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Infection deteriorating hepatitis B virus related acute-on-chronic liver failure: a retrospective cohort study

open access: yesBMC Gastroenterology, 2020
Background Infection is common in acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), which may worsen the clinical condition and prognosis. However, the characteristics of infection and its influence on prognosis in hepatitis B virus related ACLF (HBV-ACLF) as ...
Xing-Ran Zhai   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Treatment failure in tuberculosis [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Respiratory Journal, 2006
Treatment of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection with 3 months of rifampicin/isoniazid is a major part of preventive TB programmes. The effectiveness of treatment of latent TB infection can only be assessed by rates of subsequent breakdown and there are few outcome data for this combination of rifampicin/isoniazid.
J R, Panickar, W, Hoskyns
openaire   +2 more sources

The Akt pathway mediates the protective effects of myeloid differentiation protein 1 in pathological cardiac remodelling

open access: yesESC Heart Failure, 2021
Aims Myeloid differentiation protein 1 (MD1) was shown to ameliorate pressure overload‐induced cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis by negatively regulating the MEK–ERK1/2 and NF‐κB pathways.
Jianye Peng   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Prospective Longitudinal Study of the Clinical Outcomes from Cryptococcal Meningitis following Treatment Induction with 800 mg Oral Fluconazole in Blantyre, Malawi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Introduction: Cryptococcal meningitis is the most common neurological infection in HIV infected patients in Sub Saharan Africa, where gold standard treatment with intravenous amphotericin B and 5 flucytosine is often unavailable or difficult to ...
A Loyse   +41 more
core   +11 more sources

Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure Defined by Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver Should Include Decompensated Cirrhosis

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine, 2021
Background and Aims: Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is an acute deterioration of chronic liver disease with high short-term mortality. The inclusion or exclusion of previously decompensated cirrhosis (DC) in the diagnostic criteria of ACLF defined
Manman Xu   +21 more
doaj   +1 more source

High-dependency units play a key role in the treatment of a Chinese military patient who developed liver failure while abroad

open access: yesMilitary Medical Research, 2019
High-dependency units (HDUs) provide high-level care to patients who suffer from single organ failure, with the exception of respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation; HDUs serve as an intermediary between general wards and Intensive Care ...
Chen Li   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Local treatment failure after globe-conserving therapy for choroidal melanoma. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Local treatment failure after globe-conserving therapy for choroidal melanoma is a surgical complication with significant morbidity to the vision and eye. Few reports in the literature have addressed this complication exclusively.
Chang, Melinda Y, McCannel, Tara A
core   +1 more source

Different methodological approaches to the assessment of in vivo efficacy of three artemisinin-based combination antimalarial treatments for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in African children. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
BACKGROUND: Use of different methods for assessing the efficacy of artemisinin-based combination antimalarial treatments (ACTs) will result in different estimates being reported, with implications for changes in treatment policy.
A Yeka   +43 more
core   +5 more sources

‘Hearts and minds’: association, causation and implication of cognitive impairment in heart failure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The clinical syndrome of heart failure is one of the leading causes of hospitalisation and mortality in older adults. An association between cognitive impairment and heart failure is well described but our understanding of the relationship between the ...
Cannon, Jane A.   +2 more
core   +4 more sources

Usefulness of serum thyroid-stimulation hormone (TSH) as a prognostic indicator for acute-on-chronic liver failure

open access: yesAnnals of Hepatology, 2015
Background and rationale for the study. To investigate thyroid function in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) caused by hepatitis B virus infection and to determine whether thyroid hormone levels can be used as prognostic markers for ...
Yichen Wu   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

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