Publications by authors named "Aleks Marek"
Article Synopsis
- * The research involved analyzing data from hospitalized patients over two years, focusing on the prevalence and management of Carb-NS GNB infections, finding that 7% of GNB isolates were Carb-NS.
- * Key findings included prolonged hospital stays (average 34 days), a delay in starting appropriate therapy, and a notable association of Carb-NS infections with patient mortality (28% of studied deaths).
Article Synopsis
- Syphilis remains an unresolved public health issue, impacting organ transplant protocols.
- Donor organ scarcity has led to changes in guidelines, where seropositivity for Treponema pallidum is no longer a reason to deny transplant.
- The document discusses a successful heart transplant from a syphilis-positive donor and reviews current literature on the topic.
