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Prognostic Accuracy of the qSOFA Score for In-Hospital Mortality in Elderly Patients with Obstructive Acute Pyelonephritis: A Multi-Institutional Study

Diagnostics, 2021
Prognostic accuracy of the quick sequential organ failure assessment (qSOFA) score for mortality may be limited in elderly patients. Using our multi-institutional database, we classified obstructive acute pyelonephritis (OAPN) patients into young and ...
Yudai Ishikawa, Hiroshi Fukushima, Hajime Tanaka, Soichiro Yoshida, Minato Yokoyama, Yoh Matsuoka, Yasuyuki Sakai, Yukihiro Otsuka, Ryoji Takazawa, Masataka Yano, Tetsuro Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Okuno, Akira Noro, Katsushi Nagahama, Shigeyoshi Kamata, Yasuhisa Fujii   +15 more
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Descending aortic calcification increases renal dysfunction and in-hospital mortality in cardiac surgery patients with intraaortic balloon pump counterpulsation placed perioperatively : a case control study [PDF]

, 2012
Introduction: Acute kidney injury (AKI) after cardiac surgery increases length of hospital stay and in-hospital mortality. A significant number of patients undergoing cardiac surgical procedures require perioperative intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP ...
Bingold, Tobias Michael, Eltzschig, Holger K., Lawlor, Garrett, Mitani, Aya, Nowak-Machen, Martina, Rawn, James D., Rosenberger, Peter, Shekar, Prem S., Shernan, Stanton K., Tuli, Sagun   +9 more
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The Prognostic Value of Serum Soluble TREM-1 on Outcome in Adult Patients with Sepsis

Diagnostics, 2021
Increased soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1 (sTREM-1) levels have been reported in patients with sepsis. We tested the hypotheses that serum sTREM-1 levels increase in the early phase of sepsis and decrease after sepsis under ...
Chia-Te Kung, Chih-Min Su, Sheng-Yuan Hsiao, Fu-Cheng Chen, Yun-Ru Lai, Chih-Cheng Huang, Cheng-Hsien Lu   +6 more
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Outcomes following oesophagectomy in patients with oesophageal cancer: a secondary analysis of the ICNARC Case Mix Programme Database [PDF]

, 2009
Introduction: This report describes the case mix and outcomes of patients with oesophageal cancer admitted to adult critical care units following elective oesophageal surgery in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Alderson, Derek, Cromwell, David A., Harrison, D. A. (David A.), Palser, Thomas R., Park, Daniel P., Perkins, Gavin D., Rowan, Katherine M., Smith, F. Gao (Fang Gao), Welch, Catherine A.   +8 more
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Identifying which septic patients have increased mortality risk using severity scores:a cohort study [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Early aggressive therapy can reduce the mortality associated with severe sepsis but this relies on prompt recognition, which is hindered by variation among published severity criteria. Our aim was to test the performance of different severity
Davey, Peter G, Evans, Josie Mm, Guthrie, Bruce, Marwick, Charis A, McLeod, Shaun R, Pringle, Jan Ec   +5 more
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Comparison of Hospital Mortality, Length of Stay, Renal Recovery, and Needs for Hemodialysis in Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Patients due to Septic and Non-septic, and Factors Affecting Patients’ Mortality

Jurnal Penyakit Dalam Indonesia, 2022
Introduction. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a major complication in critically ill patients that affects mortality. Sepsis is a major predisposing factor for AKI and provides a poor prognosis and high mortality rate.
Mochammad Jalalul Marzuki, Nursamsu, Achmad Rifai   +2 more
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Sepsis caused by bloodstream infection in patients in the intensive care unit: the impact of inactive empiric antimicrobial therapy on outcome [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Sepsis is one of the leading causes of death in the UK. Aims: The aims of this study were to identify the rate of inactive antimicrobial therapy (AMT) in the ICU and whether inactive AMT had an effect on in hospital mortality, ICU ...
Booth, M.G., Brooks, Daniel, Polubothu, Padmaja, Smith, A., Young, D.   +4 more
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Preoperative Liver Function Test Abnormalities Were Associated With Short-Term and Long-Term Prognosis in Cardiac Surgery Patients Without Liver Disease

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021
Aims: To explore the value of preoperative liver function tests (LFTs) for the prognosis of cardiac surgery patients without liver disease.Methods: The Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care III (MIMIC-III) database was used to extract the clinical ...
Liqun Shang, Liqun Shang, Yuanhan Ao, Yuanhan Ao, Linhua Lv, Linhua Lv, Lihua Lv, Yubi Zhang, Jian Hou, Jian Hou, Jianping Yao, Jianping Yao, Zhongkai Wu, Zhongkai Wu   +13 more
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Demographics and Outcomes of Pulmonary Hypertension Patients in United States Emergency Departments [PDF]

, 2020
Introduction: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a common, yet under-diagnosed, contributor to morbidity and mortality. Our objective was to characterize the prevalence of PH among adult patients presenting to United States (US) emergency departments (ED ...
Camargo Jr., Carlos A., Faridi, M. Kamal, Wilcox, Susan R.   +2 more
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Retrospective cohort study of false alarm rates associated with a series of heart operations: the case for hospital mortality monitoring groups [PDF]

, 2004
OBJECTIVE: To examine the efficacy of different methods of detecting a high death rate and determining whether an increase in deaths after heart transplantation could be explained by chance.
Bland, Martin, Jones, Paul, Poloniecki, Jan, Sismanidis, Charalambos   +3 more
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