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Procalcitonin Levels in Identifying Bacterial Infections in Children with and without COVID-19
Elevated procalcitonin levels have been associated with bacterial infection in children. Observational studies reported high procalcitonin values in COVID-19. Data on bacterial coinfections in pediatric COVID-19 is sparse; small studies suggest a low coinfection rate. In this study, the authors aimed to quantify the positive predictive value (PPV) of procalcitonin in identifying bacterial infection in children with and without COVID-19.
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Healthcare Workers to Patients: Please Be Nice
As we come up on the two-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, nerves are fraying, stress levels are rising, and frustration is mounting everywhere. Healthcare workers say they often bear the brunt of people's anger, especially as the latest surge fills hospitals and doctors' offices once again.
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Exploring Medicine Through Sex and Gender Lens
The impact a patient’s sex can have on disease has come into sharp focus during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the number of confirmed cases is about the same for males and females, men have been dying at significantly higher rates than women since the beginning of the global health crisis.
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How IBD Patients Respond to COVID-19 Vaccines
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who received the COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson produced significantly lower levels of antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus than those who received the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines, according to a study led by Cedars-Sinai.
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COVID-19: Rare Immune Reaction in Children
Although most children who are infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, experience mild symptoms, a very few develop a hyperinflammatory syndrome due to a specific reaction by their immune systems, according to a recent study co-led by Cedars-Sinai.
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Despite Pandemic, 2020 Brought Increase in Heart Transplants
Cardiothoracic Surgeons at the Smidt Heart Institute Performed 128 Adult Heart Transplants in 2020, More Than Any Other Center in the Nation.
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Post-ICU Clinic Supports COVID-19 Patients After ICU Stay
For many patients, the road to recovery from critical illness does not end with discharge from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)—that is often just the beginning. Patients who have COVID-19 or another critical illness that results in an ICU stay are at risk for continued health complications—physical, mental and emotional—long after discharge. Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) is an umbrella term for a collection of symptoms that may present in these patients following a stay in the ICU.
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Cardiac Side Effects Found in 2 COVID-19 Drugs
About 12% of nearly 100 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (coronavirus) developed a cardiac abnormality after receiving hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin—two drugs currently being administered to some coronavirus patients worldwide—according to an uncontrolled study reported May 28 by Cedars-Sinai in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
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COVID-19 Study: Men Need the Most Hospital Care
Male patients hospitalized for COVID-19 (coronavirus) are more than twice as likely to need intensive care and three times as likely to need intubation compared with female patients, according to new research from Cedars-Sinai.
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