Publications by authors named "Mahsa Akafzadeh-Savari"
Introduction: The aim of this work is to evaluate whether the addition of home oxygen therapy (HOT) would reduce readmission in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients.
Methods: PubMed, ScopeMed, Cochrane, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases were searched. The search strategy used the following keywords "chronic obstructive pulmonary disease", the intervention "long-term oxygen therapy", and the outcome "readmission" combined with the AND operator.
Article Synopsis
- The study focused on pesticide poisoning cases at Khorshid Hospital in Iran from March 2016 to March 2021, analyzing demographic, clinical, and toxicological data of 1,567 patients out of 25,659 total poisoning cases.* -
- Most pesticide poisonings were due to suicide attempts (75%), with insecticides being the most common type; however, rodenticides were linked to a higher mortality rate.* -
- Clinical symptoms included nausea and vomiting in 56.7% of cases, and the overall death rate from pesticide poisoning was 8.3%, with higher instances among those who previously attempted suicide.*
Automatic Classification Between COVID-19 and Non-COVID-19 Pneumonia Using Symptoms, Comorbidities, and Laboratory Findings: The Khorshid COVID Cohort Study.
Front Med (Lausanne)
November 2021
Coronavirus disease-2019, also known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was a disaster in 2020. Accurate and early diagnosis of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is still essential for health policymaking. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been performed as the operational gold standard for COVID-19 diagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading rapidly and has affected millions of people worldwide. Comorbid diseases have complicated the course of infection and increased mortality. Myasthenia gravis (MG) affects the neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) and can compromise respiratory muscle action, leading to worse clinical outcomes in individuals infected with the COVID-19 theoretically.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluating the efficacy of fresh frozen plasma (FFP) in comparison with conventional regimen in the treatment of organophosphate (OP) poisoning.
Methods: PubMed, ScopeMed, Cochrane, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases were searched. The search strategy used the following key words "organophosphate" and "poisoning or toxicity", "(atropine and oxime)", "fresh frozen plasma", "clinical trial", "outcome".