In the ICU at the University of Connecticut Health Center, adult patients with both medical and surgical problems are primarily managed by the same team of intensivists.
A middle-aged man with community-acquired pneumonia complicated by underlying cardiomyopathy develops the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
Approximately 20% of patients with unprovoked venous thromboembolism (VTE) have a recurrence within 2 years after the withdrawal of oral anticoagulant therapy.
In this paper, the authors performed a pharmacoepidemiologic study on the relationship between azithromycin, a frequently used broad-spectrum macrolide antibiotic, and cardiovascular death. The authors analyzed data from the Tennessee Medicaid program. This database provides information on medical care encounters and dates and causes of death and is linked to death certificates and hospital discharge data.
These investigators from Australia present a case of isolated left ventricular (LV) apical hypoplasia with fatty infiltration confirmed by CT and MRI. The left anterior descending artery was small and truncated early on angiography. Echocardiography showed a large banana-shaped right ventricle (RV) that wrapped around the apex of the hypocontractile truncated LV. Also there was apical papillary muscle insertion.
