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In this comparative-effectiveness trial, there was no significant difference in the overall survival rate between patients with shock who were treated with dopamine and those who were treated with norepinephrine. However, dopamine was associated with more cardiac arrhythmias and with a higher mortality rate among patients with cardiogenic shock.
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In this randomized trial of three common treatments for childhood absence epilepsy, ethosuximide and valproic acid were more effective than lamotrigine, and adverse effects on attention were less frequent with ethosuximide than with valproic acid. These findings suggest that ethosuximide has the best efficacy and safety profile.
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This community-based study of nondiabetic adults compared the prognostic value of glycated hemoglobin and fasting glucose for identifying persons at risk for clinical outcomes such as diabetes. As compared with fasting glucose, glycated hemoglobin was similarly associated with the risk of diabetes and more strongly associated with the risks of cardiovascular disease and death from any cause, adding to data about the use of glycated hemoglobin as a diagnostic measure.
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Pneumococcal infection is an important cause of death and complications in adults with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, particularly in Africa. In this placebo-controlled, randomized trial involving 496 predominantly HIV-infected Malawian adults who had recently had an invasive pneumococcal infection, the 7-valent conjugated pneumococcal vaccine was found to have 74% efficacy in preventing subsequent invasive pneumococcal infection with a vaccine-associated serotype.
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Gastroesophageal varices are present at diagnosis in almost half of patients with cirrhosis, and variceal hemorrhage continues to be a lethal complication of cirrhosis. This review explains the three main challenges in clinical management: primary prophylaxis to prevent a first episode of hemorrhage, the treatment of acute bleeding episodes, and secondary prophylaxis to prevent recurrence of variceal hemorrhage.
A 58-year-old woman presented to her primary care physician after several days of dizziness, anorexia, dry mouth, increased thirst, and frequent urination. She had also had a fever and reported that food would “get stuck” when she was swallowing. She reported no pain in her abdomen, back, or flank and no cough, shortness of breath, diarrhea, or dysuria.
The authors argue that physician practices should routinely collect data on the race and ethnic group of their patients. They caution against the use of these data to infer information about health-related values or beliefs, and they discuss the benefit of using these data at the population level to detect disparities in care and to improve the quality of care.
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The first phase of the disaster in Haiti is now ending, with hundreds of thousands of people having died from trauma. But the second phase promises to be as cruel as the first, with deaths due to exposure, starvation, and infectious diseases. Millions of ...
Even if the Democrats had kept their supermajority by retaining the Senate seat in Massachusetts, final passage of a health care reform bill would have seemed far from certain, given the major differences between the Senate and House bills. Congressional ...
