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Factors Associated with Perioperative Mortality in Typhoid Fever Patients with Intestinal Perforation in Nigeria
(Integrative Journal of Global Health, 2017)
Objective: Despite the availability of effective antibiotic treatment, patients in Nigeria continue to perish from complications of typhoid fever, including intestinal perforations. Given the preventable nature of these ...
Progression and Pathology of Traumatic Optic Neuropathy From Repeated Primary Blast Exposure
(FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE, 2019-07-11)
Indirect traumatic optic neuropathy (ITON) is a condition that is often associated with traumatic brain injury and can result in significant vision loss due to degeneration of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axons at the time ...
Patient Registries in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
(American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2019-07-15)
Over the past decade, several large registries of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) have been established. These registries are collecting a wealth of longitudinal data on thousands of patients with this ...
Reactive Arial-based Antitachycardia Pacing Therapy Reduces Atrial Tachyarrhthmias
(PACE-PACING AND CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, 2019-07)
Background Reactive atrial-based antitachycardia pacing (rATP) aims to terminate atrial tachyarrhythmia/atrial fibrillation (AT/AF) episodes when they spontaneously organize to atrial flutter or atrial tachycardia; however, ...
Key Mechanisms by Which Post-ICU Activities can Improve in-ICU Care: Results of the International THRIVE Collaboratives
(INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE, 2019-07)
ObjectiveTo identify the key mechanisms that clinicians perceive improve care in the intensive care unit (ICU), as a result of their involvement in post-ICU programs.MethodsQualitative inquiry via focus groups and interviews ...
Oral Tresprostinil in Transition or as Add-on Therapy in Pediatric Pulmonary Arterial hypertension
(Pulmonary Circulation, 2019-07-12)
Treprostinil, a prostacyclin analogue, is approved for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in adults. Transition from parenteral to oral treprostinil has been successfully accomplished in adults with PAH ...
Epidemiological Characterists of Advanced Hepatocellular Cardinoma in the Northern Region of Vietnam
(Cancer Control, 2019-07-10)
Epidemiological characteristics of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Southern Vietnam has been well reported as in Globocan 2018 while data from the North has still not been fully presented. Therefore, we conducted this ...
Autologous Chondrocyte Grafting Promotes Bone Formation in the Posterolateral Spine
(2018-03-23)
Pseudarthrosis following spinal fusion remains problematic despite modern surgical and grafting techniques. In surgical spinal fusion, new bone forms via intramembranous and endochondral ossification, with endochondral ...
Posttraumatic Proximal Radioulnar Synostosis after Closed Reduction for a Radial Neck and Olecranon Fracture
(2018-02-19)
Posttraumatic proximal radioulnar synostosis (PPRUS) is a severe complication of radial head and neck fractures known to occur after severe injury or operative fixation. Cases of PPRUS occurring after minimally displaced, ...
The Consortium of Metabolomics Studies (COMETS): Metabolomics in 47 Prospective Cohort Studies
(AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, 2019-06)
The Consortium of Metabolomics Studies (COMETS) was established in 2014 to facilitate large-scale collaborative research on the human metabolome and its relationship with disease etiology, diagnosis, and prognosis. COMETS ...