Showing papers in "Medicina in 2022"

TL;DR: Since the onset of the pandemic, numerous agents have been tested in the effort to mitigate the cytokine storm in COVID-19 patients, some of which are effective in reducing mortality, especially in critically ill patients, and are now becoming standards of care, such as glucocorticoids or some cytokine inhibitors.

TL;DR: Generally unsatisfactory levels of knowledge regarding the emerging HMPX among university students in Jordanian health schools/faculties were pointed to and Conspiracy beliefs regarding emerging virus infections were widely prevalent, and its potential detrimental impact on health behavior should be evaluated in future studies.

TL;DR: Coping mechanisms associated with less burnout were also physical well-being, clinical variety, setting boundaries, transcendental, passion for one’s work, realistic expectations, remembering patients and organizational activities.

TL;DR: Higher pre-operative hematological ratios MLR, NLR, PLR, SII, SIRI, and AISI values determined before operations strongly predict acute DVT following TKA, and age over 70, malignancy, cardiovascular disease, and risk factors such as obesity and tobacco were predictive risk factors for acute DVt.

TL;DR: Age, chronic renal disease and early administration of TCZ or BRT from the onset of COVID-19 were independent prognostic factors for all-cause mortality, whereas anti-viral drug use and the severity of CO VID-19 at baseline were associated with an improvement in respiratory status.

TL;DR: Despite no distinctive US features between reactive post-COVID-19 vaccination and malignant lymph nodes being available, careful examination of atypical lymph node locations associated with accurate knowledge of patients’ clinical background and delay of US exam to four to six weeks after vaccine injection should be considered.

TL;DR: Although CPET is the gold standard test for assessing FC prior to cardiovascular rehabilitation, its availability remains limited and PLR, a cheap and simple test, could predict poor FC in patients with stable CAD and recent elective PCI and help prioritize referral for cardiovascular rehabilitation in high-risk patients.

TL;DR: There is considerable evidence regarding both markers as prognostic markers in NSCLC patients treated with immunotherapy, however, further studies with more homogeneous baseline characteristics are required to confirm these findings.

TL;DR: This review aims to summarize reporting on the different clinical trials and assess the different regenerative strategies being undertaken to collectively obtain an impression on the potential safety and effectiveness of cell therapeutics against intervertebral disc-related diseases.

TL;DR: Current data seems to favor the use of PD over in-center HD in patients awaiting a KT, and the demonstrated advantages of PD are superior quality of life, longer preservation of residual renal function, lower incidence of delayed graft function, better recipient survival, and reduced cost.

TL;DR: The role of interleukin-17 in the pathogenesis of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and its relationship with IL-23 was investigated in this article .

TL;DR: The findings of this study that assessed validity and reliability showed that the developed questionnaire had an acceptable psychometric property for measuring oral health KAB among adults in India.

TL;DR: Prolonged probiotic supplementation resulted in significant positive changes in the IFN-γ and salivary IgA levels and negativeChanges in the IL-10 and TNF-α levels.

TL;DR: SUI after UBAs treatment resulted in improvements in all studies and can be considered a safe and effective option to treat SUI, however, homogenous and longer-term data lack, limiting general recommendations.

TL;DR: In HIV-positive patients, the development of strategies for the prevention, control, and reduction of these pathologies must be prioritized in order to reduce morbidity and mortality in this group of patients.

TL;DR: Insight into the acceptance and use of AI in dentistry are revealed for the first time within the limitations of this study.

TL;DR: The type and duration of exercise for positive improvement in telomere length is aerobic exercise for more than 6 months, with a change in lifestyle.

TL;DR: A need to prevent burnout and to enhance self-efficacy in psychiatric nurses to increase their job performances and serve as a basis for establishing strategies to deploy medical staff in the future is indicated.

TL;DR: Clinical characteristics and multimodal imaging, that can help the diagnosis and treatment of PICCPs are described, resulting from one common clinicopathological mechanism, inflammatory choriocapillaris hypo- or non-perfusion.

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TL;DR: The TyG index showed more effectiveness in identifying IR in Chinese T2DM patients with a BMI < 35 kg/m2 compared to HOMA-IR, and among both sexes.

TL;DR: The presence of a severe PHT in patients with AS undergoing surgical AVR is associated with an early postoperative increased mortality rate, and the mean PAP is a more reliable parameter for prognosis appreciation than the LV systolic function.

TL;DR: According to the available evidence, RS has comparable clinical outcomes compared to laparoscopy (LPS), and a minimally invasive approach is suggested in benign gynecological pathologies.

TL;DR: In this paper , a systematic literature search was performed in the online databases PubMed, PEDro and Cochrane Library using the following search keywords: "prehabilitation", "preoperative care", and "total hip replacement".

TL;DR: Despite some promising results with MTF regarding pregnancy rates in women with PCOS, the management of gestational diabetes, cancer prevention or adjunctive cancer treatment and COVID-19, most robust meta-analyses have yet to confirm such beneficial effects.

TL;DR: In a long-term hospital, nosocomial COVID-19 main clinical characteristics associated with infection were dyspnea and NECPal and the NECPAL tool played an important predictive role in both nosocomials infection and mortality.

TL;DR: In this paper , the importance of sex and gender-related issues in the perioperative management of patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA) to improve clinical outcomes and prevent postoperative complications was depicted.

TL;DR: It has been proven that rosinidin possesses antioxidant, anti-amnesic, and anti-inflammatory activity and was found to have strong protective action against streptozotocin-induced toxicity.

TL;DR: Adequate self-care behavior in patients with type 2 diabetes is needed and medical professionals should ensure improved efforts to accurately ascertain how an individual can implement the recommended lifestyle changes and facilitateSelf-care education.

TL;DR: Adult patients with COVID-19, especially those with clinically severe pneumonia, still had residual symptoms and chest radiographic abnormalities, together with poorer quality of life and lower exercise capacity, one month after hospital discharge.