Publications by authors named "Corine 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.
Introduction: Delirium during ICU stay is a widespread problem with complex aetiology. A premorbid psychiatric disorder has been associated with an increased incidence of delirium in the general hospital population, but data on the impact of ICU delirium and consequences for morbidity and long-term mortality remain scarce.
Methods: In this single-centre retrospective analysis, 472 patients with an ICU stay >48 hours were included during a 2-year period.
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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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