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Once-a-week rosuvastatin therapy was well tolerated in patients with a history of adverse events to one or more statins and led to significantly improved lipoprotein changes.
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We don't have the slightest idea whether evidence of gallbladder dyskinesia should warrant cholecystectomy or not.
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Almost one-fifth of Medicare patients who were discharged from a hospital were rehospitalized within 30 days, and about a third were rehospitalized within 90 days. Most of these readmissions were not planned.
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Everolimus is the newest oral kinase inhibitor approved for the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma.
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The ACCORD trial has been newsworthy in the last several months primarily due to the early results of increased cardiovascular events associated with very tight glucose control.
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The simultaneously obtained lead II and lead V1 rhythm strip seen above was interpreted as showing atrial fibrillation with a rapid ventricular response. Do you agree?
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Most type 2 diabetics (DM2) who undergo bariatric surgery enjoy a prompt reversal or at least a substantial diminution of their dysglycemia.
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Use of statins as primary prevention in healthy people with elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein without hyperlipidemia may reduce the incidence of major cardiovascular events.
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Oral antibiotics were not found to be inferior to intravenous antibiotics in the treatment of clinically diagnosed acute diverticulitis.
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Compared with invasive coronary angiography, coronary computed tomographic angiography demonstrated high diagnostic accuracy for detection of obstructive coronary stenosis and a 99% negative predictive value.
