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Persistent elevation of serum CK without symptoms should be aggressively investigated, including a muscle biopsy, since half will have HyperCKemia, and half will have a specific pathology.
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When biopsy of a brain tumor is not possible due to high surgical risk, perfusion MRI can help distinguish tumor types with high sensitivity and specificity.
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This study on patients with a diagnosis of mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease demonstrated a positive correlation of brain β-amyloid load using 11C-PIB positron emission tomography with the rate of brain atrophy using serial volumetric MRI.
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"As many as 98,000 deaths per year are due to errors in hospital care.1" ... "A RAND Health study found that only 54.9% of patients received recommended care.2"
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Do long-acting beta agonist inhalers increase the severity of asthma? Yes, according to the results from a large meta-analysis recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Corticosteroids have been studied in various phases in the treatment of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), which is characterized by an inflammatory injury to the lung resulting in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. Four trials of steroids in early ARDS failed to show any improvement.
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Artinian and colleagues performed a retrospective analysis on a large prospectively acquired database from ICUs across the United States to examine the effect of initiating early enteral feeding on outcomes in non-surgical, mechanically ventilated ICU patients.
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