Fri, May 26 – 10 Medical Stories of The Day!

1 – Cardiovascular Toxicity of Illicit Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Use – Circulation (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Anabolic Steroid Use Linked With Myocardial Dysfunction and Accelerated Atherosclerosis – TCTMD (free) AND Chronic anabolic steroid use may damage heart – American Heart Association News (free)

“The findings are a public health concern, given that as many as 1% of young men, not all of them athletes, may use these agents” (from TCTMD above).

2 – The Surgical Infection Society Revised Guidelines on the Management of Intra-Abdominal Infection – Surgical Infections (free)

Related: Management of intra-abdominal infections: recommendations by the WSES 2016 consensus conference – World Journal of Emergency Surgery (free)

3 – Thrombolysis may reduce complications of deep vein thrombosis – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Thrombolysis for acute deep vein thrombosis – Cochrane Library (Link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Thrombolysis reduced post-thrombotic syndrome, but lead to more bleeding complications than standard anticoagulation. “Individuals with clots in the pelvis and thigh, which carry higher risk of complications, may be likely to gain most benefit”.

4 – Induction of labour within 24 hours, if waters break at 37 weeks of pregnancy, can reduce womb infection – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Planned early birth versus expectant management (waiting) for prelabour rupture of membranes at term (37 weeks or more) – Cochrane Library (Link to abstract – $ for full-text)

“Inducing labour within 24hrs may halve risk of infection in the womb when waters break from 37 weeks” (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)

5 – Diagnostic accuracy of post-mortem CT with targeted coronary angiography versus autopsy for coroner-requested post-mortem investigations: a prospective, masked, comparison study – The Lancet (free)

Editorial: Targeted coronary post-mortem CT angiography, straight to the heart (free)

Commentary: Digital autopsies should be standard for probable natural deaths, says study – The Guardian (free)

6 – American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2017 Annual Meeting

Can cashews keep colon cancer patients alive? Study says yes — but cautions abound – STAT News (free) AND Reducing Risk After Cancer: Healthy Lifestyle (and Tree Nuts) – Medscape (free registration required)

7 – Recent articles on payment models published in JAMA

The Next Generation of Episode-Based Payments – JAMA (free) AND Value-Based Payment Models for Community Health Centers: Time to (Cautiously) Take the Plunge? – JAMA (free) AND Business Model–Related Conflict of Interests in Medicine: Problems and Potential Solutions – JAMA (free)

8 – Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in adults: diagnosis and management – NICE Guideline (free)

9 – Eating disorders: recognition and treatment – NICE Guideline (free)

10 – The lap band for weight loss is a tale of medicine gone wrong – VOX (free)

See also a recent study showing high complication rates of laparoscopic gastric band surgeries in our May 23^rd issue (see #7)