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Challenge to the Intestinal Mucosa During Sepsis
Conclusion The impact of sepsis on the gut is manifold, e.g., sepsis mediated alteration of the gut-blood barrier and increase in the intestinal permeability, which may correlate with the phenomena of bacterial translocation and lymphatic activation (“toxic-lymph”). Systemic consequences of sepsis are widespread and concern to the coagulative system, the microbiome as well as enzymes, such as pancreatic proteases, MMPs and IAPs. Nevertheless, the therapeutic approaches for modulating the mucosal immune system are still rarely effective in daily routine. Recent published studies showing that treatment with ...
Source: Frontiers in Immunology - April 29, 2019 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research

The safety of morphine use in acute coronary syndrome: a meta-analysis
Conclusion The use of morphine for pain control in ACS was associated with an increased risk of in-hospital recurrent MI. Randomised clinical trials are needed to further investigate the safety of morphine in ACS.
Source: Heart Asia - March 19, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Ghadban, R., Enezate, T., Payne, J., Allaham, H., Halawa, A., Fong, H. K., Abdullah, O., Aggarwal, K. Tags: Open access Original research Source Type: research

Morphine and Ticagrelor Interaction in Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: ATLANTIC-Morphine
ConclusionsMorphine-treatment was associated with increased GP IIb/IIIa inhibitor use, less pre-PCI TIMI 3 flow, and more bleeding. Judicious morphine use is advised with non-opioid analgesics preferred for non-severe acute pain.Trial Registrationclinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT01347580.
Source: American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs - October 23, 2018 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research

My debilitating endometriosis symptoms – Kate ’ s story
Hi, I’m Kate, 39, married with no children. I had always suffered from heavy and painful periods but this had mostly been managed by taking the combined pill. My periods remained heavy and I suffered from some flooding but this was manageable with planning! Approximately 7 years ago my periods became worse and I started to experience more symptoms such as regular and frequent abdominal pain, random bleeding, bloating, very painful intercourse and things just didn’t feel right. Anyway, I went to the Dr’s who straight away suggested that it sounded like I had endometriosis and referred me to a consultant. A...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - March 1, 2017 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health endometriosis hysterectomy stories Source Type: news

Correlates of pre-hospital morphine use in ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients and its association with in-hospital outcomes and long-term mortality: the FAST-MI (French Registry of Acute ST-elevation and non-ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction) programme
Conclusion In two independent everyday-life cohorts, pre-hospital morphine use in STEMI patients was not associated with worse in-hospital complications and 1-year mortality. Clinical trial registration Clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT00673036 (FAST-MI 2005); NCT01237418 (FAST-MI 2010).
Source: European Heart Journal - March 31, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Puymirat, E., Lamhaut, L., Bonnet, N., Aissaoui, N., Henry, P., Cayla, G., Cattan, S., Steg, G., Mock, L., Ducrocq, G., Goldstein, P., Schiele, F., Bonnefoy-Cudraz, E., Simon, T., Danchin, N. Tags: Acute coronary syndromes Source Type: research

0209: Long-term clinical impact of pre-hospital morphine use in ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients. FAST-MI 2010 registry
Conclusion Pre-hospital morphine use was not associated with an increase of in-hospital complication and one-year mortality; and, could be more used as recommended in the current guidelines.
Source: Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases Supplements - February 12, 2015 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research

Multimodal analgesia versus traditional opiate based analgesia after cardiac surgery, a randomized controlled trial
Background: To evaluate if an opiate sparing multimodal regimen of dexamethasone, gabapentin, ibuprofen and paracetamol had better analgesic effect, less side effects and was safe compared to a traditional morphine and paracetamol regimen after cardiac surgery. Methods: Open-label, prospective randomized controlled trial. 180 patients undergoing cardiac procedures through median sternotomy, were included in the period march 2007- August 2009. 151 patients were available for analysis. Pain was assessed with the 11-numeric rating scale (11-NRS). Results: Patients in the multimodal group demonstrated significantly lower avera...
Source: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery - March 20, 2014 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Sulman RafiqDaniel SteinbrüchelMichael WanscherLars AndersenAlbert NavneNikolaj LilleoerPeter Olsen Source Type: research

When angels catch us – Madeline ’ s hysterectomy story
How do we know there are angels? Do we have our own special guardian angels watching over us? How many times have we almost entered into danger only to change our minds at the last minute? Is this simply being lucky or has there been an unconscious inner voice warning us? I have truly believed for a long time that there are God’s angels watching over us and over the years there have been occasions when I have had warnings of some impending doom and thankfully avoided tragedy. Sometimes I’ve just had feelings or a “sixth sense” and the negative event still happened but somehow I had felt that premonition. Wa...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - April 27, 2012 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health hysterectomy stories Source Type: news