Low serum prealbumin concentration predicts long-term mortality in maintenance hemodialysis patients with hepatitis B and/or C virus infections.

Background And Aim: A low serum prealbumin concentration is common in maintenance hemodialysis patients with hepatitis B and C and may be associated with mortality. In this study, we assessed Department of Nephrology and Hemodialysis predictive value of a low serum prealbumin concentration on mortality in HD patients using reused low-flux dialyzers who were infected with hepatitis B and/or C virus.

Methods: We used serum prealbumin levels to predict the long-term mortality of 326 hemodialysis patients.

Impact of Covid-19 on the therapeutic plasma exchange service within the South East Asian region: Consensus recommendations and global perspectives.

Introduction: Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) for neuroimmunological disorders has played an increasingly important role within the Southeast Asian (SEA) region. The South East Asian Therapeutic Plasma exchange Consortium (SEATPEC) was formed in 2018 to promote education and research on TPE within the region. The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic has produced challenges for the development and expansion of this service.

Prediction of risk factors for recurrence of atrial fibrillation in patients with arterial hypertension.

This work aimed to assess the significance of risk factors for atrial fibrillation recurrence and predict the significance of these factors in the development of arterial hypertension in patients. For the first time, the authors performed prognostic analysis of atrial fibrillation recurrence probability taking into account the number and significance of risk factors. The study was conducted in 2018-2019 based on the Cardiovascular Department of Military Hospital 175, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam).

Falls and Physical Activity among Cataract Patients in Vietnam.

Purpose: To investigate the relationship between falls, physical activity, and other socio-demographic and visual factors among cataract patients in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted between April and November 2018. Patients presenting to two hospitals with age-related unilateral or bilateral cataract, aged ≥50 years, literate, and scheduled for a first-eye cataract surgery were recruited.

Outcomes of trauma education workshop in Vietnam: improving diagnostic and surgical skills.

Background: Unintentional injuries have emerged as a significant public health issue in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), especially in Vietnam, where there is a poor quality of care for trauma. A scarcity of formal and informal training opportunities contributes to a lack of structure for treating trauma in Vietnam. A collaborative trauma education project by the JW LEE Center for Global Medicine in South Korea and the Military Hospital 175 in Vietnam was implemented to enhance trauma care capacity among medical staff across Ho Chi Minh City in 2018.

Psychometric Properties of the Vietnamese Catquest-9 Short Form Questionnaire.

Significance: The Catquest-9 Short Form (SF) has good psychometric properties but was not available in Vietnamese. This study provides the Vietnamese Catquest-9SF and evidence supporting for its use in hospital settings along with clinical assessment to evaluate visual function.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Vietnamese Catquest-9SF.

The economic burden attributable to asthmatic inpatients and outpatients in a military hospital, Vietnam: A retrospective 5-year analysis.

Objectives: Asthma is a disease that causes significant health and economic burdens worldwide. The prevalence and incidence of asthma have been rising around the world over recent decades. The current study is to capture the direct medical costs of inpatient and outpatient asthma treatment for the period from 2013 to 2017.

Clinical features of octogenarian patients with tuberculosis at a tertiary hospital in South Korea.

Objective: The growth of the older population is a great challenge for tuberculosis (TB) control in South Korea. This study was performed to investigate the clinical characteristics of and treatment outcomes among octogenarian patients with TB.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of 109 patients with TB (age of ≥80 years) from January 2014 to March 2017.

Pharmacokinetics and ex vivo pharmacodynamic antimalarial activity of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine in patients with uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Vietnam.

Compared to healthy subjects, malaria patients show a reduction in the mean oral clearance (1.19 versus 5.87 liters/h/kg of body weight) and apparent volume of distribution (1.

Fatty food does not alter blood mefloquine concentrations in the treatment of falciparum malaria.

Food has been reported to increase the bioavailability of mefloquine in healthy volunteers, but its role in increasing blood mefloquine concentrations in malaria patients treated with mefloquine is unclear. In this study, we compared blood mefloquine concentrations after the administration of artesunate (8 mg/kg) and mefloquine (15 mg/kg) over 12h with either a low-fat (approximately 3g of fat) or high-fat (approximately 30 g of fat) meal for the treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in 12 Vietnamese patients. No statistical differences were detected in the following kinetic parameters between the low-fat (n=6) and high-fat (n=6) groups, respectively: maximum blood mefloquine concentrations (2838+/-531 ng/ml and 2556+/-657 ng/ml, 95% CI -486 to 1050 ng/ml, P=0.