Mackenzie Varkukla, Adele C Viguera, Lilian Gonsalves
{"title":"Depression and pregnancy.","authors":"Mackenzie Varkukla, Adele C Viguera, Lilian Gonsalves","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Women of childbearing age with depression present with a unique set of risks. This article will discuss the following topics: these specific risks, current literature on treating depression in the peripartum, and roles of physician and patient in peripartum treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"35 1","pages":"44-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28098332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use of endoscopic ultrasound.","authors":"Roxana Bodin, Wilbert S Aronow, Shireen Pais","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) should be performed when it has the potential to affect the patient's management, as when establishing a diagnosis, performing locoregional tumor staging, or providing therapeutic intervention. Luminal malignancies, extraluminal malignancies, and other common indications for performing EUS are discussed in this article.</p>","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"35 2","pages":"96-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28315634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Management of abdominal aortic aneurysms.","authors":"Sachin Sule, Wilbert S Aronow","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patients with symptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) should undergo repair, regardless of AAA diameter, whereas guidelines for asymptomatic patients suggest repair for AAAs > or = 5.5 cm in diameter. For most patients with medium-sized AAAs, regular surveillance and intensive medical therapy are appropriate. Patients with an AAA should undergo intensive risk factor modification including cessation of smoking, treatment of hypertension, statins, beta-adrenergic blocking drugs, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors.</p>","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"35 1","pages":"3-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28098327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Therapy of patients hospitalized for heart failure with abnormal versus normal left ventricular ejection fraction.","authors":"Sachin Sule, Wilbert S Aronow","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigated treatment of 200 consecutive patients hospitalized for heart failure (HF). Of the 200 patients, 100 (50%) had an abnormal left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and 100 (50%) had a normal LVEF. Although in-hospital mortality was significantly increased in patients with HF and an abnormal LVEF, the duration of hospitalization and the NYHA class at discharge were similar in patients with HF and abnormal or normal LVEF.</p>","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"35 1","pages":"50-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28098333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An update on acute ischemic stroke therapies.","authors":"Aimee Joy Szewka, Shyam Prabhakaran","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Given its short therapeutic time window, successful ischemic stroke therapy requires a multi-disciplinary and streamlined approach. Intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator remains the most efficacious treatment available. New therapies and advances in the understanding comorbidities associated with stroke have reshaped and expanded traditional treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"35 2","pages":"72-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28315631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kamel Sadat, Amrita Singh, Shesh Rao, Teresita Zdunek, Rajat Malhotra
{"title":"Thymic lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma mimicking primary tumor of the lung.","authors":"Kamel Sadat, Amrita Singh, Shesh Rao, Teresita Zdunek, Rajat Malhotra","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thymic lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma is a rare subtype of thymic cancer with a poor prognosis; a few cases have been reported in the English literature. Strong clinical suspicion should be pursued in patient management decision making despite initial diagnostic studies, which sometimes mcould islead clinicians, as in our case.</p>","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"35 2","pages":"115-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28315636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"As if things weren't bad enough...\".","authors":"Martin Szanto, Richard Fugo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"35 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28098326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A brief history of scientific geriatric cardiology.","authors":"William H Wehrmacher, Ali Ahmed","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Comprehensive therapists need awareness of the long period of neglect of the elderly cardiac patient, its improvement in the last third of a century, and a look to the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"34 2","pages":"100-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27710840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fahad M Iqbal, Permanand S Beeharilal, Kamel Sadat, Roozbeh Mohajer, Bruce E Lewis
{"title":"Steroid induced atrial fibrillation.","authors":"Fahad M Iqbal, Permanand S Beeharilal, Kamel Sadat, Roozbeh Mohajer, Bruce E Lewis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 72-year-old female presented with an acute flaure of Crohn's disease and received intravenous methylprednisolone. The following morning ECG showed atrial fibrillation with a rapid ventricular response of 111 bts/min, which spontaneously resolved within 7 hours. The underlying arrhythmogenenic mechanism is unknown.</p>","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"34 2","pages":"111-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27710842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}