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Internal and Emergency Medicine

Issue 2/2008

Content (23 Articles)

IM - Commentary

STEMI management: trials, registries, and the real world

Giovanni Melandri, Franco Semprini, Samuele Nanni, Daniela Calabrese, Fabio Vagnarelli, Angelo Branzi

IM - Review

Optimizing management of metabolic syndrome to reduce risk: focus on life-style

Cristina Bianchi, Giuseppe Penno, Giuseppe Daniele, Luca Benzi, Stefano Del Prato, Roberto Miccoli

IM - Review

Dysmetabolic changes associated with HCV: a distinct syndrome?

Amedeo Lonardo, Paola Loria, Nicola Carulli

IM - Original

Management of acute myocardial infarction in the real world: a summary report from The Ami-Florence Italian Registry

Daniela Balzi, Alessandro Barchielli, Giovanni Maria Santoro, Nazario Carrabba, Eva Buiatti, Cristina Giglioli, Serafina Valente, Giorgio Baldereschi, Laura Del Bianco, Matteo Monami, Gian Franco Gensini, Niccolò Marchionni

IM - Original

Risk factors for upper limb deep vein thrombosis associated with the use of central vein catheter in cancer patients

Melina Verso, Giancarlo Agnelli, Pieter W. Kamphuisen, Walter Ageno, Mario Bazzan, Antonio Lazzaro, Francesco Paoletti, Maurizio Paciaroni, Stefano Mosca, Sergio Bertoglio

IM - Case Record

A strange chest pain after dental surgery

Enzo Porteri, Nicola Rizzardi, Damiano Rizzoni, Andrea Salvi, Carolina De Ciuceis, Davide Farina, Gianluca E. M. Boari, Caterina Platto, Silvia Paiardi, Almajdalawi Raed, Enrico Agabiti Rosei

IM - Physical Examination

Achalasia: a rare cause of stridor

Brian Suffoletto, Kenneth Katz, Camilla Tozzetti, Pietro Amedeo Modesti

EM - Original

Troponin I and right ventricular dysfunction for risk assessment in patients with nonmassive pulmonary embolism in the Emergency Department in combination with clinically based risk score

Vittorio Palmieri, Giovanni Gallotta, Domenico Rendina, Silvana De Bonis, Vittorio Russo, Alfredo Postiglione, Stefania Martino, Matteo Nicola Dario Di Minno, Aldo Celentano

EM - Original

Optical and video laryngoscopes for emergency airway management

John C. Sakles, Ross Rodgers, Samuel M. Keim

EM - Airway Forum

Acute shortness of breath 10 years post laryngectomy

Leon D. Sanchez, Kevin M. Ban, Kenny Bramwell, Daniel Davis, Peter Rosen

CE - Cochrane's Corner

Selecting references that match constructs: the difficult job of citing the parachute hyperbole

Alfonso Iorio, Lorenzo Moja, Alessandro Liberati, Gian Franco Gensini, Roberto Gusinu, Andrea A. Conti

CE - The Cutting Edge: Research Update

New evidence

Alberto Andrea Conti, Beatrice Dilaghi, Pietro Amedeo Modesti, Carlo Nozzoli

CE - Letter to the Editor

Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis: a rare disease to be treated by an internist

Alberto Artom, Massimiliano Uccelli, Patrizia Artom

CE - Letter to the Editor

Acute tumor lysis syndrome after rituximab administration in Burkitt’s lymphoma

Zaher K. Otrock, Hassan A. Hatoum, Ziad M. Salem

CE - Letter to the Editor

Cardiac engagement in multicentric reticulohistiocytosis: report of a case with fatal outcome and literature review

Maurizio Benucci, Antonio Sulla, Mariangela Manfredi

CE - Letter to the Editor

Advice for health-care professionals on how to retrieve more efficiently scientifically strong and up-to-date studies on treatments by PubMed

Salvatore Corrao, Rosario Scaglione, Daniela Colomba, Luigi Calvo, Giuseppe Licata

CE - Letter to the Editor

Successful outcome of DIC and life-threatening bleeding in a toddler with neuroblastoma treated with recombinant activated factor VII

Emmanouil S. Hatzipantelis, Nikolaos Gombakis, Vasiliki Sidi, Evgenia Papakonstantinou, Dimitrios E. Koliouskas

CE - Letter to the Editor

Acute paralysis due to distal renal tubular acidosis: a case report

Stefania Battista, Rosario Urbino, Camillo Antro, Valerio Gai

CE - Letter to the Editor

Plasma derived protein C in severe sepsis: report of two cases

A. Tuttolomondo, A. Pinto, D. Di Raimondo, P. Fernandez, G. Licata

CE - Letter to the Editor

Microscopic polyangiitis with sexual and reproductive system involvement: first description of a case

Massimiliano Rocchietti March, Flavia Del Porto, Maria Proietta, Bruno Laganà, Raffaele D’Amelio, Giuseppe Aliberti

CE - Letter to the Editor

Controversies in the “pill in the pocket” approach to atrial fibrillation

Alessandro Riccardi, Roberto Lerza

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Obesity Clinical Trial Summary

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.

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Highlights from the ACC 2024 Congress

Year in Review: Pediatric cardiology

Watch Dr. Anne Marie Valente present the last year's highlights in pediatric and congenital heart disease in the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Pulmonary vascular disease

The last year's highlights in pulmonary vascular disease are presented by Dr. Jane Leopold in this official video from ACC.24.

Year in Review: Valvular heart disease

Watch Prof. William Zoghbi present the last year's highlights in valvular heart disease from the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Watch this official video from ACC.24. Dr. Biykem Bozkurt discusses last year's major advances in heart failure and cardiomyopathies.