Objective: To identify more severe COVID-19 presentations.
Methods: Consecutive intensive care unit-admitted patients were subjected to a stepwise clustering method.
Results: Data from 147 patients who were on average 56 ± 16 years old with a Simplified Acute Physiological Score 3 of 72 ± 18, of which 103 (70%) needed mechanical ventilation and 46 (31%) died in the intensive care unit, were analyzed.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFA broad panel of tens of thousands of microsatellite loci is unveiled for an endangered piracema (i.e. migratory) South American fish, Brycon orbignyanus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe first complete mitochondrial genome for the Anostomidae fish family has been announced. Piracema fishes are the potamodromous migratory species from South America, which undergo lengthy and dramatic yearly reproductive upstream runs. The piracema species Leporinus piavussu has recently been described after a long misidentification history.
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