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Although streptokinase is widely used in the management of pleural infection, a large, randomized, controlled trial showed no benefit in terms of mortality, need for surgery, or hospital stay.
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Is your state next? Laws requiring disclosure of individual hospital infection rates are sweeping the nation. Four statesPennsylvania, Illinois, Florida, and Missourihave passed infection rate disclosure laws, and 20 others have introduced bills.
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A major focus of the recent Conference Retrovirus and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston in February 2005, was the issue of cardiovascular disease and risk factors in patients with HIV infection.
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Pulmonary vein stenosis is a significant complication of atrial fibrillation ablation procedures that can occur insidiously late after the ablation.
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Patients with HCM exhibit a high frequency of ventricular and supraventricular arrhythmias during ambulatory ECG monitoring, but sudden death is uncommon and not predicted by arrhythmias.
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The possibility of a bird flu pandemic has health officials worldwide in a high state of alert.
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Seven trials comparing drug eluting stents to each other
or bare metal stents were presented. In general, they showed that
drug eluting stents were superior to bare metal stents, but among the
drug eluting stents, the data favored sirolimus eluting stents.
