Background: In-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) is a severe and sudden medical emergency that is characterized by the abrupt cessation of circulatory function, leading to death or irreversible organ damage if not addressed immediately. Emergency department (ED)-based IHCA (EDCA) accounts for 10% to 20% of all IHCA cases. Early detection of EDCA is crucial, yet identifying subtle signs of cardiac deterioration is challenging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnemia is a significant global health issue, affecting over a billion people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Generally, the gold standard for diagnosing anemia relies on laboratory measurements of hemoglobin. To meet the need in clinical practice, physicians often rely on visual examination of specific areas, such as conjunctiva, to assess pallor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn adult mammals, wound healing predominantly follows a fibrotic pathway, culminating in scar formation. However, cutaneous microwounds generated through fractional photothermolysis, a modality that produces a constellation of microthermal zones, exhibit a markedly different healing trajectory. Our study delineates the cellular attributes of these microthermal zones, underscoring a temporally limited, subclinical inflammatory milieu concomitant with rapid re-epithelialization within 24 hours.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Proteinuria, a marker of kidney injury, may be related to skeletal muscle loss. Whether the severity of proteinuria is associated with physical performance is unclear.
Methods: We examined the association of proteinuria severity with physical performance cross-sectionally in 3357 military young males, free of chronic kidney disease, from the cardiorespiratory fitness and hospitalization events in armed Forces (CHIEF) study in Taiwan.
Myopia has been linked to body weight and sedentary status, but the association with quantitatively measured physical fitness in adults has not been examined. Cross-sectional analyses were performed to investigate the association between physical fitness and myopia in 3,669 military men (aged 29.4 years) in Taiwan.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcute stroke patients commonly suffer from hyperglycemia. However, the relationship between hyperglycemia and poor outcome after discharge of patients with acute cerebellar hemorrhage (CH) had not been hitherto investigated.Sixty-two patients with acute spontaneous CH were retrospectively analyzed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a case of cerebellar hemorrhage (CH) that recurred in other hemisphere after 4 months of the first attack. A 58-year-old man presented with general weakness and computerized tomography (CT) of the brain showed a 41 mm hematoma in the right cerebellum with intraventricular extension. The satisfactory outcome was obtained after emergency surgical intervention and intensive rehabilitation.
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