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Criteria for bariatric surgery should consider more than just patient’s weight

25.06.2019 Health Problems

Experts at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and 45 worldwide scientific and medical societies are pushing to change national guidelines that would allow more patients with the chronic diseases of obesity and diabetes to be eligible for bariatric surgery. Obesity affects almost 40 percent of the population—or about 93 million adults—in the United States, according to the Centers […]

Sepsis-3 criteria ‘preferable’ in prognostication of critically ill patients

15.06.2018 Health Problems

For almost 30 years, diagnostic criteria for sepsis has used the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) criteria in those with suspected infection, with presence of two or more criteria being diagnostic of sepsis. Recently, the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) re-evaluated these definitions and introduced the Sequential (Sepsis-related) Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score, with an […]

Evaluating the accuracy of the Curacao Criteria in diagnosing HHT in children

12.04.2018 Health Problems

Though hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is – as the name suggests – a hereditary disorder, most people are not diagnosed with the disease until they are adults because the telltale symptoms often do not develop until patients are in their late teens or early 20s. As a result, there is little data on the efficacy or value of the available […]