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Screening patients with a history of cerebral aneurysm and screening relatives of patients with familial aneurysms can detect new or recurrent aneurysms that may benefit from treatment.
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The advances in understanding the genotype-phenotype associations for LRRK2 presented by these articles represent an important step towards this objective.
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Visitors who travel to areas of elevated altitudes may suffer from a high altitude headache which can progress to acute mountain sickness (AMS) or high-altitude cerebral edema.
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Epilepsy could be a complex disorder and the hypothesis of a digenic transmission of the disease should be discussed.
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Among patients on folic acid, with or without the addition of B-6, there was a non-significant trend toward an increase in cancer rates.
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Letrozole for Postmenopausal Women with Breast Cancer; Do Antidepressants Increase Risk of Suicide?; Can Viagra Improve Heart Function?; Can Tamoxifen Increase Your Height?; A Dramatic Increase of Clostridium difficile; FDA Actions
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When study data were used to perform a formal analysis of costs associated with use of erythropoietin, the total cost to avoid one transfusion-related adverse event was $4.7 million.
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Both intra-abdominal hypertension and evidence for its adverse physiologic effects were common in this retrospective series of ICU patients with severe acute pancreatitis, although there was no association with mortality, and 3 of 4 patients subjected to decompressive laparotomy died.
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In a randomized, controlled trial, patients with stroke or head injury who required mechanical ventilation were less likely to develop ventilator-associated pneumonia if they underwent early percutaneous gastrostomy for nutritional support than if they continued to be fed via nasogastric tube.
