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David E. Leaf

Researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Publications -  145
Citations -  8486

David E. Leaf is an academic researcher from Brigham and Women's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Acute kidney injury & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 127 publications receiving 5347 citations. Previous affiliations of David E. Leaf include Harvard University & University of California, Los Angeles.

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COVID-19 and coagulation: bleeding and thrombotic manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

TL;DR: Elevated D-dimer at initial presentation was predictive of coagulation-associated complications during hospitalization and ESR, CRP, fibrinogen, ferritin, and procalcitonin were higher in patients with thrombotic complications than in those without.
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Factors Associated With Death in Critically Ill Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in the US

TL;DR: This study identified demographic, clinical, and hospital-level risk factors that may be associated with death in critically ill patients with COVID-19 and can facilitate the identification of medications and supportive therapies to improve outcomes.
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Association Between Early Treatment With Tocilizumab and Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19.

TL;DR: Among critically ill patients with COVID-19 in this cohort study, the risk of in-hospital mortality in this study was lower in patients treated with tocilizumab in the first 2 days of ICU admission compared with patients whose treatment did not include early use of tocilzumab, and the findings may be susceptible to unmeasured confounding.
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HIV infection and the risk of diabetes mellitus.

TL;DR: Although HIV infection itself is not associated with increased risk ofabetes, increasing age; HCV coinfection and BMI have a more profound effect upon the risk of diabetes among HIV-infected persons, and long-term ARV treatment also increases risk.