Rectus femoris ultrasound identifies sarcopenia and predicts poor outcomes in patients with acute decompensation of cirrhosis. [PDF]
Gagliardi R +14 more
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Evolution of non-thyroidal illness syndrome in acute decompensation of liver cirrhosis and acute-on-chronic liver failure. [PDF]
Langer MM +8 more
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Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
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Unsupervised machine learning identifies symptoms of indigestion as a predictor of acute decompensation and adverse cardiac events in patients with heart failure presenting to the emergency department. [PDF]
Kraevsky-Phillips K +7 more
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Brittle threshold: When adaptive success is the warning sign
Abstract Context What happens when a system keeps working—not because it is well designed but because people keep absorbing the strain? That question stayed with me after studying a community‐led vaccination clinic during the COVID‐19 pandemic. It delivered hundreds of vaccinations a day, with no formal chain of command or protocols. By any measure, it
Sayra M. Cristancho
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Is It Safe to Initiate/Optimize the Medication of HFrEF Patients During Hospitalization for Acute Decompensation? [PDF]
Christodorescu RM +7 more
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In our study, we found that the GAP score could effectively predict the risk of mechanical complications after long‐segment fixation surgery in geriatric ADS patients. ABSTRACT Objectives The predictive value of the global alignment and proportion (GAP) score in the Chinese geriatric population, which has unique demographic and degenerative ...
Xiangyao Sun +6 more
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Post-Bleed Prognosis Beyond Hospitalization: The CLIF Consortium Acute Decompensation Score (CLIF-C AD) Predicts Six-Week Mortality After Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients With Cirrhosis. [PDF]
Ciorba IM, Craciun Ciorba N, Bataga SM.
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We developed and validated the DOORS‐GHF, a novel dedicated operative risk scoring system for geriatric hip fracture, which outperformed existing scores with superior predictive accuracy and clinical utility. ABSTRACT Objective With China's accelerating population aging, geriatric hip fractures pose a growing clinical challenge. High comorbidity burden
Zhiwei Gong +10 more
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Human cytomegalovirus reactivation in decompensated cirrhosis: marker of immunosuppression or contributor to severity?: Editorial on "Human cytomegalovirus reactivation in cirrhosis patients with acute decompensation". [PDF]
Cao Z, Moreau R.
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