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Biomedicines
November 2024
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Gregorio Marañón Universitary General Hospital, 28007 Madrid, Spain.
Unlabelled: Patients with severe traumatic brain injury (STBI) often experience an abnormal hemostasis that contributes to mortality and unfavorable neurological outcomes.
Objectives: We aimed to analyze epidemiologic, clinical, and laboratory factors associated with mortality in patients with STBI during the first 48 h after in-hospital admission.
Methods: We performed an observational retrospective study of STBI patients with associated extracranial trauma [defined as Injury Severity Score (ISS) ≥ 16 with an Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) head and neck ≥ 3 and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) ≤ 8] admitted to a Level II trauma center over seven years (2015-2021).
Biomolecules
December 2024
Center for Gender-Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a potent endotoxin released at high concentrations in acute infections, causing massive host inflammatory response. Accumulating evidence indicates that dysbiosis-associated chronic low levels of circulating LPS can sustain a prolonged sterile low-grade inflammation that increases the risk of several non-communicable diseases. Interventions aimed at increasing the abundance of beneficial/probiotic bacteria, including , result in reduced inflammation, favoring metabolic and immune health.
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December 2024
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-8641, Japan.
Massive intraoperative blood loss (IBL) is one of the major complications in metastatic spinal tumor surgery (MSTS), and understanding the predictors of this risk is essential. This study aimed to determine the impact of the intratumoral flow void (IFV) observed on standard magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and its association with IBL in palliative surgery for metastatic spinal tumors. This retrospective analysis included 88 palliative excisional surgeries performed at a single hospital between 2010 and 2024.
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September 2024
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. Electronic address:
Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide, and mitigating it is a global health priority. In this review, we discuss the measurement, assessment, and treatment of PPH. We review different methods of quantifying blood loss, including gravimetry, calibrated drapes and canisters, and colorimetric techniques.
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January 2025
From the Department of Surgery (J.-M.V., T.W.C., B.A.C.), McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas; Department of Epidemiology (B.L.R.-R., S.R.W.) and Department of Surgery (J.W.C.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Donald D. Trunkey Center for Civilian and Combat Casualty Care (M.A.S.), Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon; Department of Surgery, Ernest E. Moore Shock Trauma Center at Denver Health (E.E.M.), University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado; Department of Surgery (N.N.), University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida; and Department of Surgery (J.L.S.), Trauma and Transfusion Medicine Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Background: Blood shortages and utilization stewardship have motivated the trauma community to evaluate futility cutoffs during massive transfusions (MTs). Recent single-center studies have confirmed meaningful survival in ultra-MT (≥20 U) and super-MT (≥50 U), while others advocate for earlier futility cut points. We sought to evaluate whether transfusion volume and intensity cut points could predict 100% mortality in a multicenter analysis.
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