Archivi categoria: Articoli per Medici

Screening for Occult Cancer in Unprovoked Venous Thromboembolism

Screening for Occult Cancer in Unprovoked Venous Thromboembolism
Marc Carrier, M.D., Alejandro Lazo-Langner, M.D., Sudeep Shivakumar, M.D., Vicky Tagalakis, M.D., Ryan Zarychanski, M.D., Susan Solymoss, M.D., Nathalie Routhier, M.D., James Douketis, M.D., Kim Danovitch, C.C.R.P., Agnes Y. Lee, M.D., Gregoire Le Gal, M.D., Philip S. Wells, M.D., Daniel J. Corsi, Ph.D., Timothy Ramsay, Ph.D., Doug Coyle, Ph.D., Isabelle Chagnon, M.D., Zahra Kassam, M.D., Hardy Tao, M.D., and Marc A. Rodger, M.D. for the SOME Investigators
N Engl J Med 2015; 373:697-704August 20, 2015DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1506623

Perioperative Bridging Anticoagulation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Perioperative Bridging Anticoagulation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

James D. Douketis, M.D., Alex C. Spyropoulos, M.D., Scott Kaatz, D.O., Richard C. Becker, M.D., Joseph A. Caprini, M.D., Andrew S. Dunn, M.D., David A. Garcia, M.D., Alan Jacobson, M.D., Amir K. Jaffer, M.D., M.B.A., David F. Kong, M.D., Sam Schulman, M.D., Ph.D., Alexander G.G. Turpie, M.B., Vic Hasselblad, Ph.D., and Thomas L. Ortel, M.D., Ph.D. for the BRIDGE Investigators
N Engl J Med 2015; 373:823-833August 27, 2015DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1501035

Mortality Associated With Medical Therapy Versus Elective Colectomy in Ulcerative Colitis

Mortality Associated With Medical Therapy Versus Elective Colectomy in Ulcerative Colitis

Meenakshi Bewtra, MD, MPH, PhD; Craig W. Newcomb, MS; Qufei Wu, MS; Lang Chen, PhD; Fenglong Xie, MS; Jason A. Roy, PhD; Cary B. Aarons, MD; Mark T. Osterman, MD, MSCE; Kimberly A. Forde, MD, MHS; Jeffrey R. Curtis, MD, MS, MPH; and James D. Lewis, MD, MSCE

Corticosteroid Therapy for Patients Hospitalized With Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Corticosteroid Therapy for Patients Hospitalized With Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Reed A.C. Siemieniuk, MD; Maureen O. Meade, MD; Pablo Alonso-Coello, MD, PhD; Matthias Briel, MD, MSc; Nathan Evaniew, MD; Manya Prasad, MBBS; Paul E. Alexander, MSc, PhD; Yutong Fei, MD, PhD; Per O. Vandvik, MD, PhD; Mark Loeb, MD, MSc; and Gordon H. Guyatt, MD, MSc

Metformin use and mortality in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease

Metformin use and mortality in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease: national, retrospective, observational, cohort study

Szu-Chun Hung, MD, Yu-Kang Chang, PhD, Jia-Sin Liu, MS, Ko-Lin Kuo, MD, Yu-Hsin Chen, MD, Prof Chih-Cheng Hsu, MDcorrespondenceemail, Prof Der-Cherng Tarng, MDcorrespondenceemail
Published Online: 17 June 2015

Troponin and Cardiac Events in Stable Ischemic Heart Disease and Diabetes

Troponin and Cardiac Events in Stable Ischemic Heart Disease and Diabetes

Brendan M. Everett, M.D., M.P.H., Maria Mori Brooks, Ph.D., Helen E.A. Vlachos, M.S., Bernard R. Chaitman, M.D., Robert L. Frye, M.D., and Deepak L. Bhatt, M.D., M.P.H. for the BARI 2D Study Group
N Engl J Med 2015; 373:610-620August 13, 2015DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1415921

The Obesity Paradox in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

The Obesity Paradox in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus:Relationship of Body Mass Index to Prognosis: A Cohort Study

Pierluigi Costanzo, MD, MSc; John G.F. Cleland, MD; Pierpaolo Pellicori, MD; Andrew L. Clark, MD; David Hepburn, MD; Eric S. Kilpatrick, MD; Pasquale Perrone-Filardi, MD, PhD; Jufen Zhang, MSc, PhD; and Stephen L. Atkin, MD, PhD
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Ann Intern Med. 2015;162(9):610-618. doi:10.7326/M14-1551

Excess Risk for Intracranial Hemorrhage with Concurrent Antidepressants and NSAIDs – See more at: http://www.jwatch.org/na38510/2015/07/30/excess-risk-intracranial-hemorrhage-with-concurrent#sthash.8u66LqGv.dpuf

Excess Risk for Intracranial Hemorrhage with Concurrent Antidepressants and NSAIDs –

Paul S. Mueller, MD, MPH, FACP reviewing Shin J-Y et al. BMJ 2015. Mercer SW et al. BMJ 2015. – See more at: http://www.jwatch.org/na38510/2015/07/30/excess-risk-intracranial-hemorrhage-with-concurrent

 

 

Does a single dose of intravenous dexamethasone reduce Symptoms in Emergency department patients with low Back pain and RAdiculopathy (SEBRA)?

Does a single dose of intravenous dexamethasone reduce Symptoms in Emergency department patients with low Back pain and RAdiculopathy (SEBRA)?

 

Emerg Med J 2015;32:525-530 doi:10.1136/emermed-2013-203490
Original article

Ravichandra Balakrishnamoorthy1,2, Isabelle Horgan1,3, Siegfried Perez4, Michael Craig Steele5,6, Gerben B Keijzers4,7,8