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Asymptomatic pulmonary embolism is quite common among patients with deep venous thrombosis. In many instances in these patients, the pulmonary emboli are located within the central pulmonary arteries.
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Coronary Calcium Scores enhance risk prediction; Exacerbations of COPD: Not so innocent; Vitamin E, but not pioglitazone, improves NASH; Best use of home BP monitoring; Suicide risk with anticonvulsants; For type 2 diabetes, after metformin, what next?
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Patients with acute joint pain present a diagnostic dilemma for many emergency physicians. Classically the joints are hot, swollen, and tender, with reduced range of motion. The differential diagnosis for the painful joint is extensive.
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Fractures and bisphosphonate therapy, warfarin anticoagulation and influenza vaccine and cotrimoxazole, antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel and aspirin, FDA Actions.
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Bilateral absence of N20 responses in the setting of therapeutic hypothermia does not preclude neurologic recovery in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest.
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation resulted in improvement in pain-free headache response rates after 2, 24 and 48 hours, as compared to sham stimulation, in patients with acute migraine with aura.
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Fractures and bisphosphonate therapy, warfarin anticoagulation and influenza vaccine and cotrimoxazole, antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel and aspirin, FDA Actions.
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Exercise is beneficial for frontal lobe based executive functions. Although this study did not show benefit of exercise on mood and quality of life, this could be due to a floor effect of data.
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In children, CIDP is less common than in adults, but has a better long-tern prognosis.
