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A medical research unit in the United Kingdom analyzed 18 different strategies for managing patients with suspected DVT.
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The SPARCL study showed that 80 mg per day of atorvastatin reduced the overall incidence of recurrent stroke, and a meta-analysis of several large studies of ACE inhibitors showed a reduction in all stroke types, as well as a reduction in overall cardiovascular mortality.
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Three days of amoxicillin is as effective as five for mild-to-moderately severe community-acquired pneumonia.
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In this report, Sauer and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania describe the prevalence, significance, and management strategy for patients who have AV node reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) in association with atrial fibrillation (AF).
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At the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, laboratory-based surveillance of coagulase-negative staphylococci found that 4% were linezolid resistant.
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Active migraine with aura increases risk of myocardial infarction, coronary revascularization, and angina, as well as ischemic stroke. Active migraine without aura and non-migraine headaches are not associated with increased vascular risk.
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This retrospective 'real-life' single-center study found that therapeutic hypothermia could be readily implemented and that it improved outcomes in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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In a selected population of patients with known COPD who were hospitalized with acute worsening of respiratory symptoms but did not have usual signs of an infection or other specific process, 25% were found to have pulmonary embolism.
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In a prospective, observational study of 444 patients, there were no cases of symptomatic pulmonary embolus, and postphlebitic syndrome occurred infrequently.
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Rescue PCI in the setting of early fibrinolytic failure improves mortality, but this is tempered by a possible increase in the risk of thromboembolic stroke.