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SUMMARY OF LONG TERM EXPERIENCE IN ACQUIRED HEART DISEASES SURGERY

open access: yesВестник трансплантологии и искусственных органов, 2014
In this article we discuss the results of surgical treatment in patients with different acquired heart diseases. Procedures ranged from valve reconstruction, coronary artery revascularization, surgical repair or graft repair of the thoracic aorta to ...
M. L. Semenovsky   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Risk factors for and incidence of hospital-acquired infections after cardiac surgery in children with congenital heart disease: a single center experience

open access: yesThe Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2023
Background. The epidemiology of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) has been less well studied in critically ill children in pediatric cardiothoracic intensive care units.
Nimet Cındık   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Limited effect of patient and disease characteristics on compliance with hospital antimicrobial guidelines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Objective: Physicians frequently deviate from guidelines that promote prudent use of antimicrobials. We explored to what extent patient and disease characteristics were associated with compliance with guideline recommendations for three common infections.
Gans, ROB; id_orcid   +24 more
core   +1 more source

Antiretroviral Therapy – Changes of Basic Laboratory Parameters in Hiv-Infected Bulgarian Patients

open access: yesActa Medica Bulgarica, 2015
HIV-1 infection keeps on being a global problem because of its pandemic character and the impossibility for eradication. The combined antiretroviral therapy (АRТ) remains the only treatment which has proven its effectiveness for maintaining the life of ...
Stojanova Yancheva Nina
doaj   +1 more source

Recurrent Pneumonia With Tuberculosis and Candida Co-infection Diagnosed by Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing: A Case Report and Literature Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine, 2022
An 82-year-old male patient was hospitalized in the Respiratory Department for “repeated cough and shortness of breath for 10 years, recurrence worsened for 1 month.” Later, he was transferred for further diagnosis and treatment, to the Infectious ...
Ning Ma   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk factors for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia in nonventilated adults [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Although most recent publications focus on Ventilator-associated Pneumonia, Non-Ventilator-associated Hospital-acquired pneumonia (NVHAP) is still worrisome. We studied risk factors for NVHAP among patients admitted to a small teaching hospital.
Dias, Adriano [UNESP]   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Pre-admission statin use and in-hospital severity of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In this group of patients hospitalized with pandemic influenza, a significant beneficial effect of pre-admission statin use on the in-hospital course of illness was not identified.
Brett, Stephen J.   +45 more
core   +1 more source

How do hospital professionals involved in a randomised controlled trial perceive the value of genotyping vs. PCR-ribotyping for control of hospital acquired C. difficile infections? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Background: Despite scientific advances in typing of C. difficile strains very little is known about how hospital staff use typing results during periods of increased incidence (PIIs). This qualitative study, undertaken alongside a randomised controlled
Peter M Hawkey   +16 more
core   +1 more source

Unique profile of predominant CCR5-tropic in CRF07_BC HIV-1 infections and discovery of an unusual CXCR4-tropic strain

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2022
CRF07_BC is one of the most prevalent HIV-1 strains in China, which contributes over one-third of the virus transmissions in the country. In general, CRF07_BC is associated with slower disease progression, while the underlying mechanisms remain unclear ...
Xiaoyan Hu   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

AI-based disease risk score for community-acquired pneumonia hospitalization

open access: yesiScience, 2023
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is an acute infection involving the parenchyma of the lungs, which is acquired outside of the hospital. Population-wide real-world data and artificial intelligence (AI) were used to develop a disease risk score for CAP hospitalization among older individuals. The source population included residents in Denmark aged 65
Saeed Shakibfar   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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