Lower respiratory tract infections frequently complicate stroke and adversely affect outcome.
There is currently no agreed terminology or gold-standard diagnostic criteria for the …

Blood in healthy organisms is seen as a 'sterile'environment: it lacks proliferating microbes.
Dormant or not-immediately-culturable forms are not absent, however, as intracellular …

Rationale: The mechanisms leading to an expanded neutrophil and monocyte supply after
stroke are incompletely understood. Objective: To test the hypothesis that transient middle …

Acute systemic inflammatory reaction superimposed on chronic low-grade inflammation
accompanies acute ischemic stroke. Elevated blood levels of systemic inflammatory markers …

Background and Purpose—Diagnosis of pneumonia complicating stroke is challenging, and
there are currently no consensus diagnostic criteria. As a first step in developing such …

The use of intravenous dexmedetomidine during surgery has been shown to suppress
inflammatory cytokines peri-operatively. It has also been demonstrated that …

For bacteria, replication mainly involves growth by binary fission. However, in a very great
many natural environments there are examples of phenotypically dormant, non-growing …

Background Ischemic stroke patients are prone to infection by stroke-induced
immunodepression. We hypothesized that levels of lipopolysaccharide binding protein …

In the past decade, the significant contribution of the spleen to ischemic brain damage has
gained considerable attention in stroke research. As the largest natural reservoir of immune …

The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between inflammatory and metabolic
markers and short-time outcome with acute ischemic stroke subtypes. A total of 121 patients …