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Thromb J
January 2025
Pediatric Emergency Department, St. Christopher's Hopsoital for Children, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Background: Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is a serious and potentially fatal condition that is relatively rare in the pediatric population. In patients presenting with massive/submassive PE, catheter-directed Therapy (CDT) presents an emerging therapeutic modality by which PE can be managed.
Methods: Electronic databases were systematically searched through May 2024.
BMC Public Health
January 2025
Department of Health Economics and Development, Ministry of Health, Distrito Federal, Brazil.
Background: For a long time, the penalty of imprisonment has been studied and criticized as ineffective in achieving the goals of resocialization and rehabilitation of offenders, and studies have associated incarceration with increased prevalence of disease. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization recommended decarceration as a prevention measure. The aim of this review was to analyze the effectiveness of non-exposure to incarceration in preventing COVID-19 and mitigating associated events.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To analyze the clinical and biological characteristics and to evaluate the risk factors associated with the mortality of patients with COVID-19 in Commune IV of the District of Bamako.
Methods: The cohort consisted of COVID-19 patients managed from March 2020 to June 2022 at the Bamako Dermatology Hospital and the Pasteur Polyclinic in Commune IV in Bamako. The studied variables were sociodemographic, clinical, and biological.
BMC Infect Dis
January 2025
Clinical Microbiology, Department of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, SE21428, Malmö, Sweden.
Background: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) was one of the most common causes of death in the European Union in 2017. Severity and mortality of CAP increase with age and an aging European population will require increased planning for prevention, control, and management of CAP. The purpose of this study was to provide an updated population-based estimate of the incidence of CAP requiring hospitalization in Northern Europe.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Racial Ethn Health Disparities
January 2025
Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Efforts to understand and respond to the opioid crisis have focused on overdose fatalities. Overdose mortality rates (ratios of overdoses resulting in death) are rarely examined though they are important indicators of harm reduction effectiveness. Factors that vary across urban communities likely determine which community members are receiving the resources needed to reduce fatal overdose risk.
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