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The ECG shown above was obtained from a 54-year-old woman with shortness of breath. What pulmonary findings on ECG might explain her symptoms?
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Middle-aged men who are overweight or obese, with or without the metabolic syndrome, are at increased risk for cardiovascular events and total death.
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For low back pain management, the usual care recommended by general practitioners does not follow evidence-based guidelines and does not provide best outcomes; this has not improved over time.
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Adding a muscle relaxer to an NSAID added no benefit in acute neck strain.
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FDA is reviewing safety of TZDs; SSRI use with tamoxifen; Metformin smells like fish; FDA Actions.
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The authors sent a survey questionnaire to almost 800 hospices. Responses were obtained from 414. The survey asked an administrator whether or not their facility had admitted patients with active ICDs, whether any of these patients had been shocked in the past year, and whether any patient had received multiple shocks.
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Natriuretic peptide levels (BNP, NT-proBNP) are of prognostic value in general populations, but whether they add information to other known risk factors for cardiovascular outcomes is less clear.
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Calcific aortic stenosis (AS) in older subjects is an important problem, but should the aortic valve be replaced? It is widely accepted that severe symptomatic AS patients should be seriously, even urgently, considered for AV replacement, particularly if there is evidence of early heart failure.
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Patients presenting with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) often have co-existing lesions in the non-infarct arteries (i.e., they have multi-vessel disease).