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- Stress echocardiography: its emerging role in identifying viable myocardium
In patients with chronic ischemia or left ventricular systolic dysfunction, this test can indicate whether the damaged myocardium is still viable and, therefore, whether revascularization would be beneficial.
- Dopamine agonists in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease
Bromocriptine or pergolide can control symptoms when used alone or as an adjunct to Levodopa therapy, and can permit a lowering of the levodopa dose.
- Current status of stress echocardiography in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease
Electrocardiography with exercise or pharmacologic stress is gaining clinical acceptance, but its accuracy depends on the expertise of the people who perform it.
- Pathogenesis of epilepsy: the role of excitatory amino acids
These neurotransmitters seem to play a role in brain development—and also in seizures. Experimental drugs can block their action.
- Chest pain in a patient with congenital heart disease
A self-test featuring a challenging clinical presentation.
- Trends in radiation oncology: a review for the non-oncologist
One hundred years after the first radiation treatment, technical improvements continue, with more-powerful machines and more-precise planning.
- Caring for dying patients: physicians and assisted suicide
Both advocates and opponents can agree on the need for better palliative care.
- Radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer: the effect of shorter length of stay on outcome
Radical hysterectomy and pelvic lymph-node dissection continue to be a safe and effective treatment for limited cervical carcinoma.
- Smoking cessation: the physician's role
Patients who come to see a physician are concerned about their health and are receptive to advice. Physicians need to remind patients who smoke of the many dangers of smoking, and encourage those who decide to stop through the long, difficult process of quitting.
- Management of acute myocardial infarction in the elderly
Because elderly patients are at greater cardiac risk than younger patients, they have more to gain from treatment. Risk-benefit analysis plays a pivotal role in treatment decision-making, since treatments may pose more risk for older patients.