Blood Cyst of the Mitral Valve Diagnosed in an Adult after Systemic Thrombolysis by Diana C. Ramírez-Mesías, Juan F. Contreras-Valero, Gabriel D. Pinilla-Monsalve, Carlos E. Vesga-Reyes

“…A 57-year-old woman developed sudden dyspnea while hospitalized in the context of urinary sepsis; high-risk pulmonary embolism was diagnosed and she was prescribed systemic thrombolysis. …”
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Spontaneous Yersinia enterocolitica Septicemia in a Patient with Iron Overload by Steven S Larigakis, Michael A Noble, Terence G Sparling

“…Patients with iron overload states should be recognized as compromised hosts and potentially susceptible to spontaneous sepsis due to Y enterocolitica.…”
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Management of Infectious Processes of the Pleural Space: A Review by Ankur Girdhar, Adil Shujaat, Abubakr Bajwa

“…This calls for employment of advanced treatment modalities and development of a standardized protocol to manage pleural sepsis early. There has been an increased understanding about the indications and appropriate usage of procedural options at clinicians’ disposal.…”
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The Effects of Hypoxia on the Immune-Modulatory Properties of Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells by Zsolt Fábián

“…The therapeutic repertoire for life-threatening inflammatory conditions like sepsis, graft-versus-host reactions, or colitis is very limited in current clinical practice and, together with chronic ones, like the osteoarthritis, presents growing economic burden in developed countries. …”
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Toll-Like Receptor Signaling Pathways—Therapeutic Opportunities by Jiankun Zhu, Chandra Mohan

“…However, aberrant activation of TLR signaling has a significant impact on the onset of cancer, allergy, sepsis and autoimmunity. Various adaptor proteins, including MyD88, IRAKs, TIRAP, TRIF, and TRAM, are involved in specific TLR signaling pathways. …”
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Common diseases during the neonatal period. Complete blood count, peripheral blood smear, reticulocyte count, and platelet count results by Nelson Rafael Terry Leonard, Cleopatra Cabrera Cuéllar

“…A bibliographic review of the results of the hemogram, peripheral lamina, reticulocyte count and platelet count in term and preterm neonates is carried out, describing the variations of these parameters in the anemia syndrome and sepsis of the newborn.…”
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Scleredema Diabeticorum with Superimposed Cellulitis and Abscess Formation by Binav Shrestha, Eliza Sharma, Osama Mukhtar, Jaspreet Kaler, Shivani Thapa, Mazin Khalid

“…We present a case of an obese male with poorly controlled diabetes who came to the hospital with upper back pain and subsequently developed sepsis due to a small deep-seated abscess in his back that was drained and treated with antibiotics. …”
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Mortality-related risk factors of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae infection with focus on antimicrobial regimens optimization: a real-world retrospective study in China by Sheng Deng, Jinglan Chen, Pengxiang Zhou, Qin Hu

“…Subgroup analysis of the non-sepsis group showed significantly lower mortality in monotherapy than in combination therapy (0% versus 22.2%, P = 0.034). …”
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Cytokines and Chemokines in Pediatric Appendicitis: A Multiplex Analysis of Inflammatory Protein Mediators by S. Ali Naqvi, Graham C. Thompson, Ari R. Joffe, Jaime Blackwood, Dori-Ann Martin, Mary Brindle, Herman W. Barkema, Craig N. Jenne

“…We performed a secondary analysis of targeted proteomics data from Alberta Sepsis Network studies. Plasma mediator levels, analyzed by Luminex multiplex assays, were evaluated in children aged 5-17 years with nonappendicitis abdominal pain (NAAP), acute appendicitis (AA), and nonappendicitis sepsis (NAS). …”
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Individualized autoregulation-guided arterial blood pressure management in neurocritical care by Jonathan R. Gomez, Bhagyashri U. Bhende, Rohan Mathur, L. Fernando Gonzalez, Vishank A. Shah

“…Utilizing these monitors, researchers have been able to discern CA patterns in several pathological states, such as but not limited to acute ischemic stroke, spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage, aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, sepsis, and post-cardiac arrest, and they have found CA to be altered in these patients. …”
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Maternal and neonatal outcomes of Group B Streptococcus colonization: a retrospective study by Guixiu Jin, Lanhua Liu, Xiaolong Wang, Junling Fei, Zhenling Zhu, Ziyan Jiang, Min Liu

“…The composite neonatal adverse outcomes included low Apgar scores, neonatal pneumonia, neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, neonatal sepsis, or low birth weight. Results Overall, the rate of GBS positivity was 10.63% (551/5183), and the rate of maternal GBS screening was 88.4%. …”
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Seasonal trends of pyogenic spondylodiscitis in Japan: a nationwide inpatient database study by Takayuki Motoyoshi, Takahisa Ogawa, Kazuyuki Fukushima, Satoshi Kutsuna, Haggai Schermann, Kiyohide Fushimi, Toshitaka Yoshii

“…Among patients aged over 65, aspiration pneumonia and sepsis were risk factors for death throughout the year. …”
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Validation of the REDS score in hospitalised patients who deteriorated and were admitted to the intensive care unit—a retrospective cohort study by Narani Sivayoham, Oliver Mason, Harriet O’Mara, Natasha Trenchard Turner, Katie Sysum, Georgina Wicks

“…The Risk-stratification of Emergency Department suspected Sepsis (REDS) score was derived and validated in emergency department patients with suspected sepsis. …”
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Pneumonia, an Unusual Initial Presentation of Neonatal Herpes Infection by Franck Kouadio, Gil Klinger

“…We describe an infant presenting with progressive respiratory distress, which was the dominant clinical feature of HSV infection during the first days of life. Sepsis work-up and antibiotic treatment were immediately initiated; however, antiviral treatment was not given until the infant’s death. …”
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Combination of external and internal fixation in the treatment of an exposed fracture of the tibial pylon. Case Presentation by Yaniel Truffin Rodriguez, Osmany Pérez Martínez, Sergio Miguel Samón Matos, Annia Lázara López Hernández

“…Exposed fractures of the tibial pylon are infrequent lesions that are associated with the appearance of multiple complications derived from the intensity of the traumain addition to the real sepsis possibility of soft tissues or bone and bone consolidation disorders related to the affected zone. …”
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Gastric Perforation Associated with Tuberculosis: A Case Report by Richdeep S. Gill, Sumeet S. Gill, Harshdeep Mangat, Sarvesh Logsetty

“…He subsequently developed gastric perforation and sepsis, for which he was treated both surgically and medically. …”
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Septo-Optic Dysplasia Diagnosed in a Newborn Infant with Normoglycemia: The Importance of Thorough Physical Examination by Aishwarya Palorath, Ishita Kharode

“…A newborn male infant was admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit due to suspected sepsis. He was clinically stable with normal electrolyte levels on admission. …”
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A Case of Childhood Severe Paroxysmal Cold Hemoglobinuria with Acute Renal Failure Successfully Treated with Plasma Exchange and Eculizumab by Jessica Pelletier, Chad Ward, Matthew Borloz, Anne Ickes, Susan Guelich, Erwood Edwards

“…We describe the case of a 4-year-old female who presented with sepsis and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), developed ongoing intravascular hemolysis with acute renal failure from suspected pigment-induced acute tubular necrosis necessitating continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) for five days followed by four episodes of intermittent hemodialysis (iHD), and was subsequently diagnosed with paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria (PCH). …”
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Macrolide Use in the Treatment of Critically Ill Patients with Pneumonia: Incidence, Correlates, Timing and Outcomes by Wendy I Sligl, Holly Hoang, Dean T Eurich, Atul Malhotra, Thomas J Marrie, Sumit R Majumdar

“…Evidence suggests that macrolides may also decrease mortality in severe sepsis via immunomodulatory properties.…”
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Peptidoglycan and Bacterial DNA Induce Inflammation and Coagulation Markers in Synergy by Marie-Claude Amoureux, Nandani Rajapakse, Lazlo Stipkovits, Susan Szathmary

“…These findings provide a new proinflammatory and procoagulant mechanism likely to play a role in sepsis pathogenesis.…”
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