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Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy adds complications
Major finding: The percentage of patients experiencing any complications was 29% for patients who had a unilateral mastectomy, compared with 42%...
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Bariatric surgery reduces mortality in obese diabetic patients
Major finding: Weight loss in the first year following bariatric surgery ranges from about 30 kg to more than 50 kg, and the surgery can reduce...
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Noninvasive ventilation safe in general, but not for CAP
Major finding: Patients started on NIV in general wards had a significantly lower incidence of intubation (14.5% vs. 47.3%) and shorter length of...
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Beta-2 agonists don't reduce mortality from ARDS
Major finding: The relative risk for 28-day mortality for patients on beta-2 agonists was 1.04, and was not significant.Data source: Systematic...
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Genotyping yields clues to treatment-related toxicity and mortality
Major Finding: Among children with acute myeloid leukemia, 43% of those of Asian ancestry who did not carry the rs16754 single-nucleotide...
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Ulnar length can predict optimal endotracheal tube depth
Major finding: Optimal depth of endotracheal tube insertion in centimeters equals 0.75 times ulnar length in centimeters plus 4.4.Data source:...
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Ventilation in ED may cause acute lung injury
Major finding: Median tidal volume delivered to mechanically ventilated patients in the ED was 8.8 mg/kg per IBW, above the recommended upper...
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Fewer acute GvHD cases after stem-cell transplant with vorinostat
Major Finding: The cumulative incidence of grade 2-4 acute graft-versus-host disease at day 100 after hematopoietic stem-cell transplant was 22%...
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Anticoagulant dabigatran ups the required dose of heparin
Major finding: Of 38 patients prescribed dabigatran during their hospital stay, 5 (13%) received it for unlabeled indications.Data source: A...
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PET projects treatment response in adult Hodgkin's disease
Major Finding: Among patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma whose PET scans were negative for residual disease following three cycles of ABVD...