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Month: November 2015

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Angiokeratomas in the Intensive Care Unit

Ruth L. Wintz, Joseph Varon, Raul G. Mendez Flores, Stephanie C. Fuentes Rojas

A 35-year-old Latin-American gentleman male with a history of Fabry’s disease presented for continuation of recombinant ceramide trihexosidase infusion…

Images in clinical medicine

An unusual area for calciphylaxis in a critically ill patient

Joseph Varon, Sara Iqbal

Case presentation A 53-year-old gentleman with history of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) secondary to hypertension followed by a gunshot…

Commentary

Less oxygen for cardiac arrest patients is better

Shirley Friedman

Abstract There is no doubt that oxygen is necessary to sustain life. We have been using oxygen since the…

Original

Procalcitonin levels as predictors of neurological outcome in patients with cardiac arrest treated with mild therapeutic hypothermia: a retrospective study

Joseph Varon, Ileana De Anda-Izaguirre, Samantha Fernandez-Hernandez, Alan Padilla Ramos, Cynthia Ocegueda-Pacheco, Santiago M Herrero

AbstractBackground/objective: Procalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker widely used to identify bacterial infections, diagnostic tool for sepsis, monitor response to…