The American journal of emergency medicine
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The Mortality in Severe Sepsis in the Emergency Department (MISSED) score is a newly proposed scoring system. The goal of this study is to determine if the MISSED score is generalizable to an urban tertiary care hospital. ⋯ The MISSED score is useful for predicting mortality in ED patients with severe sepsis.
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The aim of the study was to investigate long-term effects of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) on contralateral testes by experimental testicular torsion using histopathologic and biochemical parameters. ⋯ In the long term as implied from the histopathologic findings, NAC has beneficial effects against contralateral testis tissue injury induced by testicular torsion.