NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared with unfractionated heparin, bivalirudin used for anticoagulation in unselected patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention is associated with less bleeding after 1 month…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The question of whether or not to add steroids to the treatment of pneumococcal meningitis seems to have been answered affirmatively by the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In recipients of drug-eluting coronary stents who undergo a major noncardiac surgical procedure some months later, the risk of adverse outcomes is less…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Once a diagnosis of tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (TB-IRIS) is confirmed in HIV patients being treated with antiretroviral therapy, a course of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Left ventricular thrombus is still quite a frequent finding in patients with an anterior wall MI who have been treated by percutaneous coronary…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with NYHA class I or II heart failure benefit from spironolactone therapy as well as those with class III or IV HF,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Trauma patients transfused with ABO-compatible plasma have a higher rate of complications such as sepsis and renal failure than patients given ABO-identical plasma,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Whether appendectomy for acute appendicitis is performed within 6 hours or more than 12 hours after admission has no clinically meaningful effect on…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with pulmonary hyperinflation due to advanced emphysema have a modest improvement in lung function and exercise tolerance after placement of endobronchial valves…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – General surgery patients with elevated blood glucose levels after the operation have an increased risk of developing an infection at the surgical site,…