Atherosclerosis, a dominant and growing cause of death and disability worldwide, involves
inflammation from its inception to the emergence of complications. Targeting inflammatory …

Thrombosis is the most feared complication of cardiovascular diseases and a main cause of
death worldwide, making it a major health-care challenge. Platelets and the coagulation …

Neurological complications have emerged as a significant cause of morbidity and mortality
in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Beside respiratory insufficiency, many hospitalized …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen which
causes many severe acute and chronic infections with high morbidity, and mortality rates as …

Stroke is a heterogeneous syndrome, and determining risk factors and treatment depends
on the specific pathogenesis of stroke. Risk factors for stroke can be categorized as …

Risk of MI after Acute Infection Among patients who are hospitalized for pneumococcal
pneumonia, the incidence of myocardial infarction is 7 to 8%. The true incidence of …

Cardiac embolism accounts for an increasing proportion of ischemic strokes and might
multiply several-fold during the next decades. However, research points to several potential …

The activating interplay of thrombosis and inflammation (thromboinflammation) has been
established as a major underlying pathway, driving not only cardiovascular disease but also …

Thrombosis is a common consequence of infection that is associated with poor patient
outcome. Nevertheless, the mechanisms by which infection-associated thrombosis is …

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 …