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Filter by:This registration enrolled patients with acute ischemic stroke within 72 hours after stroke ictus. Patients was identified as first-ever stroke based on past medical histrory. Admission CT was conducted to exclude hemorrhagic stroke, but not those bleeding transformation after ischemia injury. Baseline characteristics, including demographics, vascular risk factors, lab tests and neuroimagings were collected. Patients were followed up for cognitive assessments.
The study team aims to provide a food snack that is high in protein (30 g) for two weeks each month (6 treatments per patient per month) for 6 consecutive months, post-dialysis treatment, to in-center hemodialysis patients of all vintages and with all levels and types of comorbidities. The study team will compare changes in serum albumin during the intervention (6 months) using the patients' own serum albumin results that are collected for three months prior to and three months after the intervention. Additionally, the study team will determine participants' dietary habits and appetite pre-, during and post-intervention.
Colorectal surgery has traditionally been associated with significant morbidity and prolonged hospital stay. Overall complication rates have been reported to be 26-35%. Infectious complications, in particular, represent a major cause of morbidity and mortality after colorectal surgery. Postoperative intra-abdominal infections after colorectal surgery are mainly due to anastomotic leakage. They occur in 5 to 15% of patients and carry a short term mortality of around 20%. They also have a major impact on the outcome of surgery as they prolong in hospital stay, increase treatment costs and worsen long-term survival in cancer patients. If diagnosed early, they can be treated effectively and their impact on surgery outcome is thus minimised. There is a growing interest to find a biological marker useful for early detection of anastomotic leak; such a marker could play a pivotal role in the modern fast-track multimodal protocols, allowing safe and early discharge of patients after colorectal surgery. Although C reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT) have been proposed as predictors for adverse outcomes in colorectal surgery, they both display the critical limitations of slow kinetics. Conversely, serum albumin (ALB) is a maintenance protein that is rapidly down regulated by inflammatory signals. There some studies about the use of postoperative ALB drop as a marker of predictor for clinical outcome. These studies are either retrospective or mix patients with different types of surgical procedures performed. This study aimed to test the hypotheses that early postoperative albumin drop can predict anastomotic leaks and also can predict postoperative infectious complications earlier than other biological markers.