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2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of chronic coronary syndromes
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a pathological process characterized by atherosclerotic plaque accumulation in the epicardial arteries, whether obstructive or non-obstructive. ...
Acute renal failure – definition, outcome measures, animal models, fluid therapy and information technology needs: the Second International Consensus Conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) Group
Abstract Introduction There is no consensus definition of acute renal failure (ARF) in critically ill patients. More than 30 different definitions have been used in the literatu...
Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: 2019 Update to the 2018 Guidelines for the Early Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Guideline for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association
Background and Purpose— The purpose of these guidelines is to provide an up-to-date comprehensive set of recommendations in a single document for clinicians caring for adult pat...
Amiodarone or an Implantable Cardioverter–Defibrillator for Congestive Heart Failure
In patients with NYHA class II or III CHF and LVEF of 35 percent or less, amiodarone has no favorable effect on survival, whereas single-lead, shock-only ICD therapy reduces ove...
Video Google: a text retrieval approach to object matching in videos
We describe an approach to object and scene retrieval which searches for and localizes all the occurrences of a user outlined object in a video. The object is represented by a s...
Validation of a combined comorbidity index
The basic objective of this paper is to evaluate an age-comorbidity index in a cohort of patients who were originally enrolled in a prospective study to identify risk factors fo...
A Toll-like receptor recognizes bacterial DNA
DNA from bacteria has stimulatory effects on mammalian immune cells, which depend on the presence of unmethylated CpG dinucleotides in the bacterial DNA. In contrast, mammalian ...
A new Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS II) based on a European/North American multicenter study
The SAPS II, based on a large international sample of patients, provides an estimate of the risk of death without having to specify a primary diagnosis. This is a starting point...
Ecology of the family as a context for human development: Research perspectives.
This review collates and examines critically a theoretically convergent but widely dispersed body of research on the influence of external environments on the functioning of fam...
2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
The ESC Guidelines represent the views of the ESC and were produced after careful consideration of the scientific and medical knowledge and the evidence available at \nthe t...