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Fractures and bisphosphonate therapy, warfarin anticoagulation and influenza vaccine and cotrimoxazole, antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel and aspirin, FDA Actions.
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Patients with acute joint pain present a diagnostic dilemma for many emergency physicians. Classically the joints are hot, swollen, and tender, with reduced range of motion. The differential diagnosis for the painful joint is extensive.
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Coronary Calcium Scores enhance risk prediction; Exacerbations of COPD: Not so innocent; Vitamin E, but not pioglitazone, improves NASH; Best use of home BP monitoring; Suicide risk with anticonvulsants; For type 2 diabetes, after metformin, what next?
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Asymptomatic pulmonary embolism is quite common among patients with deep venous thrombosis. In many instances in these patients, the pulmonary emboli are located within the central pulmonary arteries.
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In patients with cardiovascular disease, light-to- moderate alcohol consumption is significantly associated with a lower incidence of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality.
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Rapid identification and diagnosis of patients with TIA is important to prevent subsequent stroke, which occurs in about 10% of all TIA patients in the 90 days following TIA.
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Higher tissue sodium concentrations were present in multiple sclerosis patients as compared to healthy controls. In patients, sodium levels within lesions corresponded to lesion volumes and grey matter sodium levels were negatively associated with grey matter volume.
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In children, CIDP is less common than in adults, but has a better long-tern prognosis.