For many patients, a diagnosis of cancer is the beginning of a series of stressful events. Uncertainty about long-term prognosis, changes in work and personal relationships, and the basic unpredictability of the disease compound the anxiety and discomfort associated with treatment.
The confusion over what constitutes effective echinacea preparations for the treatment of colds and influenza is demonstrated in several recent reviews addressing this issue.
Goal: To quantify the combined impact of four well-supported health behaviors on mortality in the general community.
For many years, treatment of acute MI with ST segment elevation (STEMI) has been fibrinolytic therapy or percutaneous intervention (PCI), with the primary objective to engage patients as soon as possible after the onset of chest pain in efforts to remove or decrease thrombus burden.
Risk prediction algorithms for non-cardiac surgery and therapeutic trials have focused on the prevention of myocardial ischemic events.
Clinical features of flash pulmonary edema (PE) are poorly understood. Thus, Dal-Bianco and colleagues from the Mayo Clinic studied the records of patients coded as pulmonary edema and identified 37 patients who had first-time flash PE and an echocardiogram and a BNP level within 24 hours.
In this paper, corrado and colleagues describe the results of endocardial voltage mapping (EVM) and endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) in 27 patients with ventricular arrhythmias who were suspected to have a subtle manifestation of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia (ARVC/D).
Certain asymptomatic patients with significant aortic regurgitation (AR) and preserved left ventricular (LV) function may be at high risk for mortality.
