Overall, a solitary viral aetiology was presumed or proven in 30 children; in the remaining, sepsis was mixed or rather bacterial in origin (proven by culture or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or presumed based on typical clinical presentation).
Sepsis is an umbrella term defining a systemic inflammatory response to presumed or proven infection.
Patients with presumed or proven primary gynecological cancer were screened for eligibility at their preoperative visit between March 2004 and December 2006.
In total, 1307 participants admitted with a presumed or proven infection were enrolled at the time of their admission.
Inclusion criteria: (1) ICU-patients aged ≥18 years and (2) receiving antibiotics for a presumed or proven infection and (3) signed informed consent.
Ocular side effects were uncommon in the ranibizumab group: endophthalmitis (a presumed or proven infection of the vitreous) and intraocular inflammation were reported in 1.3 and 1.7% of ranibizumab subjects, respectively.
We classified patients in two different groups according to the presence of microbiological colonization by an ESBL-producing organism only or to the occurrence of presumed or proven infection.
PET is performed only after there is a presumed or proven diagnosis of cancer, in order to stage the tumor; it is particularly helpful in identifying previously occult sites of metastatic disease.
Full protective equipment for healthcare workers was also widely available, and such equipment was provided and monitored under the conservative assumption, made early in the Taiwan outbreak, that airborne or fomite transmission of the agent should be presumed until proven otherwise.
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) comprises a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by susceptibility to bone fractures with severity that ranges from death in the perinatal period to subtle increase in fracture frequency and in almost all cases presumed or proven defects in type I (pro collagen biosynthesis.
Bivariate analysis revealed significant associations between IVIG and mortality (p = 0.014), "long" hospital stays (p < 0.001), presumed or proven bacterial sepsis (p < 0.0001), a diagnosis of failure to thrive (p = 0.014), at least one positive blood culture (p < 0.0001), and exposure to 2nd -(p = 0.003), 3rd -(p < 0.0001), and 4th-line antibiotics (p < 0.0001).
