Publications by authors named "S Berns"
Context: Medical education is moving towards competency based medical education (CBME). This provides opportunities and challenges for the field of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM). The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) created the Assessment Workgroup to spearhead a shared vision and process to implement high-quality assessment of fellow performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe industrial past of most regions in Lorraine and the intensification of activities on soils has increased the number of polluted sites. To rehabilitate these areas, several methods can be employed. In this study, co-culture of Miscanthus x giganteus and Pelargonium x hortorum was used to clean up a soil mainly contaminated by metallic elements including lead.
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- Nephrotic syndrome (NS) is linked with a higher risk of thrombosis, but standard tests fail to reveal the actual coagulation issues, while global tests like thrombodynamics (TD) show promise for assessment.
- The study analyzed 94 patients with chronic glomerulonephritis (CGN), finding that TD identified hypercoagulability in a significantly higher percentage of NS patients compared to routine tests, with spontaneous clot formation noted in many.
- Key risk factors for thromboembolic events included older age, elevated lipid levels, glucocorticosteroid use, and TD-detected clots, with no correlation found between these events and routine hemostasis issues.
The aim of this review was to present the mechanism of infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its possible effect on the course of arterial hypertension. Another aim was to evaluate the relationship of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system with the pathogenetic stages of infection caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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