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<title>Alcohol Abuse and Adherence to Therapies</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<category>Internal medicine</category>
<description><![CDATA[The repercussion of alcohol abuse on pharmacological therapies in general has not been deeply studied yet, so a retrospective trial has been performed using the data of the large Veterans Affairs database, taking clinical information of about 20,000 patients treated with statins, anti-hypertensive [...]]]></description>

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<title>Quantitative Occult Blood Test</title>
<link>http://mn.medsurfnews.com/contents/en/1371/display/quantitative-occult-blood-test.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<category>Internal medicine</category>
<description><![CDATA[Guaiac fecal occult blood test (FOBT) presents a low specificity and sensibility, so a quantitative immunochemical test specific for human hemoglobin was assessed, performing the examination on all subjects doomed to colonoscopy and followed by about 1.000 medical studies. Some of them were [...]]]></description>

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<title>Venous Thromboemboslim Management: Guidelines</title>
<link>http://mn.medsurfnews.com/contents/en/1207/display/venous-thromboemboslim-management-guidelines.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<category>Internal medicine</category>
<description><![CDATA[According to a review based on clinical evidence, the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians published new guidelines for the management of venous thromboembolism. Recommendations contained in the document are:<ul>
<li>in the treatment of deep venous [...]]]></description>

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<title>Homocysteine and Venous Thromboembolism</title>
<link>http://mn.medsurfnews.com/contents/en/1202/display/homocysteine-and-venous-thromboembolism.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<category>Internal medicine</category>
<description><![CDATA[We know that high levels of homocysteine are associated with arterial thromboembolic risk. Some recent studies have however shown that the administration of some B-complex vitamins (decreasing homocysteine levels) is not able to prevent infarction or stroke onset. The doubt remains on secondary [...]]]></description>

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<title>Which Objective in Hypercholesterolemia Treatment?</title>
<link>http://mn.medsurfnews.com/contents/en/708/display/which-objective-in-hypercholesterolemia-treatment.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<category>Internal medicine</category>
<description><![CDATA[The National Cholesterol Education Program recommends to progressively increase low-density lipoprotein therapy up to reducing LDL cholesterol to very low levels: for example less than 70 mg/dl in patients with a high cardiovascular risk. This recommendation was called into question by a lack of [...]]]></description>

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<title>Asymptomatic Inguinal Hernia: What to Do?</title>
<link>http://mn.medsurfnews.com/contents/en/154/display/asymptomatic-inguinal-hernia-what-to-do.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<category>Internal medicine</category>
<description><![CDATA[Two new trials published in the <em>Annals of Surgery</em> deal with the theme of the therapeutical behaviour with a patient affected by asymptomatic or a little symptomatic inguinal hernia.<br />
In Scotland 160 males (≥ 55 years of age) with asymptomatic hernias were randomized to surgery or to [...]]]></description>

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<title>D-DIMER IN PULMONARY EMBOLISM</title>
<link>http://mn.medsurfnews.com/contents/en/21/display/d-dimer-in-pulmonary-embolism.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 9 Sep 2006 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<category>Internal medicine</category>
<description><![CDATA[According to the result of some studies, in situations in which the clinical probability of pulmonary embolism is low and the D-dimer negative, it is advisable not to administer anticoagulant therapies. In order to further verify this indication, two new studies have been realized.
The first one, [...]]]></description>

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