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Sixty-four patients with alcoholic neuropathy (ALN), comprising 36 without thiamine deficiency and 28 with thiamine deficiency (ALN-TD), were compared to 32 nonalcoholic, thiamine-deficiency neuropathy patients to establish whether clinical and pathological features were similar in the 2 groups and to determine how thiamine deficiency related to ALN.
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Berger and colleagues studied 103 patients presenting with a clinically isolated demyelinating syndrome, positive findings on brain MRI, and positive oligoclonal bands in the CSF.
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This study examined whether consumption of fish had any effect on the risk of developing Alzheimers disease.
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Part I of this two-part series covered gastrointestinal causes of chest pain and aortic dissection. This second and final part of the series will focus on pulmonary, psychiatric, and musculoskeletal causes of chest pain.
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In the Dechend study, German investigators examined the role of Chlamydia pneumoniae in the atherosclerotic inflammatory process, based on previous studies indicating that this organism can be cultured from coronary atheromata.
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Pappone and colleagues present an observational study evaluating the efficacy of their laboratorys technique for pulmonary vein isolation.
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Mitchell and colleagues examined the association between therapy with lipid-lowering drugs and recurrent arrhythmias in the Antiarrhythmics Versus Implantable Defibrillators trial.
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Although mitral valve repair for mitral regurgitation is gaining in popularity, there are little comparative data with mitral valve replacement. Thus, Thourani and colleagues performed a case-controlled observational study of the Emory University Hospitals surgical database, matching 625 patients undergoing mitral valve repair with 625 undergoing mitral valve replacement from 1984 to 1997.
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The Task Force on Valvular Regurgitation of the American Society of Echocardiography, in conjunction with the ACC, AHA, and ESC, has published recommendations for evaluating the severity of native valvular regurgitation by echocardiography. Unfortunately, the task force did not come up with a simple foolproof system.