is involved in regulating vascular inflammation and plays an important role in the cardiovasc...

May 20, 2021

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition and often associated with multiple organ failure. Nuclear-enriched abundant transcript 1 (NEAT1), a member of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), was reported to be ...

May 20, 2021

Growing evidence has been published as to the impact of SARS-CoV-2 (Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) on cerebrovascular events over the last few months, with considerable attention pai...

May 20, 2021

Sarcopenic dysphagia has become an urgent matter of debate in our aging society. However, little is known about the relationship between sarcopenia and dysphagia in patients with liver cirrhosis. Our ...

May 20, 2021

Although anticoagulation with unfractionated heparin (UFH) is commonly used during intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) counterpulsation to prevent thromboembolic events, no data or guidelines exist to su...