BACKGROUND We aimed to investigate mortality trends in hospitalized patients with septic shock in the US. To achieve this objective, we tested hypothesis that mortality decreased in patients identified by the code of septic shock while mortality did not change in those with septic shock identified by vasopressor use. METHODS We conducted a serial cross-sectional analysis using Nationwide Inpa...

BACKGROUND Typhoid fever is an important public health problem in developing countries. Intestinal perforation is one of the leading fatal complications of typhoid fever. Typhoid perforation occurs more commonly in terminal ileum. Morbidity and Mortality associated with typhoid perforation are high (9-22%). However this study aims to know whether there are any changes of the same. AIM To anal...

technical assistance. The significance of developing training opportunities within each country or within the region was again emphasized, and the need to use fully the training facilities in the sending countries before using the host country’s resources was brought out. The representative from India analyzed the psychological aspects of the learning process, describing how the visiting social...

BACKGROUND/AIM Stomach cancer is the second most common cause of death from all malignant tumors in the world (third in men, fifth in women), with a strong decreasing trend in most developed countries. The aim of this descriptive epidemiological study was to analyze mortality of stomach cancer in Serbia, excluding the Province of Kosovo, in the 1991-2009 period. MATERIALS AND METHODS In data ...

BACKGROUND Cancer is the third most common cause of death in Iran, the leukemia cancer is one of the most important causes of cancer mortality. Regarding cancer mortality, data would be important to monitor the program screening effects, earlier diagnosis, demographic data and other prognostic factors. The aim of this study was mortality rates evaluating, then leukemia cancer trends among the I...

Lung cancer is the most common type of cancer worldwide in terms of mortality and incidence. The Brazilian National Cancer Institute estimates that, in 2010 in Brazil, there were 27,630 new cases of lung cancer, which became the second and fourth most common type of cancer among men and women, respectively, (2) with a high burden of disease attributable to it. (4) evaluating the age-period-coho...

BACKGROUND Pancreatic cancer is a fatal cancer with a 5-year survival of only about 4% for all tumors. There are only published data on mortality from pancreas cancer and its epidemiology in Iran. The aim of this study was to present the mortality trends from pancreatic cancer for the Iranian population, using national death statistics in order to provide update information for its burden. ME...

BACKGROUND Initially elevated levels of troponin predict adverse outcomes in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). No research team has investigated the changes in concentration of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) during ICU stay and their association with patient outcome. OBJECTIVE We investigated whether the change in cTnT levels during ICU stay could predict outcomes (death or survi...