OBJECTIVES To determine whether Pediatric Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss, End-Stage renal disease (pRIFLE) criteria serve to characterize the pattern of acute kidney injury in critically ill pediatric patients. To identify if pRIFLE score will predict morbidity and mortality in our patient's cohort. DESIGN Prospective cohort. SETTING Multidisciplinary, tertiary care, ten-bed PICU. PATIENTS A...

The aim of the study was to define the respiratory morbidity caused by lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis (LIP) in children with vertically acquired HIV infection. A retrospective case note review was performed on 95 children attending three London hospitals. Clinical and radiological evidence of LIP, acute lower respiratory tract infections, and chronic lung disease was obtained using a stru...

The acute morbidity and mortality of COVID-19 have been well described. Evidence is emerging that may also result in negative long-term medical psychiatric outcomes. A broad response from the public health community North Carolina includes robust surveillance catch-up care needed to reduce sequelae COVID-19.

 Background: Myocardial infarction is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in industrialized countries. Platelet count and the mean platelet volume (MPV), a simple and reliable indicator of platelet size which correlates with platelet activation, might associate with troponin in acute chest pain. Methods: We analyzed MPV of 851 patients who were admitted to Rasoul-e-Akram Hospital with ac...

a case control study was performed in three districts in hormozgan province in 2001 to assess how different determinants affect on malaria morbidity. it assume that results will help the decision makers in all levels of national development program. a total of 384 febrile patients with positive peripheral blood smear were selected as case group, and 753 people with negative peripheral blood sme...

BACKGROUND there is a lack of outcome information with respect to older health service users. The purpose of this study was to examine 30-day in-hospital mortality and its predictors in all elderly patients admitted as a medical emergency to our hospital. METHODS all patients admitted between 2002 and 2008 were studied, linking anonymised clinical, administrative, laboratory and mortality dat...

Rhabdomyolysis is a clinical syndrome with significant morbidity and mortality that occurs as result of traumatic non-traumatic aetiologies. Acute kidney injury, the need for dialysis, death, can occur due to rhabdomyolysis. This study explores aetiologies, outcomes associated factors poor in cohort patients rhabdomyolysis tertiary trauma centre Australia.