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- Accuracy and predictive values in clinical decision-making
The accuracy and predictive value of a diagnostic test may differ substantially between research and clinical populations, owing to differences in disease prevalence. The article suggests ways researchers could end the confusion.
- Asthma: current controversies and emerging therapies
Anti-inflammatory drugs for maintenance therapy, use of beta agonists, emergency management, immunotherapy, and newer therapies.
- 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.