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Two articles have been recently published emphasizing the importance of C-reactive protein in statin treated patients.
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Patients with New York Heart Association class II or class III congestive heart failure and a left ventricular ejection fraction of 35% or less benefit from ICD therapy but not from amiodarone therapy.
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Stopping aspirin may be hazardous to your health, according to recent research.
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In patients with healed upper GI lesions that had caused bleeding and who needed antiplatelet therapy for cardiovascular reasons, aspirin plus esomeprazole was superior to clopidogrel for preventing recurrent upper GI bleeding.
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Trained paramedics following current CPR guidelines delivered chest compressions in a suboptimal fashion, which resulted in prolonged no flow ratios which may have contributed to the poor survival data presented.
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Danons disease or PRKAG2 mutations can present as HCM but are distinguished by the presence of pre-excitation on the ECG.
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Most authorities agree that the minimal number of lymph nodes resected in primary colorectal cancer surgery is 12. This allows adequate evaluation and more accurate staging. In an examination of SEER data for colorectal cancer patients without known distant metastases during the years 1988 through 2001, the median number of nodes resected was 9, and in only 37% was the standard of 12 nodes achieved.
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In a retrospective analysis of approximately 200 patients with early stage B-cell diffuse lymphoma, bone marrow aspirate and biopsy revealed involvement in only 3.6%. A review of a number of risk factors indicated 3 (low hemoglobin, low white blood count, and bulky disease) as predictors of marrow involvement. In fact, the absence of these 3 factors gave a negative predictive value of 99.2% for marrow involvement.
