ESC Heart Failure, 2020 Right ventricular (RV) failure remains a major complication after surgical implantation of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD). While the use of a percutaneous RV assist device has been described as a short‐term bridge to recovery in end‐stage heart ...
Varinder Kaur Randhawa +13 more
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Modeling long-term longitudinal HIV dynamics with application to an AIDS clinical study
, 2009 A virologic marker, the number of HIV RNA copies or viral load, is currently used to evaluate antiretroviral (ARV) therapies in AIDS clinical trials. This marker can be used to assess the ARV potency of therapies, but is easily affected by drug exposures,
Huang, Yangxin, Lu, Tao
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Virologic failure and second-line antiretroviral therapy in children in South Africa--the IeDEA Southern Africa collaboration [PDF]
, 2011 Article approval pendingWith expanding pediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) access, children will begin to experience treatment failure and require second-line therapy. We evaluated the probability and determinants of virologic failure and switching in
Boulle, Andrew +10 more
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A Generalization of the Exponential-Poisson Distribution
, 2008 The two-parameter distribution known as exponential-Poisson (EP) distribution, which has decreasing failure rate, was introduced by Kus (2007). In this paper we generalize the EP distribution and show that the failure rate of the new distribution can be ...
Adamidis +20 more
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Giant cell myocarditis masquerading as orbital myositis with a rapid, fulminant course necessitating mechanical support and heart transplantation. [PDF]
, 2017 Giant cell myocarditis (GCM), a rapidly progressive inflammation of the myocardium, is associated with fulminant heart failure, refractory ventricular arrhythmias, and conduction system abnormalities.
Aksoy, Olcay +5 more
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The Defensive Effect of Medical Practice Policies in Malpractice Litigation [PDF]
, 1991 The theoretical prospects for medical practice policies to reform malpractice law by giving conclusive defensive effect to medical custom were studied.
Hall, Mark A.
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Severe drug-induced liver injury associated with prolonged use of Linezolid [PDF]
, 2010 This study aims to describe a patient developing concomitant severe liver failure and lactic acidosis after long-term treatment with linezolid. A 55-year-old Caucasian woman developed concomitant severe liver failure and lactic acidosis after a treatment
Benoit, Dominique +7 more
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Frontiers in NutritionBackgroundLow skeletal muscle mass is an independent risk factor for increased mortality in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF). However, no study has evaluated the temporal changes in muscle mass during the course of ACLF.
Nan Geng +8 more
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Varying efficacy of artesunate+amodiaquine and artesunate+sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a report of two in-vivo studies [PDF]
, 2009 BACKGROUND: Very few data on anti-malarial efficacy are available from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). DRC changed its anti-malarial treatment policy to amodiaquine (AQ) and artesunate (AS) in 2005.
A Brockman +32 more
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Q63, a novel DENV2 RdRp non-nucleoside inhibitor, inhibited DENV2 replication and infection
Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2018 Dengue virus (DENV) annually infects 400 million people worldwide. Unfortunately, there is lack of widely protective vaccine or drugs against DENV. The viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) of NS5 protein is highly conserved among different DENV ...
Xingang Yao +11 more
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