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June 01, 2006; Volume 73,Issue 6

  1. Aneja, Ashish

    1. Should beta-blockers be discontinued when a patient is admitted to the hospital with acutely decompensated heart failure?
      Wassim H. Fares, MD and Ashish Aneja, MD
      Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2006, 73 (6) 557-559;

      Hard data on this topic are scant, but the answer depends on the patient’s perfusion status and vital signs.

  2. Askari, Arman

    1. An elderly man with syncope caused by right ventricular infarction and anomalous coronary vasculature
      Yuli Kim, MD, Thomas H. Wang, MD, Arman Askari, MD and Marc S. Penn, MD, PhD
      Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2006, 73 (6) 527-536;

      Up to half of inferior infarctions involve the right ventricle. Typical signs of right ventricular infarction include hypotension, jugular venous distention, clear lung fields, ST-segment depression in V1 and V2, and elevations in V3R and V4R.

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