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Beijing Da Xue Xue Bao Yi Xue Ban
February 2025
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing 100034, China.
This study reports the diagnosis and treatment of a 26-year-old pregnant woman with severe malnutrition combined with acute pyelonephritis causing sepsis, refractory septic shock and multiple organ failure. A female patient, 26 years old, was admitted to hospital mainly due to "menelipsis for more than 19 weeks, nausea and vomiting for 20 days, fever with fatigue for 3 days". At the end of 19 weeks of intrauterine pregnancy, the patient presented with fever accompanied by urinary tract irritation.
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March 2024
Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China.
Introduction: In rare occasions, coxsackievirus infections can cause serious illness, such as encephalitis and myocarditis. The immunotherapies of cancer could increase the risk of myocarditis, especially when applying immune checkpoint inhibitors. Herein, we report a rare case of Coxsackie B virus-induced myocarditis in a patient with a history of lymphoma.
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February 2024
Department of Transplantology and General Surgery, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 85-094 Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Levosimendan is used for the short-term treatment of severe heart failure or other cardiac conditions. The area of existing clinical applications for levosimendan has increased significantly. This study aimed to assess whether levosimendan and its metabolites impact the mechanisms related to platelet activation.
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June 2023
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin, Germany.
(1) Background: This retrospective study evaluated perioperative and intensive care unit (ICU) variables to predict colonic ischemia (CI) after infrarenal ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (RAAA) surgery. (2) Materials and Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the data of the patients treated for infrarenal RAAA from January 2011 to December 2020 in our hospital. (3) Results: A total of 135 (82% male) patients were admitted to ICU after treatment of infrarenal RAAA.
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March 2023
Department of Anesthesiology, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Background: Levosimendan (LEVO) is a positive inotropic drug which could increase myocardial contractility and reduce the mortality rate in cardiac surgical patients. However, Whether LEVO is associated with postoperative bleeding and blood transfusion in cardiac surgical patients is controversial. Therefore, the current study was designed to investigate the impact of LEVO administration on bleeding and blood transfusion requirement in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) patients.
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