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E Azoulay
Internal Medicine
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Rituximab-related Severe Toxicity
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Open AccessTen important articles on noninvasive ventilation in critically ill patients and insights for the future: A report of expert opinions
Noninvasive ventilation is used worldwide in many settings. Its effectiveness has been proven for common clinical conditions in critical care such as cardiogenic pulmonary edema and chronic obstructive pulmona...
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Changes in intensive care for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients
Intensive care unit (ICU) admission is associated with high mortality in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients. Whether mortality has decreased recently is unknown. The 497 adult allo...
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Acute kidney injury in critically ill allo-HSCT recipients
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Understanding Acute Kidney Injury in Adult Patients with Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
Thrombotic microangiopathies (TMA) are defined by the association of thrombocytopenia, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, absence of diffuse intravascular coagulation and microvascular thrombosis that can caus...
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Non-invasive mechanical ventilation in hematology patients with hypoxemic acute respiratory failure: a false belief?
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Significance of herpesvirus 6 in BAL fluid of hematology patients with acute respiratory failure
Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV6) is an emerging cause of interstitial pneumonia in immunocompromised hosts. However, the clinical significance of a positive PCR test for HHV6 in respiratory samples from patients wit...
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Understanding Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) [1], [2] is a clinicoradiological entity that was well described by Hinchey et al. [3] in 1996 based on 15 cases, shortly after two other small case-series were...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Acute Tumor Lysis Syndrome: Diagnosis and Management
Tumor lysis syndrome is a potentially life-threatening complication of cancer treatment in patients with extensive, rapidly growing, chemosensitive malignancies. Tumor lysis syndrome results from the rapid des...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Strengths and Weaknesses of Substitute Decision Making in the ICU
The doctor-patient relationship is at the heart of patient management. The trend in recent years has been towards patient autonomy. Frequently, intensive care unit (ICU) patients lack the capacity to make deci...
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Acute Tumor Lysis Syndrome: Diagnosis and Management
Tumor lysis syndrome is a potentially life-threatening complication of cancer treatment in patients with extensive, rapidly growing, chemosensitive malignancies. Tumor lysis syndrome results from the rapid des...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Life-threatening Neurological Complications in Patients with Malignancies
A growing number of patients with malignancies experience infectious and toxic complications related to their disease or to its treatment. The population of patients likely to require medical attention for mal...
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Life-threatening Neurological Complications in Patients with Malignancies
A growing number of patients with malignancies experience infectious and toxic complications related to their disease or to its treatment. The population of patients likely to require medical attention for mal...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Managing Critically Ill Patients with Status Epilepticus
Status epilepticus is a major medical emergency that is fatal in 7.6–22% of cases [1, 2]. The incidence per 100,000 population has been estimated at 9.9 episodes in Europe and 41 episodes in the USA [2]. Status e...
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Managing Critically III Patients with Status Epilepticus
Status epilepticus is a major medical emergency that is fatal in 7.6–22% of cases [1, 2]. The incidence per 100,000 population has been estimated at 9.9 episodes in Europe and 41 episodes in the USA [2]. Status e...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Influence of Gender on Outcome of Severe Sepsis
Whether gender influences the outcome of severe sepsis remains a matter of debate. Because many confounding variables may affect observed associations between gender and mortality, high-quality statistical ana...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Influence of Gender on Outcome of Severe Sepsis
Whether gender influences the outcome of severe sepsis remains a matter of debate. Because many confounding variables may affect observed associations between gender and mortality, high-quality statistical ana...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pneumocystis Pneumonia in Non-AIDS Immunocompromised Patients
Pneumocystis pneumonia remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) all over the world [1]. However, pneumocystis pneumonia is also a ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pneumocystis Pneumonia in Non-AIDS Immunocompromised Patients
Pneumocystis pneumonia remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) all over the world [1]. However, pneumocystis pneumonia is also a ...
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Respiratory status deterioration during G-CSF-induced neutropenia recovery
Exacerbation of prior pulmonary involvement may occur during neutropenia recovery. Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)-related pulmonary toxicity has been documented in cancer patients, and experimen...
