Publications by authors named "S D Lick"
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- Hospitals often split standard platelet units into low-dose units to address shortages, but their effectiveness in actively bleeding patients was previously untested.
- A study compared outcomes of patients in cardiac surgery receiving low-dose platelets versus whole-dose platelets over 18 months and found no significant differences in transfusion needs, bleeding complications, or mortality rates.
- The findings suggest low-dose platelets may be as effective as whole-dose options during shortages, but further multicenter research is recommended to validate these results.*
BACKGROUND Effusive-constrictive pericarditis (ECP) is an uncommon clinical syndrome characterized by the coexistence of pericardial effusion and constriction involving the visceral pericardium. This differs from constrictive pericarditis, which presents with thickening of the pericardium without effusions. Specific diagnostic criteria of ECP include the failure of right atrial pressure to decrease by 50% or reach a new level below 10 mmHg after normalization of intrapericardial pressure.
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- The surge of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, has been particularly detrimental for vulnerable groups like heart transplant recipients, leading to serious cardiovascular issues.
- A case study describes a 45-year-old male heart transplant recipient who tested positive for COVID-19 and, after initially being asymptomatic, experienced severe health complications that resulted in cardiac death three months later.
- Autopsy findings indicated significant vascular changes in the heart, with evidence suggesting that the virus may have directly infected endothelial cells, causing inflammation and rapid deterioration of vascular health.
sp. nov. and sp. nov., originating from chilled beef and chicken breast.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol
April 2024
By investigating wet and dry age-related ripening of beef, strains V3/3/4/13 and V3/K/3/5 were isolated. Strain V3/3/4/13 exhibited more than 99 % 16S rRNA gene-based similarity to and other members of this group, while isolate V3/K/3/5 was very close to and a number of relatives within the group. Additional comparisons of complete sequences and draft genomes allowed us to place isolate V3/3/4/13 close to DSM 26521.
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