A PET-CT scan revealed enlarged mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes with increased uptake ... calculated at 210 (Table 2), primarily driven by fever, ferritin levels, and bone marrow findings. By Day 29 ...

In mechanically ventilated patients with ARDS, the treatment effect of neuromuscular blockade on mortality likely varies with respiratory elastance.

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNA) is currently performed on a routine basis at many endoscopic centers and it is evident that this procedure has a major impact ...

That’s because high blood sugar levels can damage blood vessels. Also, people with type 2 diabetes often have high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, and other factors that increase the ...

A normal fasting blood sugar level for someone between the ages of 50 and 60 is between 70 and 99 mg/dL. Blood sugar (glucose) targets for older people with diabetes tend to be different than for ...

Enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes occur in over 50% of heavy smokers (43). Collagen deposition and fibrosis increase with particle retention in the lung and the failure of clearance pathways including ...