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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter: rate or rhythm control


New Articles (PubMed - not yet indexed)

Treament Outcomes (PubMed)

Age of Onset (PubMed)

Age and Outcome (PubMed)

Survivor Analysis (PubMed)

Comorbidities (PubMed)

Cost-benefit Analysis (PubMed)

Psychological Factors (PubMed)

Current Clinical Trials

National Guideline Clearinghouse

Rate vs Rhythm Control
Pub DateJournalPMIDPub TypeRhythm+Rate+No diff.
Jul-12 Comparative + 
Apr-12 22633297Systematic Review + 
May-12 22607868Comparative + 
May-12 Clinical Trial + 
Nov-11 22032709Comparative + 
Oct-11 21925051Systematic Review + 
Jun-11 21923439Comparative + 
Jul-10 20645962Retrospective + 
Dec-10 20495511Review + 
Jun-09 Comparative + 
Dec-08 19137247Review + 
Jun-08 18565859Comparative + 

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Searching for Herbal/Dietary Supplements to Treat Specific Conditions

Herbal/Dietary Supplements Search Terms:

("Phytochemicals"[MeSH] OR "Herbals as Topic"[MeSH] OR "Vitamins"[Mesh] OR "Orthomolecular Therapy"[Mesh] OR vitamins OR vitamin* OR "Dietary Supplements"[MeSH] OR "Amino Acids"[Mesh] OR "Minerals"[Mesh] OR "Functional Food"[Mesh] OR "Fungi"[Mesh] OR mushroom OR "Chemoprevention"[mh] OR "Herb-Drug Interactions"[mh] OR "Herbal Medicine"[mh] OR "Plants, Medicinal"[mh] OR "Phytotherapy"[mh] OR "Pharmacognosy"[mh] OR medicinal-plant OR medicinal-plants OR "Neoplasms/diet therapy"[MeSH] OR "Agaricales"[Mesh] OR "Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic"[mh] OR reishi OR chemoprevention OR herbal OR herb OR herbs OR phytotherapy OR pharmacognosy OR "Plant Extracts"[mh] OR plant-extract* OR phytosterol* OR phytosterol OR flavonoids OR flavinoid* OR "Flavonoids"[Mesh] OR bioflavonoid OR bioflavinoid* OR "Curcumin"[Mesh] OR curcumin* OR "resveratrol"[Substance] OR resveratrol OR "Medicine, Ayurvedic"[mh] OR ayurvedic OR "Drugs, Chinese Herbal"[Mesh] OR "Medicine, Chinese Traditional"[Mesh] OR chinese-traditional-medicine OR dietsuppl[sb] OR "Holistic Health"[Mesh] OR holistic OR "Complementary Therapies"[Mesh] OR (complementary AND (medicine OR therapy)) OR "Integrative Medicine"[Mesh] OR (complementary AND (medicine OR therapy)) OR "Acupressure"[Mesh] OR "Acupuncture Therapy"[Mesh] OR "Acupuncture"[Mesh] OR "Acupuncture, Ear"[Mesh] OR "Acupuncture Analgesia"[Mesh] OR acupuncture OR acupressure OR "Probiotics"[Mesh] OR "Micronutrients"[MeSH Terms] OR "Prebiotics"[Mesh] OR "Synbiotics"[Mesh] OR probiotic OR probiotics OR nutraceuticals OR Nutraceutical)

Example of specific condition:
Dengue"[MeSH Major Topic]

Results of combining Herbal/Dietary Supplements Search Terms with Dengue"[MeSH Major Topic]
Dengue AND Herbal/Dietary Supplements  (PubMed)

New Approaches for preventing habitual abortions?


Axial CT image indicating that the right renal pelvis
was filled with hematoma (arrow).
Mentions: A 36-year-old pregnant woman who had
previously been diagnosed with APS had received
anticoagulation treatment with 100 mg/day of aspirin
 and 12000 U/day of unfractionated heparin and had
experienced abortion twice.
  
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Clinical Trials

National Guidelines Clearinghouse

Li TC, Makris M, Tomsu M, Tuckerman E, Laird S. Hum Reprod Update. 2002 Sep-Oct;8(5):463-81. Review. PMID: 12398226 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free Article

Friday, September 21, 2012

Do Human Lungs and Urinary Bladder Have a Normal Flora?

Hot off the press 09/28/2012:
Identification of microbes in healthy lungs sheds light on cystic fibrosis
Healthy people's lungs are home to a diverse community of microbes that differs markedly from the bacteria found in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients. That's the result of new research from Stanford University and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, which has wide implications for treatment of cystic fibrosis and other lung diseases. "The lung is not a sterile organ," said David Cornfield, MD, an author of the new study, which will be published Sept. 26 in Science Translational Medicine. Eurekalert!

Urinary Bladder Metagenome (PubMed)

Wolfe AJ, Toh E, Shibata N, Rong R, Kenton K, Fitzgerald M, Mueller ER, Schreckenberger P, Dong Q, Nelson DE, Brubaker L. J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Apr;50(4):1376-83. Epub 2012 Jan 25. PMID: 22278835 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Related citations



Lung Metagenome (PubMed)

Erb-Downward JR, Thompson DL, Han MK, Freeman CM, McCloskey L, Schmidt LA, Young VB, Toews GB, Curtis JL, Sundaram B, Martinez FJ, Huffnagle GB. PLoS One. 2011 Feb 22;6(2):e16384. PMID: 21364979 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free PMC Article Related citations


Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Rotavirus Vaccines and Incidence of Intussusception


Transient, short segment intussusception
 is frequently seen on abdominal CT's.





Potential Intussusception Risk versus Benefits of Rotavirus Vaccination in the United States.
The burden of severe rotavirus disease averted due to vaccination compared with the vaccine-associated intussusception events offers a side-by-side analysis of the benefits and potential risks. If an intussusception risk similar to that seen internationally exists in the US, it is substantially exceeded by the benefits of rotavirus disease burden averted by vaccination. Desai R, Cortese MM, Meltzer MI, Shankar M, Tate JE, Yen C, Patel MM, Parashar UD. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2012 Aug 27. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 22929172

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Transitioning from IV Infusion to SubQ Insulin in Diabetic Ketoacidosis

PubMed Search
((insulin OR "Insulin"[Mesh]) AND (diabetic ketoacidosis OR "Diabetic Ketoacidosis"[Mesh]) AND (subcutaneous insulin OR "Injections, Subcutaneous"[Mesh]) AND (intravenous insulin OR "Infusions, Intravenous"[MeSH Terms])) AND ( transition* OR guidelines OR guideline OR algorithms OR algorithm OR "Drug Administration Schedule"[MeSH Terms])

Hyperglycemic crises in adult patients with diabetes  (Google Scholar)
AE Kitabchi, GE Umpierrez, MB Murphy… - Diabetes …, 2006 - Am Diabetes Assoc ... Hyperglycemic Crises in Adult Patients With Diabetes. ... Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS) are the two most serious acute metabolic ... 8). Death in these conditions is rarely due to the metabolic complications of hyperglycemia or ketoacidosis ...
Cited by 154 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 23 versions
Above 154 citations narrowed by inclusion of terms: subcutaneous intravenous ketoacidosis insulin transition OR transitional OR transitioning OR guideline OR algorithm OR guidelines OR algorithms
Results: 43 citations

Hyperglycemic crises in adult patients with diabetes (Google Scholar)
AE Kitabchi, GE Umpierrez, MB Murphy… - Diabetes …, 2006 - Am Diabetes Assoc ... Hyperglycemic Crises in Adult Patients With Diabetes. ... Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS) are the two most serious acute metabolic ... 8). Death in these conditions is rarely due to the metabolic complications of hyperglycemia or ketoacidosis ...
Cited by 154 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 23 versions
Above 154 citations narrowed by inclusion of terms: subcutaneous ketoacidosis insulin OR algorithm OR algorithms
Results: 19 citations

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Gouty Arthritis

Since colchicine is anti-inflammatory is it considered a NSAID? (MeSH)
Colchicine is considered an alkaloid not a NSAID as seen  by their classification in the MeSH.  Scroll down the MeSH links to view the hierarchical classifications in the MeSH thesaurus.

Gouty Arthritis Reviews  (Pubmed)
Limits: English, Humans, Reviews

Timing the Initial Dose of Allopurinol (Pubmed)

Allopurinol and Organ Transplants (Pubmed)

Colchicine and Organ Transplantation (Pubmed)