Successful heart transplantation from a donor with bacterial and fungal bloodstream infection: Case report of donor optimization strategy.

Donor optimization is vital to increase donor hearts utilized for transplantation. We report a case of a 34-year-old female with end-stage cardiomyopathy that was admitted to the intensive care unit on inotropic support with progressive decline (INTERMACS-2). She was offered a donor heart from a 14-year male that was found to have Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia and candidemia co-infection.

Managing critical care during COVID-19 pandemic: The experience of an ICU of a tertiary care hospital.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has strained ICUs worldwide. To learn from our experience, we described the critical care response to the outbreak.

Methods: This is a case study of the response of the Intensive Care Department (75-bed capacity) at a tertiary-care hospital to COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in a high number of critically ill patients.

Prevalence and clinical correlates of ambulatory blood pressure phenotypes in a Saudi hypertensive population.

International Guidelines recommend ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) for the management of hypertension. ABPM phenotypes predict outcomes independent of office blood pressure (BP). The authors explored the prevalence and clinical correlates of ABPM phenotypes and relationship with office BP in Saudi patients (n = 428, mean age 53.

Antimicrobial consumption in five adult intensive care units: a 33-month surveillance study.

Background: Estimating the baseline antimicrobial consumption is extremely important to monitor the impact of antimicrobial stewardship activities that aim to reduce the burden and cost of antimicrobial consumption.

Objectives: To quantify service-specific antimicrobial consumption using different metrics.

Methods: A surveillance study was conducted at King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, between October 2012 and June 2015 in five adult intensive care units (ICUs).

Prevalence of anginal symptoms and myocardial ischemia and their effect on clinical outcomes in outpatients with stable coronary artery disease: data from the International Observational CLARIFY Registry.

Importance: In the era of widespread revascularization and effective antianginals, the prevalence and prognostic effect of anginal symptoms and myocardial ischemia among patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) are unknown.

Objective: To describe the current clinical patterns among patients with stable CAD and the association of anginal symptoms or myocardial ischemia with clinical outcomes.

Design, Setting, And Participants: The Prospective Observational Longitudinal Registry of Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CLARIFY) registry enrolled outpatients in 45 countries with stable CAD in 2009 to 2010 with 2-year follow-up (median, 24.