Background: SARS-CoV-2 viral infection is a current and important topic for patients with comorbidities of type 2 diabetes and obesity, associated with increased risk of mortality and morbidity. This study aims to analyze, compare and describe admiss...
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Background: Season and weather are associated with many health outcomes, which can influence hospital admission rates. We examined associations between hospital admissions (all diagnoses) and local meteorological parameters in Southwestern Uganda, wi...
This study develops a management-driven and interpretable framework for identifying the formation of scenario-derived accounting increments in coal-fired power plants. Based on real monthly operational and accounting data from a coal-fired power plan...
Neonatal encephalopathy represents a broad neurological syndrome which encompasses newborn foals presenting a variety of non-infectious neurologic signs and/or abnormal behaviors in the immediate postpartum period. It is recognized as the most predom...
Background/Objectives: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a rare but severe post-infectious complication of COVID-19 that often requires admission to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). The present study aimed to compare t...
(1) The following research question was formulated: What are the relationships between enteral nutrition and selected anthropometric and blood biochemical parameters? The aim of this study was to provide an assessment of the nutritional status of pat...
The prognostic value of multiple glycemic parameters in poisoned patients was never assessed. We aim to explore the effects of glucose variability on short-term outcomes in nondiabetic and diabetic patients acutely poisoned with undifferentiated xeno...
Background: Early identification of patients requiring operative management (OM) after blunt abdominal trauma is critical, yet initial physiological signs may be nonspecific. We sought to develop and internally validate an admission-based prediction...
Background/Objectives: Acute subdural hematomas (aSDH) represent a frequent and potentially life-threatening form of traumatic intracranial hemorrhage. This study aims to assess prognostic factors associated with mortality and clinical outcome, with...
We have read with great interest the article by Lionte et al., “Association of multiple glycemic parameters at hospital admission with mortality and short-term outcomes in acutely poisoned patients”, recently published in your journal [...]
Early detection of SARS-CoV-2 in the emergency department (ED) is a crucial necessity, especially in settings of overcrowding: establishing a pre-diagnostic test probability of infection would help to triage patients and reduce diagnostic errors, and...
We introduce the Convex Hull of Admissible Modularity Partitions (CHAMP) algorithm to prune and prioritize different network community structures identified across multiple runs of possibly various computational heuristics. Given a set of partitions,...
Independent predictors of mortality for COVID-19 patients have been identified upon hospital admission; however, how they behave after hospitalization remains unknown. The aim of this study is to identify clinical and laboratory parameters from admis...
This study aims to evaluate the process of neonatal phenylketonuria (PKU) screening from birth to admission to the pediatric metabolism polyclinic, determining delays in the screening program and the factors influencing them. This study was conducted...
Background: Maternal thyroid hormones are essential for fetal development and the maintenance of pregnancy. While thyroid dysfunction earlier in gestation has been extensively studied, the clinical relevance of thyroid function assessed at labor admi...
Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF-15) is a stress-induced cytokine associated with acute and chronic inflammatory states. This prospective observational study aimed to investigate the prognostic roles of GDF-15 and routine clinical laboratory par...
(1) Background: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy in intensive care units (ICUs) remains the last treatment option for Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with severely affected lungs but is highly resource demanding. Early...
Objective: Cardiopulmonary (CP) complications are well-known phenomena in patients with isolated traumatic brain injury (iTBI) that can lead to tissue hypoperfusion and hypoxia. Serum lactate level is a well-known biomarker, indicating these systemic...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected hundreds of millions of individuals and caused millions of deaths worldwide. Predicting the clinical course of the disease is of pivotal importance to manage patients. Several studies have...
The majority of BIA parameters have been investigated in relation to post-stroke recovery, except for body cell mass (BCM), which measures the body’s cellular components involved in oxygen consumption and nutritional status. The aim of this lon...
We evaluated the role of CRP and other laboratory parameters in predicting the worsening of clinical conditions during hospitalization, ICU admission, and fatal outcome among patients with COVID-19. Consecutive adult inpatients with SARS-CoV-2 infect...
The process of upsetting, with rotating dies, is used to reduce the force required to deform the workpiece and to receive more homogeneous deformation compared to the same process without the rotational motion of the dies. The upper bound method is a...
This study proposes a geometric procedure for robust controller tuning under parametric uncertainty, based on root-contour analysis of the closed-loop control system. For a fixed candidate controller tuning, the set of possible pole locations induced...
Hospital admission of patients with sickle-cell disease (SCD) presenting with a vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC) can be justified by pain refractory to usual outpatient care and/or the occurrence of a complication. Yet, the trajectories of vital parameter...
Background. Immune dysregulation and hypoxemia are two important pathophysiological problems in patients with COVID-19 that affect peripheral blood count parameters. We hypothesized that assessment of the neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and r...
Background: Sepsis is a leading cause of mortality in polytrauma patients, especially beyond the first week, and its management is vital for reducing multiorgan failure and improving survival rates. This is particularly critical in geriatric polytrau...
Aim: We aimed to single out admission predictors of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in hospitalized COVID-19 patients and investigate the role of bioelectrical impedance (BIA) measurements in ARDS development. Method: An observational, pro...
Processing technology using productive surface plastic deformation (SPD) was developed and is known as “wide burnishing” (WB). The mechanics of new WB technology differs from classic SPD technologies (rolling or burnishing). For example,...
Our study objective was to construct models using 20 routine laboratory parameters on admission to predict disease severity and mortality risk in a group of 254 hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Considering the influence of confounding factors in this...
Objective: Cardiopulmonary (CP) complications are well known in patients with an intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and could be associated with a higher serum lactate level. The present study aimed to assess the associations between the initial serum la...
(1) Background: As elements of the standard admission blood panel, lactate and glucose represent potential biomarkers for outcome prediction. In patients with intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), data on the predictive value of these blood values is exceed...
The aim of this study is to determine the demographic and initial clinical characteristics of patients with COVID-19 and their importance in evaluating the severity of the disease. A retrospective study included patients suffering from COVID-19 who w...
Background/objectives. Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) remains a major cause of healthcare-associated infectious colitis, particularly among elderly and multimorbid patients. Disease severity and clinical evolution are influenced by the host...
A solution of a nonlinear perturbed unconstrained point-to-point control problem, in which the unperturbed system is differentially flat, is considered in the paper. An admissible open-loop control in it is constructed using the covering method. The...
All-cause mortality related to the SARS-CoV-2 infection has declined from the first wave to subsequent waves, probably through vaccination programs and the availability of effective antiviral therapies. Our study aimed to evaluate the impact of the S...
The aim of this paper is to show analytically and empirically how ant-based algorithms for medical image edge detection can be enhanced by using an admissible perturbation of demicontractive operators. We thus complement the results reported in a rec...
To solve the problem of the Morlet wavelet transform not satisfying wavelet admissibility conditions, which results in fuzzy and aliasing time–frequency image features, this paper proposes an improved Morlet wavelet. The scale parameter is the...
Background and Objectives: To regain the ability of community ambulation is a meaningful goal for stroke patients. Recent research recommended that the distance accomplished during the six-minute walk test (≥205 m in 6MWT) is the fittest for defining...
The upper bound theorem is used in conjunction with Hill’s quadratic yield criterion for determining the force required to upset a solid cylinder. The kinematically admissible velocity field accounts for the singular behavior of the real velocity fie...
The algebras of the symmetry operators for the Hamilton–Jacobi and Klein–Gordon–Fock equations are found for a charged test particle, moving in an external electromagnetic field in a spacetime manifold on the isotropic (null) hypers...
Background: Early prediction of COVID-19 patients’ mortality risk may be beneficial in adequate triage and risk assessment. Therefore, we aimed to single out the independent morality predictors of hospitalized COVID-19 patients among parameters...
In this paper, in the environment of Euclidean Jordan algebras, we establish some inequalities over the Krein parameters of a symmetric association scheme and of a strongly regular graph. Next, we define the modified Krein parameters of a strongly re...
The aim of the study was to investigate if there are changes in elastographic parameters in the cervix at term around the time of delivery and if there are differences in the parameters between women with spontaneous labor and those without labor (la...
Simple and accessible prognostic factors are paramount for solid cancer patients experiencing life-threatening complications. The aim of this study is to appraise the impact of functional and nutritional status and skeletal muscle mass in this popula...
Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) following severe and very severe COVID-19 infection is known to be effective, according to typical assessments. However, not all patients benefit from PR to the same extent. This analysis aimed to identify th...
Background & Aims: SARS-CoV2 infection is associated with an increased risk of malnutrition. Although there are numerous screening and nutritional management protocols for malnutrition, only few studies have reported nutritional evolution after C...
Objective: To describe the characteristics of children presenting with red-code triage to a tertiary Pediatric Emergency Department (PED) and to evaluate the association between variables at PED presentation and hospitalization outcomes. Methods: Thi...
Background and Objectives: Secondary cerebral vasospasm (CV) with subsequent delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) remains an unpredictable pathology. The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate th...
Background: COVID-19-associated coagulopathy (CAC) is a complex condition, with high rates of thrombosis, high levels of inflammation markers and hypercoagulation (increased levels of fibrinogen and D-Dimer), as well as extensive microthrombosis in t...
Background: Drowning is the second leading cause of unnatural death in childhood worldwide. More than half of the drowned children, who were in need of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at the scene suffered from lifelong neurological sequelae. The...
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