Remitting neuropsychiatric symptoms in COVID-19 patients: Viral cause or drug effect?

Numerous reports of neuropsychiatric symptoms highlighted the pathologic potential of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its relationship the onset and/or exacerbation of mental disease. However, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) treatments, themselves, must be considered as potential catalysts for new-onset neuropsychiatric symptoms in COVID-19 patients. To date, immediate and long-term neuropsychiatric complications following SARS-CoV-2 infection are currently unknown.

Assessing the future direction of sustainable development in public hospitals: Time-horizon, path and action.

Purpose: To assess the future direction of sustainable development in public hospitals, focusing on their short- versus long-term time horizons, top-down versus bottom-up paths, and intra-organizational versus inter-organizational actions.

Design/methodology/approach: The selection of significant health care organizations was based on judgmental sampling. This study applied an inductive approach.

Correlation of accessory pathway location with gender and their manifest or concealed presentation.

Background: Atrioventricular reentrant tachycardias account for approximately one third of cases referred for electrophysiological study (EPS). The anatomical substrate responsible for the reentry is an accessory pathway (AP) able to conduct the electrical stimulus in an anterograde, retrograde or bidirectional manner.

Objective: To evaluate the correlation of AP location with the male and female genders and AP clinical presentation, whether manifest or concealed.

Left ventricular mass and cardiothoracic index in patients with chronic renal disease on hemodialysis.

Introduction: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an independent predictor of cardiovascular risk in patients with chronic renal disease (CRD) on hemodialysis (HD).

Objective: To show the usefulness of chest radiography in the diagnosis of LVH in CRD patients on HD.

Methods: Cross-sectional study including 100 patients (58 men and 42 women), mean age 46.

Postoperative atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an arrhythmia frequently seen in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery. In this context, it is associated with the presence of comorbidities, longer length of hospital stay, and higher costs related to surgery. The mechanisms involved in the genesis of AF in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery (AFPO) are different from those causing paroxysmal AF.

Risk factors for stroke after coronary artery bypass grafting.

Background: Stroke is a feared complication after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG), with an incidence between 1.3 and 4.3%.

Very late clinical progression of patients with acute myocardial infarction submitted to primary angioplasty.

Background: Information on the clinical progression, in the long term, of patients submitted to mechanical reperfusion is scarce.

Objective: The objective of this study is to describe the long-term clinical progression of patients submitted to primary stenting.

Methods: Between January 1998 and December 2003 we studied a non-concurring cohort with a fixed population of 202 patients (mean age = 61.

Postoperative atrial fibrillation following coronary artery bypass graft: clinical factors associated with in-hospital death.

Objective: To identify factors associated with a higher likelihood of in-hospital death in patients submitted to coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) who developed atrial fibrillation (AF) postoperatively.

Methods: The authors analyzed data from 397 consecutive patients submitted to CABG that developed AF postoperatively between 2000 and 2003. The patients were divided into 2 groups: group 1 (G1) comprised patients who survived (n=369); and group 2 (G2) comprised patients who died during hospital stay (n=28).

Prevalence and risk factors for combined coronary artery disease and aortic aneurysm.

Objective: To evaluate CAD prevalence in patients with aortic aneurysm, as well as differences related to aneurysm topographies. To describe the primary risk factors for CAD related to this association and their occasional differences according to AA topographies.

Methods: This was an open, prospective, nonrandomized study that evaluated 95 patients (66 men and 33 women, mean age 63 +/- 11.