Our patient presented with nonspecific symptoms that would not prompt an immediate consideration of severe thromboembolism, and thus we provide our recommendations for diagnosis and treatment. The Medscape Journal of Medicine
Biomarkers can be used to predict both the incidence and severity of disease, but the use of these markers for acute kidney injury is limited. The current review examines the status of biomarkers for acute kidney injury. Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology
Understanding donor, recipient, and allograft factors that come together to define the high-risk transplant recipient is a necessary prerequisite to providing optimal patient care. Medscape Transplantation
In a randomized trial, use of a silver-coated endotracheal tube significantly reduced the incidence of microbiologically confirmed ventilator-associated pneumonia, without apparent adverse events. Medscape Medical News
This study serves as a hypothesis-generating report and suggests the need to carefully assess arterial catheter-associated complications in a prospective study independent of CVCs. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Despite considerable progress, clinical application of these approaches to pathogen recognition in hospitalized patients with severe sepsis is still years away. Future Microbiology
