AIM OF THE STUDY To assess the objective incidence of infectious complications in liver cirrhosis, to find out correlation among stage of liver cirrhosis, number of infectious complications and mortality in cirrhotic patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS 93 patients with liver cirrhosis were hospitalized from June 1996 to November 1998 (age: 53,44 I 8,03 years, Child-Pugh score: 11,58 I 2,12). 6 pat...

In Brief Hyperglycemia in the hospital setting affects 38-46% of noncritically ill hospitalized patients. Evidence from observational studies indicates that inpatient hyperglycemia, in patients with and without diabetes, is associated with increased risks of complications and mortality. Substantial evidence indicates that correction of hyperglycemia through insulin administration reduces hospit...

BACKGROUND Vascular inflammatory lesions from patients with giant-cell arteritis show a remarkable amount of neovascularization, but its clinical implications have never been investigated. METHODS AND RESULTS To assess the clinical relevance of neovascularization in giant-cell arteritis, angiogenesis was measured in temporal artery sections from 31 patients with biopsy-proven giant-cell arter...

people with diabetes mellitus have a high risk of anxiety and stress and anxiety is higher in patients with diabetes who have long-term complication. the aim of this study was to assess and compare the prevalence of anxiety and stress in diabetic patients with and without complication attending to diabetes clinic of ebn sina hospital of delfan, iran. in this descriptive-comparative study, 239 t...

conclusions: this study indicates that rsv is a substantial cause of respiratory tract infection in infants less than 2 years old. rt-pcr offers a rapid method for detection of rsv in hospitalized children with lrti. results: during the study period, 9 children had a positive result for rsv infection. the median age of these patients was 10 months. bronchiolitis was the clinical diagnosis of pa...

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a life-threatening multi-organ disease that has swept the globe. Patients with COVID-19 are at an increased risk of thromboembolic consequences involving both venous and arterial systems, according to growing evidence. Thromboembolic events in COVID more likely among patients hospitalized critical care unit, research. However, even...

human metapneumovirus (hmpv) infection plays an important role in the pediatric respiratory infections. the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between asthma and wheezing with hmpv in hospitalized children. nasal pharyngeal swabs obtained from 120 children aged 1-60 months, hospitalized during a one year period, were tested for the hmpv by rt-pcr. hmpv was detected in 20 (16.6%...

conclusions multiplex sybr green real-time pcr is a rapid and relatively inexpensive method for detection of respiratory viruses. results application of the multiplex sybr green real-time pcr in clinical samples from 172 patients in a one-year study resulted in detection of 19 (11.04%) piv3, 9 (5.23%) piv4, and 1 (0.58%) coronavirus nl63. all the positive samples were detected during december t...

i.v. buprenorphine hydrochloride (Subutex) misuse has been creating a number of medical complications, and cutaneous manifestations such as soft tissue infection are one of the commonest consequences. Between January 2004 and December 2006, amongst 130 i.v. buprenorphine abusers who presented to the National University Hospital, Singapore, cutaneous complications were identified in 45 patients ...