PCT has a high negative predictive value (94%) and lower PCT levels seems to be a good tool for excluding coinfection, particularly for patients without shock.

Our findings suggest that early oseltamivir administration was associated with favourable outcomes among critically ill ventilated patients with 2009 H1N1 virus infection.

Tigecycline appears to be an effective therapy for severe infections due to CPKP in critically ill patients. Mortality is related to the severity of the underlying disease. We observed no benefit from a higher maintenance dose of tigecycline, although the number of patients included in the study was too small to draw any general conclusions in this regard.

LLDUT rapidly decreased thrombus burden and PAP, improving right ventricular function, and was not associated with any life-threatening complications or pulmonary embolism (PE)- or treatment-related mortality.

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Mujer de 61 años diagnosticada de obesidad mórbida e hipertensión arterial, que acude a urgencias por dolor periumbilical de 2 días de evolución. En la ecografía abdominal se observa escaso líquido libre y conglomerado de asas intestinales sin herniación. Venticuatro horas después la paciente presenta un cuadro de fallo multiorgánico. En la tomografía computarizada de abdomen con contraste intravenoso, se observa neumatosis intestinal de la totalidad de asas del intestino delgado con eventración abdominal anterior incarcerada ( fig. 1) y presencia de gas en venas mesentéricas, perihepáticas, periesplénicas y ramas distales intrahepáticas (fig. 2). En la cirugía se evidencia isquemia mesentérica masiva y colon transverso incarcerado.

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