Medical therapy is the mainstay of treatment for coronary artery disease (CAD), resulting in improved clinical outcomes. Revascularization with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), in addition to medical therapy, improves symptoms in patients with stable CAD.
Concentric left ventricular hypertrophy (CLVH) is occasionally unexplained. Thus, these investigators from Beijing, China, sought evidence for Danon disease, a glycogen storage disease, in patients being evaluated for cLVH who underwent endomyocardial biopsy.
Three common medications amitriptyline, duloxetine, and pregabalin all appear equally efficacious in treating neuropathic pain from diabetic neuropathy.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) relapse rates were found to increase post in vitro fertilization (IVF) in a small population of MS patients. The risk for relapse was highest in the first 3 months post-IVF.
Up to 50% of patients with seronegative ocular myasthenia gravis have antibodies to clustered acetylcholine receptor antibodies that can fix complement and passively transfer disease to experimental mice.
Dementia and benzodiazepines; effectiveness of omega-3 fatty acid and Ginkgo biloba supplements; and FDA actions.
