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- Clinical implications of the interaction between hypothyroidism and the cardiovascular system
Hypothyroidism frequently causes cardiovascular manifestations that can complicate treatment of both the hypothyroidism and any underlying cardiovascular disease.
- Reperfusion for acute myocardial infarction: 1997 and beyond
The optimal thrombolytic therapy will be a cocktail of several thrombolytic, antithrombotic, and antiplatelet agents, each of which attacks different pathways of clot formation.
- Experiences of a sleep disorders center: 1700 patients later
Sleep studies reveal many patients to have specific sleep abnormalities different from what might be suspected from the clinical history.
- Nonresolving alveolar infiltrates in a 43-year-old woman
A 43-year-old woman presents with a 1-year history of intermittent nonproductive cough. What is the diagnosis and treatment?
- When and how to use serum tumor markers in clinical practice
Clinicians have long wanted a simple test sensitive enough to detect cancer in its early stages, yet specific enough to not produce false-positive results. Unfortunately, no such ideal test exists, or is likely to.
- The constitutionality of physician-assisted suicide: the cases and issues before the US Supreme Court
How the Court rules on physician-assisted suicide will spur further legal debate for decades.
- Every action causes a reaction: the inevitable backlash against managed care
We should be wary of getting carried away with HMO-bashing, lest we create a nightmarish system that has all the limited choices of managed care—without reducing costs.