Publications by authors named "Corine M de Jager"
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- A study explored long-term physical recovery in patients who had extended stays in the ICU, revealing a significant number of individuals did not achieve full recovery by 12 months post-ICU.
- Of the 250 patients analyzed, 44% were classified as non-recovery based on their physical functioning scores, with factors like age, gender, and pre-existing health issues influencing these outcomes.
- Findings indicated that traditional ICU characteristics, such as illness severity, were not effective predictors of long-term recovery, highlighting the need for better assessment methods focusing on patients' physical functioning and comorbidities.
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- A 48-year-old woman with a long-term eating disorder called anorexia nervosa was found unconscious at home and taken to the hospital because her blood sugar was dangerously low and she had a severe lung infection.
- Once at the hospital, she faced serious health problems linked to her anorexia and had difficulty recovering, including muscle weakness and brain issues.
- This case is unique because, while the woman's low blood sugar usually leads to severe damage, she survived and was found to have a rare condition linked to her eating disorder, which had never been discussed before.
A 58-year-old man was submitted to our intensive care ward with respiratory failure due to pneumonitis. He had previously been treated for non-Hodgkin lymphoma by autologous stem cell transplantation, as a result of which bone marrow function was reduced. Further analysis showed infection with new influenza A(H1N1); typing revealed an oseltamivir-resistant subpopulation (H275Y).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 34 year old male was admitted to our hospital with a severe pancreatitis. On a CT scan we diagnosed a developing emphysematous pancreatitis. This is a rare form of pancreatitis usually caused by an infection with an Escherichia coli.
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