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Using blood pressure, BUN, serum sodium, and presence of peripheral arterial disease as predictors of mortality in heart failure patients, 67% who had 3 or more factors died within 6 months and would qualify for the Medicare hospice benefit.
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There are no disease-modifying pharmacotherapies for COPD. That is, although bronchodilators, anticholinergic agents, and inhaled corticosteroids improve FEV1 and reduce symptoms, decline in pulmonary function continues unabated and lung function returns promptly to pretreatment status once medication is stopped.
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Although Enzyme-Immunoassay (EIA) tests have replaced cytotoxin assays for diagnosis of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) in most US laboratories, the changing epidemiology of this disease suggests that an adjustment in diagnostic testing algorithms is needed.
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A retrospective review of 211 inpatients admitted to the US Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort in early 2003 revealed 57 patients with A. baumannii infection.
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Central nervous system infection due to free-living amebae generally manifests as either acute meningitis or focal encephalitis.
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The inevitability of progression of bacterial resistance to antibiotics used in the clinic and other settings dictates the need for approaches that go beyond antimicrobial stewardship and the development of new antibiotics.
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Abide et al at the university of mississippi report three patients who presented with skin lesions and were found to have leprosy.
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In March 2004, an infectious disease specialist in New York queried the Emerging Infections Network (EIN) listserv about treatment of a patient with M. abscessus wound infection following abdominoplasty in the Dominican Republic.
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As kids prepare for school this fall, remember that the United States American College of Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends administration of meningococcal vaccine to previously unvaccinated children starting high school or going off to college.
