Latest Articles
- Diagnosing primary osteoporosis: It’s more than a T score
In the end, the physician—not the machine—diagnoses osteoporosis.
- ERCP: Current uses and less-invasive options
Because ERCP can cause pancreatitis, newer options have replaced it for patients who have a low pretest probability of bile duct stones.
- Addressing the challenges of cardiorenal syndrome
Cardiorenal syndrome—the spiral of worsening heart falure and kidney failure—is only beginning to receive the attention it deserves.
- ‘Just listen to the patient’
Sometimes our patients really do tell us exactly what they have, if we listen with a prepared mind.
- A young woman withan eroded plaque on the hand
She has a painful, inflamed eroded plaque at the previous site of an intravenous catheter. She is afebrile, and blood cultures and tissue cultures are negative.
- The optimal revascularization strategy for multivessel coronary artery disease: The debate continues
In contrast to previous studies, a study from a large New York registry found that mortality rates were lower among patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) than among similar patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). What are we to believe?
- A middle-aged woman with chronic liver disease and shortness of breath
Her dyspnea has worsened in the last 3 months and is worse when she assumes the upright position. What is the cause?
- CABG OR PCI? An Interventional Cardiologist’s Perspective
Neither the New York study nor Dr. Casserly provides a plausible explanation for why CABG might offer a survival advantage.