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Neonatal thyrotoxicosis secondary to maternal graves’ disease: a case report

BMC Pediatrics
Introduction Neonatal thyrotoxicosis is a rare condition that often results from maternal antibody transfer, particularly in mothers who have had Graves’ disease. This disorder causes excessive thyroid hormone production in newborns.
Safa Elhassan, Ayman Abdalgader, Ahmed Gharib, Hossam Ahmed Mourad, Bashair Aldossari   +4 more
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Clinical and laboratory characteristics of critical Bordetella pertussis in hospitalized infants in the Southwest region of Saudi Arabia

Frontiers in Pediatrics
BackgroundCritical pertussis remains a critical health concern in infants and is characterized by severe leukocytosis, respiratory failure, and multisystem involvement.
Ali Alsuheel Asseri, Norah Alshehri, Ibrahim AlHelali, Ibrahim Al-Benhassan, Ahmed Alhijab Alhazmi, Khalid S. AlShehri, Abdullah Baoqbah, Ghada Haider, Syed Esam Mahmood, Ausaf Ahmad, Tarig Hamad   +10 more
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Fatal pulmonary embolism following ankle fracture in a 23-year-old man

Emergency Care Journal, 2014
Patients with lower extremity injuries are at increased risk of venous thromboembolism. We report a case of fatal pulmonary embolism following a simple ankle fracture in a 23-year-old man. The diagnosis was confirmed post-mortem.
Stella Charitidou, Theodoros Aslanidis, Stellios Papalexandris   +2 more
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Family refusal rates for organ donation after brain death and after circulatory death: a single-center 6-year experience

Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care
Background A wide gap exists between the number of patients awaiting organ transplantation and the availability of donor organs. For most vital organs, no artificial substitutes are available, resulting in the death of approximately 3–4% of patients on ...
Federica De Min, Maria Assunta Donato, Elisa Raimondo, Alessandro Ivan De Martino, Alessia Bresil, Alessandra Agnese Grossi, Martina Baiardo Redaelli, Paolo Severgnini, Luca Cabrini   +8 more
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Hemodynamic support in the early phase of septic shock: a review of challenges and unanswered questions

Annals of Intensive Care, 2018
Background Improving sepsis support is one of the three pillars of a 2017 resolution according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Septic shock is indeed a burden issue in the intensive care units.
Olivier Lesur, Eugénie Delile, Pierre Asfar, Peter Radermacher   +3 more
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The impact of postoperative fluid balance on early hepatic function and renal replacement therapy requirement after liver transplantation: a single-center retrospective cohort study

European Journal of Medical Research
Objective Liver transplantation (LT) is the definitive treatment for end-stage liver disease, with acute kidney injury (AKI) and renal replacement therapy (RRT) as common severe early complications.
Shenghai Tan, Sinan Liu, Sha Xu, Ying Zhao, Shuhui Wang, Ting Lin   +5 more
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Neonatal gastrointestinal involvement and congenital cytomegalovirus

La Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica, 2016
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common cause of congenital viral infection, affecting 0.2 to 2.3% of all live births in developed countries. Very low birth weight and extremely low birth weight newborns are at higher risk of symptomatic CMV infection ...
Alessandro Porta, Adriana Avanzini, Marta Bellini, Rosa Maria Crossignani, Stefano Fiocchi, Stefano Martinelli, Luciana Parola   +6 more
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Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning for Sepsis Treatment: Tackling Variable-Length Episodes with Sparse Rewards

Human-Centric Intelligent Systems
In critical medicine, data-driven methods that assist in physician decisions often require accurate responses and controllable safety risks. Most recent reinforcement learning models developed for clinical research typically use fixed-length and very ...
Rui Tu, Zhipeng Luo, Chuanliang Pan, Zhong Wang, Jie Su, Yu Zhang, Yifan Wang   +6 more
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Epidemiology of bloodstream infections and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern in ICU and non-ICU wards: A four-year retrospective study in Isfahan, Iran

Advanced Biomedical Research, 2023
Background: Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are one of the causes of morbidity and mortality in hospitalised patients. This study evaluated BSI's incidence, trend, antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and mortality in AL Zahra Hospital in Isfahan, Iran ...
Nazila Kassaian, Shadnosh Nematbakhsh, Mohammadreza Yazdani, Soodabeh Rostami, Zary Nokhodian, Behrooz Ataei   +5 more
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High-frequency power of heart rate variability can predict the outcome of thoracic surgical patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome on admission to the intensive care unit: a prospective, single-centric, case-controlled study

BMC Anesthesiology, 2018
Background The morbidity and mortality of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) remains high, and the strategic focus of ARDS research has shifted toward identifying patients at high risk of mortality early in the course of illness.
I-Chen Chen, Chew-Teng Kor, Ching-Hsiung Lin, Jane Kuo, Jang-Zern Tsai, Wen-Je Ko, Cheng-Deng Kuo   +6 more
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