Sepsis

Infection prevention and control challenges of using a therapeutic robot.

This work was part of a National Institute for Health Research participatory action research and practice development study, which focused on the use of a therapeutic, robotic baby seal (PARO, for personal assistive robot) in everyday practice in a single-site dementia unit in Sussex. From the beginning of January 2017 until the end of September 2017, the cleaning and cleanliness of PARO was monit...

AI Tackles Hospital Infections: Machine Learning Is Helping Clinicians.

For Ashley Zappia (Figure 1), getting her hands dirty was part of her job. Even though she always tried to remain as clean as possible, her work as a nursing aide at a Southern California hospital required a lot of diapering, changing, and other hands-on tasks. She was mostly in the ER, where physical contact with bodily fluids from sick patients was normal. She was careful to wash her hands frequ...

[RETROPERITONEAL LIPOSARCOMA WITH MULTIPLE RECURRENCE OF LUNG METASTASES TREATED BY MULTIMODAL THERAPY CENTERING ON THE OPERATION: A CASE REPORT].

A 34-year-old man presented with scrotal pain and slight fever. The scrotal pain was improved by the treatment of antibiotics, but the slight fever re...

The Spontaneous Control of HIV Replication is Characterized by Decreased Pathological Changes in the Gut-associated Lymphoid Tissue.

BACKGROUND: HIV infection induces alterations in the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) that constitutes the most important site for viral replicat...

Prevalence of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in renal transplant recipients.

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in renal transplant recipients and to assess sociodemograp...

WAITING DAAS LIST MORTALITY IMPACT IN HCV CIRRHOTIC PATIENTS.

BACKGROUND: The infection for the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a leading cause of liver-related morbidity and mortality through its evolution to liver c...

Fractional Carbon Dioxide Laser in Combination with Topical Corticosteroid Application in Resistant Alopecia Areata: A Case Series.

INTRODUCTION: Intradermal steroid injections are used as treatment option in resistant alopecia areata. However, it is difficult and quite painful to ...

Procalcitonin in inflammatory bowel disease: Drawbacks and opportunities.

The measurement of procalcitonin has recently become a mainstay for the diagnosis and therapeutic management of severe bacterial infections, especiall...

Predicting Hospitalization and Outpatient Corticosteroid Use in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Using Machine Learning.

BACKGROUND: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic disease characterized by unpredictable episodes of flares and periods of remission. Tools th...

Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in patients with Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis: association with respiratory infection.

OBJECTIVES: To determine the possible association of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels with disease activity and respiratory infection in granu...

[Ulinastatin attenuates hyper-permeability of vascular endothelialium cells induced by serum from patients with sepsis].

Objective To study the effect of ulinastatin (UTI) on the hyper-permeability of human umbilical vein endothelial cell induced by the serum from patien...

The influence of vitamin D deficiency on eradication rates of Helicobacter pylori.

BACKGROUND: Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy improves the healing of various gastro-duodenal diseases such as chronic gastritis and peptic ulce...

Percutaneous kyphoplasty versus posterior spinal fixation with vertebroplasty for treatment of Kümmell disease: A case-control study with minimal 2-year follow-up.

This is a retrospective case-control study.The aim of this study was to compare the surgical results of percutaneous kyphoplasty (KP) and posterior sp...

[Y-27632 protects H9c2 cardiomyocytes against hypoxia/reoxygenation injury by inhibiting autophagy pathway].

Objective To investigate the protective effect of preconditioning with Rho-kinase inhibitor Y-27632 on H9c2 cardiomyocytes against hypoxia/reoxygenati...

Estimating glucose requirements of an activated immune system in growing pigs.

Activated immune cells become obligate glucose utilizers, and a large i.v. lipopolysaccharide (LPS) dose causes insulin resistance and severe hypoglyc...

Impact of Clinical Parameters in the Intrahost Evolution of HIV-1 Subtype B in Pediatric Patients: A Machine Learning Approach.

Determining the factors modulating the genetic diversity of HIV-1 populations is essential to understand viral evolution. This study analyzes the rela...

AcSDKP is down-regulated in anaemia induced by infection in mice.

BACKGROUND: Anaemia commonly results from destruction of erythrocytes in the peripheral blood and failure of the bone marrow haematopoietic cells to r...

An artificial neural network prediction model of congenital heart disease based on risk factors: A hospital-based case-control study.

An artificial neural network (ANN) model was developed to predict the risks of congenital heart disease (CHD) in pregnant women.This hospital-based ca...

Soft robotic sleeve supports heart function.

There is much interest in form-fitting, low-modulus, implantable devices or soft robots that can mimic or assist in complex biological functions such ...

A Case Study on Sepsis Using PubMed and Deep Learning for Ontology Learning.

We investigate the application of distributional semantics models for facilitating unsupervised extraction of biomedical terms from unannotated corpor...