Blood Lipids and Stroke: What M ...
Statin therapy has became the most important advance in stroke prevention since the introduction of aspirin and blood pressure–lowering therapies. O ...
Are Cardiovascular Benefits in ...
Statins reduce coronary heart disease (CHD) morbidity and mortality over a wide range of patients. The Justification for the Use of Statins in Preve ...
The Role of Cardiac MR in New-O ...
In patients with heart failure, cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) allows a multifaceted approach to cardiac evaluation by enabling an ...
Thromboembolic Risk and Anticoa ...
Periprocedural thromboembolic and hemorrhagic events are complications of percutaneous radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFA) of atrial fibrillation ...
Pharmacologic Stress Using Sele ...
Adenosine and dipyridamole are nonselective A2A adenosine receptor agonists that provide reproducible coronary vasodilation thereby inducing flow di ...
An Update on the Biology of RAS ...
Deaths caused by colorectal cancer (CRC) are among the leading causes of cancer-related death in the United States and around the world. Approximate ...
Technical Advances in Getting t ...
Clinical demand for colonoscopy has increased with the introduction of colorectal cancer screening worldwide. The goal is a complete, comfortable, a ...
Biological Markers in Patients ...
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignancies in the Westernized world. Particularly in the setting of metastatic disease, advances in th ...
Definitions and Epidemiology of ...
Antifungal susceptibility testing of Candida against the echinocandin antifungal agents (anidulafungin [ANF], caspofungin [CSF], micafungin [MCF]) h ...
Management of Refractory Ascite ...
One of the most common manifestations of the development of portal hypertension in the patient with cirrhosis is the appearance of ascites. Once asc ...
Surgery for Portal Hypertension ...
Management of children with portal hypertension has evolved considerably over the past decades. Development of physiologic shunts (meso-Rex bypass) ...
Aldosterone-Receptor Antagonist ...
The recent publication of the Eplerenone in Mild Patients Hospitalization and Survival Study in Heart Failure (EMPHASIS-HF) has affirmed the importa ...
Newer Applications of Nuclear C ...
Radionuclide-based imaging techniques can be applied to the heart failure population to derive clinically useful information. This review discusses ...
The Emerging Role of Histone De ...
T-cell lymphomas are an uncommon and heterogeneous group of non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Historically, therapies for these diseases have been borrowed fro ...
Hepatitis C Virus and End Stage ...
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the leading causes of chronic liver disease in the world. It is particularly common in patients with end-stage ren ...
Estimation of Glomerular Filtra ...
Because of the high prevalence of chronic kidney disease, estimation of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is necessary to diagnose, stage, and fo ...
Coupling Between Respiratory an ...
Enhanced sympathetic outflow to the heart and resistance vessels greatly contributes to the onset and maintenance of neurogenic hypertension. There ...
Current Status of Nonantibiotic ...
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a leading cause of nosocomial infections and the most important cause of health care-associated diarrhea wo ...
The Sleep Manifestations of Fro ...
Frontal lobe seizures have a tendency to occur from sleep, and in some cases occur exclusively (or almost exclusively) from sleep; these individuals ...
Emerging Therapeutic Targets fo ...
Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) are malignancies of mesenchymal origin that represent approximately 1% of cancers in adults. Systematic research into the ...
FoxOs: Unifying Links Between O ...
Several mechanisms contribute to the decline of all physiologic functions during aging. As a consequence, disease incidence increases with age. Cent ...
Understanding Multisymptom Pres ...
Patients presenting with chronic pelvic pain frequently complain of multiple symptoms that appear to involve more than one organ system, creating di ...
Use of Hydroxychloroquine to Pr ...
Hydroxychloroquine is used extensively in the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus, not only for its benefit for cutaneous and musculoskeletal ...
Selection of a Port for Use in ...
Laparoendoscopic single-site surgery (LESS) is a novel technique that aims to perform abdominal surgery through a single incision. Various access te ...
Antioxidant Properties of Probi ...
Radiation therapy has become one of the most important treatment modalities for human malignancy, but certain immediate and delayed side-effects on ...