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Mild muscle symptoms occasionally prevent some patients from taking statin drugs.
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The value of revascularization before major vascular surgery in patients with stress induced myocardial ischemia has not been tested.
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Although Mitral Annular Calcium (MAC) is a risk for stroke, the mechanism is unclear. MAC is associated with complex proximal aorta (before the left subclavian) aorta atheromatous plaques and is seen in patients with risk factors for atherosclerosis.
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GlaxoSmithKline's rosiglitazone (Avandia) will receive a black box warning by the FDA because of concerns over heart failure associated with use of the drug.
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Brown and colleagues evaluated the most efficient means of microbiological diagnosis of tuberculosis in patients.
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Since shortly after the return of the first U.S. casualties wounded in Iraq in early 2003 to the United States, significant numbers of infections due to often multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter species have been observed in these patients shortly after arriving back in tertiary care military hospitals in the continental U.S. (CONUS).
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Over the last 15 years increased understanding of the complicated process of HIV attachment and entry into host cells has developed.
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This was a retrospective small case control study that looked at 115 HTLV-1 infected patients from the state of Bahia in Northeastern Brazil who were originally found to be HTLV-1 infected at the time of blood donation and were later followed in a special clinic.
