anticoagulant/hypoxia

In December 2019, China reported the first cluster of severe acute respiratory syndrome due to a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). The disease rapidly spread into a global pandemic of public health emergency worldwide leading to more than 330.000 deaths (data from May 25th, 2020). We have, to date, no

Background:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS- CoV-2) infection represents a pandemic emergency of dramatic proportions. The clinical course of SARS-CoV-2 infection often meets the criteria for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), with progressive severity ultimately

1. COVID-19 has a high infection rate and mortality, and serious complications such as heart injury cannot be ignored. At present, the scale and harm of COVID 19 (Novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) has far surpassed that of SARS in 2003, with more than 80,000 cases confirmed in China and 3,119 deaths

Selected Drugs Ivermectin has anti-parasitic effect along with anti-viral activity against a broad range of viruses in vitro. Ivermectin was identified as an inhibitor of interaction between the human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) integrase protein (IN) and the importin (IMP) α/β1 heterodimer

The FARAD MI will be a randomized, multicenter prospective study will be conducted. Patients with the diagnosis of ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction treated at the Sancta Maggiore Emergency Departments who have been thrombolyzed and aged up to 80 years will be included. After

Iron is a vital substrate for hemoglobin production and sufficient iron stores are necessary to achieve and maintain adequate levels of hemoglobin. Unfortunately, more than one third of patients with cyanotic heart disease are iron-deficient (1),(2). In 1990, West et al, have demonstrated that more

Major cardiac complications are responsible for at least a third of perioperative deaths and are associated with significant morbidity, prolonged hospitalization and increased costs. This number is expected to rise as more surgeries are undertaken in older and frailer patients. The term myocardial

Methods: The current study was carried out in the Intensive Care Unit of a tertiary University Hospital following approval by the local Research and Ethics Committee and after obtaining of a written informed consent from the first of kin of the recruited patients. The guardians of the patients with

1. - Introduction - scientific background, relevance and rationale of the research According to data from 2014 of the World Health Organization (WHO), globally there are more than 1.9 billion adults are overweight and at least 600 million obese. 39% of adults above 18 years were overweight and 13%

1.0 Background and Clinical Significance 1.1 Introduction The incidence of Diabetes Mellitus type 2 (DM2) is growing rapidly globally and in Singapore. The main cause of increased morbidity and mortality in patients with DM2 is the development of microvascular and macrovascular complications.

Rapid estrogen level decline after menopause is associated with systemic bone loss in women leading to osteopenia/osteoporosis. Estrogen therapy (ET) improves bone mineral density (BMD) in postmenopausal women. Currently, ET has been associated with statistically significant increased risk of breast

Background Knee arthroscopy is the most commonly performed orthopaedic procedure worldwide, with, according to the American Society for Sports Medicine, over 4 million procedures performed each year. The risk of venous thrombosis following this procedure is considerable with rates of symptomatic

INTRODUCTION The purpose of the present study is to establish a Troponin I (TI) in peripheral blood as a prognostic indicator in the emergence of the syndrome of acute respiratory difficulty (ARDS) in children with shock. It should be noted that both shock and ARDS are life-threatening disease and

1. INTRODUCTION: The local method of autologous bone marrow stem cells transplantation consists of harvesting bone marrow from the iliac crest, its separation using cell separator to generate ABMSCs (CD 34 positive) and their subsequent multiple injections into a limb suffering from chronic and