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- Psychedelics, spirituality, and existential distress in patients at the end of life
The authors explore the role of psychedelics in addressing patients’ spiritual and existential suffering at the end of life from a medical, ethical, and legal perspective.
- Prolonged venous filling time and dependent rubor in a patient with peripheral artery disease
Physical examination in a man who presented with foot pain revealed absent bilateral posterior tibial and dorsalis pedis pulses and dusky erythema of both feet.
- 2024 ACC/AHA guideline on perioperative cardiovascular management before noncardiac surgery: What’s new?
The author highlights key changes and recommendations of the new guideline, how they differ from previous and other society guidelines, and ongoing challenges and unresolved issues in perioperative care.
- Coronary artery bypass grafting: Practice trends and projections
Future directions include expanding the use of multiarterial grafting, offering patients less-invasive approaches, and enhancing operative recovery.
- Can my patient with a ‘sulfa allergy’ receive celecoxib or other nonantimicrobial sulfonamides?
There is no cross-reactivity between antimicrobial and nonantimicrobial sulfonamides, and patients with a history of immunoglobulin E–mediated reaction to a sulfonamide antibiotic can receive nonantimicrobial sulfonamides.
- Cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV: Risk assessment and management
Because people living with HIV develop coronary artery disease much earlier than the general population, careful attention must be given to assessment and management of their cardiovascular risk.
- Heart to heart: Progress in cardiovascular disease prevention for people living with HIV
The already higher cardiovascular risk in people living with HIV is exacerbated by social determinants of health such as socioeconomic status, access to healthcare, and systemic discrimination. Interventions that address this risk must be based in medical science and equity.

