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Severity of Illness Scores May Misclassify Critically Ill Obese Patients*

Critical Care Medicine, 2018
Objective: Severity of illness scores rest on the assumption that patients have normal physiologic values at baseline and that patients with similar severity of illness scores have the same degree of deviation from their usual state.
Rodrigo Deliberato, Stephanie Ko, Komorowski, M, Miguel Angel Armengol de La Hoz, Maria P. Frushicheva, Jesse D. Raffa, Alistair E W Johnson, Leo Anthony Celi, David J Stone   +8 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Association of Initial Illness Severity and Outcomes After Cardiac Arrest With Targeted Temperature Management at 36 °C or 33 °C

JAMA Network Open, 2020
Key Points Question What is the optimal target temperature for targeted temperature management (TTM) in comatose patients after cardiac arrest? Findings In a cohort study of 1319 patients, of whom 911 did not have severe cerebral edema or highly ...
C. Callaway, Patrick J Coppler, John W Faro, Jacob S. Puyana, P. Solanki, C. Dezfulian, A. Doshi, J. Elmer, A. Frisch, F. Guyette, M. Okubo, J. Rittenberger, A. Weissman   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Comparative Study of Cerebral Oxygenation During Exercise in Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Cognitive impairment and exercise intolerance are common in dialysis patients. Cerebral perfusion and oxygenation play a major role in both cognitive function and exercise execution; HD session per se aggravates cerebral ischemia in this population. This study aimed to compare cerebral oxygenation and perfusion at rest and in mild
Marieta P. Theodorakopoulou, Konstantina Dipla, Danai Faitatzidou, Fotini Iatridi, Areti Georgiou, Artemios Karagiannidis, Erasmia Sampani, Chrysostomos Dimitriadis, Aggelos Koutlas, Andreas Zafeiridis, Pantelis Sarafidis   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Association of Zinc Serum Level with Age, Sex and Disease Severity in Acne Vulgaris Patients

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2012
Background: Acne vulgaris is a chronic inflammatory disease of pilosebaceous follicles. It is one of the most important skin disorders during adolescence. Zinc is one of essential trace elements in the body that has major roles in maintaining health. The
Gholam Hossein Ghafarpour, Vahid Ebrahimi, Mir Hadi Aziz Jalali   +2 more
doaj  

Disclosure of Maternal HIV Status to Children: To Tell or Not To Tell . . . That Is the Question [PDF]

, 2007
HIV-infected mothers face the challenging decision of whether to disclose their serostatus to their children. From the perspective of both mother and child, we explored the process of disclosure, providing descriptive information and examining the ...
A. Shaffer, B. J. Antle, B. Rime, B. W. C. Forsyth, C. Finkenauer, C. Finkenauer, C. Nostlinger, C. S. Edelbrock, D. A. Murphy, D. A. Murphy, D. A. Murphy, D. A. Murphy, D. A. Murphy, D. J. Pilowsky, D. Melvin, E. W. Schrimshaw, G. E. Wyatt, J. Faithfull, J. M. Simoni, J. Ware, K. E. Grant, K. J. Petrie, L. Armistead, L. Armistead, L. Armistead, L. Armistead, L. J. Bauman, L. Moneyham, L. S. Radloff, L. S. Wiener, M. J. Rotheram-Borus, M. L. Lee, M. Lipson, P. Lester, R. A. Ostrom, R. L. Sowell, R. N. Jamison, S. Dorsey, S. Esposito, S. F. Nagler, S. Harter, T. L. Tompkins, T. M. Achenbach, T. M. Achenbach, T. M. Achenbach, Tanya L. Tompkins, V. N. Niebuhr   +46 more
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Enteropathogenic E. coli shows delayed attachment and host response in human jejunum organoid‐derived monolayers compared to HeLa cells

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) infects the human intestinal epithelium, resulting in severe illness and diarrhoea. In this study, we compared the infection of cancer‐derived cell lines with human organoid‐derived models of the small intestine. We observed a delayed in attachment, inflammation and cell death on primary cells, indicating that host ...
Mastura Neyazi, Pilar Samperio Ventayol, Natalie Burkard, Nicolas Schlegel, Carmen Aguilar, Sina Bartfeld   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predictors of disease severity in children presenting from the community with febrile illnesses: a systematic review of prognostic studies [PDF]

, 2021
Arjun Chandna, Rainer Tan, Michael J. Carter, Ann Van den Bruel, Jan Y. Verbakel, Constantinos Koshiaris, Nahya Salim, Yoel Lubell, Paul Turner, Kristina Keitel   +9 more
openalex   +1 more source

Hyperuricemia: An Early Marker for Severity of Illness in Sepsis

International Journal of Nephrology, 2015
Background. Uric acid can acutely activate various inflammatory transcription factors. Since high levels of oxyradicals and lower antioxidant levels in septic patients are believed to result in multiorgan failure, uric acid levels could be used as a ...
S. Akbar, D. Long, K. Hussain, A. Alhajhusain, U. Ahmed, H. Iqbal, Ailia W Ali, Rachel Leonard, Cheryl L Dalton   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The impact of beliefs about mental health problems and coping on outcome in schizophrenia. [PDF]

, 2004
Background. Using the theoretical framework of the Self Regulation Model (SRM), many studies have demonstrated that beliefs individuals hold about their physical health problems are important in predicting health outcomes.
Barrowclough, Christine, Jones, Steven H., Lobban, Fiona   +2 more
core   +1 more source

By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The circadian clock shapes immune function, yet its influence on infection outcomes is only beginning to be understood. This review highlights how circadian timing alters host responses to the bacterial pathogens Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, and Streptococcus pneumoniae revealing that the effectiveness of immune defense depends not only
Devons Mo, Catherine S. Palmer, Jacqueline M. Kimmey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source