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Ernst and colleagues from St. George Hospital in Hamburg, Germany describe a new technique for positioning and manipulating ablation catheters during electrophysiologic studies. The system is a remote magnetic navigation system, which uses 2 permanent magnets to move a specially designed catheter.
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The diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE) remains a challenge. Thus, these investigators from Basel, Switzerland hypothesized that a marker of systemic bacterial infection such as procalcitonin may help. In 67 consecutive patients with clinical suspicion of IE, a multidisciplinary team applied the Duke criteria to make the diagnosis of IE in 21 patients.
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In this cross-sectional population based study from California, it is apparent that screening is currently applied to older women without consideration of health status.
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Seizures should be a red flag to consider treatment to modify stroke risk.
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The FDA has approved another rapid-acting insulin to cover mealtime blood sugar spikes.
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Herbal medication use is quite common among surgical patients. This pattern is consistent with the recent substantial increase in the use of alternative medical therapies.
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In a prospective, randomized trial, primary excision of colorectal carcinomas by laparoscopic surgery was compared with laparotomy.
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Although PPIs are considered to be among the safest of drugs, these studies suggest that PPIs increase the risk for hospitalized patients to develop C. difficile-related diarrhea.
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FDA has approved a 5-nitroimidazole for the treatment of trichomoniasis, giardiasis, and amebiasis. Tinidazole, a second-generation nitroimidazole antiprotozoal agent, is marketed as TindamaxTM by Presutti Laboratories.