funded by the Santa Casa Neuroscience Awards—Prize Melo e Castro for Spinal Cord Injury Research(MC-18-2021)(to AJS and NAS);by the Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation(WFL-PT-14/23)(to NAS);funded by national funds through the Foundation for Science and Technology(FCT)—projects UIDB/50026/2020,UIDP/50026/2020,and EXPL/MED-PAT/0931/2021-http://doi.org/10.54499/EXPL/MED PAT/0931/2021;supported by the Norte Portugal Regional Operational Programme(NORTE 2020)under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement through the European Regional Development Fund(ERDF)(to SM);the support given by the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology to SM(CEECIND/01902/2017-Doi:10.54499/CEECIND/01902/2017/CP1458/CT0024),and NAS(CEECIND/04794/2007)。
The impact of spinal cord injury(SCI)on the immune system is increasingly recognized in a field traditionally focused on motor impairments.SCI can seriously affect the immune system by progressively disrupting the reg...
BACKGROUND Severe dengue children with critical complications have been attributed to high mortality rates,varying from approximately 1%to over 20%.To date,there is a lack of data on machine-learning-based algorithms ...
BACKGROUND Malnutrition among patients admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit(PICU)is common.However,there is a lack of data on its impact on the critically ill.AIM To assess the impact of nutritional status on t...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province(821QN389,821MS112,822MS198,820MS126,820QN383);the Military Medical Science and Technology Youth Incubation Program(20QNPY110,19QNP060);the Excellent Youth Incubation Program of Chinese PLA General Hospital(2020-YQPY-007);the Heatstroke Treatment and Research Center of Chinese PLA(413EGZ1D10);the Simulation Training for Treatment of Heatstroke,the Major Science and Technology Programme of Hainan Province(ZDKJ2019012);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFC2000400);the National S&T Resource Sharing Service Platform Project of China(YCZYPT[2018]07);the Specific Research Fund of Innovation Platform for Academicians of Hainan Province(YSPTZX202216);the Medical Big Data Research and Development Project of Chinese PLA General Hospital(MBD2018030).
Dear Editor,The most serious heat related injury is exertional heat stroke(EHS).EHS occurs when healthy individuals perform physical activity in a hot and humid environment[1].A disrupted balance between heat producti...
Supported by The Far Eastern Memorial Hospital,No.FEMH-2022-C-015,No.FEMH-2022-C-017 and No.FEMH-2023-C-082.
BACKGROUND Hepatitis B and C and alcoholic liver disease are the principal causes of hepaticrelated morbidity and mortality.However,evidence of the associations between diabetes without the above risk factors and hepa...
BACKGROUND Clostridium difficile infection(CDI)is common in patients with inflammatory bowel disease(IBD).AIM To assess the association of CDI with clinical outcomes of IBD.METHODS PubMed,EMBASE,Web of Science,and the...
BACKGROUND Emphysematous pyelonephritis(EPN)is a life-threatening necrotizing renal parenchyma infection characterized by gas formation due to severe bacterial infection,predominantly affecting diabetic and immunocomp...
supported in part by the intramural research programs at the National Institute on Aging and National Cancer Institute(USA);supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science,Innovation and Universities under Beatriz Galindo's 2022 fellowship program(BG22/00075).
Background:A shift from self-reports to wearable sensors for global physical activity(PA)surveillance has been recommended.The conventional use of a generic cut-point to assess moderate-to-vigorous PA(MVPA)is problema...
Streptococcus (S.) pyogenes is usually associated with mild infections of the pharynx and skin.However,in some cases,this microorganism can cause potentially lethal invasive infections,such as bacteremic pneumonia,ski...
In this editorial,we comment on the article by Rolim et al in World Journal of Hepatology,which highlights the impacts of hepatopulmonary syndrome(HPS)related to schistosomiasis in patients with and without cirrhosis....