Jianhe Gan

TL;DR: The presence of a coexisting medical condition was the only independent risk factor for the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) during the evaluation period, and the novel H7N9 virus caused severe illness, including pneumonia and ARDS, with high rates of ICU admission and death.

TL;DR: Regardless of the presence of cirrhosis, patients with CHB, TB and INR ≥12 mg/dL and InR ≥1.5 should be diagnosed with ACLF, thus increasing their opportunity to receive timely intensive management.

TL;DR: High-dose corticosteroid therapy significantly increased both 30-day and 60-day mortality and longer viral shedding in patients with influenza A (H7N9) viral pneumonia, whereas no significant impact was observed for low-to-moderate doses of Corticosteroids.

TL;DR: Levels of TB, Cr and PT, age and disease stage help to predict prognosis, and PE can improve the clinical outcome of patients with HBV-ACLF.

TL;DR: The study found that NLR was independently associated with fatality, and is potentially a predictive prognostic biomarker in patients infected with the AIV-H7N9 influenza virus.