Daily Archives: March 14, 2018

Wed, March 14 – 10 Stories of The Day!

14 Mar, 2018 | 00:22h | UTC

 

1 – Endovascular treatment for acute ischaemic stroke in routine clinical practice: prospective, observational cohort study (MR CLEAN Registry) – The BMJ (free)

Related guideline: 2018 Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Guideline for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association (free PDF) AND Summary for ED-relevant care: 2018 AHA/ASA Ischemic Stroke Updates – emDocs (free)

“In routine clinical practice, endovascular treatment for patients with acute ischemic stroke is at least as effective and safe as in the setting of a randomized controlled trial”.

 

2 – Editorial: Dialysis Modality Survival Comparison: Time to End the Debate, It’s a Tie – American Journal of Kidney Diseases (free)

Related commentary: PD or HD: Which Road Do We Take? – AJKD Blog (free)

Original article: Comparison of Patient Survival Between Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis Among Patients Eligible for Both Modalities – American Journal of Kidney Diseases (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Source: Hemodialysis vs. Peritoneal Dialysis for End-Stage Renal Disease – NEJM Journal Watch ($)

 

3 – Low-level lead exposure and mortality in US adults: a population-based cohort study – The Lancet Public Health (free)

Commentaries: Lead and the heart: an ancient metal’s contribution to modern disease – The Lancet Public Health (free) AND Lead exposure may be linked to 412,000 premature US deaths yearly, study says – The Guardian (free) AND Lead and CDV deaths in US adults – Science Media Centre (free) AND Expert reaction to lead and CVD deaths in the US – Science Media Centre (free)

 

4 – Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income Countries – JAMA (free article, editorials, author interview and video summary)

Commentaries: Why Is U.S. Health Care So Expensive? Some of the Reasons You’ve Heard Turn Out to Be Myths – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Huge cost of US healthcare driven by drug prices and salaries – The Guardian (free) AND Healthcare: It’s The Prices, Stupid. Isn’t It? – Forbes (free) AND Physician Salaries, Drug Prices Drive High US Health Costs – Medscape (free registration required)

 

5 – Digital Rectal Examination for Prostate Cancer Screening in Primary Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Annals of Family Medicine (free)

Commentaries: New analysis recommends against using digital rectal exam in primary care – American Academy of Family Physicians, vie EurekAlert (free) AND Little Evidence Supports Use of Digital Rectal Exam – Medscape (free registration required) AND Digital Rectal Exams for Routine Prostate Screening Discouraged – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free)

 

6 – Korean Clinical Practice Guidelines for Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage – Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society (free)

 

7 – Did a pricey cholesterol-lowering drug really reduce deaths, as headlines claim? – Health News Review (free)

See original article and commentaries in our March 12^th issue (see #2)

 

8 – Effects of stress on the development and progression of cardiovascular disease – Nature Reviews Cardiology (free PDF for a limited period) (via @Abraham_RMI)

  

9 – Chronic kidney disease and arrhythmias: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference – European Heart Journal (free)

 

10 – The 2017 ESC Guidelines on PADs: what’s new? – European Heart Journal (free) AND The ‘Ten Commandments’ of 2017 ESC Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases – European Heart Journal (free)

Original Guideline: 2017 ESC Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases, in collaboration with the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) (free)

 

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