Internal Medicine Alert – May 30, 2020
May 30, 2020
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Empiric Anti-MRSA Therapy in Pneumonia May Not Always Be a Good Idea
In a retrospective cohort study, empiric anti-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus treatment was not associated with a reduction in mortality in any subgroup of patients studied and appeared to cause harm in many.
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For Knee Arthritis: Physical Therapy or the Needle?
In a small, randomized, controlled trial of patients with knee osteoarthritis, those who received physical therapy reported less pain and functional disability at one year than those who received one or more glucocorticoid intra-articular injections. -
Heart Failure Confers Increased Risk of Venous Thromboembolic Events
In the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) cohort, incident heart failure hospitalization with either preserved or reduced ejection fraction was associated with long-term increased risk of venous thromboembolic events.
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Estrogen Replacement: Is Long Duration of Therapy Good for the Brain?
Longer lifetime exposure to endogenous estrogen and menopausal estrogen replacement were associated with better cognitive status in older adult women.
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Tucatinib Tablets (Tukysa)
Tucatinib should be prescribed in combination with trastuzumab and capecitabine to treat adults with advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.