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Adjunctive Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Refractory Adult‐Onset Still's Disease Complicated by Secondary Macrophage Activation Syndrome: A Single‐Center Experience

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Adult‐onset Still's disease (AOSD) complicated by macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) carries substantial mortality. The role of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) remains uncertain. Methods We retrospectively analyzed patients with AOSD‐MAS treated with TPE at a single‐center.
Masataka Ueda, Tomohiro Saito, Masahide Mizobuchi, Tomoki Shimomura, Saki Kawamori, Mitsuru Kawanishi, Natsuko Hattori, Jo Sugiyama, Satoshi Tsubata, Hanami Horiguchi, Kazuki Abe, Nao Iida, Yuki Kajio, Nao Oguro, Ryo Yanai, Hirokazu Honda   +15 more
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Frailty Exacerbates Disability in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background To evaluate frailty in severe progressive multiple sclerosis (PMS) and to investigate the underlying mechanisms. Methods This prospective, cross‐sectional, multicenter study enrolled a late severe PMS group requiring skilled nursing (n = 53) and an age, sex, and disease duration‐matched control PMS group (n = 53).
Taylor R. Wicks, Anna Wolska, Diala Ghazal, Dejan Jakimovski, Bianca Weinstock‐Guttman, Alexander Burnham, Niels Bergsland, Michael G. Dwyer, Alan T. Remaley, Robert Zivadinov, Murali Ramanathan   +10 more
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The association between cognitive impairment and 30-day mortality among older Chinese inpatients

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
PurposeAlthough the association between cognitive impairment and mortality has been widely described among community-dwelling older adults, this association in hospitalized patients was limited.ObjectivesThis study's purpose was to explore the ...
Xiao-Ming Zhang, Jing Jiao, Na Guo, Chen Zhu, Zhen Li, Dongmei Lv, Hui Wang, Jingfen Jin, Xianxiu Wen, Shengxiu Zhao, Xinjuan Wu, Tao Xu   +11 more
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Prognostic Implications of Sleep Architecture for Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit With Status Epilepticus

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Status epilepticus (SE) is associated with significant mortality. Sleep architecture may reflect normal brain function. Impaired sleep architecture is associated with poorer outcomes in numerous conditions. Here we investigate the association of sleep architecture in continuous EEG (cEEG) with survival in SE.
Ran R. Liu, Marcus C. Ng, Gavin P. Winston, Sabrina Schaly, Garima Shukla, Lysa Boissé Lomax   +5 more
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Assessment of the documentation completeness level of the medical records in Basrah General Hospital [PDF]

The Medical Journal of Basrah University, 2018
Background: Medical records documentation is an important legal and professional requirement for all health professionals. They include information which describes all aspects of patient's care.
Riyadh Al Hilfi, Rajaa Mahmoud, Nihad . Al-Hamadi, Atared Majeed, Shabeeb Saihoud   +4 more
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Characteristics of falls occurring during rehabilitation in an acute care hospital in older and non-older patients: A retrospective cohort study

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
IntroductionAlthough falls are often reported in hospitals and are common in older individuals, no reports on falls during rehabilitation exist. This study evaluated patients with falls occurring during rehabilitation and identified the characteristics ...
Tokio Kinoshita, Yukihide Nishimura, Yasunori Umemoto, Shinji Kawasaki, Yoshinori Yasuoka, Kohei Minami, Yumi Koike, Fumihiro Tajima   +7 more
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Super‐Refractory Status Epilepticus (SRSE) in a Patient With Compound Heterozygous OPA1 Variants: Case Report and Literature Review

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Super‐Refractory Status Epilepticus (SRSE) is a rare, life‐threatening neurological emergency with unclear etiology in many cases. Mitochondrial dysfunction, often due to disease‐causing genetic variants, is increasingly recognized as a cause, with each gene producing distinct pathophysiological mechanisms.
Pouria Mohammadi, Lara Basovic, Christopher Michael McGraw   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Humanistic care relieves mental distress of inpatients in the shelter hospital during COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai: a cross-sectional observational study

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
ObjectiveThe prevalence of mental distress has been noted in shelter hospitals set up for COVID-19. Potential risk demographic and hospitalization factors were screened.
Dongdong Xiao, Hua Huang, Min Chen, Jieying Wang, Wei Zhai, Jiaqi Ye, Minjie Chen, Weilin Fang, Yeqian Zhang, Zhiwei Fu, Yifei Shen, Ziji Yan, Chenlu Shen, Jun Qin, Yanli Luo, Junhua Zheng   +15 more
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Real‐World Performance of CSF Kappa Free Light Chains in the 2024 McDonald Criteria

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Kappa free light chains (KFLCs) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have a similar performance to CSF‐restricted oligoclonal bands (OCB) for multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis. To help with implementation, we set out to resolve several remaining uncertainties: (1) performance in a real‐world cohort and the 2024 McDonald criteria; (2 ...
Maya M. Leibowitz, Ryan Cooper, Stefania Kaninia, Kathryn I. Challis, Will Greenway, Maria Bonello, Mahmoud Elbahnasawi, Deborah T. Shode, Dominika Gajdasik, Victor Iliev, Alison M. E. Whitelegg, Ian Galea   +11 more
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Análise da prescrição de captopril em pacientes hospitalizados Analysis of the prescription of captopril to hospitalized patients

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2008
Uma das complicações mais comuns da hipertensão arterial sistêmica é a crise hipertensiva¹ que se caracteriza por uma elevação sintomática da pressão arterial (PA), com ou sem envolvimento de órgãos-alvo, que pode conduzir a um risco imediato ou ...
Márcio Galvão Oliveira, Antônio Carlos Beisl Noblat, Lúcia Noblat, Luiz Carlos Passos   +3 more
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