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- Experimental limbic epilepsy: models, pathophysiologic concepts, and clinical relevance
Complex partial seizures originating in the temporal lobe are common in epilepsy patients. Drug treatment is often ineffective. What predisposes a patient to these seizures? How do they occur? Animal studies are providing clues to the puzzle.
- Managing Three Common Oncologic Emergencies
Spinal cord compression, superior vena cava syndrome, and hypercalcemia are tumor-related emergencies clinicians need to watch for in patients with malignancy.
- Demographics of long-term ventilator-dependent patients outside the intensive care unit
The ICU is the traditional setting for long-term ventilator care, but the demand for more cost-effective use of ICU beds has hospitals looking at other settings.
- Atrial natriuretic factor and catecholamine levels during exercise in patients with and without coronary artery disease
In coronary artery disease, exercise-induced myocardial ischemia does not produce further release of ANF, suggesting that the cause of ANF release is not ischemia itself, but left ventricular dysfunction leading to increases in intracardiac pressures.
- Perioperative blood transfusion and survival of breast cancer patients after modified radical mastectomy
Does perioperative blood transfusion compromise longterm survival in cancer patients? Although a firm link is not yet established, early findings and current knowledge of transfusion-associated risks advise caution.
- Treating hypertension to prevent coronary disease
Past successes and failures in treating hypertension suggest ways to provide better overall therapy and reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease.