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- Prostate-specific antigen: How to advise patients as the screening debate continues
There is still no consensus on whether prostate-specific antigen measurement should be used as a screening test for prostate cancer, but patients have the right to be informed about its risks and possible benefits.
- IVUS: A better picture of coronary artery disease?
As an end point in a clinical trial, a change on intravascular ultrasonography is somewhere between a change in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and a change in the mortality rate as evidence of efficacy of treatment.
- Migraine aura without headache: Benign, but a diagnosis of exclusion
Migraine aura can occur alone, without being followed by a headache, but it should be diagnosed only when transient ischemic attack and seizure disorders have been excluded.
- Adrenal function in critically ill patients: How to test? When to treat?
There is evidence that even partial adrenal insufficiency is associated with increased mortality. But exactly how should adrenal insufficiency be defined and diagnosed, and who should receive treatment?
Preventing ischemic stroke: Choosing the best strategyDo statins prevent stroke? Which antithrombotic drugs are best? What is the best way to treat carotid stenosis?
- Intervention as prevention
True primary prevention of disease or its complications seems an attainable goal in many situations.
