Infection

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A case of reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome caused by transient hypercoagulable state induced by infection. 
  • A decade of experience with a single dose of rabbit antithymocyte globulin or alemtuzumab pretreatment for intestinal and multivisceral transplantation. 
  • A health-education program for day-care centers. 
  • A kernel for the Tropical Disease Initiative. 
  • A medical-toxicological view of tattooing. 
  • A phase II study of continuous infusion recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor as an adjunct to autologous bone marrow transplantation for patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in first remission. 
  • A quality improvement program for hemodialysis vascular access. 
  • A randomized, prospective trial of central venous ports connected to standard open-ended or Groshong catheters in adult oncology patients. 
  • A standardized template for clinical studies in preterm birth. 
  • ABO-incompatible heart transplantation: analysis of the Pediatric Heart Transplant Study (PHTS) database. 
  • Abnormalities of leukocyte chemotaxis in human disease. 
  • Acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease in man. 
  • Adenosine deaminase deficiency in adults. 
  • Advances in the correction of immunodeficiency by bone marrow transplantation. 
  • Allogeneic marrow transplantation for myelodysplastic syndrome with advanced disease morphology: a phase II study of busulfan, cyclophosphamide, and total-body irradiation and analysis of prognostic factors. 
  • Alterations of the X-linked lymphoproliferative disease gene SH2D1A in common variable immunodeficiency syndrome. 
  • Alternating-day cyclosporine and prednisone for treatment of high-risk chronic graft-v-host disease. 
  • An analysis of antenatal tests to detect infection in preterm premature rupture of the membranes. 
  • Analysis of late infections after human bone marrow transplantation: role of genotypic nonidentity between marrow donor and recipient and of nonspecific suppressor cells in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease. 
  • Analysis of late infections in 89 long-term survivors of bone marrow transplantation. 
  • Animal models of sudden unexplained death. 
  • Antibodies to DNA: infection or genetics? 
  • Antigen-specific T-lymphocyte function after cord blood transplantation. 
  • Antiinflammatory Therapy with Canakinumab for Atherosclerotic Disease. 
  • Association Between Diabetes and Cause-Specific Mortality in Rural and Urban Areas of China. 
  • Association of leukocyte-depleted blood transfusions with infectious complications after cardiac surgery. 
  • Basiliximab decreases the incidence of acute rejection after intestinal transplantation. 
  • Benign extracerebral fluid collection in infancy as a risk factor for the development of de novo intracranial arachnoid cysts. 
  • Biomarkers of Mineral and Bone Metabolism and 20-Year Risk of Hospitalization With Infection: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. 
  • Bloodstream infections among transplant recipients: results of a nationwide surveillance in Spain. 
  • Bronchiectasis and bronchopulmonary sequestration. 
  • CD21 deficiency, complement, and the development of common variable immunodeficiency. 
  • Can the New Cooperative Medical Scheme promote rural elders' access to health-care services? 
  • Cardiac disease in congenital infections. 
  • Causes of death in schizophrenia and manic-depression. 
  • Characteristics and current practice of parenteral nutrition in hospitalized patients. 
  • Chemokines as adjuvants for immunotherapy: implications for immune activation with CCL3. 
  • Chorioamnionitis: is continuation of antibiotic therapy necessary after cesarean section? 
  • Chronic Infection and Severe Asthma. 
  • Clinical Images: a not-so crystal-clear ankle mass. 
  • Clinical predictors of major infections after cardiac surgery. 
  • Co-morbidities Associated With Early Mortality in Adults With Spina Bifida. 
  • Comment on "Inflammatory exposure and historical changes in human life-spans". 
  • Comparative effectiveness of cardiac resynchronization therapy with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator versus defibrillator therapy alone: a cohort study. 
  • Comparison of the efficacy of IGIV-C, 10% (caprylate/chromatography) and IGIV-SD, 10% as replacement therapy in primary immune deficiency. A randomized double-blind trial. 
  • Complications following pediatric cranioplasty after decompressive craniectomy: a multicenter retrospective study. 
  • Complications of axillary lymph node dissection for carcinoma of the breast: a report based on a patient survey. 
  • Creatine kinase brain isoenzyme: relationship of cerebrospinal fluid concentration to the neurologic condition of newborns and cellular localization in the human brain. 
  • Criteria for the use of Sartwell's incubation period model to study chronic diseases with uncertain etiology. 
  • Cryptococcus neoformans gene expression during murine macrophage infection. 
  • Cyclosporine or cyclosporine plus methylprednisolone for prophylaxis of graft-versus-host disease: a prospective, randomized trial. 
  • Definitions and End Points for Interventional Studies for Arteriovenous Dialysis Access. 
  • Development, implementation, and impact of acceptability criteria for serologic tests for infectious diseases. 
  • Device-Associated Infections. 
  • Diagnosing night sweats. 
  • Differences in morbidity and mortality with percutaneous versus open surgical drainage of postoperative intra-abdominal infections: a review of 686 cases. 
  • Discriminative value of inflammatory biomarkers for suspected sepsis. 
  • Distinction between alkaline phosphatase and Mg2+-ATPase of the human polymorphonuclear leukocyte. 
  • Donor infection and transmission to the recipient of a solid allograft. 
  • Early-life infection is a vulnerability factor for aging-related glial alterations and cognitive decline. 
  • Effect of age on outcomes after left ventricular assist device placement. 
  • Effects of granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor produced in Chinese hamster ovary cells (regramostim), Escherichia coli (molgramostim) and yeast (sargramostim) on priming peripheral blood progenitor cells for use with autologous bone marrow after high-dose chemotherapy. 
  • Endoscopic sphincterotomy complications and their management: an attempt at consensus. 
  • Enhanced bactericidal activity of phagocytes from patients with chronic granulomatous disease in the presence of sulphisoxazole. 
  • Etiologies of illness among patients meeting integrated management of adolescent and adult illness district clinician manual criteria for severe infections in northern Tanzania: implications for empiric antimicrobial therapy. 
  • Etiology and complications of thrombocytopenia in hospitalized medical patients. 
  • Fever in acute myelogenous leukemia. 
  • Four-cycle high-dose therapy with hematopoietic support for metastatic breast cancer: no improvement in outcomes compared with single-course high-dose therapy. 
  • Genetic and epigenetic engines of diversity in pathogenic microbes. 
  • Glycosylated hemoglobin levels and outcome in non-diabetic cardiac surgery patients. 
  • How cytokines leave their mark: the role of the placenta in developmental programming of brain and behavior. 
  • Human endotoxin administration as an experimental model in drug development. 
  • IgG and IgM anticardiolipin antibodies following treatment with infliximab plus methotrexate in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Immune reconstitution and survival of 100 SCID patients post-hematopoietic cell transplant: a PIDTC natural history study. 
  • Immunity of patients surviving 20 to 30 years after allogeneic or syngeneic bone marrow transplantation. 
  • Immunization and MS: a summary of published evidence and recommendations. 
  • Impact of dialysis dose and membrane on infection-related hospitalization and death: results of the HEMO Study. 
  • Impact of encephalopathy on mortality in the sepsis syndrome. The Veterans Administration Systemic Sepsis Cooperative Study Group. 
  • Impact of hepatitis C virus infection on the risk of infectious complications after kidney transplantation: data from the RESITRA/REIPI cohort. 
  • Impact of preoperative neurological status on perioperative morbidity associated with anterior and posterior cervical fusion. 
  • Incidence, clinical characteristics and risk factors of late infection in solid organ transplant recipients: data from the RESITRA study group. 
  • Increased serum levels of macrophage colony-stimulating factor in ovarian cancer. 
  • Infection and cyclosporine. 
  • Infection in the diabetic. 
  • Infection is the major trigger of hemophagocytic syndrome in adult patients treated with biological therapies. 
  • Infection-related mortality in a large cohort of renal transplant recipients. 
  • Infections during peginterferon/ribavirin therapy are associated with the magnitude of decline in absolute lymphocyte count: results of the IDEAL study. 
  • Infectious and bleeding complications in patients with glycogenosis Ib. 
  • Infectious complications in extended criteria heart transplantation. 
  • Infectious complications of treatment with biologic agents. 
  • Infectious disease models in zebrafish. 
  • Infectious morbidity in long-term survivors of allogeneic marrow transplantation is associated with low CD4 T cell counts. 
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients' Willingness to Accept Medication Risk to Avoid Future Disease Relapse. 
  • Information technology for optimizing the management of infectious diseases. 
  • Instrinsic defect of the polymorphonuclear leucocyte resulting in impaired chemotaxis and phagocytosis. 
  • Integrative approaches to the study of primate infectious disease: implications for biodiversity conservation and global health. 
  • Intestinal and hepatic complications of human bone marrow transplantation. Part I. 
  • Intraepithelial lymphocytes: exploring the Third Way in immunology. 
  • Intravenous iron exposure and mortality in patients on hemodialysis. 
  • Is severity of necrotizing pancreatitis increased in extended necrosis and infected necrosis? 
  • Is there a transfusion effect in combined pancreas-kidney transplantation? 
  • Late Infection-Related Mortality in Asplenic Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Late complications after marrow transplantation. 
  • Late complications of allogeneic and autologous marrow transplantation. 
  • Levels of vaginal secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor are decreased in women with lower reproductive tract infections. 
  • Long-term results of liver transplantation for biliary atresia. 
  • Low plasma concentrations of retinol and alpha-tocopherol in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients: the effect of mucositis and the risk of infection. 
  • Marrow transplantation for chronic myeloid leukemia: a randomized study comparing cyclophosphamide and total body irradiation with busulfan and cyclophosphamide. 
  • Marrow transplantation for chronic myeloid leukemia: the influence of plasma busulfan levels on the outcome of transplantation. 
  • Marrow transplantation for patients in accelerated phase of chronic myeloid leukemia. 
  • Medical waste management. Federal perspective and North Carolina program. 
  • Mild fetal ventriculomegaly: diagnosis, evaluation, and management. 
  • Modeling infectious disease in mice: co-adaptation and the role of host-specific IFNgamma responses. 
  • Multiple, thin-walled cystic lesions of the lung. 
  • Myeloid Cells in the Central Nervous System. 
  • National Institutes of Health Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Late Effects Initiative: The Immune Dysregulation and Pathobiology Working Group Report. 
  • Neonatal-perinatal infections: an update. 
  • Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis: possible association with a predisposing infection. 
  • Neutropenia, fever, and infection in children with acute lymphocytic leukemia. 
  • Novel risk factors for stroke: homocysteine, inflammation, and infection. 
  • Nurses' guide to early detection of umbilical arterial catheter complications in infants. 
  • Obesity predicts increased overall complications following pancreas transplantation. 
  • Once-daily aminoglycoside dosing. 
  • Opportunistic infections and Kaposi's sarcoma in homosexual men. 
  • Outpatient percutaneous central venous access in cancer patients. 
  • PROLONGED RUPTURE OF FETAL MEMBRANES. 
  • Parallels in intercellular communication in oomycete and fungal pathogens of plants and humans. 
  • Paraprosthetic-duodenal fistula involving a mesocaval shunt. 
  • Parenteral glutamine supplementation in critical illness: a systematic review. 
  • Pathogen-specific loss of host resistance in mice lacking the IFN-gamma-inducible gene IGTP. 
  • Pathogenic mechanisms of vessel damage in vasculitis syndromes. 
  • Patients aged > or = 70 are at high risk for neutropenic infection and should receive hemopoietic growth factors when treated with moderately toxic chemotherapy. 
  • Patterns of chemotherapy-associated toxicity and supportive care in US oncology practice: a nationwide prospective cohort study. 
  • Peptic ulcer disease following renal transplantation. 
  • Periodontal disease: a model for the study of inflammation. 
  • Perioperative cardiovascular mortality in noncardiac surgery: validation of the Lee cardiac risk index. 
  • Perioperative use of arginine-supplemented diets: a systematic review of the evidence. 
  • Phase I/II study of galiximab, an anti-CD80 antibody, for relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma. 
  • Photopheresis for the prevention of rejection in cardiac transplantation. Photopheresis Transplantation Study Group. 
  • Polytetrafluoroethylene hemoaccess site infections. 
  • Postinduction dexamethasone and individualized dosing of Escherichia Coli L-asparaginase each improve outcome of children and adolescents with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia: results from a randomized study--Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ALL Consortium Protocol 00-01. 
  • Prednisone and azathioprine compared with prednisone and placebo for treatment of chronic graft-v-host disease: prognostic influence of prolonged thrombocytopenia after allogeneic marrow transplantation. 
  • Pregnancy in transplant recipients. 
  • Pseudotumor with superimposed periprosthetic infection following metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty: a case report. 
  • Pulmonary Artery Catheter Consensus conference: consensus statement. 
  • Rapid histological staining procedures for material from immune-suppressed patients. 
  • Rates of infectious disease consultations in hospitals of different sizes and types, 1986-1987. 
  • Recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor therapy for patients with neutropenia and/or neutrophil dysfunction secondary to glycogen storage disease type 1b. 
  • Recovery from an acute infection in C. elegans requires the GATA transcription factor ELT-2. 
  • Reduced dose intravenous immunoglobulin does not decrease transplant-related complications in adults given related donor marrow allografts. 
  • Reduced-intensity conditioning using fludarabine, melphalan and thiotepa for adult patients undergoing haploidentical SCT. 
  • Reducing hospital morbidity and mortality following esophagectomy. 
  • Religion and medicine IV: religion, physical health, and clinical implications. 
  • Review of 54 patients with complete DiGeorge anomaly enrolled in protocols for thymus transplantation: outcome of 44 consecutive transplants. 
  • Risk factors for development of systemic lupus erythematosus: allergies, infections, and family history. 
  • Role of immune stimulation in the etiology of multiple myeloma: a case control study. 
  • Safety of Intravenous Iron in Hemodialysis: Longer-term Comparisons of Iron Sucrose Versus Sodium Ferric Gluconate Complex. 
  • Second Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Patients with Fanconi Anemia and Bone Marrow Failure. 
  • Sense of humor, childhood cancer stressors, and outcomes of psychosocial adjustment, immune function, and infection. 
  • Serum immunoglobulins. II. Levels in children subject to recurrent infection. 
  • Sexual dimorphism in immunity across animals: a meta-analysis. 
  • Signaling role of hemocytes in Drosophila JAK/STAT-dependent response to septic injury. 
  • Significance of diabetes on morbidity and mortality following cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. 
  • Skewing of the population balance of lymphoid and myeloid cells by secreted and intracellular osteopontin. 
  • Snookered! Facial infection secondary to occult foreign body. 
  • Splenectomy as a Destination: Improving Quality of Care Among Asplenic Veterans Through a Travel Clinic. 
  • Stroke location, characterization, severity, and outcome in mitral vs aortic valve endocarditis. 
  • Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT): year 2000 outcomes. 
  • Subacute bacterial endocarditis. 
  • Supportive care of the marrow transplant recipient: the Seattle Experience. 
  • Surgically placed left ventricular leads provide similar outcomes to percutaneous leads in patients with failed coronary sinus lead placement. 
  • Susceptibility of ePTFE vascular grafts and bioengineered human acellular vessels to infection. 
  • Symptomatic Perihepatic Fluid Collections After Hepatic Resection in the Modern Era. 
  • Systemic complications of rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • T3 preserves respiratory function in sepsis. 
  • Thalidomide as salvage therapy for chronic graft-versus-host disease. 
  • The Neurostimulation Appropriateness Consensus Committee (NACC) Recommendations for Infection Prevention and Management. 
  • The association between immunodeficiency and the development of autoimmune disease. 
  • The complement system in host defense and inflammation. 
  • The immunologic constant of rejection. 
  • The impact of infectious and allergic diseases on the quality of life. 
  • The management of chronic graft-versus-host disease. 
  • The risk of risk-adjustment measures for perioperative spine infection after spinal surgery. 
  • The role of infection and inflammation in sudden infant death syndrome. 
  • The role of natural regulatory T cells in infection. 
  • The use of lithium carbonate to reduce infection and leukopenia during systemic chemotherapy. 
  • The use of umbilical cord blood in mismatched related and unrelated hemopoietic stem cell transplantation. 
  • The world's most neglected diseases. 
  • Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura that is refractory to therapeutic plasma exchange in two patients with occult infection. 
  • Tigecycline: a new glycylcycline antimicrobial. 
  • Tight glycemic control reduces infection and improves neurological outcome in critically ill neurosurgical and neurological patients. 
  • Transfusion of fresh frozen plasma in critically ill surgical patients is associated with an increased risk of infection. 
  • Transplantation of Ex Vivo Expanded Umbilical Cord Blood (NiCord) Decreases Early Infection and Hospitalization. 
  • Treatment of infected tunneled venous access hemodialysis catheters with guidewire exchange. 
  • Treatment of intestinal failure: intestinal transplantation. 
  • Treatment of marrow graft recipients with thymopentin. 
  • Trends in Care Practices, Morbidity, and Mortality of Extremely Preterm Neonates, 1993-2012. 
  • Troubleshooting the malfunctioning Scott artificial urinary sphincter. 
  • Two cases of "shunt nephritis". 
  • Two hundred consecutive simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplants with bladder drainage. 
  • Unrelated Donor Transplantation in Children with Thalassemia using Reduced-Intensity Conditioning: The URTH Trial. 
  • Use antimicrobials wisely. 
  • Uveitis with neurological manifestations. 
  • Virologic and clinical outcomes of hepatitis B virus infection in HIV-HBV coinfected transplant recipients. 
  • What is clearance worth? Patients' stated risk tolerance for psoriasis treatments. 
  • Working formulation for the standardization of definitions of infections in patients using ventricular assist devices. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Bilbo, Staci D., Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Buckley, Rebecca Hatcher, James Buren Sidbury Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, in the School of Medicine, Immunology
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Gage, Mark, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics
  • MacLeod, Amanda S, Associate Professor in Dermatology, Immunology
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • Spires, Steven Schaeffer, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • Taylor, Gregory Alan, Professor in Medicine, Immunology
  • Thomann, Wayne R., Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Tsalik, Ephraim, Associate Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  • Woodard, Charles, Associate Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences