Look, I know I have been absent but I have really good reason for that. No COVID-related articles today. Mark Beldman, Claudia Löwik, Alex Soriano, Laila Albiach, Wierd P Zijlstra, Bas A S Knobben, Paul Jutte, Ricardo Sousa, André Carvalho, Karan Goswami, Javad Parvizi, Katherine A Belden, Marjan Wouthuyzen-Bakker, If, When, and How to Use
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Look, I know I have talked a lot about staphylococcus but there is a ton of details that go into the therapeutic aspects of it. When it comes to staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, specifically MRSA, vancomycin is the first line therapy per the IDSA guidelines (1). I have discussed the issues with vancomycin dosing, and how
It’s been quite a while since I’ve actually written any post and I have quite a bit of Articles to talk about this time around. blame it on moving and a new job. Connors JM, Brooks MM, Sciurba FC, Krishnan JA, Bledsoe JR, Kindzelski A, Baucom AL, Kirwan BA, Eng H, Martin D, Zaharris E,
I absolutely love this song. I tried to learn how to play it on guitar, but I think you may need 7 strings for it, at least when I checked back in the day. This week we are adding to last week’s topic and talking about when and what type of echo to get. There
At any rate, at approximately one-quarter to twelve that night, I remember distinctly getting up from my chair and from the table, where my books lay, and taking off my suit coat. No sooner had I removed the left arm of my coat, than there was on the ventral aspect of my left wrist a
Ah, its been quite some time. There are some posts (hopefully) coming soon. Anywho, lets get on to some articles: Levin EG, Lustig Y, Cohen C, Fluss R, Indenbaum V, Amit S, Doolman R, Asraf K, Mendelson E, Ziv A, Rubin C, Freedman L, Kreiss Y, Regev-Yochay G. Waning Immune Humoral Response to BNT162b2 Covid-19
What is this? I am writing about a topic related to transplant infectious diseases? Something has to be going on! I had originally intended to write about CMV serostatus and risk of organ rejection in SOT patients, but that was a more difficult topic to tackle (just like that HTLV-1 post; yeah that one is
Liao X, Wang Y, He Z, et al. Three-month pulmonary function and radiological outcomes in COVID-19 survivors: a longitudinal patient cohort study. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020;ofaa540. Published 2020 Nov 14. doi:10.1093/ofid/ofaa540 How does pulmonary function fare following COVID infection? This retrospective study 172 patients who were hospitalized with COVID and evaluated both CT and
Primary infection with T. cruzi, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is generally asymptomatic with a small percentage having non-specific symptoms such as fever, malaise, lymphadenopathy, and in certain cases, a Chagoma. The vast majority of people go on to develop an “intermediate” form of the disease, where serology is positive but there is no sign
ATTACC Investigators; ACTIV-4a Investigators; REMAP-CAP Investigators, Lawler PR, Goligher EC, Berger JS, et al. Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Noncritically Ill Patients with Covid-19. N Engl J Med. 2021 Aug 26;385(9):790-802. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2105911. Epub 2021 Aug 4. PMID: 34351721; PMCID: PMC8362594. A pair of articles on anticoagulation. The first one is on non-critically ill patients
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