Author: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business News Statin therapy that includes evolocumab can help patients with stable atherosclerosis decrease their risk of undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The authors tracked data from more than 1,700 patients […]
Read MoreDG Alerts Among patients hospitalised with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who were not receiving mechanical ventilation, transfusion of plasma with higher anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) immunoglobulin (Ig)G antibody levels was associated with a lower risk of death than transfusion of plasma with lower antibody levels, finds a study published in The New England […]
Read MoreDG Journal Club Takuro Endo, Taku Sugawara et al. BMJ Case Rep. 2021 Jan 5; 14(1): A 67-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of pain in his right buttock and lower limb. MRI depicted right L5/S1 lateral recess stenosis requiring surgical treatment; however, preoperative CT showed an approximately 7 cm long, thin, rod-shaped structure […]
Read MoreDG Journal Club Thomas Schmoch, Christine Jungk et al. Neurosurg Rev. 2020 Dec Recent data suggest that the type of anesthesia used during the resection of solid tumors impacts the long-term survival of patients favoring total-intravenous-anesthesia (TIVA) over inhalative-anesthesia (INHA). Here we sought to query this impact on survival in patients undergoing resection of glioblastoma […]
Read MoreDG Journal Club Akira Hashimoto, Motoki Sonohata et al. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2021 Jan 6; 22(1): 19 BACKGROUND Of late, periarticular analgesic injection (PAI) has become a common alternative treatment for pain following total hip arthroplasty (THA). However, the systemic effects of PAI containing corticosteroids in patients subjected to THA have not been investigated. This […]
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