The Conditions Under Which Piracetam Is Used and the Factors That Can Improve National Institute of Health Stroke Scale Score in Ischemic Stroke Patients and the Importance of Previously Unnoticed Factors From a Hospital-Based Observational Study in Taiwan.

This study aimed to explore the associations of piracetam use and the clinical characteristics of NIHSS (National Institute of Health Stroke Scale) changes-the importance of which, as prognosis related factors, was previously unnoticed-and analyze the associations of piracetem with NIHSS changes by stratifying clinical characteristics. This observational retrospective study was conducted by enrolling patients based on 2483 stroke registration data cohorts from a 1200-bed regional Tungs' Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital, located in central Taiwan from 1 January 1 2011 to 31 December 2015. Patients were excluded if they had intravenous a thrombolytic agent within 3 hours of symptoms onset ( = 49), incomplete or erroneous NIHSS scores ( = 953), or transient ischemia stroke ( = 130).

Prostatic abscess of Klebsiella pneumonia complicating septic pulmonary emboli and meningitis: A case report and brief review.

Prostatic abscess is a rare entity with an incidence of 0.5%-2.5% in all prostate diseases and usually occurs in the 5th and 6th decades of life with immunocompromised status.

Antimicrobial resistance to cefotaxime and ertapenem in Enterobacteriaceae: the effects of altering clinical breakpoints.

Introduction: The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) updated its antimicrobial susceptibility testing interpretation criteria for Enterobacteriaceae. This study assessed the effects of clinical breakpoint changes in the CLSI 2009 to 2012 guidelines on antibiotic susceptibility testing reports.

Methodology: In total, 2,076 non-duplicate clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae were analyzed.

Clinical and microbiological features of shewanella bacteremia in patients with hepatobiliary disease.

Objective: Shewanella bacteremia is an uncommon but potentially fatal disease. Although hepatobiliary diseases have been proposed to be risk factors for various Shewanella infections, little is known about the features of Shewanella bacteremia in patients with hepatobiliary diseases. This study aims to characterize the presentation and risk factors of Shewanella bacteremia in patients with hepatobiliary diseases.

Shewanella infection of snake bites: a twelve-year retrospective study.

Objective: Infections of snake bite wounds by Shewanella are rarely discussed in the medical literature. This study aims to characterize the presentation and management of Shewanella infections in snake bite wounds.

Method: We retrospectively investigated the microbiology, clinical features, and outcomes of patients with Shewanella infected snake bite wounds admitted to a tertiary medical center from January 1998 to December 2009.

Refractive outcome of premature infants with or without retinopathy of prematurity at 2 years of age: a prospective controlled cohort study.

This study evaluated the extent to which refractive morbidity is correlated to preterm birth or retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) itself, or both, and examined the risk factors associated with refractive errors in a cohort of preterm infants with and without ROP compared with full-term infants. This longitudinal, prospective, controlled cohort study enrolled 109 infants, including 74 preterm and 35 full-term infants. Infants were divided into the following groups: no ROP, regressed ROP, laser-treated threshold ROP, and full-term.