Frailty scores alone may be poor predictors of intensive care admission or hospital stay duration
1. Frailty scores alone (mFI-5, CCI) are poor predictors of intensive care unit (ICU) admission or prolonged hospital stay in ...
Tag: internal medicine
Sotatercept reduces adverse event risk in high-risk pulmonary arterial hypertension
1. In this randomized controlled trial of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and high risk of mortality, sotatercept reduced ...
Hereditary erythrocytosis is associated with a fetal-like EPO isoform
1. This case series identified three non-coding erythropoietin (EPO) variants that significantly increased gene expression under hypoxic conditions. 2. The ...
Risk of bloodstream infections with indwelling peripheral catheters increase after 3 days
1. The risk of bloodstream infections (BSIs) in individuals with indwelling peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs) is significantly increased after 3 ...
Genomic sequencing identifies variants linked to congenital diarrhea and enteropathies
1. In this cross-sectional study, nearly half of the infants with congenital diarrhea and enteropathies (CODEs) had identifiable causal variants, ...
Intensive blood pressure control reduces major cardiovascular event risk in type 2 diabetes patients
1. In this parallel design, randomized trial, intensive treatment of systolic blood pressure (SBP) resulted in a lower incidence of ...
2 Minute Medicine Rewind March 24, 2025
Effects of occupational therapy synchronized with dual transcranial direct current stimulation on upper limb function and electroencephalography power in subacute ...
Venetoclax plus azacitidine demonstrating efficacy for high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes
1. In patients with treatment-naive high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (HR MDS), the use of venetoclax (14 days) plus azacitidine was well ...
Hypnotic drug use may be associated with increased risk of postoperative delirium
1. Older age, hypnotic drug use, and higher intraoperative fluid load were independent risk factors associated with postoperative delirium development ...
Bedaquiline monotherapy may be effective at improving multibacillary leprosy.
1. In this proof-of-concept study, bedaquiline therapy cleared Mycobacterium leprae by four weeks of treatment in patients with multibacillary leprosy. ...