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The 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation clarify previous recommendations for anticoagulation to prevent other thromboembolic events.
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In ACS patients without persistent ST-segment elevation, there is a strong, consistent, temporal, and dose-related association between bleeding and death.
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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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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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Three days of amoxicillin is as effective as five for mild-to-moderately severe community-acquired pneumonia.
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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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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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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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Pregnancy is a prothrombotic state which is rarely associated with ischemic arterial stroke. However, when a stroke occurs, especially in later pregnancy, the options for therapy may be limited.
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Time to primary PCI is strongly associated with mortality risk and is important regardless of time from symptom onset to presentation and regardless of baseline risk of mortality.
