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Mechanical Thrombectomy for Patients with In-Hospital Ischemic Stroke: A Case-Control Study.

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Patients with in-hospital acute ischemic stroke (AIS) have, in general, worse outcomes compared to those presenting from the community, partly attributed to the numerous contraindications to intravenous thrombolysis. We aimed …

Final Two-Year Outcomes for the Sentry Bioconvertible Inferior Vena Cava Filter in Patients Requiring Temporary Protection from Pulmonary Embolism.

PURPOSE: To report final 2-year outcomes with the Sentry bioconvertible inferior vena cava (IVC) filter in patients requiring temporary protection against pulmonary embolism (PE). MATERIALS AND METHODS: In a prospective multicenter trial, the…

Impact of residual coronary atherosclerosis on transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

OBJECTIVES: This study reports on the clinical effects of complete vs incompletely revascularized coronary artery disease on transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). BACKGROUND: There is a high prevalence of active coronary artery disease …

Tags: 2019, Aged, Aged 80 and over, Al-Kindi SG, Aortic Valve Stenosis/diagnostic imaging/mortality/physiopathology/surgery, Aortic Valve/diagnostic imaging/physiopathology/surgery, Attizzani GF, AVD - aortic valve disease, Bezerra HG, CAD - coronary artery disease, Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions, Catheterization Peripheral/adverse effects/mortality, Cause of Death, Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital, Coronary Artery Disease/diagnostic imaging/mortality/therapy, Costa MA, Davis A, Department of Internal Medicine, Female, Femoral Artery, Hornick JM, Humans, Ichibori Y, journalArticle, June2020SubmittedList, Kalra A, Li Jun, Lipinski J, Makani A, Male, Markowitz AH, Nadeem F, NEOMED College of Medicine, Patel SM, Patel T, Patient Readmission, PCI - percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), Percutaneous Coronary Intervention/adverse effects/mortality, percutaneous intervention, Punctures, Retrospective Studies, Risk Assessment, Risk Factors, Simon DI, Thakker P, Thomas R, Time Factors, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement/adverse effects/mortality, Treatment Outcome

Short-term and long-term outcomes of patients undergoing urgent transcatheter aortic valve replacement under a minimalist strategy.

OBJECTIVES: Urgent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is associated with worse short-term outcomes compared with elective TAVR; however, little is known about long-term outcomes or the safety of the minimalist strategy in this setting. …

Tags: 2019, Aged 80 and over, Aortic Valve Stenosis/diagnosis/mortality/surgery, Aortic Valve/diagnostic imaging/surgery, Attizzani GF, Bezerra HG, Cardiac Catheterization/methods, Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital, Costa MA, Davis A, Department of Internal Medicine, Echocardiography Transesophageal, Elective Surgical Procedures/methods, Female, Femoral Artery, Follow-Up Studies, Hospital Mortality/trends, Humans, Ichibori Y, journalArticle, June2020SubmittedList, Kalra A, Kobe D, Ladas T, Length of Stay, Li J, Lipinski J, Male, Markowitz AH, minimalist approach, NEOMED College of Medicine, Patel S, Patel T, Peters M, Retrospective Studies, Risk Factors, Saric P, severe aortic stenosis, Severity of Illness Index, The Journal of invasive cardiology, Time Factors, transcatheter aortic valve replacement, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement/methods, Treatment Outcome, Tsushima T, United States/epidemiology, urgent procedure

Feasibility and safety of adopting next-day discharge as first-line option after transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

OBJECTIVES: Data on next-day discharge (NDD) after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) are limited. This study investigated the feasibility and safety of NDD as a first-line option (the very-early discharge [VED] strategy) compared with…

Tags: 2019, Academic Medical Centers, Aged, Aged 80 and over, aortic stenosis, Aortic Valve Stenosis/diagnosis/surgery, Attizzani GF, Bezerra HG, Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital, Cohort Studies, Costa MA, Davis A, Department of Internal Medicine, early discharge, Feasibility Studies, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Ichibori Y, journalArticle, June2020SubmittedList, Kalra A, Length of Stay, Li J, Lipinski J, Male, Markowitz AH, minimalist approach, NEOMED College of Medicine, next-day discharge, Ohio, Panhwar M, Patel SM, Patel TM, Patient Discharge, Patient Readmission/statistics & numerical data, Patient Safety, Propensity Score, Qureshi G, Retrospective Studies, Risk Assessment, Sareyyupoglu B, Saric P, Severity of Illness Index, Survival Analysis, The Journal of invasive cardiology, Time Factors, transcatheter aortic valve replacement, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement/methods/mortality, United States, Zidar DA

Derivation and external validation of a simple risk tool to predict 30-day hospital readmissions after transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

AIMS: Patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) possess a higher risk of recurrent healthcare resource utilisation due to multiple comorbidities, frailty, and advanced age. We sought to devise a simple tool to identify TAVR…

A new zygodactylid species indicates the persistence of stem passerines into the early Oligocene in North America.

BACKGROUND: The lake deposits of the informal Ruby Paper Shale unit, part of the Renova Formation of Montana, have yielded abundant plant fossils that document Late Eocene - Early Oligocene global cooling in western North America. A nearly complete…

Providing Nutrition Support in the Electronic Health Record Era: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Tags: 2012, Acute Care, America, Descriptive Statistics, Documentation, Electronic Health Records – Methods, Electronic Order Entry, Health Personnel, Human, Nutrition in Clinical Practice, Nutritional Support, Product Evaluation, Questionnaires, Safety, Summated Rating Scaling, Time Factors, Vanek Vincent W

Protocol-directed Care does not lead to improved Outcomes in early Septic Shock.

Tags: 2014, Antibiotics – Therapeutic Use, Clinical Trials, Department of Internal Medicine, Early Diagnosis, Fluid Intake, Human, Infectious Disease Alert, Multicenter Studies, NEOMED College of Medicine, Patient Care – Standards, Septic – Therapy, Shock, Time Factors, Watkins Richard R

Combination Therapy for Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Bacteremia Reduces Mortality.

Risk of Herpes Zoster Increases After Zoster Vaccination in Patients Taking Immunosuppressive Medications.

Tags: 2015, Confidence Intervals, Department of Internal Medicine, Glucocorticoids – Adverse Effects, Herpes Zoster – Risk Factors, Herpes Zoster Vaccine – Adverse Effects, Herpes Zoster Vaccine – Therapeutic Use, Immunosuppressive Agents – Adverse Effects, Infectious Disease Alert, NEOMED College of Medicine, Time Factors, Watkins Richard R

Changes in instrumentally and classically conditioned limb-flexion responses following inferior olivary lesions and olivocerebellar tractotomy in the cat.

Lesions were placed in various parts of the inferior olivary nucleus and olivocerebellar tract in an attempt to define further the role of the inferior olive in the performance of a conditioned limb-flexion response (LFR) in cats. Thirty-two cats…

Development of bilateral lower extremity Marjolin ulcers after childhood burns.

Tags: 2008, American journal of orthopedics (Belle Mead, N.J.), Burns/*complications, Carcinoma, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Scharschmidt Tom, Skin Neoplasms/*etiology/surgery, Skin Ulcer/*etiology/surgery, Squamous Cell/*etiology/surgery, Tank Jason, Time Factors, Weiner Scott D

Acute and subchronic effects of methylenedioxymethamphetamine [(+/-)MDMA] on locomotion and serotonin syndrome behavior in the rat.

Specific behaviors comprising the serotonin syndrome (low body posture, forepaw treading, headweaving) and the autonomic signs of piloerection and salivation were determined and analyzed with locomotor activity in response to MDMA at three doses…

Time-dependent effect of ethanol upon discrimination behavior.

The discriminative stimulus properties produced by ethanol were employed to demonstrate differences in discriminative performance over time in rats trained at different postinjection times. Thus, one group of rats was trained to discriminate between…

Tags: 1989, Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.), Animals, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Ethanol/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Male, Rats, Schechter M D, Time Factors

Temporal parameters of cathinone, amphetamine and cocaine.

Rats were trained to discriminate intraperitoneally administered 0.8 mg/kg

Tags: 1989, Alkaloids/*pharmacology, Amphetamines/*pharmacology, Animals, Cocaine/*pharmacology, Conditioning, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Inbred Strains, Male, Operant/*drug effects, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D, Task Performance and Analysis, Time Factors

Serotonergic-dopaminergic mediation of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, "ecstasy").

A series of three experiments were conducted to investigate the possible serotonergic and dopaminergic mediation of the discriminative stimulus properties of the "designer" drug MDMA. In Experiment 1, rats trained to discriminate 1.5 mg/kg (+/-)-MDMA…

Trauma attending in the resuscitation room: does it affect outcome?

Although there are no Class I data supporting the regionalization of trauma care the consensus is that trauma centers decrease morbidity and mortality. However, the controversy continues over whether trauma surgeons should be in-house or take call…

Delayed presentation of an inflammatory polyp following colonic ischemia.

Inflammatory polyps are usually associated with inflammatory bowel disease. The majority of these lesions are asymptomatic, however, they may be a source of obstruction or hemorrhage. These polyps represent re-epithelialization of the damaged colonic…

Tags: 1993, Aged, Colitis/*etiology/pathology/surgery, Colon/*blood supply, Colonic Polyps/diagnosis/*etiology/pathology/surgery, Colonoscopy, Female, Hlivko T J, Humans, Ischemia/*complications, Pidala M J, Slezak F A, The American surgeon, Time Factors

The modulation of long-term potentiation by delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in the rat hippocampus, in vitro.

The duration of long-term potentiation (LTP) of the CA1 evoked field potential in rat hippocampal slices was significantly modulated by pre-treatment of slices with delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) added to the incubation media. The three THC doses…

Tags: 1987, Animals, Brain research bulletin, Dronabinol/*pharmacology, Evoked Potentials/drug effects, Hippocampus/*drug effects/physiology, In Vitro Techniques, Kinetics, Male, Nowicky A V, Pyramidal Tracts/drug effects/physiology, Rats, Teyler T J, Time Factors, Vardaris R M

Effect of digital rectal examination (and ejaculation) on serum prostate-specific antigen after twenty-four hours. A randomized, prospective study.

The purpose of this randomized, controlled, clinical trial was to determine the effect of the digital rectal examination (DRE) on the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) serum levels in view of conflicting literature reports and screening methods and…

Tags: *Palpation, 1993, 80 and over, Adult, Aged, Ejaculation, Geller L, Gerson L W, Humans, Male, McAleer J K, McMahon D, Middle Aged, Prospective Studies, Prostate-Specific Antigen/*blood, Rectum, Time Factors, Urology

Delays in immunizations of high-risk infants during the first two years of life: special care for the high-risk infant should not mean special immunization schedules.

Because experience in our newborn intensive care unit follow-up clinic since 1982 suggested that immunizations of newborn intensive care unit graduates in the first 2 years of life were inappropriately delayed, questionnaires were sent to families…

Elapsed time from symptom onset and acute myocardial infarction in a community hospital.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Previous reports have emphasized that thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction should be initiated within three or four hours of symptom onset to obtain the best clinical outcomes. However, our clinical impression was…

Ethanol interoceptive cue and sleep-time duration in HAS and LAS selectively bred rats.

The drug discrimination paradigm was used to evaluate the effects of selective breeding for differential sensitivity to the hypnotic effects of ethanol. Tenth generation high alcohol sensitive (HAS) and low alcohol sensitive (LAS) rats were trained…

Tags: *Cues, *Discrimination Learning, *Hypnotics and Sedatives, 1990, Animals, Breeding, Ethanol/*pharmacology, Krimmer E C, Male, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Phenotype, Rats, Sleep/*drug effects, Species Specificity, Time Factors

Possible leukopenia associated with long-term use of echinacea.

Tags: 2002, Echinacea/*adverse effects, Female, Franco Kathleen N, Humans, Kemp David Eric, Leukopenia/*chemically induced, Middle Aged, Phytotherapy/*adverse effects, The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, Time Factors

Gallstone pancreatitis: a prospective randomized trial of the timing of surgery.

The correct timing of surgery in cases of gallstone pancreatitis is debatable. To delineate more clearly the influence of the timing of surgery in the treatment of the disease, a prospective randomized clinical study of early surgery (less than 48…

Gallstones induced by sex steroids in the female Syrian hamster: duration effects.

Scanning (SEM), and transmission (TEM) electron microscopy were used and correlated to morphologically characterize changes induced in the gallbladder epithelium of female Syrian hamster in response to treatments with estradiol (E) alone, and…

Tags: 1995, Animals, Body Weight, Cholelithiasis/*chemically induced, Cricetinae, Electron, Epithelium/drug effects/ultrastructure, Estradiol/*toxicity, Female, Gallbladder/*drug effects/pathology, Gilloteaux J, Journal of submicroscopic cytology and pathology, Karkare S, Lipids/blood, Medroxyprogesterone/*toxicity, Mesocricetus, Microscopy, Organ Size, Time Factors

Tromantadine inhibits a late step in herpes simplex virus type 1 replication and syncytium formation.

Addition of tromantadine after virus penetration inhibited HSV-1 induced syncytium formation and virus production in HEp-2 and VERO cells and acted additively with neutralizing antibody in blocking virus spread and cytopathology. Inhibition of…

A reappraisal of appendicitis in the elderly.

Historically, appendicitis in the elderly is associated with higher morbidity and mortality. Ninety-six patients over 60 years of age with appendicitis treated over a 10-year period were reviewed. Only 20% presented classically with anorexia, fever,…

Tags: 1990, 80 and over, Aged, American journal of surgery, Appendicitis/complications/*diagnosis/mortality/surgery, Diagnosis, Differential, Female, Guyton D P, Horattas M C, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Postoperative Complications, Retrospective Studies, Time Factors, Wu D

Aspartame exposure and in vitro hippocampal slice excitability and plasticity.

Aspartame (APM) is a low-calorie sweetener recently approved and released for widespread use in the United States. However, concerns still exist that APM consumption may be responsible for adverse neurological and psychological effects in some…

Tags: 1988, Animals, Aspartame/*toxicity, Dipeptides/*toxicity, Electric Stimulation, Electrophysiology, Female, Fountain S B, Fundamental and applied toxicology : official journal of the Society of Toxicology, Hennes S K, Hippocampus/*drug effects/physiopathology, Neuronal Plasticity/*drug effects, Neurons/drug effects, Rats, Teyler T J, Time Factors

Characterization of the early events in vitamin C and K3-induced death of human bladder tumor cells.

Norfenfluramine, the fenfluramine metabolite, provides stimulus control: evidence for serotonergic mediation.

Nine male rats were trained to discriminate 1.4 mg/kg norfenfluramine (NF) from its vehicle using a two-lever, food-motivated, operant discrimination task. Once trained, the rats showed a dose-dependent decrease in responding on the

Tags: 1988, Animal/*drug effects, Animals, Behavior, Boja J W, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Fenfluramine/*analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Male, Norfenfluramine/*pharmacology, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Receptors, Schechter M D, Serotonin/pharmacology, Serotonin/physiology, Time Factors

Behavioral effects of N-ethyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDE; "EVE").

Eight male rats were trained to discriminate 2.0 mg/kg

Tags: 1987, 3, 4-methylenedioxyamphetamine, 4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine/analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology, Amphetamines/*pharmacology, Animals, Boja J W, Discrimination (Psychology), Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Inbred Strains, Legislation, Male, N-Methyl-3, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D, Time Factors, United States

Understanding residents' work: moving beyond counting hours to assessing educational value.

PURPOSE: To begin to understand how residents' work affects their own educations and the hospitals in which most of their training takes place, the authors undertook a systematic review of the literature analyzing residents' activities. This review…

Tags: *Workload, 2003, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Boex James R, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Education, Graduate/*statistics & numerical data, Humans, Internship and Residency/*statistics & numerical data, Leahy Peter J, Medical, Medicine/statistics & numerical data, NEOMED College of Medicine, Specialization, Time Factors

Functional outcome after anal sphincter injury and treatment with mesenchymal stem cells.

This research demonstrates the regenerative effects of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) on the injured anal sphincter by comparing anal sphincter pressures following intramuscular and serial intravascular MSC infusion in a rat model of anal sphincter…

Use of Fine-scale Geospatial Units and Population Data to Evaluate Access to Emergency Care.

Introduction: Time to facility is a crucial element in emergency medicine (EM). Fine-scale geospatial units such as census block groups (CBG) and publicly available population datasets offer a low-cost and accurate approach to modeling geographic…

Comparative antiplatelet activity of COX1 NSAIDS versus aspirin, encompassing regimen simplification and gastroprotection: a call for a controlled study.

This study was conducted to assess the feasibility of COX1 NSAID substitution for aspirin for preventative therapy related to circulating anticoagulants, as manifest by inhibition of platelet aggregation. There was no difference in platelet…

Mechanical Ventilation Antioxidant Trial.

BACKGROUND: Many patients each year require prolonged mechanical ventilation. Inflammatory processes may prevent successful weaning, and evidence indicates that mechanical ventilation induces oxidative stress in the diaphragm, resulting in atrophy…

Tags: 2015, 80 and over, Acetylcysteine, Adult, Aged, American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, Antioxidants, Antioxidants/*therapeutic use, Artificial, Artificial/*adverse effects, Ascorbic Acid – Administration and Dosage, Ascorbic Acid/therapeutic use, Chi Square Test, Clochesy John M, Critical Care/*methods, Critical Illness, Critically Ill Patients, Cystine/analogs & derivatives/therapeutic use, Data Analysis Software, Department of Internal Medicine, Dietary Supplementation, Double-Blind Method, Double-Blind Studies, Female, Funding Source, Goldstein Lawrence S, Howe Kimberly P, Human, Humans, Inflammation/*drug therapy/*etiology, Intensive Care Units, Length of Stay, Log-Rank Test, Male, Mantel-Haenszel Test, Middle Age, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, Owen Hugh, Oxidative Stress, Oxidative Stress/*drug effects, Prospective Studies, RANDOMIZED controlled trials, Respiration, T-Tests, Time Factors, Treatment Outcome, Ventilator Weaning, Vitamin E, Vitamin E/therapeutic use, Vitamins/therapeutic use

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for operable breast cancer: is this the future?

The idea of using preoperative or neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with operable breast cancer originated from experimental and clinical observations as well as theoretical hypotheses on tumor cell growth and dissemination. Initially,…

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