Index by author
July 01, 2024; Volume 91,Issue 7
Haider, Mahnur
- You have accessDoes my patient with acute variceal hemorrhage need a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt?Mahnur Haider, MD, Indira Bhavsar-Burke, MD, Robert S. O’Shea, MD, MSCE and Christina C. Lindenmeyer, MDCleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2024, 91 (7) 409-413; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.91a.24014
Placement of a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt can be used as salvage therapy to control bleeding when endoscopic management fails and as a means of secondary prophylaxis in select patients.
Ham, Kealy
- You have accessDo patients with sepsis benefit from intravenous albumin?Ryan Dunn, MD, Kealy Ham, MD, Lisa Marks, MLS, AHIP and Neera Agrwal, MD, PhDCleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2024, 91 (7) 405-407; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.91a.23089
Patients with sepsis who do not need vasopressors do not benefit from intravenous albumin compared with intravenous crystalloid therapy alone.