Bronchiectasis is a multidimensional disease and, therefore, its severity or prognosis cannot be adequately quantified by analysing one single variable. The objective of the present study was to develop a multidimensional score that classifies the severity of bronchiectasis according to its prognosis. This is an observational multicentre study including 819 patients diagnosed with non-cystic fi...

BACKGROUND Despite new improvements on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), brain damage is very often after resuscitation. OBJECTIVE To assess the prognostic value of cerebral oxygen saturation measurement (rSO2) for assessing prognosis on patients after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS We analyzed 25 post-CPR patients (12 female and ...

Introduction Patients with cirrhosis who are admitted to the ICU are considered to have a poor prognosis. Previous studies have sought to identify markers of high predictive value in patients who will not survive their critical care stay including the need for mechanical ventilation, vasopressor support, GI bleeding and APACHE III score. These studies have focused upon early prognosis, rather t...

A 44 year old hypertensive man presented with a pure motor hemiparesis, and CT scan showed a putaminal hemorrhage. The clinical course was characterized by rapid resolution of the deficits. This case illustrates a variety of putaminal hemorrhage of good functional and vital prognosis, and stresses the value of CT scanning as a tool for diagnosis and prognosis.

Background: During the course of disease, some patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) develop interstitial lung disease (ILD), which leads to a poor prognosis. There is currently lack methods identify high-risk ILD and predict The purpose this study was analyze predictive value neutrophil lymphocyte ratio (NLR) for occurrence its prognosis in pSS.

Objective The mortality of patients with locally advanced triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is high, and pathological complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is associated with improved prognosis. This retrospective study was designed and powered to investigate the ability of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) to predict pat...

an elevated pulmonary artery pressure (pap) from any cause is associated with increased mortality, especially in cases of primary pulmonary arterial hypertension (pah). one of the many reasons behind a bad prognosis is the inherent difficulty in assessing right ventricular (rv) function with reproducible methods. intensive research involving the left heart has made it relatively easy to assess ...

introduction: ischemic preconditioning mediated by potassium channels is a physiological protective mechanism, . it is hypothesized that nicorandil, which is a potassium channel activator, could protect the heart via preconditioning. materials and methods:this clinical trial was conducted on 162 patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) in quem hospital, from jan2013 to jan 2...

BACKGROUND Our previous study found that lower lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR) is an independent risk factor of clinical outcome of acute ischemic stroke (AIS). However, whether lower LMR is independently associated with adverse prognosis of AIS treated with thrombolysis has not been determined. In this study, we explored the relationship between LMR and prognosis of AIS treated with thrombo...

LINC00341 is a novel long intergenic non-protein coding RNA with unknown functions. In our report, we investigated LINC00341 expression and its prognostic value in cancer patients. DNA over-methylation triggered low expression of LINC00341 and that was associated with poor prognosis in cancers. A meta-analysis further confirmed that high expression of LINC00341 was associated with a better prog...