PURPOSE To develop a simple risk-scoring system to forecast scrub typhus severity. PATIENTS AND METHODS Seven years' retrospective data of patients diagnosed with scrub typhus from two university-affiliated hospitals in the north of Thailand were analyzed. Patients were categorized into three severity groups: nonsevere, severe, and dead. Predictors for severity were analyzed under multivariab...

From March 2008 through February 2014, 80 patients aged 1-95 years (43 men and 37 women) were diagnosed with tinea faciei by a rural Japanese clinic. The affected sites were the cheek in 42 patients (52.5%), the auricles and area surrounding the auricles in 16 (20.0%), and the mandible in 12 (15.0%); 33 patients (41.2%) had concurrent ringworm in areas other than the face. Twenty-one patients (...

Purpose: The Injury Severity Score (ISS) is used to predict outcome after trauma. However, it criticised because of flaws in its calculation injury severity. New (NISS) was proposed as an alternative. studies are conflicted on which better. We compared both scales predicting surgery, multiple surgeries, preoperative blood transfusion, hospital stay length and mortality patients with orthopaedic...

Results Within our cohort of 160 adult patients with FMF, we identified 15 patients (4 female and 11 male) who were treated with anakinra (n=13) or canakinumab (n=2). Twelve of 15 patients (80%) were of turkish-armenian ancestry. The median FMF severity score was 8 (range 5-14). Patients carrying two high-penetrance MEFV mutations (M694V or M680I) had a severity score of 9 (8/15=53%). Patients ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT)-related epistaxis leads to alterations in social functioning and quality of life. Although more than 95% experience epistaxis, there is considerable variability of severity. Because no standardized method exists to measure epistaxis severity, the purpose of this study was to determine factors associated with patient-reported seve...

19 The aim of the study was to correlate the clinical severity of pectus excavatum with its type 20 and degree based on objective radiographic evaluation. Twelve brachycephalic dogs were 21 included. Grading of the clinical severity was done based on a 6-point grading score. 22 Thoracic radiographs were used to calculate the frontosagittal and vertebral indices at the 23 tenth thoracic vertebra...

AIM To determine if a standardized asthma severity scoring system (PASS) was associated with the time spent on continuous albuterol and length of stay in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). METHODS This is a single center, retrospective chart review study at a major children's hospital in an urban location. To qualify for this study, participants must have been admitted to the PICU with...

Bronchiectasis is a chronic airway disease which is associated with cough, sputum production, haemoptysis and/or other distressing symptoms, resulting from various aetiologies [1–4]. The vicious cycle, which consists of airway infection, airway inflammation and structural damage, predominates in the pathogenesis and progression of bronchiectasis [5]. Despite the disappointingly limited number o...

INTRODUCTION The Shwachman-Kulczycki score was the first scoring system used in cystic fibrosis to assess disease severity. Despite its subjectivity, it is still widely used. OBJECTIVE To study correlations among forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), chest radiography, chest computed tomography, 6-minute walk test, and Shwachman-Kulczycki score in patients with cystic fibrosis and to...

According to the World Malaria Report 2010, there were 225 million cases of malaria and an estimated 781 000 deaths in 2009. Even if the diagnostic features of severe malaria have been set out by W.H.O, there are no objective criteria to quantify the severity of each complication. The aim of the study is to find out the usefulness of malaria severity score to predict to assess severity with ris...