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Small individuals and women are at risk for RPH and high femoral artery sticks are associated with this complication.
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Routine daily transtelephonic ECG monitoring detects often asymptomatic arrhythmia episodes in a significant proportion of patients after radiofrequency ablation.
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The data provide a picture of the evolving status of catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation in the period of 1995 through 2002.
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There is a 6% incidence of IMH among patients presenting as acute aortic syndromes and it is as lethal as AD, especially in the ascending aorta and, thus, surgery should be considered for patients with type A IMH.
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Quantitating mitral regurgitation by echocardiography predicts clinical outcomes and those with an EROA of at least 40 mm2 should be considered for surgery.
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There has been enormous controversy regarding the benefit/safety relationship of the COX-2 inhibitors, which were initially introduced in 1999. Recent issues of the New England Journal of Medicine contain numerous articles (3 original reports, 2 editorials) that deal with this complex and unhappy story.
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Entecavir is a nucleoside analog approved for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B viremia. It has demonstrated antiviral activity against both wild-type and lamivudine-resistant virus.
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Celiac disease was found in 3.4% of patients with osteoporosis, compared to 0.2% without. Treatment with a gluten-free diet improved bone density scores. This study postulates that this prevalence justifies serologic screening for celiac disease in all patients with osteoporosis.
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Hip fractures occur 2-4 times more commonly in persons who have sustained a stroke than in an age-matched population.