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Merete Storgaard

Researcher at Aarhus University Hospital

Publications -  94
Citations -  2876

Merete Storgaard is an academic researcher from Aarhus University Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 81 publications receiving 1852 citations.

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Comparing SARS-CoV-2 with SARS-CoV and influenza pandemics.

TL;DR: Compared with other epidemic coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 causes mild or asymptomatic disease in most cases; however, severe to critical illness occurs in a small proportion of infected individuals, with the highest rate seen in people older than 70 years.
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Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Is Superior to Fidaxomicin for Treatment of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection.

TL;DR: In a single-center randomized trial of patients with rCDI, the FMTv combination superior to fidaxomicin or vancomycin based on end points of clinical and microbiological resolution or clinical resolution alone was found.
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Antibiotic treatment interruption of suspected lower respiratory tract infections based on a single procalcitonin measurement at hospital admission--a randomized trial.

TL;DR: It was concluded that the determination of a single PCT value at admission in patients with suspected LRTIs can lead to a reduction in the duration of antibiotic treatment by 25% without compromising outcome.
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The Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) in acutely hospitalised medical patients: a cohort study

TL;DR: SIRS status on admission was found to be moderately associated with infection and strongly related to 28-day mortality, and most of the deaths among patients with SIRS occurred among Patients with malignant conditions.