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A patient receiving the SSRI citalopram developed fatal serotonin syndrome after beginning therapy with linezolid for MRSA infection.
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A study of pleconaril in infants with enterovirus meningitis showed good oral availability, but the limited virus shedding and benign course of enterovirus meningitis in infants precluded identifying virological or clinical benefit.
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Neither adding a single dose of ceftriaxone to a 10-day course of doxycycline nor extending the duration of doxycycline therapy to 20 days is better than a straightforward 10-day course of oral doxycycline in the treatment of patients with erythema migrans.
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Consistent with the notion that sternitis always accompanies poststernotomy mediastinitis, microbiologic examination of sternal puncture specimens was highly accurate in the diagnosis of deep infection in that setting.
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Health care workers who care for HIV-infected, hemodialysis, or transplant patients are at increased risk of HHV-8 infection.
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A new oral direct thrombin inhibitorximelagatran (Exanata; Astra-Zeneca)steals the stage at this years American College of Cardiology 52nd Scientific Session in Chicago.
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Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is a stroke syndrome characterized by headache, seizures, and hemorrhagic infarction.
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Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is an expensive but powerful and useful therapeutic tool in the neurologists armamentarium. Guillain-Barré syndrome, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, multifocal motor neuropathy, Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome, and dermatomyositis have all been shown, in controlled clinical trials, to benefit from IVIG.
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Pneumococcal vaccine protects older adults from developing pneumococcal bacteremia but does not prevent community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), according to a new study from Group Health Cooperative in Seattle.
