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Multimodal brain imaging demonstrates extensive frontostriatal dysfunction in mild cognitive impairment in early Parkinson's disease.
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An alternate-day steroid protocol appears to be just as efficacious as every-day steroids over the long term in a group of patients with undifferentiated polymyositis, with less serious long-term side effects.
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In this well-designed, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of antioxidant supplements for Alzheimer's disease, there was no benefit, and some agents were associated with worse outcome.
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Knowledge of pediatric-specific antimicrobial susceptibility data improves prescribing selections of empiric antibiotic treatment. Providers should advocate for availability of pediatric-specific antimicrobial susceptibility data wherever practical.
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The authors conclude that in patients hospitalized with myocardial infarction, women were more likely than men to present without chest pain and had higher mortality than men within the same age group.
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Three patients with multiple recurrences of C. difficile infection who were on prolonged maintenance therapy with low-dose vancomycin were treated with a standard course of fidaxomicin. Two had no further recurrences, and one recurred three months later following a course of levofloxacin.
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In a nursing home-eligible population with a mean age of 80, those with a HbA1c between 8% and 8.9% had less functional decline than those with a HbA1c of 7% to 7.9%.
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An investigation initiated after a clinician reported to the Tennessee Department of Health on Sept. 18, 2012, the case of a patient who developed meningitis due to Aspergillus fumigatus after having received an epidural corticosteroid injection at an ambulatory surgical center quickly identified a number of other suspect cases.1