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- Intensive care update: Seven studies that should change your practice
Some of these studies lay to rest widely used but ineffective therapies; others challenge us to establish new standards of care.
Which medications should be held before a pharmacologic or exercise stress test?This depends on the reason for the rest, whether the patient can safely do without the medication, and the type of test.
- Update on kidney transplantation: Increasing clinical success, expanding waiting lists
Success rates are improving, but the need for organs continues to far exceed the supply.
- Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: A common but mystifying cause of heart failure
In most cases, dilated cardiomyopathy has no known That shouldn’t stop you from looking for one.
- Drug smuggling raises medical and legal issues
Smugglers are swallowing massive amounts of cocaine packaged in balloons or condoms. The treatment is controversial. And then there are ethical and legal questions.
- ACE inhibitors vs ARBs: Is one class better for heart failure?
A patient who apparently cannot tolerate ACE inhibitors presents with worsening heart failure. What should be the next step?
- Recognizing and overcoming inadequate health literacy, a barrier to care
A shocking number of patients cannot read adequately or understand medical concepts, with adverse consequences for their health.
- The CURE trial: Using clopidogrel in acute coronary syndromes without ST-segment elevation
An important advance, but at the cost of excess bleeding.
