A retrospective study was carried out to evaluate the incidence, etiology and role of non-opportunistic bacterial infections in a series of 788 consecutive HIV-infected patients hospitalized during the last 7 years; 71.9% of patients were i.v. drug addicts, 15.6% homo-bisexual men, 7.4% heteros...
splines. Conditional effect plots are utilized to show the association between the covariate of interest and the outcome, holding other covariates constant at the median if continuous, mode if categorical, or lowest value if binary. Several sensitivity analyses were performed: All patients with an ad...
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A higher mortality among male patients, suggested by studies in adult patients and animals, appears less prominent in children, although males are more likely to be hospitalized in infancy for severe infections.Citation3,Citation99,Citation100 The incidence of malignancies and other chronic respiratory...
Background Drive-line infections and sepsis lead to significant morbidity and even mortality in patients with ventricular assist devices (VADs). The HeartWare HVAD system is unique compared with other VAD systems in that it has a thin, flexible drive-line and is implanted directly into the ...
A bread poultice is a simple and effective remedy for drawing infections from open wounds. To make one, lightly moisten a piece of dry bread with a few drops of boiling water. Then, apply the damp area directly to the open wound and secure it in place. This remedy helps to draw out ...
Electrolyte level tests, renal and liver function tests, and other chemistry tests may have a role. Serum transaminase levels and other measures of liver dysfunction are often elevated in situations such as disseminated viral and anaerobic infections. Etiology-specific serologies may be helpful, and ...
The loss in intestinal intraepithelial and lamina propria lympho- cytes might facilitate bacterial translocation into the systemic circulation, thereby perpetuating the systemic inflammatory response and predisposing to secondary infections. Sepsis-induced apoptosis occurs through both death receptor- and ...
(infections, systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), sepsis by causative microbes, or septic shock) might have lead to sepsis. To reflect this information, we call these conditionssepsis potential preconditionsin this study. We decided to consider both the primary cohort and the study cohort...
32, 33, 34, 35 In addition to DrotAA therapy, other interventions, which include tight control of blood sugar for surgical patients, have shown promise for the reduction of mortality rates.36 In patients with severe sepsis and septic shock, persistent infections and their subsequent inflammatory ...