Nosocomial infections with drug resistant bacteria impact morbidity and mortality, length of therapy and stay and the overall cost of treatment. Key pathogens with ventilator associated pneumonia may be drug-susceptible or multi-drug resistant and inhaled amikacin has been investigated as an adjunctive therapy option. High pulmonary drug concentrations (epithelial lining fluid [ELF]) along with minimal systemic toxicity is seen as an advantage to inhaled formulations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The cardiovascular benefits of low-dose colchicine have been demonstrated in patients with coronary disease. Its effects were evaluated in this prespecified analysis in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) from the Colchicine Cardiovascular Outcomes Trial (COLCOT).
Research Design And Methods: COLCOT was a randomized, double-blinded trial of colchicine, 0.
Humans exhibit lateralization such that most individuals typically show a preference for using one arm over the other for a range of movement tasks. The computational aspects of movement control leading to these differences in skill are not yet understood. It has been hypothesized that the dominant and nondominant arms differ in terms of the use of predictive or impedance control mechanisms.
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June 2022
Case Presentation: We report a rare case of bacteremia and polyarticular septic arthritis in a 37-year-old pregnant woman with HIV who injects drugs. Two sets of blood cultures obtained 5 hours apart were positive for gram-negative bacilli, and purulent fluid was present intra-operatively from both her left knee and her right third MCP joints.
Diagnosis: Organism identification using ligation sequencing confirmed both her blood culture and synovial tissue isolates as .