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Objective. To analyze the characteristics of patients with severe COVID-19 and lethal outcome. Materials and Methods. This retrospective pharmacoepidemiological study (March – April 2021) enrolled 172 patients with confirmed COVID-19 and death in the intensive care unit of City Clinical Hospital No. 24. Results. The mean age was 74.4 ± 7.4 years, patients over 65 years old – 81% (n = 139), over 75 years old – 44% (n = 75).

Objective. To identify risk factors for fatal outcome and COVID-19-associated liver damage in hospitalized adult patients with coronavirus infection. Materials and Methods. In a retrospective cohort study, 389 cases of patients with coronavirus infection complicated by bilateral viral pneumonia were studied. Demographic characteristics, clinical features of the course of the disease, anamnestic data, results of laboratory and instrumental methods of examination were analyzed and correlated with mortality. At the time of admission, the following were taken into account: fever, severity of the patient’s condition according to COVID-19 classification of severity, body mass index (BMI), oxygen saturation (SpO2), percentage of lung tissue damage according to computed tomography (CT).

Objective. To analyze the incidence of HCV in patients of the «Dmitry Rogachev National Medical Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology» (Center), to compare with the overall population incidence of HCV, to identify risk factors and risk groups of HCV infection in the Center’s patients. Materials and Methods. A retrospective analysis of the HCV incidence of HCV patients of the Center who were admitted to the Center between 01.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic announced by the World Health Organization in March 2020 assigned medical community to the new tasks that require immediate solutions. Recent studies have shown that invasive aspergillosis associated with …

Objective. To study prospectively clinical course of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), mortality, and risk factors for poor outcome as well as etiology and antibiotic resistance of HAP in trauma patients; to assess antimicrobial therapy in patients with head trauma and orthopedic trauma in Smolensk Clinical Hospital of Emergency Medical Care. Materials and Methods. A prospective observational study in 96 patients with head trauma or orthopedic trauma and concurrent HAP, confirmed by clinical examination, chest X-ray, and Clinical Pulmonary Infection Scale (CPIS) score of ≥5.

The presend study is a retrospective case–control study included 218 infants with gestation age less than 32 weeks hospitalised in the neonatal ICU during 1999–2002. Frequency of the candidemia was 5%. Mortality in newborns with candidemia was 91%. …

Сommunity-acquired pneumonia remains one of the most common infections in population, and despite the wide array of antimicrobials, it is associated with high lethality rate. First 24-hours mortality is an integral characteristic of the quality of …