Brain Res. Bull. 2020 Jan 29
Molecular Targets in Cerebral malaria for Developing Novel Therapeutic Strategies.
Vanka R, Nakka VP, Kumar SP, Baruah U, Babu PP
Cerebral malaria (CM) is a fatal neurological disease caused by asexual mature stages of Plasmodium species P. falciparum that leads to coma and death ...
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J. Neurosurg. 2020 Jan 31
Treatment of chronic subdural hematoma with atorvastatin combined with low-dose dexamethasone: phase II randomized proof-of-concept clinical trial.
Wang D, Gao C, Xu X, Chen T, Tian Y, Wei H, Zhang S, Quan W, Wang Y, Yue S, Wang Z, Lei P, Anderson C, Dong J, Zhang J, Jiang R
The authors sought to test the hypothesis that adding dexamethasone (DXM) to atorvastatin (ATO) potentiates the effects of ATO on chronic subdural hem ...
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Resuscitation
Prognostic role of EEG identical bursts in patients after cardiac arrest: Multimodal correlation.
Barbella G, Novy J, Marques-Vidal P, Oddo M, Rossetti AO
EEG burst-suppression (BS) heralds poor outcome after cardiac arrest (CA). Within this pattern, identical bursts (IB) have been suggested to be absolu ...
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PLoS ONE
The National Ambulance Surveillance System: A novel method for monitoring acute alcohol, illicit and pharmaceutical drug related-harms using coded Australian ambulance clinical records.
Lubman DI, Matthews S, Heilbronn C, Killian JJ, Ogeil RP, Lloyd B, Witt K, Crossin R, Smith K, Bosley E, Carney R, Wilson A, Eastham M, Keene T, Shipp C, Scott D
Although harmful consumption of alcohol and other drugs (both illicit and pharmaceutical) significantly contribute to global burden of disease, not al ...
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Int. J. Clin. Pract. 2020 Jan 31
Measuring stroke outcomes for 74,501 patients using linked administrative data: System-wide estimates and validation of 'home-time' as a surrogate measure of functional status.
Gattellari M, Goumas C, Jalaludin B, Worthington J
Administrative data offer cost-effective, whole-of-population stroke surveillance yet the lack of validated measures of functional status is a short-c ...
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