Acute Kidney Injury in Lymphoma: A Single Centre Experience by Muhammad Abdul Mabood Khalil, Hira Latif, Abdur Rehman, Waqar Uddin Kashif, Safia Awan, Zarghona Khalil, Uziar Mushtaq, Maria Ahmad, Muhammad Ashhad Ullah Khalil, Manickam Ranga Sami, Jackson Tan

“…AKI was significantly associated with sepsis, aminoglycoside, diuretics, presence of tumor lysis syndrome, and use of R-CVP regimen. …”
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Impact of early versus late artificial rupture of membranes during oxytocin induction of labour on the incidence of chorioamnionitis: a randomised controlled trial (ARM trial) by Meghan G. Hill, Michelle R. Wise, Emmanuelle Pauleau, Beatrice Treadwell, Lynn Sadler

“…Chorioamnionitis entails risk to both the pregnant person and the fetus and is an important contributor to neonatal sepsis, neonatal intensive care unit admission, maternal sepsis, caesarean, wound infection and postoperative infective complications. …”
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Liver Cirrhosis and Diabetes Mellitus Are Risk Factors for Staphylococcus aureus Infection in Patients with Healthcare-Associated or Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia by Huang-Pin Wu, Chien-Ming Chu, Chun-Yao Lin, Chung-Chieh Yu, Chung-Ching Hua, Teng-Jen Yu, Yu-Chih Liu

“…From July 2007 to June 2010, patients who were admitted to the intensive care unit with severe HCAP/HAP and severe sepsis were enrolled in this study. Lower respiratory tract sample was semiquantitatively cultured. …”
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Metastatic Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Presenting as Jugular Venous Thrombosis by Prince Cheriyan Modayil, Sathyan Panthakalam, David C. Howlett

“…Jugular venous thrombosis is unusual and is associated with central venous catheterisation, intravenous drug abuse and head and neck sepsis. It is rarely associated with malignancy. We report a case of metastatic carcinoma of unknown primary in a forty year old female which presented with jugular venous thrombosis. …”
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Aortic Root Abscess Presenting as Pyrexia of Unknown Origin and the Importance of Echocardiography by Prashanth Panduranga

“…Aortic root abscess may cause persistent sepsis, worsening heart failure, conduction abnormalities, fistula formation, and an increased need for surgery. …”
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Acute Neonatal Parotitis with Late-Onset Septic Shock due to Streptococcus agalactiae by M. Boulyana

“…Despite being rare, streptococcal ANP should be considered in the etiological diagnosis of neonatal sepsis. Early diagnosis and appropriate antibiotic might prevent serious complications.…”
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Pitfalls in Labelled Leukocyte Scanning by H Hodgson, M Roddie

“…Certain diagnostic pitfalls and causes of false-positive results including radiation enteritis, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug ingestion and intra- and extra-abdominal sepsis are discussed in full, and it is shown that in most cases good labelling technique, careful imaging and awareness of alternative mechanisms for leukocyte appearance in the gastrointestinal tract will ensure correct interpretation of these scans.…”
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Outcome from Acute Repsiratory Distress Syndrome: Is It Really Improving? by Jesús Villar, Arthur S Slutsky

“…Mortality from ARDS has been high since the syndrome was first described almost 30 years ago. Sepsis and extrapulmonary organ failure are the major contributing factors affecting the probability of survival in patients with ARDS. …”
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Transhepatic Insertion of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube by Zaid Imam, C. Roberto Simons-Linares

“…Transhepatic PEG insertion is likely an underrepresented complication which may be identified incidentally on imaging or present with life-threatening conditions such as sepsis or massive bleeding. Use of ultrasound in patients with known hepatomegaly may possibly help avoid this complication. …”
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Concurrent Neonatal Proteus mirabilis Infection in Dizygotic Twins by Lillian Sung, Noni E MacDonald, James S Hutchison

“…It is recommend that when infection with this virulent organism is diagnosed in one twin, the second twin should be fully evaluated for sepsis and empirical antimicrobial therapy should be considered.…”
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Congenital Malaria due to Plasmodium Vivax Infection in a Neonate by Ravi Bhatia, Dinesh Rajwaniya, Priti Agrawal

“…Congenital malaria should be kept as differential diagnosis of neonatal sepsis. Timely detection of this condition could lead to early diagnosis and treatment, thereby preventing neonatal mortality.…”
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A Case of Upper Limb Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis Presenting as Pseudoparalysis in a Two-Week-Old by Kuldeep Stohr, Guang Xia Xu

“…We present a case of a two-week-old baby boy with pseudoparalysis who was initially diagnosed as Erb’s palsy when presented in the emergency department and later re-presented with signs of sepsis. A later diagnosis of osteomyelitis of the humerus and septic arthritis of the shoulder was made. …”
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Short-term outcomes of oropharyngeal administration of colostrum in preterm neonates: a double-blind placebocontrolled randomized trial by Ameneh Lamsehchi, Maryam Shokouhi Solgi, Mohammad Kazem Sabzehei, Behnaz Basiri, Elahe Talebi Ghane, Kiana Kimiaei Asadi, Sina Azadnajafabad

“…The main study outcomes were neonatal death, the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis, sepsis, retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), length of hospital stay, and period to full enteral feeding. …”
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Development and validation of an EHR-based risk prediction model for geriatric patients undergoing urgent and emergency surgery by Edward N. Yap, Jie Huang, Joshua Chiu, Robert W. Chang, Bradley Cohn, Judith C. F. Hwang, Mary Reed

“…XGBoost AUCROC was 0.823, 0.781, and 0.839 in predicting outcomes of sepsis, progressive renal insufficiency or renal failure, and mortality, respectively. …”
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Comportamiento de las infecciones nosocomiales en Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos en un quinquenio (2005 – 2009). by Maicelys Ramírez Zaldivar, Bernardo Fernández Chalala, Alain Cruz Portelles, Eneida Jardines González, Yamerlys Rodríguez Aguilera

“…<strong>Fundamento:</strong> la mortalidad por sepsis de pacientes en estado crítico es frecuentemente alta; cuando un paciente fallece en Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos es más probable que sea a consecuencia de una sepsis que por cualquier otra causa. …”
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Effectiveness of Steroid Pulse Therapy for Systemic Side Effects after Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Intravesical Instillation Therapy: A Series of Five Cases by Tatsuya Umemoto, Jun Naruse, Yukio Usui, Hidenori Zakoji, Hideshi Miyakita, Akira Miyajima

“…In the case of BCG sepsis, hemodialysis and mechanical ventilation were required because of septic shock and acute renal failure. …”
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Hepatic function markers as prognostic factors in patients with acute kidney injury undergoing continuous renal replacement therapy by Takuya Nishino, Yoshiaki Kubota, Tetsuya Kashiwagi, Akio Hirama, Kuniya Asai, Masahiro Yasutake, Shinichiro Kumita

“…Acute kidney injury (AKI) requiring continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), secondary to cardiovascular disease and sepsis, is associated with high in-hospital mortality. …”
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Fifteen Percent Thermal Burn Injury Developing Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome by Rupak Chatterjee, Debanjan Mandal, Arnab Mondal, Rupnarayan Bhattacharya, Shatavisa Mukherjee

“…Although many medical and surgical illnesses are implicated for development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), few diseases contribute predominantly as etiology. Pneumonia and sepsis are the most common causes followed in incidence by aspiration of gastric contents, trauma, multiple transfusions, and drug overdose. …”
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Surgery for diverticular peritonitis by Savvas Papagrigoriadis, Savvas Papagrigoriadis, Anestis Charalampopoulos

“…The significance of prompt management of sepsis is discussed. The surgical options for Hinchey III and Hinchey IV peritonitis are discussed with presentation of the supporting literature. …”
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Multiple Urethral Stones Causing Penile Gangrene by Michael J. Ramdass, Vijay Naraynsingh

“…We report the case of a 54-year-old male presenting with penile gangrene and sepsis resulting from impaction of multiple stones within the penile urethra. …”
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