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Patients with burn injuries are at high risk for major infections, given their impaired humoral and cellular immunity. Moreover, this patient population displays numerous physiologic alterations affecting organ function and drug metabolism.
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In this issue: Some women with DVT may stop warfarin after six months; Vytorin and cancer; preventing recurrent stroke; and FDA news.
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Although reactivation of CMV has significant adverse consequences for immunocompromised patients, such as those receiving organ transplants, the effect of CMV reactivation in critically ill immunocompetent patients is unclear.
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Investigators at a number of university-affiliated HIV clinics around the United States conducted the Living Positively Survey to explore the experiences and attitudes of HIV+ woman toward health care, treatment, pregnancy, and family issues.
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Resistance to oseltamivir (tamifluR) has increased in Influenza A isolates around the world at an alarming rate. Levels of resistance now range from 13% in Chile to 100% (10 of 10 isolates) in Australia.
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This prospective cohort study examined the epidemiology and outcomes of patients with intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH).
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In 2002, esteban et al reported the results of an ambitious study, enrolling a prospective cohort of consecutive adult patients in 361 ICUs in 20 countries who received mechanical ventilation for more than 12 hours during the month of March 1998.
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