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- Surgeon’s Skill Key to Ovarian Cancer Management
No good screening test exists for ovarian cancer, yet women are being advised to demand screening.
- Noninfectious respiratory disease in pregnancy
BACKGROUND Pregnancy increases the risk of many noninfectious respiratory conditions.
OBJECTIVE To review the clinical presentation and management of a variety of noninfectious respiratory conditions in pregnant women.
SUMMARY Asthma, aspiration pneumonia, venous air embolism, adult respiratory distress syndrome, pulmonary embolism, and deep venous thrombosis may have unique features in pregnant women.
CONCLUSIONS Evaluation and treatment of these diseases and conditions requires an understanding of the normal physiologic alterations that accompany pregnancy and an awareness of the risks of medication use during pregnancy and in the postpartum period.
- Monoamine oxidase inhibitors and elective surgery
This retrospective study of 32 patients challenges the notion that use of these agents is a contraindication for elective surgery.
- Potential molecular therapy for acute renal failure
As more is learned about renal epithelial cell regeneration and differentiation, exogenously administered growth promoters seem a likely intervention.
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Defining the etiology of dyspnea, evaluating impairment, and assessing the response to therapy are among the current indications.
- Efficacy of beta blockade, thrombolytic therapy, and coronary angioplasty in diabetic patients with coronary artery disease
Determining the effectiveness of these interventions in diabetic patients has received little attention, despite the association of diabetes with increased mortality from coronary artery disease.
- Cushing’s syndrome: easy to see, tricky to diagnose
The difficulty lies in determining whether the syndrome has a pituitary or nonpituitary cause.