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Adequate venous drainage of brain parenchyma is essential to maintain cerebral perfusion and clearance of cerebrospinal fluid. The cortical vein opacification score (COVES) is a radiographic metric ...

Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada (C.S., K.J.R). Centre for Infection, Immunity ...

Current guidelines lack recommendations regarding the use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) for preventing upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) among patients at low risk for UGIB treated with dual ...

This article focuses on multimorbidity in stroke. Stroke survivors commonly have comorbid conditions, 12 and these may arise due to a variety of biopsychosocial reasons. Many concomitant conditions ...

Level of Evidence: C=Limited populations evaluated. Only consensus opinion of experts, case studies, or standard of care; Fair=Benefits exceed the harms but quality of evidence is not as strong; 1+ = ...

Arterial and venous thromboembolism are leading causes of morbidity and death worldwide. Despite significant advances in the diagnosis, prognostication, and treatment of thrombotic diseases over the ...

Constrictive pericardial disease, selected forms of congenital heart disease, inflow obstruction, primary myocardial disease, and pressure or volume overload are each well-described causes of adverse ...

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Figure 1. Cause of death in prevalent dialysis patients in the United States, 2005 to 2007. 1 AMI indicates acute myocardial infarction; CHF, congestive heart failure; CVA, cerebrovascular accident.

The optimal grading scale must demonstrate (1) a strong correlation with clinical outcome, (2) simplicity and feasibility of scale interpretation while ensuring characterization of relevant ...

A short A-V conduction time, whether present with normal or with abnormal QRS complex, is associated with an increased incidence of paroxysmal rapid heart action. There are a considerable number of ...