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Managing right ventricular failure in the setting of pulmonary embolismThe authors review current management strategies, including medical, percutaneous interventional, and surgical options, and discuss recent advances in the field.
- The beat goes on: Highlights from the new American and European A-fib guidelines
The authors discuss and compare the latest atrial fibrillation guidelines from American and European medical societies.
- What diagnostic tests should be done after discovering clubbing in a patient without cardiopulmonary symptoms?
Computed tomography of the patient’s chest is indicated based on the robust association between clubbing and intrathoracic malignancy.
- Subclinical hypothyroidism: What’s in a name?
Clinicians should remain thoughtful about the variability in aging biology and not be blinded by a name.
- 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.
- Nociplastic pain: A practical guide to chronic pain management in the primary care setting
Nociplastic pain is characterized by amplification of pain transmission and pain perception and does not involve visible tissue injury or damage, which makes it difficult to understand and manage.
- Most elderly patients with subclinical hypothyroidism do not need to be treated
Age-adjusted thyrotropin reference ranges, consideration of individual circumstances, and a wait-and-see approach for mild subclinical hypothyroidism might be more suitable than a universal treatment strategy.
- Psychedelics in the medical toolbox?
Given the historical association of psychedelics as “recreational” mind-altering compounds within countercultures of the 1960s and 1970s, their current introduction into several aspects of medical practice is a surprise to many.
