NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Very elderly patients, perhaps up to 100 years old, with acute ischemic stroke benefit from timely thrombolytic therapy to the same degree as…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of in vitro testing indicate that silver impregnation of urinary catheters has little effect on bacterial adherence, reinforcing findings from clinical studies…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combined multichannel intraluminal impedance monitoring (MII) and pH monitoring in the esophagus detects gastroesophageal reflux (GER) in children more accurately than pH monitoring…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients who develop acute renal failure (ARF) after undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting have a poorer prognosis if the condition doesn’t resolve within…
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Chronic Chagas disease in the elderly doubles their risk of dying from a stroke, and the risk is increased further in those with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After first-line treatment with bevacizumab plus interferon-alpha2a, subsequent therapy with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) improves survival in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The patency of saphenous veins used for coronary artery bypass grafting is better in the 3 months after the operation when patients are…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Stent fractures are not always associated with clinical sequelae, but they do increase the likelihood of in-stent restenosis (ISR) and target lesion revascularization…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with major depressive disorder respond faster to treatment with citalopram when given pindolol concomitantly, and the strategy also increases the rate of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) used to prevent sudden cardiac death in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction significantly improve survival in younger patients, but…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding midazolam to ketamine for emergency department sedation in adults reduces the occurrence of agitation during recovery, investigators report in the Annals of…
