Can death unrelated to secondary causes be predicted in intubated comatose tricyclic antidepressant-poisoned patients?
Neither ECG parameters nor clinical characteristics of the intubated comatose patients with TCA toxicity predicts death in patients who had not died due to the secondary causes. The only prognostic indicator of death in such patients is seizure after hospital presentation.
According to our results IL-17 is probably not involved in pathogenesis of stable COPD, but it may play a role in people with airway hyperresponsiveness.