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Of 26 mechanically ventilated patients, 22 developed bacterial lower respiratory tract colonization, and in 15 patients anaerobes were recovered; 2 of 5 patients diagnosed with ventilator-associated pneumonia had anaerobes present in sufficient quantity to suggest that they were considered pathogenic.
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Genetic investigations have made considerable progress in identifying mutations associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The identification of genetic alterations in patients with sporadic ALS, however, has lagged behind. The present study is a major advance in investigating the etiology of ALS.
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This study suggests that the risk conferred by an inherited thrombophilia for ischemic stroke is likely to be low overall and almost nonexistent in some ethnic groups such as individuals of African or African-Caribbean descent.
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Stroke with no determined cause, or cryptogenic stroke (CS), accounts for nearly 40% of all ischemic strokes. Traditionally, it has been held that CS carries a more benign prognosis than other stroke subtypes. However, until this recent study, the long-term risk of recurrent stroke in this large segment of the stroke population had never been prospectively studied.
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A Strategy to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease by More Than 80 Percent;
Pearly Penile Papules: Still No Reason for Uneasiness; The Epidemiology
of Major Depressive Disorder; Urinary Tetrahydroaldosterone as a Screen
for Aldosteronism; Finasteride and Prostate Cancer; Impermeable Bed
Covers in Patients with Allergic Rhinitis
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The FDA has approved vardenafil (LevitraBayer and GlaxoSmithKline) for
the treatment of erectile dysfunction in men. Vardenafil joins
sildenafil (Viagra) as the only 2 drugs approved for this indication in
this country.
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In the present article, Thomalla and colleagues report on the predictive value of early perfusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging within 6 hours of stroke onset in 37 patients with MCA stroke and a proximal vessel occlusion, either the carotid-T or MCA stem.
