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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement
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Pharmacology Watch
Patients with peripheral artery disease are at high risk for cardiovascular complications. Antiplatelet drugs are routinely prescribed for these patients, but is adding an oral anticoagulant of value? -
Vulnerable Plaques by CT
The increasing use of 64-slice computed tomography or MSCT is beginning to significantly impact the medical literature. -
Management of Ventricular Arrhythmias in ARVD/C
Dalal and his colleagues describe data from the Johns Hopkins Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C) registry concerning the efficacy of catheter ablation for ventricular tachycardia (VT) in this condition. -
ICDs for HCM
This report describes a large group of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who underwent implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation at 42 referral and nonreferral institutions in the United States, Europe and Australia. -
Aliskiren and Valsartan for Hypertension
Aliskiren is a new class of drugs that directly inhibit renin and is approved in the U.S.A. for the treatment of hypertension. Valsartan is the best selling antihypertensive medication in the world. -
Full September 1, 2007 Issue in PDF
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Trauma Reports for September/October 2007
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CMS/Joint Commission Hospital Quality Measures—Is It the Federal Grade for Quality?
This issue of Emergency Medicine Reports is devoted to increasing your understanding of these measures and the role they will play in your practice.